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by szhu 6y ago
I feel like the countdown timer should round up, rather than round to the nearest integer. This makes it consistent with an integer stopwatch, which will round down. In my experience, Apple's timer behavior makes me feel like there&#x2
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by szhu 6y ago
Not an expert in this field by any means, but I feel like most of a helicopter's thrust is used to keep it in the air, even when it's lowering slightly. Maybe this can be efficient if the drone had a fixed wing so it can glide. Or
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by szhu 6y ago
The article has: > Abrams said Crane came up with the first name, "Mavis," in honor of singer Mavis Staples. "Beacon," had something to do with a "beacon of light," Abrams said.
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by szhu 6y ago
Android has enabled millions of people to access the Internet who wouldn't have been able to otherwise, so I'd say the tradeoff was worth making. The tradeoff just happens to be not so great from a developer perspective.
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by szhu 6y ago
Honestly, I think letting people include their own code is good, people will always want to do things that you couldn't have imagined yet, and for their own good reasons. However, you need to make sure the platform can eventually catch
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by szhu 6y ago
What's wrong with the web where sharing content requires the use of tools for both authors (a text editor) and readers (a web browser)? We're so used to social networks being all-in-one, but that doesn't mean it's the on
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by szhu 6y ago
This makes a lot of sense and I agree with this need! I want to throw in a healthy dose of skepticism about whether your solution can address that need -- only because I hope that hearing it early can increase your chances of success! I thi
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by szhu 6y ago
On that second point, I have the opposite preference. When I'm sitting in a dark room I'd rather temporarily have to deal with a buggy dark theme than to temporarily be blinded by a white website. Regardless of whether you prefer
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by szhu 6y ago
> The browser must not provide automation features. This includes scripts that automate keystrokes or clicks, especially to perform automatic sign-ins. Can't Chrome do this via Chrome extensions?
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by szhu 6y ago
True, but clients can opt to not load (or lazy-load) images without too much adverse effect. JS-heavy sites often completely break without JS.
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by szhu 6y ago
Idea: A way for browsers to disable JS on pages after the initial content of a page has loaded.
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by szhu 6y ago
If everything you care to talk about can be easily described using thousand-year-old ideas, then I can see why you are against emojis. But this isn't true for many things people want to talk about today. Language is just an encoding fo
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by szhu 6y ago
Found an Chrome extension that lets you do this! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabcopy/micdllihgo... I just tried it out -- you click a button to copy the list of tabs. If you just want the URLs a
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by szhu 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23281564
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by szhu 6y ago
I remember this discussion from a few months ago where people foresaw that phoning home every time an program launches might be an issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23281564
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by szhu 6y ago
My main issue with going from a free service to paying for storage isn't that it's not free anymore. It's that, at some point in the future, I would run out of storage and I'd need to pay more per month. I'm only go
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by szhu 6y ago
Wow, I'm impressed that they picked a stock photo of code that's relevant to the article.
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by szhu 6y ago
The people you're trying to impress often only get a quick preview into your life. You only get first impressions, and no opportunity to explain why your phone has nicks in it. (Think: business meetings.) The people spend enough time a
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by szhu 6y ago
> I know vanilla Markdown is too limited for some use cases. CommonMark does not make Markdown less vanilla -- it's not like GFM or one of the other standards that adds support for tables or other features. From Jeff Atwood (who i
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by szhu 6y ago
I agree with your characterization. (I didn't always -- I actually advocated at the time for CommonMark to respect Gruber's wishes and create their own branding [1].) [1] https://talk.commonmark.org/t/the-logo
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by szhu 6y ago
fwiw Pandoc's author, John MacFarlane, is also behind these projects that try to unify the Markdown ecosystem: - Babelmark, a tool to compare how different Markdown parsers interpret the same Markdown input. https://johnmacf
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by szhu 6y ago
I've never owned a car but have driven plenty of cars from car shares (Zipcar, etc), rentals, and friends/family. Is it weird that I like the driving experience of a Prius the most out of all the cars I've tried? I've tr
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by szhu 6y ago
> Reminds me of 20 years ago when people kept the early HP LaserJet models going for their needs because they were such workhorses. My family used this until 2012: https://i.imgur.com/QedZrsm.png (They're on a new
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by szhu 6y ago
I've seen this happen quite a lot with servers that I'm in. I've this this happen when someone is not logged into Discord in their browser and is logged in in the Discord app. When they click the server join link, Discord cre
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by szhu 6y ago
By reading historical accounts of what colors different things were. If you give people black-and-white film to watch, people are guess the colors that are there based on what they are familiar with anyway, so this has a chance to be more h
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by szhu 6y ago
Fish 3 was released almost two years ago in December 2018. It's a little weird seeing these features being referred to as "new"!
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by szhu 6y ago
> customers experiences don't really matter To consider it from a different perspective, perhaps customer experiences matter more in China. Technology in the US is super cool and cutting-edge but the constant shift to new technolo
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by szhu 6y ago
Some people value giving someone a second chance more than they value honoring their lease agreement. You could say that OP has violated their lease agreement, but OP might say that our society has failed this employee. They're both is
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by szhu 6y ago
As someone who agrees with the article and also agrees that the listed antipatterns you listed are bad, I've observed that following these two steps you suggested can help actually help build personal moats: 1. Writing documentation is
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by szhu 6y ago
This reply to a comment about how taking an action on moral grounds might be bad for business: > Yes, doing the right thing often is dangerous and earns you hatred from other people doing bad things who love the freedom of hiding amongs

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