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I use Ubuntu Desktop as my primary machine and find it very stable. I use it primarily for development with WebStorm, Atom, VirtualBox, Chromium, Node, and Bash. I rarely play game…

According to the site linked below, the average American produces about 100 lbs of plastic waste a year: https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/lifestyle/trash-on... To my mind,…

Thanks. This does look interesting. It's hard to keep up with all the frameworks, but this does look like something worth investing some time in. I'll check it out.

I take your point: the trashed refrigerator may be a heavier environmental cost than the plastic bags. It is best if we both recycle and fix the refrigerator. But doing either is b…

I have modest skills as a developer. I was trying to convert an old static web site into something more interactive. Without really thinking it through, I started building a SPA. I…

I wanted to change my habits because I thought it was the right thing to do. So we put solar on the roof and bought a cheap used electric car (a Leaf). My goal was to do the right …

We eat a lot of turmeric. If you go to an Indian grocery store, of which there are plenty in the Seattle area, you can buy it in bulk very cheaply. We are vegetarians, so we put it…

Look at Recode's pictures. There are prices for the items on the shelves. https://www.recode.net/2018/1/21/16913984/what-does-photos-a...

I think the gift that some upper-middle-class kids get that others don't always get is a belief in their ability to succeed. You also need a strong work ethic, but I'm not sure the…

Those who understand Climate Change and love science should not cede the ground to those who disagree with them without a fight. Most people don't understand science at the same le…

One of the things I like about open source is its fecundity. When proprietary software ruled, we went to two or three companies to get most of our tools and libraries. Some were ve…

I perhaps foolishly go ahead and teach React and Redux to my students. The first thing I show them, however, is this article by Dan Abramov, who you perhaps know from his conferenc…

"stroking his own ego is not what this is about. He doesn't need that." Forgive me for interjecting politics into this debate, but we all know at this point that there is at least …

For years I have written too many tests. Recently I have been trying something more like this: - One test to prove I can cleanly load the component or object in a module. This is a…

Not sure about SeanDav, but I do a lot of compiling and wonder if anyone has any suggestions about the best CPU to buy. I want short wait times for a compile, but I still care abou…

As a teacher, I appreciate projects like this. The folks in my classes are "amateurs" learning to code. I can, and do, teach them quick ways to build websites, but that won't help …

Amazing story. It's often (relatively) small, individual acts of heroism that preserve the best things in the world. Sometimes that means not doing what your boss asks when you kno…

If this desalination system allowed a city to generate even 50% of their water needs, that would be a significant step forward. I keep seeing this metric put forward: Does X genera…

I'm confused. Do you mean that we're allowed to create posts on Hacker News that are not sarcastic? I thought there was a rule, with a powerful AI enforcing it, stating that all po…

If you have a big project in mind, you can get started by creating a small project focused on an aspect of your bigger project. Since examples were missing from the op's article, l…

This is legitimate activity for the NSA, but it plays badly in Europe. My guess is that Snowden and his friends are pandering to folks in Europe who naturally dislike this kind of …

I agree, diagrams are great -- in their place. But to the author's point, can you draw me a diagram that conveys the same information as the sample sentence from the article: "Huma…

Angular is helpful because it promotes things like loose-coupling, dependency injection, modularity, re-use and the factory pattern. I agree that two way data binding was oversold.…

COBOL was created 1959. Singly it out as an example of a DSL in this context is a bit like arguing against cars by pointing out the faults of the Model T Ford compared with a Tesla…

Renters may not have direct benefits, but if the product works, they could have indirect benefits. For instance: Assuming someone rents, and has to pay the monthly energy bill, wou…