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by ville 11y ago
I found twitter-text useful for linkifying URLs in a chat application (not related to Twitter) that I built a couple of years ago. The URL extraction functions are quite robust and handled the task well. This library has use cases beyond ju
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by ville 11y ago
I felt the same way. I'm already sold on the idea of using a proper build tool instead of a generic task runner (happy webpack user for 1.5 years). Instead of telling why it is better than Grunt or Gulp, I'd like to know how it co
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by ville 11y ago
If you're going to use JSON, why not make the format compatible with schema.org JobPosting ( http://schema.org/JobPosting ) with JSON-LD?
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by ville 11y ago
There's a datacenter in Helsinki that pushes its heat to a district heating system. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jul/20/helsinki-...
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by ville 11y ago
They mention in the article that they moved from cash deposits to stocks: "At the time, bank CDs paid around 8 percent. Ah, yesteryear. “We had to change our investment strategy. Instead of living off our interest, we switched to buyin
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by ville 11y ago
Does it require a SIM card? Does the cost of the device cover GSM data anywhere in the world?
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Deprecating HTTP(blog.yoav.ws)
2 points by ville 11y ago|0 comments
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How Facebook's GraphQL Will Change Back End Development(reindex.io)
9 points by ville 11y ago|0 comments
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by ville 12y ago
The Vanguard fund mentioned in the article manages $200 billion assets and mirrors the returns of S&P 500. As mentioned in the comments here its "commission" is 0.02% for investors of the scale we're talking about. How mu
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by ville 12y ago
Facebook's Immutable also provides Cursors for its immutable collections: https://github.com/facebook/immutable-js#cursors
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by ville 12y ago
There was a story few years back about burglars using Facebook status updates to find homes where owners were not home: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/burglars-picked-hou... So there is some evidenc
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by ville 12y ago
Sounds interesting and I would like to hear more. You'll find my email address in my profile.
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by ville 12y ago
>> okay, you win with 1/3, your opponent wins with 1/3, and where is the other 1/3? :) Wouldn't that remaining 1/3 be the odds for it being a draw?
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by ville 12y ago
Looks like also SpaceX is using Angular: https://www.angularjobs.com/posts/752-angularjs-developer-at...
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by ville 12y ago
"All that's left is for someone to make a site that has fixed timing, like "Software Prototypes in One Week"." Looks like someone already did that too: http://protoverstas.com
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by ville 13y ago
Can we run Jython on it? Why? Just because. EDIT: Also if it can run on Jython that would make a nice full circle. EEDIT: Looks like it requires Python 2.7 so this might not be the case (yet).
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by ville 13y ago
The demo is very fast, I just click a button and I'm in the middle of creating an invoice in a blink of an eye and it even produces the PDF right away. Good job. I didn't find the pricing information anywhere on the site, however.
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by ville 13y ago
I'd say more than 99.9% of WhatsApp users haven't heard of Telegram. WhatsApp users are mostly not early adopters like you and your friends. They are ordinary people, because WhatsApp is is a simple communication tool targeted to
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by ville 13y ago
I can't speak for the GP, but I also tried the demo and I did find the design sleek and appealing. But when I clicked the comments link on the first post on the front page, it took about 20 seconds to see the comments. Also voting for
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by ville 13y ago
Why would you need to store the historical versions of the stored procedures in a migrations folder? Wouldn't it be better to treat the stored procs like any other code, create a .sql file for each and keep them in version control? And
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by ville 13y ago
Many parts of the HAPI spec seem to be in outright conflict with the established best practices and standards. E.g. > A HAPI must support the HTTP GET verb on all operations.[1] Contrast this with HTTP/1.1 RFC 2616: > In particul
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by ville 13y ago
This article nicely shows all the alternatives with a list of caveats for each: http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2013/08/09/absolute-horiz...
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by ville 13y ago
reStructuredText ( http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html ) seems have all those qualities. It's simple and IMHO more consistent than Markdown, math and include directives, cross-references and can be compiled to almos
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by ville 13y ago
The performance of _.each should be very close to that of the native Array#forEach because it delegates to the native method when it's available: https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore/blob/6db5b93eac3ea
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by ville 13y ago
I think this episode and the recent brouhaha from someone naming a CLI "bro" have shown that an attempt at humor in naming things generally just diverts the attention from the technology to other things.
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by ville 13y ago
One could argue that it's not so bad in this case, since the variable is not an absolute value but just a "score".
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by ville 13y ago
The article suggests splitting the configuration in many parts using the grunt.config method. Another interesting way to organize it in a larger project is to define config for each task in a separate module. I first saw this used in React:
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What did the world search for in 2013?(google.com)
1 points by ville 13y ago|0 comments
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The Graphing Calculator Story (2004)(pacifict.com)
1 points by ville 13y ago|0 comments
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by ville 13y ago
Previous submission (with 252 points and 91 comments): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5502878

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