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I was wondering what anybody thought of a library I wrote a few years ago: https://www.combatentropy.com/tools/cobblestone/ Many sites could be built on the stack espoused by Alex …

This is clever advice, to first find out what estimate is tolerable to management and then adapt your design to fit. It's sort of like what the makers of Basecamp, in their book Ge…

Have you tried Lightworks? https://lwks.com/ It dates back to the 1990s and has used in Hollywood movies, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightworks There is a free version to try ou…

You're right, it's not that hard. But why would you rather do it there?

> what you're saying is you love someone for who they are as opposed to for what they are doing at any particular moment? but then what if they change? what if they become someone …

If you're happy with your ORM (and, ahem, your users are happy with your app's speed), then you can disregard this post. An ORM is an abstraction over what already is a huge abstra…

> This last example is a particularly hot topic for us on the intranet team. Every single week we receive requests to create a 'one-stop shop', a 'hub', a 'single front door' or a …

First of all, that's false. Time and again, experts who can explain complicated concepts with everyday words seem smarter, not dumber. To wit: Richard Feynman, Steven Pinker, C.S. …

It reminds me of Newspeak, from Orwell's 1984 . Leaders, especially of bureaucracies, perennially hope to shape belief by just renaming things. I've been to Wal-Mart or Target or a…

Why is there no comment saying that someone is "conflating" something or that a something is "orthogonal"?

This article was actually published more than 20 years ago, https://web.archive.org/web/20020603153119/http://vothphoto.... Some of its advice is timeless, but its context is back …

> I'm pretty sure nifty-fiftys have been top recommendation always for people wanting to explore beyond the kit zoom. His article isn't addressed to "people wanting to explore beyo…

I came here to say the same thing and was glad to see someone else already did. So I simply upvoted you. I might add that also he was looking for two more things that some times al…

Yes, in fact it's two metaphors in a row. "Once more, with feeling," is a cliche that a conductor might say to an orchestra during rehearsal. Presumably professional orchestras usu…

I'm intrigued by his replacement, the language E. Even though it arose in 1997, I was unfamiliar with it. I like what I have seen so far, http://erights.org/elang/ I'm relieved tha…

"Ampersand" is like "could of", and yet is not like it. Ampersand is a change in sounds, for the sake of easier pronunciation: and per se and # original andperseand # remove spaces…

spacemanmatt, you joined Hacker News 9 years ago, and you have a lot of upvotes, which means not only that you have been helpful but that you have been here thousands of times. So …

The headline uses the words "top" and "talent" in unconventional ways. When the writer examined Rick's code, it is revealed as messy, buggy, and long-winded --- "a lot of copy past…

You just made me realize that email would look better if it grouped messages by sender instead of just by subject. It was a huge step forward for me when I switched from Outlook to…

I would agree that permission dialogs are not what we want, on page load, as so many websites do. A web app should wait until it needs Geolocation or whatever, before prompting you…