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by thomasqbrady 5y ago
Fun fact: the author can ask for a particular animal, but it’s not guaranteed. When we were working on our Ember.ha book we–naturallly–asked if we could get a hamster on the cover. They weren’t sure they’d be able to influence the art chose
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by thomasqbrady 5y ago
My personal experience—I've done it about 4 times. The first time was pretty incredible. Not OBE or anything, but it was one of the few times I've experienced the detachment from self I hear regular meditators talk about so much.
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by thomasqbrady 5y ago
Isn’t this working by finding someone else’s solution to the day 1 challenge? As in, since the OP copied and pasted the prompt, it was relatively easy for Copilot to match to the correct solution (also how it knew the window size for the se
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by thomasqbrady 5y ago
Impressive. Did the speakers go completely back to normal?
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My iPhone 13 Pro survived 26 hours at the bottom of a river(bashmodernquantity.com)
6 points by thomasqbrady 5y ago|5 comments
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by thomasqbrady 5y ago
TL;DR: iPhone 13 Pro fell out of my pocket while tubing down a river. Scuba diver recovered it 26 hours later, and it's in nearly perfect condition.
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by thomasqbrady 6y ago
I really don't mean to be rude, but I'm struggling to understand what I'm looking at and how it got near the top of HN. It looks like a very basic stub project that uses a web library (vweb) to serve a very basic web site th
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by thomasqbrady 6y ago
Stevey, I’m not sure what your aim was in posting this here, but you’ve set a trap that will catch all kinds of feedback (including mine!). You’ll hear people say “this game sucks!” Some would say to ignore the haters. I’d say learn from th
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by thomasqbrady 6y ago
My thoughts exactly. Also, I guess “web surfing” has a new meaning. They’re literally surfing invisible magnetic waves with web surfboards!
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by thomasqbrady 6y ago
What is that from?
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by thomasqbrady 6y ago
I'm also not quite sure what I'm looking at, but hn_expanscape seems to be serious about this, so I'll bite. hn_expanscape, what is the actual use-case for this device? You mention day-traders, but what about tiny screens sli
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by thomasqbrady 6y ago
The Screeps detail seems like something that could be fairly easily pursued... there can't have been that many players of that game to begin with, let alone those that would care so much about it that they would journal their thoughts
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by thomasqbrady 6y ago
Reading through the challenges, the last one seemed like a big leap. Made me think of the “learn to draw” meme that progresses quickly from simple shapes to a simple cartoon and a god leap to a super realistically rendered pencil drawing.
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by thomasqbrady 6y ago
His book Designing Hypermedia APIs is also quite good.
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by thomasqbrady 6y ago
Sounds like a good time to use shadow DOM, perhaps. That could isolate your IDs… although it would complicate the style cascade...
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by thomasqbrady 6y ago
Also, that assumes a platform, no? This wouldn't build on Mac/Linux/Unix machines, without a Mono setup, would it?
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by thomasqbrady 6y ago
We don't all use (or even have) Visual Studio.
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by thomasqbrady 6y ago
"Similar" in terms of the job-to-be-done I had in mind—a Scratch-like interface for programming most if not all of the boards mentioned. These features you've outlined did not jump out at me at all on first glance, which is a
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by thomasqbrady 6y ago
Something that seems to always be missing from project pages like this: why? There are plenty of other similar projects that accomplish this, and in the case of the microbit, I can’t even tell the difference between your IDE and the one tha
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by thomasqbrady 6y ago
As a developer of 20 years who has avoided .Net, some build instructions and/or some releases would be nice, but looks like a fun project!
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by thomasqbrady 6y ago
For those curious about icon fonts versus SVG, though icon fonts can be easier for the developer to use, there are drawbacks for your users (especially in accessibility). But don’t take my word for it: https://css-tricks.com&#x2F
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by thomasqbrady 6y ago
I used to work a a Bible software company, many, many years ago, and had to write a similar API. The surprise challenge I ran into, as that API was meant to support multiple translations, was that they don’t all agree on where chapters and
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by thomasqbrady 6y ago
Hah, yep. I've been thinking it for years, actually, and have meant to submit something here. Funny how many people respond "the performance isn't there" or "the tools aren't mature enough" as though THOSE
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Ask HN: Any recommendations for keeping the trolls out?
2 points by thomasqbrady 6y ago|0 comments
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by thomasqbrady 6y ago
By the way, I found this yesterday: https://bl.ocks.org/rleddy My first thought looking at that SVG code is "we're better off with what we've got." But then I thought of it as looking inside the componen
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by thomasqbrady 6y ago
Not wistful, no. Curious. I ignored canvas as an option because: 1) It has inherent accessibility problems ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ca... ) 2) It's not and neve
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by thomasqbrady 6y ago
I ran out of characters in my OP, but this was something I wanted to mention. 1) I’m not saying we replace HTML altogether. So if you’re talking about writing an article, sure use HTML (and things like section tags). 2) You can make SVG and
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Ask HN: Why don't we use SVG instead of HTML for web applications?
8 points by thomasqbrady 6y ago|7 comments
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by thomasqbrady 7y ago
Those are the paths traced by your eyes. It does say “and often the mouse,” but it’s describing reading, and the common habit of following along with the mouse cursor as you read. IF you are the kind of person who does this, it puts the mou
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by thomasqbrady 7y ago
This is a very complex topic that’s been studied and discussed for decades. Further study and discussion is great, but this article didn’t add much beyond some opinion. The author misses half the concern of button layout: target acquisition

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