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by venning 8y ago
You have always been able to convert them with: Array.prototype.slice.call(htmlCollection); Which has been the canonical way to cast them. But it will still throw on null or undefined.
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by venning 8y ago
Not mentioned here, but worth considering: Lodash's forEach works on "array-likes" not just proper Arrays. It works on `arguments`, it works on strings (iterating through characters), it works on objects (passing the key as t
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by venning 8y ago
Original source: https://xkcd.com/1389/
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by venning 8y ago
It did for me just now. Android phone, web link into Incognito Mode, open AMP link. Full text.
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by venning 8y ago
There's a related article linked in OP that answers your questions: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/05/bigint When mixing Number and BigInt, abstract equality (==) works fine, but str
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by venning 8y ago
Alphabet made $31B in revenue last quarter . [1] CydeWeys already addressed their costs, but $100M over 10 years doesn't exactly sound like something they get out of bed for, especially considering they're already out $25M and t
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by venning 8y ago
I have often cited the NYT Interactive team for creatively designed articles, but this one has serious problems. On a modern Android phone, I can't see all of the article text, with an undetermined amount being cut off at the bottom.
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by venning 8y ago
> The quadratic equation violated the cardinal rule of numerical analysis: avoid subtracting nearly equal numbers. The more similar two numbers are, the more precision you can lose from subtracting them. Are there other "rules&quo
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by venning 8y ago
> Everything that's below the floor pan is amazing. Everything above it is what it is. Honest question: Is everything below the floor pan designed and built by Panasonic?
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by venning 8y ago
The gopher didn't go away. You can find it on pages 21 & 22 of the new Brand Book: https://storage.googleapis.com/golang-assets/go-brand-book-v...
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by venning 8y ago
This refers to sedans and coupes, excluding crossovers, trucks, SUVs, and commercial vehicles. But it does appear they will create new "silhouettes" between cars and crossovers. From the Press Release [1]: > Building a winni
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by venning 8y ago
Back of the envelope guesses for my own satisfaction: ">$100MM yearly" is, let's say, $8.5MM monthly. ">10,000 customers" is <15,000 (or they would have used that), so maybe 11,000 to 13,000. That's ar
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by venning 8y ago
'sctb did state that they are "working on" a way to decouple the content from the username/email which should allow them to delete user accounts without removing their content: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2
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by venning 8y ago
Data Warning: 100 MB. Viewing the header illustration for more than a few seconds crashes my iPad Safari tab. Scrolling until it is off the viewport prevents this. EDIT: Dev Tools reports 74.8 MB transferred with an ad blocker. The il
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by venning 8y ago
The author does not say "work in a text editor", only "use". Considering she's including text editors on mobile devices, which the majority of America will utilize today, that's not a particularly bold stateme
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by venning 9y ago
Questions I've had about this: How does the allowance of comment/submission deletion affect HN being perceived as a "permanent record"? I've always found this aspect of HN to be important to me. If comments can be
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by venning 9y ago
> It would satisfy 10% of the world's demand of electricity. That doesn't sound right. According to the (better) article from Bloomberg [1], "Saudi Arabia’s electricity generation capacity ... stood at 77 gigawatts in 2
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by venning 9y ago
"Son" is mentioned twice in the article with no reference to who that is. Masayoshi Son is the man standing on the left in the photo. According to Wikipedia [1] he is founder and CEO of SoftBank. [1] https://en.wikipe
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by venning 9y ago
I'm assuming the poster ran up against an ~80 character limit to the title, but leaving out "wrong" makes the article feel more click-baity than necessary. Perhaps removing "hacking" or "controversy" from
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by venning 9y ago
I believe the "(2015)" label is intended for articles from 2015. This article is from 2018, but its contents reference 2015. Perhaps a better title would be "Leaked email shows how Cambridge Analytica and Facebook first r
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by venning 9y ago
If you scroll down further in the article, you'll see that those are cropped images of the cores. The cropping is off-center, not the cores. Otherwise, they would wobble terribly when thrown or hit.
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by venning 9y ago
That's a few blocks from a Metro stop, but really a terrible place for any kind of real foot traffic. That's near a high-traffic intersection [1] that can be difficult to navigate by car and very slow to navigate by foot. It&#x27
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by venning 9y ago
Needs a (2014) tag.
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by venning 9y ago
I believe that the GP is referring to the other "and", the one here: "the emblem and the name of the City of Sarajevo".
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by venning 9y ago
Potentially, DC Police may own these devices due to DC being home to a large deaf population. I believe DC has the highest deaf population, as a percentage of the whole, among all major US cities. DC Police began installing "Rumbler&q
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by venning 9y ago
This quote demonstrates a VC firm (First Round) questioning and implicitly belittling founders who expressed feelings of being discriminated against by VC firms. Really shouldn't be surprising given the rest of the survey results, unf
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by venning 9y ago
That's a fair point.
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by venning 9y ago
I, for one, don't like the idea of readers having the ability to narrow what they read here. Part of what I value about HN is that it forces me to see what the community values. It's why I dislike Facebook's and Google&#x27
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by venning 9y ago
I also doubt that it was flagged because it would generate low-quality discussion. But I do not doubt that low-quality discussion would have followed had it not been flagged off the front page. I see flags, especially when they are abus
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by venning 9y ago
To create an intentional false dichotomy: if I have to choose between a site that surfaces all content regardless of controversy but accepts that related discussions will be lower-quality, and a site that directly or indirectly suppresses s

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