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Two people declined to re-license their contributions to Racket. We therefore removed their contributions and, where appropriate, replaced them with new code and/or documentation. …

...which says > Warning you probably don’t want to use CGI for modern web development, see Why Not to Use CGI.

Stuff like https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-faq.html#how-can-i-measure-a-... If you're not aware of that, it is very tempting to use `useRef`, which is what I have often seen. Before…

Tons of shitty "here's how to use hooks for X" articles on Medium make the mistake, so people learning hooks right at the beginning will not be completely immune. Also that the fix…

I've seen a ton of people make that mistake, though. I think it's because what you write is accurate - "refs are meant for values that don't need to trigger a rerender" - but most …

I don't think that can explain it, because IIRC that rule has only been around since Obamacare, but the US/world price disparity for prescription drugs has existed much longer than…

At least it'd be no worse than we have now with voting my mail.

Sometimes there are browser bugs that are impossible to do feature detection for, in which case have no better option than looking at the user agent. For instance, several versions…

Alternative title: Why does software development suck so much in _______?

And, sadly, if we could detect Alzheimer's a decade early, it would go from a 0% survival rate to a 0% survival rate. Early detection would still be valuable for other reasons, tho…

In this specific case, they do test for the ApoE gene which can you a 20x higher chance of getting Alzheimer's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apolipoprotein_E#Alzheimer's_d... 20x m…

What does "rationalized" mean? Highly respected open access publishers like PLoS charge similar fees https://www.plos.org/publication-fees - maybe that's just what it costs to run …

That's not true, 23andme tests the APOE gene (and possibly some others too) which does indeed have a large affect on the risk of developing Alzheimer's. Although having the good ve…

Firefox 52 may be around for a while - it's the last LTS before extensions were broken by Quantum, and it's also the last release that runs on XP and Vista.

I'm psyched to see the fix to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1193394 released, which (amongst other things) mean that you can finally write code using both IndexedDB …

Mandatory HTTPS? This discussion from 2 days ago seems relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16951831

Our first action, which began immediately after the incident concluded, was to implement a 24-hour cooldown on republication of any deleted package name. Why not infinity hours? I …

In my job, I edit the production database live because adding a special feature (or even a bug fix) takes like a year to get deployed to production, even if it's as simple as a one…

It doesn't seem odd if you've worked in enterprise, just sad :)

Or, shameless self promotion: https://basketball-gm.com/ https://github.com/dumbmatter/basketball-gm Currently no terminal UI, sadly. PRs welcome!

I drink decaf sometimes because coffee does taste good. Caffeinated I only drink rarely, like when traveling and I need to wake up really early. I remember growing up seeing people…

You are right about that. They even financially support other projects that are not as rich: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/moss/ Anyone know someone working on Edge? Maybe MS can a…

It's been 2 (nearly 3) years since the final version of the official spec, but 5 years since any significant changes to the spec draft. IE10 was released in 2012 with a partial Ind…

One of the most common requests we hear from people who use Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 PCs is "we want our browser experience to move to our phones". That's funny, my most common…