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Re:Tom Lehrer at 90: a life of scientific satire
on Friday April 06, 2018 @03:18PM (#16776485)
Different musical style, and sometimes cruder humor, but you might enjoy Les Luthiers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcx_Ovi9A4g&list=PL2nrB3BJrZ...
Re:Tom Lehrer at 90: a life of scientific satire
on Friday April 06, 2018 @03:04PM (#16776341)
I also thought of Mani Matter immediately. And I think you are selling him short. I love Lehrer's songs, but IMO Matter's lyrics even surpasses them in wit and poetical talent. His public body of work is more extensive, too. Shame really, that potentially only a few million people understand them.
Re:Ask HN: What books do you keep on your desk?
on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @02:55PM (#16757761)
Same here. Only book that stays on my desk. Others rotate.
Re:How we interview engineers at CircleCI
on Monday March 26, 2018 @04:32PM (#16682302)
Only a fraction of those 1000 get interviewed, if I am reading it correctly, and not every employee at CircleCI is an engineer.
Re:After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat
on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @11:03AM (#16474626)
Is it a global trend, though? Or is the energy consumption just being moved abroad?
Re:Practical Tips for Cheating at Design
on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @11:34AM (#16430656)
I have the same issue. Not being a designer I can spend hours tweaking CSS color values, only to come back the next day and think it looks awful again. Two things have helped me: 1) using https://coolors.co/app and just trusting it, 2) creating SASS functions that derive secondary colors from a primary one. I currently don't have it at hand, but it boils down to making a series of lighter and darker versions of a given color, where, very importantly, the lighter ones are also less saturated than the shadows.
Re:Show HN: TablePlus – A macOS client for relational databases
on Friday February 09, 2018 @12:19PM (#16341980)
DBeaver (https://dbeaver.jkiss.org/) and the IntelliJ solutions: Datagrip or the IDEA ultimate database tool.
Re:We Mailed 100K Stickers Around the World, Made a Million Mistakes A...
on Friday July 28, 2017 @03:27PM (#14876836)
> So when we got inputs like Después de hogares crea, segunda entrada mano derecha, última casa verde (something about the last green house on the right according to Google Translate), we figured we had to validate these addresses.
Weird as it might seem, that's how addresses work in some places, if you make it invalid, you are excluding those users.