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digerata
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Comment #34597667
I have to disagree with both comments on this... That was my first thought as well. But looking at the screenshots in the Twitter post, it goes beyond design systems. Structurally,…
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Comment #34453397
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minimum-wage/tipped I'm not sure what "de facto $0 wage" means.
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Comment #33622904
I have two kids in it, one 11 year old boy and one 8 year old girl. The school we were in switched to Montessori 4 years ago. The younger loves it. The older very much dislikes the…
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Comment #33561601
He was running a Ponzi scheme. Don't feel sorry for him.
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Comment #33423459
I think two rockets landing at the same time, in unison, more accurately displays the fact both are under computer control. One landing could just be some person steering it. But t…
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Comment #33347043
Personally, very excited to see this happening. Huge congrats! Some constructive criticism around naming... You don't have to have Flux in every single damn thing you create! Influ…
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Comment #33233589
As a frequent Kroger customer, my immediate gut reaction was no way should this happen. But then looking further, how much geographic overlap is there between the two companies? No…
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Comment #32110307
No explanation necessary. Anyone that has followed Atlassian in the news knows that downloading Jira Issues is an excellent idea!
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Comment #31402337
Isn’t saying “Land Train” like saying “Sky Plane”?
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Comment #30993366
I will say that back when Bugzilla was it, JIRA rocked. It was amazing the new power you had and the functionality it provided. We self-hostd JIRA from 2008ish to 2014ish. (memory …
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Comment #30825753
The worst part of all this is that clubhouse.io changed their name to some stupid thing that doesn't make any sense and they didn't need to. They could have just waited out the hyp…
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Comment #30457276
Well, they aren't completely down now either. Heroku Shield is up. Dashboard is up. EU is reported as up. As an aside, I spoke with our AE in early January on where they are going …
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Comment #30457201
Ahh... were you sleeping in 2021? They went down in September, November, and December. Probably some other times earlier in the year as well. I stopped keeping track at how bad the…
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Comment #30457017
Ours are up. US East. Heroku Shield.
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Comment #29379004
You hate Java but are okay with the DOM as an editor…
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Comment #26862385
Crashes latest Firefox and Safari on Mac. Why not just build an app if you are going to be browser specific...
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Comment #18699592
China's push for electrification of transportation is admirable and worth praising. But this article is vapid click bait with nothing backing up its headline. The manufacturing of …
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Comment #13821520
Yeah, this seems crazy that anyone would build a business on this. For those curious about their justification: https://rollout.io/blog/updating-apps-without-app-store/
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Comment #13303041
I believe that it's very likely that SpaceX can recover the helium used during operation. The helium isn't expelled from the fuel tanks. Since the 1st stage returns, it could be re…
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Comment #12614648
Reminds me of ZenDock, another failed kickstarter laptop dock. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coleflournoy/zendock-th... Sounds like HydraDock might be handling it better tha…
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Comment #12590782
Wings flex while in flight. Either the cells need to handle that stress or the wing needs to be super rigid. Neither is particularly easy to achieve.
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Comment #12590771
I don't believe he was intending the plane to fly supersonic. Instead he was talking about using the design of the wings because they have a larger volume.
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Comment #11192834
I have mentored two middle schoolers in an independent study using Codea. https://codea.io/ It's great for that immediate feedback loop when starting out. If you weren't using iOS,…
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Comment #10982180
The forth paragraph in that link really sums up the difference for my poor brain: "One advantage of direct current over AC is that DC current penetrates the entire conductor as opp…
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Comment #10981582
I was initially confused by the statement that direct current has lower transmission losses over long distances. My recollection was that a big argument for AC over DC going back t…