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I was at Yahoo when they did a big email redesign, and the new design didn't work for 1/2 their users. Digging deeper, they found that email users kinda fall into 2 camps: filers a…

Took some effort to refine a websearch: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2158516/delay-before-o-o...

I don't know about "hero" use cases, but I use actors (state machine responding to events in a queue) quite a bit when making hobby Arduino devices. It allows me to have a "button"…

I think it was their thread/process scheduler. It had a section of priorities which got hard realtime scheduling, then lower priority stuff got more "traditional" scheduling. (Alas…

I'm in the middle of building a 1000sf home with some friends. It'll probably be about 80k for the house (including various permits). We hired contactors for: plans (including engi…

You'll probably need to research what the particle size(s) is(are) for cigarette smoke, but this detects a bunch of different sizes: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/15103 I have …

Depends on what you mean by "very low consumption". For one project I used a SparkFun SAMD21 Mini Breakout[0], and with the RTCZero[1] library was pretty easily able to get it down…

Good points, I pretty much agree with everything you said. "NoDamnGoodForUs" is a little strong, more like "AlmostButThisOneUseCaseNeedsALittleMore" :) Interestingly, that embedded…

In the article the author states: From this, we get that accounts should certainly behave like state machines. And from that, it’s reasonable that other pieces of code ought to be …

As someone who works at a large company, $10k is in no way "a drop in the bucket". Sales teams might have a budget to wine-and-dine clients, but as a developer I have pretty much z…

I see it more in storytelling terms: the existing hell, the seed of hope, the promised land, the hero's path, the hero made real. It's not so much about the consistency of the stor…

There are a few NPM libraries (make-plural, cldr, probably others) which will help you write those pluralization functions. The CLDR data does get updated from time to time, so it'…

Yeah, for a simple plural that can be a bit longer. In other languages, though, the pluralization rules get rather complicated[1]. (For example, Arabic has both complicated plurali…

Hmmm... after very quickly looking at Globalize, I'd say there are two things about formatjs.io that I see as main differences: * Integrations with Handlebars, Dust, and React hope…

You have to provide your own translations.