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by yboris 5y ago
For those interested in seeing the call graph within your TypeScript code, try TypeScript Call Graph https://github.com/whyboris/TypeScript-Call-Graph
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by yboris 5y ago
I created Video Hub App - browse, search, and organize your videos - "like YouTube for videos on your computer". It's a commercial project / charityware that is turning 4 years old next month. I sell it for $5 per co
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This might depend on personal physiology - some people seem to have less of a negative effect. One thing to try is the game "I Expect You to Die" If I remember right, it was designed by people who focused explicitly on making a VR
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It's an interesting experience. Sometimes it's amazing. Videos usually include different angles, so you might feel like changing your body's position (though not necessary). It's very different than watching porn on a mo
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For heating a home efficiently, one approach is a rocket mass heater . It does require burning firewood, but if that's an acceptable/desirable quality, this technology seems far more efficient than standard fireplaces. https:&#x
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by yboris 5y ago
For video files - a little off-topic - I created an app for dealing with huge number of video files: Video Hub App which lets you see previews from your videos (even if the files are scattered across many offline hard drives). Might com
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by yboris 5y ago
Food aid is basically the US subsidizing its own food producers and dumping free food in countries, thus undermining the already-poor farmers. It's not as charitable as you make it sound, and it has a lot of negative outcomes. If the U
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by yboris 5y ago
In 1970 countries agreed to give at least 0.7% of GNI [0] and the US has been giving severely less than that for decades: only 0.17% [0] - https://www.oecd.org/development/stats/the07odagnitarget-ahi... [1] - htt
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Foreign aid is an absolutely minuscule amount of the US budget and should be increased. I'm disappointed you're uttering concern over foreign aid in the same sentence as wars ("defense" budget).
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by yboris 5y ago
For TypeScript I created a visualization of function calls - a function call graph: https://github.com/whyboris/TypeScript-Call-Graph
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A related classic: In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/
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I love CAR - Competence, Autonomy, Relatedness :D These three I think are the pillars to a happy job! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination_theory#Basi...
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Before the pandemic started I would have quit my job if they didn't let me/us work 100% remote. But they changed the policy, and I'm now happily living in Michigan (rather than New Jersey). Went from 1hr+ commute each way to
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Related: 80,000 Hours - an organization promoting finding work / career that has a large positive impact on the world. Named after the rough amount of hours that a typical person will work over the course of their lives. Given that w
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I second this recommendation. It's a lovely way to explore some of the beauty of mathematics. I have a BA in math and I think the most-useful mathematics for everyone is probability (math theory and basic calculations). This is becau
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by yboris 5y ago
Accelerando is my all-time-favorite Sci Fi book. I read it twice now and will again in the near future. I'm 36 year old. I hope more people read this book.
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Two Major Companies Announced Four-Day Workweeks—This May Be The Tipping Point For Businesses To Join The Growing Movement https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2022/01/10/two-major-...
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Japan’s Panasonic Joins Global Trend Toward Four-Day Week https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-10/japan-s-p... Let's make 2022 the year Four-Day Workweek spread like wildfire ;) Talk to your c
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Pre-registration of studies is a virtue ;)
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"Brits to quit jobs if not offered four-day week, say researchers" link: https://employernews.co.uk/news/brits-to-quit-jobs-if-not-of... On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29877234
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Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/9/22874949/developer-corrupt...
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Brits to quit jobs if not offered four-day week, say researchers(employernews.co.uk)
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MVP versus EVP: Is it time to introduce ethics into the agile startup model?(techcrunch.com)
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Have you read "The Wisdom of Crowds" by James Surowiecki? The book is focused on just the question of what conditions seem to be beneficial/detrimental to sourcing the "wisdom" from crowds.
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A nice book I liked is "The Wisdom of Crowds" by James Surowiecki. From what I remember, the gist is you want people to be coming up with solutions to a problem independently, and then you want them to voice their proposals indepe
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There's a book called "Eat That Frog". The main advice, as the title of the book suggests, whatever the biggest most-important task, regardless of how unpleasant (akin to eating a frog), just do it first and do nothing else u
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For JPEG XL there are some nice articles: https://cloudinary.com/blog/how_jpeg_xl_compares_to_other_im... https://cloudinary.com/blog/time_for_next_gen_codecs_to_deth...
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Semi-related: my favorite dev tool is diff2html I aliased `diff` to open up my browser showing me the full diff of what I'm working on - super useful! https://diff2html.xyz/
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Obligatory comment about the upcoming replacement of JPEG: JPEG XL (.jxl) -- better in every way! https://jpegxl.info/
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I chose Electron for the app I was building because it would make sure the app I create (1 code base with Angular) would perform exactly the same way on Mac, Windows, and Linux. It required virtually no learning of anything new (just look

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