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Re:Design Tools for Everything on Friday April 05, 2019 @06:52AM (#19581332)
All these "awesome list of ..." maybe means that there is a need for a site like Yahoo in the 90's which tried to catalogize internet in a hierarchical list-of-lists manner.

Ask HN: Package dependencies in node.js ecosystem

"npm install gatsby" on a fresh install gives me 969 new packages in ~/node_modules (visualized here: https://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/gatsby)Is this reasonable and long term viable? Many seem to contain only one or a couple of functions. How come there isn't a culture of bundling functionality in larger libraries?

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Anyone with experiences running the Huawei Matebook?
Re:Postmodern Error Handling in Python 3.6 on Saturday February 25, 2017 @06:08AM (#13731046)
and in Python >=3.3, IOError is an alias for OSError.
Wonder how this will affect Chinese citizens that have used and trusted Opera Mini to bypass censorship and the great firewall of China in the past. What browsing history is kept by the Opera Mini servers?
Re:Dunning–Kruger effect on Friday June 05, 2015 @08:37AM (#9665098)
"The study was inspired by the case of McArthur Wheeler, a man who robbed two banks after covering his face with lemon juice in the mistaken belief that, because lemon juice is usable as invisible ink, it would prevent his face from being recorded on surveillance cameras."
Re:New hubiC offers on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @04:43AM (#9302398)
Since it took a while to find out how to set this up using duplicity to backup the home directory under Ubuntu Linux, here is how I got this to work. Maybe this can be of help for somebody: https://gist.github.com/molobrakos/ff1620ce6031c99f120b
Re:Polaroid Cube on Monday August 11, 2014 @05:36PM (#8165448)
What I love about the Contour+2 is that the battery is compatible with old Nokia phone batteries, which makes it very cheap to have a bunch of charged batteries in reserve.