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Re:We built our house for LAN parties on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @09:45PM (#49619757)
I have core memories of hauling a 69lb 19" Sony Trinitron down a hill to my friends basement, circa 2003.

I remember part of the fun for us was getting all the PCs hooked up. It was so janky, but it was our janky and we loved it. Even file sharing felt fun.

Re:Nebula Sans on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @11:56AM (#49451340)
Looks nice. I've personally been obsessed with Atkinson Hyperlegible. Not sure what it is about it but it's just so pleasing.
What a vague article. So I take some 10mg gummies every once in a while. Are my chances higher?
Re:Vibe Coder vs. Software Engineer on Sunday June 14, 2026 @11:28PM (#48536252)
Giving it access to JIRA doesn't make the code it produces more mergable, or reduce the cognitive load and technical debt a massive PR written by AI introduces into complex codebases.
Cloudflare Workers are awesome. You can do a lot on the $5 tier. Their CLI tool `wrangler` is quite excellent.

Code generation tools know their APIs and they have excellent docs, so getting up and running isn't very difficult.

Re:Watch MLB games from the comfort of your own terminal on Thursday October 02, 2025 @10:38PM (#45458293)
This is really cool! Would it be possible to fork this and do it for the NBA?
Re:ChatGPT Pulse on Friday September 26, 2025 @09:59AM (#45386608)
The thing is, most programming is mundane. Rename files, move them, make sure imports are correct, make sure builds pass...AI can do all of these with very high accuracy (most of the time).
Re:When Figma Starts Designing Us on Monday July 07, 2025 @02:28PM (#44493282)
Nothing forces you into using Auto Layout. If you want to drag frames around during ideation, the tool supports that. This is a non-issue.
The tickers from my 401k at Vangaurd aren't supported. VFIAX, VTIAX. Oh well.
Re:Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @08:27PM (#40071673)
Hardly worth mentioning a feature supported by...nothing
Re:Not All Web APIs Are Good APIs on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @07:18PM (#40058527)
I used to respect Gruber, but as time has gone on, I think he's a kind of a dick. His "iOS superiority" takes are just generally very short-sided.
Re:An Update on Plugin Security on Thursday October 03, 2019 @01:38PM (#21149645)
My guess is they explored this, but realized how limited workers are?
Re:Ask HN: What is the best chair for developers? on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @12:03PM (#20460916)
I've used an Aeron for close to 10 years, and it's the most comfortable and flexible chair for me. That being said, sitting down for 10 hours in any chair is not healthy.

I added a standing desk to my arsenal, and the routine of moving up and down every 40 minutes or so. Taking brisk 10-15 minute walks at least every 1.5-2 hours is crucial as well.

Core strength and flexibility have become so important to my fitness routine that if I go several days without exercising or stretching properly, I get pretty severe lower back pain.

Re:Salary transparency at Stack Overflow on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @09:25AM (#12172505)
Very cool. Salaries seem on the low-end of the industry standards from what I've seen. $120k for 5 years of experience in the Bay-Area is pretty insulting.
Literally no one cares.
Re:Mint UI – Mobile UI Elements for Vue.js on Friday June 17, 2016 @01:17AM (#11920816)
Super fast!
Re:Angular 2 versus React on Monday January 04, 2016 @05:09PM (#10839098)
Yeah, the thing is you can't build a fully functioning app with just React. That's the "problem".
Re:Use Ionic for a mobile website? on Sunday February 22, 2015 @01:06PM (#9090240)
It should be fine. The only thing I'd be weary about is initial page load times. Try and keep your "app" light, or if you're just using the HTML/CSS from Ionic then that isnt a concern at all.
Re:Riot.js – A 1kb client-side MVP framework on Friday November 01, 2013 @11:21AM (#6654350)
It looks like a nice little library. Unfortunately, most of these "micro super fast i can build a todo app in 4 lines of code" things aren't enough anymore.

Most of us aren't building "Todo" apps. We're building bigger apps which require - or are more suitable - for a framework like Angular/Ember. That's just my 2 cents.

Re:Ghost Launches to The Public on Monday October 14, 2013 @11:15AM (#6547691)
Looking at the client side code makes me wonder why people would ever use Backbone. It's so abstracted, mixes DOM manipulation into views. I should re-write it with Angular! :)
Re:Unix tricks on Friday March 08, 2013 @10:24AM (#5343877)
Did a quick and dirty format for easy reading: https://gist.github.com/dmackerman/5117156
Re:Kickstarter's team page on Friday January 11, 2013 @09:02AM (#5042665)
Hipstarter
Re:A New Look for Facebook on Thursday January 03, 2013 @05:08PM (#5005002)
Great, another mosaic of shit I can't visually organize. I think it needs more stock photos as well.

Are we done with this kind of stuff already? Do people think that Facebook just haphazardly through together their current UI without doing extensive user testing?

Great set.
Re:Ask HN: What can I do to stay focused in the short term? on Friday December 21, 2012 @01:38PM (#4953883)
I have this problem myself. When I work at home - which is usually only 1 day a week - I have a hard time not getting distracted.
Re:Making Facebook's native mobile app faster using HTML5 on Monday December 17, 2012 @12:43PM (#4933325)
Uhh, what?
Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @01:21PM (#4843883)
Sorry, but that logo is so...1998.