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tobr

14,329karma·2,388submissions·April 2, 2012
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Now now, that’s rather unfair to Jason Kottke. It should be abundantly clear to any regular reader of his, and both the text and the embedded YouTube player includes attribution to the creator.
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That’s nice to hear, good motivation to get it out the door. It might take some time, but I’ll be sure to do a show HN when it happens!
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Just installed the Sublime Text version. It seems to work as promised. Would be great if it could support unsaved files too.
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To take on this challenge - Isn’t that exactly the situation with the recent Supreme Court nominations? One party break the norms and refuse to vote because they want to wait until they can nominate s…
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Sorry to break it to you, but we force cows to do all sorts of things they'd rather not.
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For me it’s been experimental so far. I’ve not actually used Redux in these experiments, but I’m inspired by where Redux and Re-reselect has been leading me for the past two years or so. The pattern i…
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No, I’m suggesting that your state should be a list of event/action objects. By using a linked list, every new state can have a reference back to the previous state. This is not a projection, but…
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I've played around recently with a Redux inspired frontend architecture where the complex, nested reducers are replaced with a single one that simply adds every action to an immutable linked list…
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It’s certainly been an intense week in the department of “explorable explanations of how to rotate stuff in 3D”, with both this and the 3blue1brown/Ben Eater collab. https://news.ycomb…
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> I recently rebuilt a large web app using Tailwind, and my resulting CSS was TINY. I think Tailwind is quite an interesting approach, but to play Devil's advocate: how much bigger was your HT…
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I wonder if you're mostly measuring someones interpretation of "uniquely identify" and "already knew existed"? Did you consider making it an actual quiz with options to verify…
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I thought “g!” as opposed to “!g” was a typo, but TIL both ways work equally fine! Thanks!
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For background, here is an earlier HN thread about wave function collapse. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12612246 …
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I suggest checking out the "Features" page: https://boristhebrave.github.io/DeBroglie/articles/features.... …
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Thank you for clarifying this, and sorry for jumping to conclusions. To be honest, the website is written more like you're targeting users in general: > Remotion is a new way of replaying beha…
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I was going to write a sarcastic comment about how great this is for me as a user, but I can’t do it. How is this not a total violation of users’ expectation of privacy? Why doesn’t the page even ment…
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I’m not sure paintings are a good reference point. There’s an enormous difference between a static image and a moving, talking person with personality, charisma and apparent agency. Those are the spel…
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Am I understanding this right? The choroid layer behind the retina gets slightly thinner when we look at dark details on a bright background, and slightly thicker when we look at bright details on a d…
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I find that IE11 is surprisingly polyfillable. The biggest issue has been flexbox, since CSS can’t exactly be polyfilled.
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If they’re timeless they should continue to get votes, no? Even if everyone stops voting in a thread all the votes would decay at the same rate, so the timeless answer would stay at top.
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Relevant context from Anand in this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1053670769056600065 Short story: He was invited to speak at Google, and decided th…
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> they taste good, are easily available and are satiating. Vegan and vegetarian foods are usually less so for all three categories. This might be true for some people in some places, but is far fro…
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If you read the The Information article[1], an Apple spokesperson says that Apple was “not aware of...infected firmware found on the servers purchased from this vendor”, but they’re not really denying…
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This is quite difficult to follow without illustrations... do you know of any folding diagrams for it?
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There’s a typo in the second sentence on the landing page, a redundant “the”: > where the an accurate modeling
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I guess you could say that Bitcoin is pseudonominally Japanese.
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