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Re:Heroku CI in public beta on Saturday March 18, 2017 @01:49PM (#13902526)
I personally use the GitLab CI. It's great.

GitLab as a whole is brilliant, tbh.

Re:Firefox 52 released on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @04:24PM (#13815047)
I can think of many more interesting things other than debugging a three year old evergreen browser.

Staring at a blank wall, for example.

Re:“We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards” on Sunday February 05, 2017 @05:03PM (#13574926)
CP is never welcome and gets removed. Even un- or barely moderated boards do so.

Dick picks, on the other hand, are tedious but not inherently bad.

Re:Stop Using Arial and Helvetica (2013) on Monday January 30, 2017 @07:12AM (#13520511)
>And as for Arial, most of the attitude directed towards it is nothing more than anti-Microsoft snobbishness.

I disagree. Arial features some truly revolting glyphs. The R being the worst offender. Probably of any font I can think of. The G is also pretty disgusting.

On the other hand I find it hard to make something look bad using only Helvetica.

Re:Windows 10 has alerts to encourage Firefox users to use IE on Thursday January 19, 2017 @12:12PM (#13437367)
"the next version will be better, promise"

I've heard that with Windows, Office, IE, and Sharepoint. I'd happily give up the esc key to avoid that hell.

Re:Asshole driven development (2007) on Friday January 06, 2017 @07:18AM (#13335726)
Related to the IGA (I'm Gone Anyway) Methodology.

Where you know that you'll leave the company by the end of the month and don't give a shit.

Re:How I converted my React app to VanillaJS on Monday January 02, 2017 @03:56AM (#13299940)
Nice work. Enjoyed the step by step process. Want to do something similar, but in an Elm style.

A fun read as well.

Every child ever will watch or listen to the same audio book, video, film, song, whatever for days on end.
A few more points:

I'm allergic to clumsy exposition and Herbert, by and large, did a very good job.

Many times you can read what the characters are thinking. This gives you many situations where you get a sense just how tormented someone feels, but how he needs to react in order not to lose control.

Fremen suffering in general. How it shapes their rituals, culture and further development of the story. Interesting also how it clashes with other cultures. There's also a nice part about how they must continue to suffer along, lest they become weak.

A few analogies to our dependency on oil.

The Great Maker <3

Dune.

I mostly read non-fiction myself, so, just like you, I looked for something else amd randomly chose Dune. Loved it.

Brilliant world building and a story arch that keeps on giving. And there are 7(?) books in total.

> Also, in a way it is nice. You are NEVER alone. You ALWAYS have people waiting for you when you come back from work.

Glad it works for you, but that has got to be the third circle of my personal hell.

> 'Being alone' is seldom a reason for a depressed Indian - the family is always there.

That's nice. Some European countries are exactly the opposite. It's my hypothesis that this is the cause for many suicides, despite otherwise stellar living standards.

Wifi cable
Re:Why numbering should start at zero (1982) on Thursday December 15, 2016 @03:11PM (#13187842)
Wow. Everything just changed.
Re:Neurogenesis linked to aerobic exercise on Saturday December 10, 2016 @03:20PM (#13147684)
I found that it does take time.

For one, getting zoning out within no time, and second, being fit enough to comfortably run 45-60min.

Re:The Theory of Interstellar Trade (1978) on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @08:47AM (#13070582)
Spice
Re:Modern software is at its worst on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @12:43PM (#13064601)
Ironically, the text is too small to read on my Android HN client. No zooming either.
Re:Ask HN: What do you regret in life? on Monday October 31, 2016 @11:10AM (#12837429)
Nope. Find a bouldering gym, buy a pair of shoes, go climbing and chat with everyone.
Re:Alphabet Announces Third Quarter 2016 Results on Friday October 28, 2016 @02:46AM (#12813637)
Our alphabet is made up of the letters A-Z. If we then take the letters 'L', 'I', 'Z', 'A', 'R', 'D' we can compose the word 'lizard'.

Lizard people confirmed.

Re:Overview of JavaScript ES6 features on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @03:03AM (#12785860)
Though I don't see why this is a holy war in the first place. Clearly, no-semicolon is the only way to go.

:^)

Re:Comparison with Other Frameworks on Sunday October 23, 2016 @05:24AM (#12772724)
> I consider Ecosystem, community, dev resources / backing, encapsulation and reuse integral

Yes. No doubt.

> which React wins easily

I disagree. The old react docs were shite compared to Vue's. Not once did I feel the need to ask google. (Have yet to go through the ones released yesterday)

The tools that the team provides (router, vuex, resource, cli, ..) work perfectly.

Where react clearly wins is with 3rd party libraries and learning resources. Egghead is a perfect example.

Depending on what you prefer one might win over the other, but it's not _clear_ by any means.

Re:Comparison with Other Frameworks on Sunday October 23, 2016 @03:25AM (#12772436)
> Modern devices make it almost irrelevant.

A todo list on an mbp, yes. A complex app on a tablet, not so much.

> Yours is useless out of the box, to be used on a real complex app it needs...more dependencies.

All Vue requires is vue.min.js and you're set. Adding routing and clean data flow out of the box is trivial. _But_ it is easy to end up with a massively over engined babel-webpack-flow-npm-flux meme stack, given the excellent vue cli. I am, of course, guilty of that myself.

> New Issue from the Issue Board

Finally. I missed this so much. Loving the work GitLab is putting in to their product.

Now, if only I could rearrange backlog items.

Absolutely. I mostly live in a wonderful bubble, devoid of heys, whoops, and the sound of drowning rappers.

But, being as common as it is, I cannot completely escape it.

:(

Not nearly as maddening as DJ Mustards "Hey hey hey hey" sample.

https://youtu.be/kGVrCIzzoro