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Re:Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT on Friday September 05, 2025 @08:42AM (#45137843)
Fun thing but do "winners" feel superior to others? Is that what em dash is about?
Re:Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024 on Saturday July 27, 2024 @10:50AM (#41086963)
I can only recommend Zola as well. I’ve been using it for past 4 years or so and it’s been very stable. Like you, I feel the docs could be a bit more deeper (+more examples) but I’ve always managed to figure out what I need to do.
I'm a web dev so naturally, I'd pick something I know well to implement UIs. Second, distribution is a big one. With native mobile, you have to go through lot of hoops to get your code onto the device easily, usually it means dealing with certificate, licenses etc.
Software devs doing wood working is kind of a meme nowadays, isn’t it?
Re:Kagi to start charging sales tax/VAT on Friday April 19, 2024 @04:44PM (#40091703)
This feels really amateur-ish. I am a customer of Kagi and I wish them to succeed. So what were they doing up until now? Tax fraud? Paying for search is uncommon for regular folk, I was hesitant to pay for it as well but $10 felt like a good spot for the value I'm getting. If the price hikes again and gets to $15 area, I'm switching back to DDG (I have no use for AI features so it's not a big differentiator to me).
Re:How to Start Google on Saturday March 23, 2024 @03:33AM (#39798168)
You can do this if you're in US, salaries elsewhere for tech jobs are more inline with salaries for specialized professions (doctors, lawyers). They're still larger than other jobs but it goes nowhere near the levels of western/eastern US (exceptions exist ofc).

Then there's a question when you start a family, that's subjective and something you can control but the model of creating career and then having kids (in late 30s/early 40s) seems more common in US. If you have your first child in mid 30s, then few laters 2nd one for example, you still need to be very hands-on, attentive and provide at least until your late 40s/early 50s.

Re:DevDocs on Saturday January 13, 2024 @03:42AM (#38978234)
I have an idea to make any documentation rendered in HTML to be processed. You could then have an application that could parse it, digest it, store it for offline access and have some kind of notification mechanism to let you know it changes.
Re:Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off on Thursday October 19, 2023 @05:52AM (#37940649)
If you're not a technical type you will not be bothered with setting up a website so that's why I think centralized services will always win. It's similar to why people don't make their own websites but just post to social media.

I can imagine a 1-click solution that would set up everything. But bandcamp also has this functionality where labels can list their artists etc so I think it wouldn't work that well.

Re:Jitsi Meet Flutter SDK on Monday August 14, 2023 @04:34AM (#37118749)
I picked up Dart in a week or so and felt very productive with it in less than a month, the language itself is very easy to understand if you already know Typescript or Java. Flutter has a learning curve as well, you need to understand the concepts and the built-in widgets but even after month or so I was able to code up basic cross-platform app for iOS/Android. Ended up spending almost a year working on that project and gradually evolving it to support offline state, geolocation and real time updates.
Re:Why I started (and stopped) making games on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @06:03AM (#36401848)
nice I like it
Whats the game?
Re:Using xyz TLD domain as a primary email address on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @05:55AM (#28286790)
Is this still the case? I checked few registrars and they seem to go around $10 nowadays but maybe I missed places with better deals.

I get the reason why that would attract spammers. Bummer for people who would like to use it for legitimate reasons.

Re:Using xyz TLD domain as a primary email address on Monday August 23, 2021 @09:03AM (#28275090)
I mean especially .ninja, .work etc
Re:Using xyz TLD domain as a primary email address on Monday August 23, 2021 @08:26AM (#28274748)
Yeah but I wonder if all of these others would get flagged as well.

Using xyz TLD domain as a primary email address

Is this considered OK. I want to use email address such as `[email protected]`I already purchased the domain. I'm only asking if I can run into some issues where my email would be considered spam since I've read somewhere that bunch of spam emails come from .xyz TLD domains.The reason why I'm getting .xyz and not .com is because someone with same last name already has .com but I still want to...

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I have been using this for few years. It's great and I think it fits well how developers want to configure and backup overall.

Ask HN: Is back-end web development less complex than front-end nowadays?

Basically I'm just wondering if grass is greener on the other side.Don't get me wrong, I really like FE development and I've been successful in creating a nice career out of it for myself, becoming specialist in certain areas - I'm working on what is now I guess considered "modern" web apps. That means more or less creating React SPAs and figuring out the whole tech stack (webpack etc).I do...

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Re:Kanban board in one HTML using localstorage on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:29PM (#26229287)
It’s cool. I tried reading the code but man, the HTML file is over 2k lines since everything is inline. I understand your motivation to implement this without build tools and frameworks but you could have used at least stylesheets and put JS into separate files. Or even use ES modules to split functionality into modules. All of these are native to modern browsers and do not need any build tools.
Re:Kanban board in one HTML using localstorage on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:27PM (#26229251)
Switch local storage for IndexedDB. Good library that wraps it is PouchDB: https://pouchdb.com/

It can sync browser db to remote database.

Re:Fb2iCal – Convert Facebook Events to iCal Files on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @02:53AM (#21460538)
That URL worked for me Would you mind opening issue on GH or just sharing the details what exactly happened? Thanks.
Re:Fb2iCal – Convert Facebook Events to iCal Files on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @02:36AM (#21460480)
Cool I’ll look into it and fix it.

Fb2iCal – Convert Facebook Events to iCal Files

https://fb2ical.comI created this little app for my own needs. It takes URL of Facebook event (or event ID) and tries to convert it to iCal files that can be imported in your calendar.This will work quite well on mobile as it can be used as PWA (tested on iOS). The app stores retrieved files, so you can use the app instead of the calendar if you want to (very basic one though).I tried to keep...

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Best way to learn C in 2019?

What would be a good reference to learn C language (I presume ANSI C) today? It used to be K & R book, not sure if that is still relevant. I'm not looking for a resource that's for programming newbies but for someone who can already program in higher level languages.

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What are some good (free) resources for learning Node.js?

I've been writing Javascript for few years now but mostly frontend code, I am familiar with modules, ES6, package dependencies etc. What I'm looking for is a good book/github repo that would give me insight into writing server-side code. If the tutorial would be written for latest release of Node (I believe it's 8), that'd be the best!

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Show HN: RotationZoomer jQuery plugin

https://comatory.github.io/rotation-zoomer/This is jQuery plugin for rotating image/canvas elements in place without fussing with margins or padding. The rotation can be 90,180,270 degrees only. It also has zoom functionality which displays little zoom window.I know it's 2016 and direct DOM manipulation is not super-cool but this thing actually solves a problem in my company (also it's the...

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Junior dev – when is the right time to ask for a raise?

I'm 30 but for most of my working years I've worked in non-technical field. Year ago, I spent my life savings on coding bootcamp, finished it, got very lucky and I got hired on my 1st interview as a RoR web developer.I've spent quite a large amount of money for the bootcamp, moved to big city which is more expensive and I make around 15% less than my previous job (6 yrs of exp.). I took offer...

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Web developer wants to learn statically typed language

I've been writing in Ruby and Javascript so basically I know only dynamic OO languages. I'm interested in trying out sth different only like a hobby. I'm not necessarily wanting to switch to functional style. There are too many options. I've tried swift many months ago but lots of folk like Go/Haskell etcWhat are your suggestions?

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JS: The good parts – Still relevant?

I'm a junior web dev and I think I have some grasp on JS (use it every day, basically). However I feel like there are major parts of JS that I do not understand, so I started reading YDKJS (https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS). I find it well written with good code examples.I was wondering, is Crockford's book still the resource to go? Is it of any value for me to read it? I'm just...

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