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by tomgp 5y ago
Maybe not trivial but these are all solved problems - media queries, http get requests and history state manipulation are all mature and well understood. In common with 90% of the web twitter’s performance and memory usage is utterly abysma
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by tomgp 5y ago
“Know things; want things; use what you know to get what you want” I think the hardest bit of this is in some ways the middle, wanting things. How do we know we really want what we want, and how do we know what will make us happy. That’s th
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by tomgp 5y ago
yeah, i don’t think a healthy rewarding relationship— either friendship or romantic — is likely to be based on extraction of maximum value from the other person.
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by tomgp 5y ago
i use this method too. my flow is typically to write the comments first then implement them. this makes it easy to find gaps in reasoning before i write code and then easy to extract functions after if things get mor involved than expected.
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by tomgp 5y ago
Totally, in London i regularly encounter cobbled streets, my big tyre gravel bike is perfect.
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by tomgp 5y ago
hybrid bikes are a bit different from gravel bikes. the latter tend to have drop bars, more mountain bike-ish gearing and a more road bike like sitting position compare: kona dew (a pretty traditional hybrid) https://www.konawo
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by tomgp 5y ago
As someone working predominantly on React sites for the last 4 years or so I absolutely agree. Of course you can write quick, responsive and solid sites with React but it’s not the automatic process some would like you to believe, you stil
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by tomgp 5y ago
I think that was not_jd_salinger's joke, challenging the tacit assumption that academia produces nothing of value or practical worth whilst business people are inherently creative and value creating.
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by tomgp 5y ago
yeah, he’s a product of a publishing system that at the time was voraciously hungry for content and the fact that he was good at churning it out. for what it’s worth i think that this kind of set up where quantity is prioritised over qualit
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by tomgp 5y ago
for me the key tweet here is: > The two things people need to know about cryptocurrency are completely non-technical: > 1. If it doesn't work, it's just an easy to lose casino chip >2. If it works, it creates an end run a
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by tomgp 5y ago
I used to think this but having reread some of the novels recently I tend to disagree. The command of the material and plotting in the likes of ‘... electric sheep’ and ‘ubik’ is streets ahead of his early work and the coherence of the vari
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by tomgp 5y ago
> Rubeola - German measles In the UK at least this would now be German measles - Rubella (edited for line breaks)
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by tomgp 5y ago
Clearly you’ve never played “Trauma Centre” on the Nintendo DS for the entire duration of a LHR to LAX flight
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by tomgp 5y ago
You should check out Le Guin’s appreciation of LOTR in ‘a wave in the mind’. Both Le Guin (esp Earthsea) and Tolkien really work well being read aloud and reading her breakdown of the rhythms of the opening sections of LOTR was a revelation
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by tomgp 5y ago
Let's say hiphop started in 1980 so it's abouyt 41 years old. That's the begining of the 90's for rock music (if we consider it's origins to be the early 50's, though of course none of these dates represent har
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by tomgp 5y ago
Ha! I just played exactly the same game!
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by tomgp 5y ago
I’ve been thinking of trying out elixir for exactly this kind of thing. Having done similar projects in Nodejs (experience was fine tbh) and used Xstate or Redux for game state management on the server side. What would people recommend for
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by tomgp 5y ago
yes, you don’t use those in html5 (though they are required in things like jsx)
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by tomgp 5y ago
Worth noting this is a new series — secret life of components, not machines— from this year. Sadly without Rex who died a couple of years ago.
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by tomgp 5y ago
Yeah I would have preferred harsher refereeing and the risk of a dull match (though I suspect we would have seen a whole bunch of Spanish goals) than sitting through that unedifying spectacle. It was just depressing and the Dutch play was o
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by tomgp 5y ago
agreed, but for me the appeal of static site generation is that the input is typically just markdown and some templates so even if a particular generator ceases to be supported it should be trivial to drop in a replacement in whatever the c
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by tomgp 6y ago
id doesn’t come from the french. it’s a cognate of gene, to get across the idea of information transmission
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by tomgp 6y ago
You see that bit at the start of the video where tom7 presses the capslock key, then types a letter, then presses the capslock key again? I worked with a designer (posessed of two hands and no visible impairments) who actually typed like th
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by tomgp 6y ago
Just look at those to two images with all the “Andy”s: In the first the words all have similar visual weight, none stand out or take up considerably more or less space. In the second image where all the cap heights are the same some fonts m
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by tomgp 6y ago
I agree with much of this article. I looked at the twitter output of an acquaintance a couple of days back and after literally 60 seconds I felt my mind becoming a stew of frustraion and anxiety -- i agreed with many of the points and retwe
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by tomgp 6y ago
>Human needs are subjective to each and every human After a certain point that's true but I think you miss the point of the parent. There are many, many hungry people in the world, many people without shelter and further millions wh
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by tomgp 6y ago
plug for Felicity Cloake’s “how to cook the perfect” recipes in the guardian. she makes multiple versions of common recipes talking about the effects of the different ingredients and methods before giving her take on it. you learn about how
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by tomgp 6y ago
having read through them all i’d say the recipes range from ‘fine’ to ‘probably not that great but if you’ve just moved out of your parents home its not a bad place to start’. most of the recipes seem robust and would be hard to really mess
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by tomgp 6y ago
No idea why this has been down voted, I think there’s a lot of truth in it. That said I don’t agree with the conclusion ;) I think there _was_ a more interesting an varied texture to the web back in the day. A feeling of experimentation and
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by tomgp 6y ago
I mean writing software for missiles kind of requires that mind set anyway

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