tlrobinson

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by tlrobinson 4y ago
> I know that I could get sucked into writing a bunch of code for the checker, instead of using my energy for making the application work. “Making the application work” is only half the story. Making a large application stable and mainta
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by tlrobinson 4y ago
Can we stop posting Cramer’s takes on every post about SVB? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35105975 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35106202
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by tlrobinson 4y ago
The article did a poor job of explaining this, but I think the assumption with utility-first CSS is you’re using some component framework. So instead of having to separate the HTML and CSS, and invent names for every child element of a comp
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by tlrobinson 4y ago
Tailwind and “utility first” CSS is nice, but IMHO using magic string class names isn’t as nice as typesafe ways of styling like styled-components, Styled System, and Shopify’s Restyle. Full stack type safety, including styling, is where it
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by tlrobinson 4y ago
That made sense for documents , and maybe even web apps before the rise of component-based web libraries that make it easier to collocate HTML, JS, and styles in reusable components.
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by tlrobinson 4y ago
Two main reasons: 1. Long distance communication require HF frequencies which requires very large antennas. 2. If you’re talking specifically about the HF amateur radio bands, you may not use those for commercial purposes.
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by tlrobinson 4y ago
> trying to basically reinvent the workings of an entire programming language and migrate your Ruby apps to these new tools/runtimes/typecheckers/whatever Facebook is probably the best example of this with PHP and Hack [1]
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by tlrobinson 4y ago
It sounds like you want “deno compile” ( https://deno.land/manual@v1.25.4/tools/compiler ) plus “no-explicit-any” eslint rule ( https://github.com/typescript-eslint/typescript-eslint/blob&#x
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by tlrobinson 4y ago
Good summary of this on the All In Podcast last week (in the context of Adobe buying Figma) https://youtu.be/_UpczzfeAFA?t=1162
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by tlrobinson 4y ago
Fair point, though I feel there's a difference as AI can generate content much more quickly.
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by tlrobinson 4y ago
One thing that worries me about generative AI is the degradation of “truth” over time. AI will be the cheapest way to generated content, by far. It will sometimes get facts subtly wrong, and eventually that AI generated content will be used
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by tlrobinson 4y ago
> I find that static typing means I can be more productive, because type errors are caught straight away I agree completely. I feel like there’s a pretty common arc among programmers: 1. learn to program using verbose statically typed la
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by tlrobinson 4y ago
Idea: make one for each AirBnB you stay in. If you don’t have access to a printer while you’re there email them a PDF.
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by tlrobinson 4y ago
I’m not a lawyer, but I believe Slack would have to show they were harmed in some way to successfully sue. They can certainly attempt to block 3rd party clients, though. Or threaten to / actually sue, even if they’re unlikely to be suc
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by tlrobinson 4y ago
Related question: what's the modern COBOL, meaning the thing that will require well-paid niche programmers to maintain in 30 years?
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by tlrobinson 4y ago
I’ve found good corporate lawyers will summarize the risks of taking some action and ask you (or higher up leadership) to weight those against the business case for taking said action.
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by tlrobinson 4y ago
> goofy login flow Can you be more specific about your complaints?
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by tlrobinson 4y ago
Out of curiosity, what’s the typical profit or value of a McDonalds franchise?
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by tlrobinson 4y ago
More important to me than lack of “smart” features (as long as it is functional without using them or connecting to the internet) is responsiveness to user input. I just want a TV I can quickly turn on/off and change volume and input.
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by tlrobinson 4y ago
> 2-of-2 multisig that downgrades to 1-of-2 multisig over time Did you mean "downgrades to 1-of-1"? "1-of-2" implies either key would work. > The multisig reverts to only your key after a printed expiration date on
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by tlrobinson 4y ago
I'm not arguing, it's just amusing / ironic.
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by tlrobinson 4y ago
> I can't imagine what Twitter is doing with 1.25B in research. …and development. I assume “R&D” includes most of the engineers? Still, it could be a lot more lean for sure.
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by tlrobinson 4y ago
> I use brave and browse with JS disabled by default. That’s hilarious given the founder of Brave (Brendan Eich) literally invented JavaScript.
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by tlrobinson 4y ago
"Algorithmic stablecoins" are a different beast: "These uncollateralized digital assets, which attempt to peg the price of a reference asset using financial engineering, algorithms, and market incentives, are not stable at al
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
These kinds of tools seem to be meant to scale up well, but are there good ones that “scale down” to small projects too?
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
> This isn't strictly true but men tend to want to offer solutions to problems For a humorous take on this, see "It's Not About The Nail": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
Caseta is also one of the few switches that doesn’t require neutral lines.
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
That doesn’t necessarily mean you have to use it.
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
Are you required to use Angular’s i18n support for some reason? I use ttag ( https://ttag.js.org ) with React and like it. I don’t see any reason you couldn’t use it (or another library) with Angular.
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by tlrobinson 5y ago
On the flip side, the main downside I found was my travel router supports vanilla WireGuard but not Tailscale.

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