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Re:The Missing Semester of Your CS Education on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @12:05PM (#47139548)
In terms of shell, I moved to the fish shell 5 years ago.

Things are so much easier. No need to a massive amount of plugins and configs, mostly works out of the box.

Strange. Why is every single one of these photos out of focus?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024) on Thursday February 01, 2024 @02:02PM (#39219765)
The AI chat-bot on the jobs page is really off-putting.
Re:Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss? on Thursday March 10, 2022 @06:53AM (#30625910)
Reading this helped me a lot:

https://www.crockford.com/pwl.html

Re:Tasks, microtasks, queues and schedules (2015) on Monday February 22, 2021 @11:33AM (#26226441)
Good to know!
Re:Tasks, microtasks, queues and schedules (2015) on Monday February 22, 2021 @11:33AM (#26226436)
Two learings on my side:

1. Promises are handled in micro-tasks. 2. `element.click()` causes the event to dispatch synchronously. Even on parent elements.

Re:Why is it so hard to see code from 5 minutes ago? on Friday February 19, 2021 @06:14AM (#26191855)
`ctrl + -` is a good short-cut.

But, often times I have jumped around many times, or only scrolled. It doesn't work in these situations. Whereas `undo` `redo` reliably brings me back to the place of last input.

Re:A message from the FSF president on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:50PM (#25586578)
Joined today.

You could too, couldn’t you?

Re:ZFS: Use mirror vdevs, not RAIDZ on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @02:16PM (#25363057)
I use 10x8TB in RaidZ 2 in my home server. TimeMachine Backup for 6 people, docker volumes and an excessively huge media collection.

The TimeMachine datasets are backed up offsite.

Losing this pool would be a PITA, but not critical.

My primary goal with ZFS is some data redundancy. At a good cost. And quick remote backup for a fraction of the pool. Not performance.

At one point, 2 disks died within 2 days. While there was some panic involved, the data on the server could be reproduced with some time.

There isn’t a best solution, that fits all needs. If there was, ZFS wouldn‘t offer all the options it does.

Not sure about the `mobile`.

Here are my thoughts: https://codepen.io/shvi/pen/poyqxWL

Re:Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:34PM (#24423501)
I have been using the gmail web app exclusively for one reason: I use the following Chrome Plugin to convert Markdown to HTML emails: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/markdown-here/?hl=...

Did you ever consider adding a Markdown to HTML email option?

This is especially helpful when sending formatted code around!

Re:Ask HN: Best way to increase typing speed? on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @04:26PM (#22609925)
I remapped many keys, use space as a function key, all programmed in hammerspoon.

As a consequence, I had to learn to touch-type.

As of now, I am slower than before, but there is hope ;)

Re:Where International Communities Cluster on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @12:55AM (#22166801)
How is Czechoslovakia still considered a single country?
Re:339 Bytes of Responsive CSS on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @08:09AM (#19623804)
There is a small accessibility problem with the CSS presented on this page. The author set `text-decoration: none;` on the links, relying only on color to identify them. This should be avoided.

C.f. https://accessibility.oit.ncsu.edu/it-accessibility-at-nc-st...

Re:Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @06:45PM (#16760008)
If only they would have kept the powe button, that could double a finger print reader, ant the esc button. I wouldn’t mind the oled screen I place of the f-keys.
Re:Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @06:40PM (#16759962)
To me, the touch bar is a deal-breaker.

Here is what they could have done:

Right hand side: a regular power button that doubles as finger-print.

Left hand side: a regular esc key.

Replace F keys with a touch oled screen.

I could actually live with that.

I use Alfred for this. It offers clipboard history with snippets which I sync over Dropbox.

http://support.alfredapp.com/features:clipboard#snippets

Re:Show HN: BugCam: Add Video to Your Bug Reports on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @05:19PM (#3292516)
Why do you host your screencast on the landing page on Vimeo?

It feels kind of wrong that a company that integrates video into web bug trackers needs to host their own video on a 3rd party video hoster.

Re:Gmail app for iOS available in the App Store (again) on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @03:51PM (#3245005)
I was really looking forward to using multiple accounts in this app. Unfortunately this is not supported. Yet?
It says MIT + Apache (V2) in the Scroller.js file ;) https://github.com/zynga/scroller/blob/master/src/Scroller.j...

I went ahead and made a pull request. https://github.com/zynga/scroller/pull/1

Re:Not Invented Here and New Programmers on Sunday May 08, 2011 @07:20PM (#2526960)
I kind of disagree with this post. Tanks to Modern frameworks young programmers can ship clean code easily. I think frameworks help young developers become better by the day.

First learn about MVC and the first project they writer ends up being somewhat maintainable. It relies on state of the art paradigms, is modular and should be relatively safe.

With time, the framework will not provide all the needed functionality. This is when the young programers start to modify or write simple plugins. So they learn about the Framework API.

Even later, they need to modify some parts of the framework to make it possible to hook into it with a plugin. So they learn about the core Framework.

At every step, the programer is confronted with code written by more experienced programers… To me, this is the best way to learn programing.

Re:RabbitMQ based chat. Erlang FTW! on Friday May 06, 2011 @06:39PM (#2522741)
I love the usage of Gravatar!
Re:StartupGuild 2.0 on Sunday April 03, 2011 @06:07PM (#2404257)
The only problem with the StartupGuild on Yammer is that I'll spend even more time on social networks and less time on getting actual work done ;(

But I like it!

Re:Don't Make Me Steal on Thursday February 03, 2011 @04:19PM (#2176875)
We considered many different authentications and chose Facebook and Twitter because they make it really easy to show avatars of the people who sign.

What alternatives would you suggest?

Re:Don't Make Me Steal on Thursday February 03, 2011 @04:17PM (#2176863)
Ahh... that would be my dyslexia. Will fix it ASAP.

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