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Re:GitHub is planning Voice to Code on Thursday November 10, 2022 @06:31AM (#33545008)
This is effectively a new higher level programming language without a fixed syntax. Describing more the "what", not "how", and being much closer to natural language over computer language.

The voice part seems like an (albeit important) accessibility add on.

I'm sure it won't be perfect but an amazing step forward in the evolution of programming languages

Re:Ask HN: How did you learn to draw diagrams? on Thursday October 27, 2022 @04:06PM (#33363279)
Good intro to using UML effectively: http://agilemodeling.com/essays/umlDiagrams.htm
Works for me on Chrome/Android
Re:Eliud Kipchoge Breaks Two-Hour Marathon Barrier on Sunday October 13, 2019 @08:43AM (#21240071)
They did exactly this two years ago and failed
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2019) on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @03:25PM (#21129523)
Harver | Senior Software Engineers | Amsterdam | ONSITE | VISA | https://careers.harver.com/

We are building technology to help businesses hire better and faster at scale. We imagine a world where people are hired based on ability and personality and not on their resume.

Looking for engineers with leadership ambitions and a passion for building innovative, quality software using agile principles such as BDD, CI/CD, pairing etc.

Stack: React.JS, Node.JS (ES6 & Typescript), Express, GraphQL, MongoDB, AWS & Lambda/Docker. Cucumber/Jest for testing and Jenkins for CI/CD.

- Senior Frontend Enginer: https://careers.harver.com/o/senior-frontend-engineer-react

- Fullstack: https://careers.harver.com/o/fullstack-engineer-react-nodejs...

Questions for us: [email protected]

Re:Substantial Rise in Catalytic Converter Thefts on Saturday September 21, 2019 @10:33AM (#21035596)
Poor cat
Re:Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email on Thursday September 12, 2019 @01:42PM (#20954187)
I needed this 14 years ago
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2019) on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @12:37PM (#20868320)
Harver | Senior Software Engineers (Node, Python) | Amsterdam | ONSITE | VISA | https://careers.harver.com/

Currently scaling our Engineering team by 5 further additions after Series B $15mn funding in July 2019.

We are SaaS scale-up building technology to help businesses hire better and faster. We imagine a world where people are hired based on ability and personality and not on their resume.

Looking for engineers with leadership ambitions and a passion for building innovative, quality software using agile principles such as BDD, CI/CD, pairing etc.

Lead Frontend Engineer (Architect) | Senior Frontend Engineer (React, NodeJs), Fullstack Engineer X2 (React, NodeJs, MongoDB) | Freelance Data Engineer (Python)

Stack: React.JS, Node.JS (ES6 & Typescript), Express, GraphQL, MongoDB, AWS & Lambda/Docker. Cucumber/Jest for testing and Jenkins for CI/CD.

- Lead Engineer: https://careers.harver.com/o/javascript-lead-engineer-fronte...

- Senior Frontend Engineer: https://careers.harver.com/o/senior-frontend-engineer-react-...

- Fullstack: https://careers.harver.com/o/fullstack-engineer-react-nodejs...

Questions for us: [email protected]

Re:How Weight Training Might Change the Brain on Thursday July 25, 2019 @01:24AM (#20522786)
In rats

And it does change the brain in rats. It might change the brain in humans.

Re:How Utrecht Became a Paradise for Cyclists on Monday July 08, 2019 @03:14AM (#20380563)
I should have said "misleading"
Re:How Utrecht Became a Paradise for Cyclists on Saturday July 06, 2019 @07:00AM (#20369027)
This isn't accurate. They were not made for bikes.

Is was only in the 70s and 80s when there was a revolution in the introduction of cycling infrastructure.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2011...

Re:How Utrecht Became a Paradise for Cyclists on Saturday July 06, 2019 @06:54AM (#20369015)
This has been such a positive change in Amsterdam
There seems to be some overlap with a UML business use case which can be used for modelling requirements.
Re:Transpiled For-Of Loops Are Bad for the Client on Saturday December 02, 2017 @03:21PM (#15833839)
One upon a time web developers had to wait for browsers to support new features. Using Babel does not automatically mean that this no longer true.
Re:The Myth of the Cool Tech Girl and Why She's Dangerous on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @06:00AM (#14602397)
I don't know. It all seems very alien to me. But I often see blog posts like these which make it seem ubiquitous.
Re:The Myth of the Cool Tech Girl and Why She's Dangerous on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @02:35AM (#14601329)
How widespread is the "toxic bro culture"? Is it regional or a particularly silicon-valley thing. Is it more common in startups or with younger employees?

Do most techies personally relate to this sentiment?

Re:Surviving injuries from falling on Saturday June 10, 2017 @04:31AM (#14526609)
Not a counterpoint at all. Without his aikido skills he might have sustained a much more serious injury!
I started one recently with Preact + Mobx. Very happy with it
The belief in chi/qi power is deeply rooted in Chinese martial arts. Something that has no scientific basis.

The point here is not which fighting style is better, but that the tai chi master does not have any mystical or superhuman chi power he can draw upon to defeat his opponent. This is "the fraud" Xu Xiaodong wished to expose.

It's often seen as an advantage of React that it's just a view library and not a framework. But if you want to build any reasonable kind of modern web app, you'll need those extra elements like routing and state management. You effectively must piece together your own framework and the cognitive overhead of this is huge. At least for the first time anyway.
Re:Ask HN: Have you ever regretted hiring a developer? on Monday April 03, 2017 @07:22AM (#14021974)
Showing some enthusiasm doesn't mean centering to your life around it
Re:Milk that lasts for months on Monday April 03, 2017 @03:29AM (#14021151)
There's quite a big different between 72°c and 140°c. Would 105° produce a semi-long lasting milk that doesn't taste quite as different (bad) as UHT?

Also, are there any other downsides to UHT besides taste? Are more nutrients lost?

Re:Ask HN: Have you ever regretted hiring a developer? on Saturday April 01, 2017 @03:04PM (#14013582)
I thought it was interesting. But that was probably just me!
Re:Ask HN: Have you ever regretted hiring a developer? on Saturday April 01, 2017 @03:01PM (#14013562)
I'm not sure what to make of that.

Assuming the product isn't genuinely boring, is it the norm then that developers without a direct financial incentive in the growth of the company should just be drones who type code in exchange for a salary?

Re:Ask HN: Have you ever regretted hiring a developer? on Saturday April 01, 2017 @01:03PM (#14013026)
I've regretted hiring a few developers who have been apathetic about the actual software product we're making.

I am sometimes too optimistic about a technically proficient candidate sharing these traits, during the interview process.

After hiring they are depressingly unexcited about delivering a new feature that promises business value, significantly improves performance etc. It's just work to be done.

I've worked primarily as a frontend developer in the UK and the Netherlands for 12 years now and my experience has been exactly the opposite.

Although men still outweigh women I wouldn't think it unusual to see a female Java developer (I've mostly worked in java shops)

However I can only recall ever even interviewing one female front-end developer. From my experience they are incredibly rare.

Maybe my experience isn't typical or maybe it's geographical. Or is the article too subjective?

Re:Using Neutrino to jump-start modern JavaScript development on Friday February 24, 2017 @03:31PM (#13727608)
I hear you. Node.js made my Ant tasks for running jshint and qunit totally redundant :(
Re:Using Neutrino to jump-start modern JavaScript development on Friday February 24, 2017 @08:13AM (#13723308)
After just reading the title, I assumed the same thing, but actually this is exactly what web development needs.

create-react-app is a great example of a project that abstracts away all the complexities of a JavaScript build process and dev environment, but customization inevitably requires you to 'eject' and reintroduce that complexity to your project.

This tool goes one step further and supports customization without this eject step.

This is finally where web builds need to be to provide a simple foundation for modern web development so devs can focus more on making apps and less on tooling.

I look forward to trying it out.

Re:Show HN: A visual guide to the most popular CSS properties on Thursday November 24, 2016 @04:49PM (#13033003)
Very useful.

You should consider serving a separate page for each property in addition to one big list. This would be more useful for quick Google lookups.

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