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If you replaced every occurrence of "Freeman Dyson" with "a college kid after a fat bong rip" I don't think readers would be able to tell you edited the document

I have more nuanced takes on lodash too but I'm putting them in another reply to separate them from the big picture stuff I already mentioned. Lodash also differs from the standard…

Lodash has two values, a bunch of utility functions and it works cross browser. The most common utility functions are now standard issue in es6+. And a transpilation build process …

Hacker News should have stronger antibodies to content marketing. This one is even easier to spot because it recommends lodash in 2018

I was on all the social media but took the plunge and deleted them all. Some things I visited to blow time like imgur have infinite scroll in their apps but are paginated on their …

The land is probably more valuable than the building configuration. It's a little different from the pipe example in that way. You can't easily tear up the pipes and do something e…

Stopped using any feature with infinite scroll implemented. It's the common thread between social media feeds, app store lists, streaming services, etc. For sites like HN I stop af…

I like to keep evergreen lists for everything too, I'm curious what software you're using? I've shoehorned lists into evernote and trello before but ultimately their uis are about …

Just like SF has microclimates for weather it also has them for compartmentalizing the city's various problems. Fidi and east cut (or whatever realtors are calling it now) don't ha…

The article really undersells criticism #2 (they block sidewalks). In their short time in SF I saw scooters laying down in the middle of sidewalks, blocking bus stop curbs, left in…

I think you can get by with adding timestamp support to a single feature flag. So the code has IS_PREMIUM everywhere but when you add a new use of it you also manually record the t…

I don't mean todo lists or shopping lists. More like playlists or wish lists, which endure and are curated over time. You can shoehorn this into lots of other software (trello, pin…

Not an external resource but I've identified that there are thought tools I continually apply in my own thinking to gain new perspective. I started writing them down and organizing…

They all start with the idea of monetizing an underused resource (cars, houses, curbsides) with a novel business model whose goal is to dance around existing laws. I don't know of …

I used Haxe and NME years ago to build an Ouya (RIP) game. I was coming from actionscript and it was a delightful language. Glad to see it's still evolving. That game project was a…

You say you've shown no hate yet you reply to my support of this acquisition with a comment that quickly dismisses my enthusiasm as misplaced hype. Now you provide advice when I di…

We can assume Microsoft's motivation is money, they have a long history of selling professional solutions to development teams, I'm a developer with a team on GitHub in need of sol…

I'm excited by this. I feel trapped between Google who will give everything away in exchange for spying on me, and Apple who will respect my privacy but shake me upside down with t…

Watched about an hour so far and this is fabulous. The talks very clearly outline the bounds of the problem space (known and unknown) and then start going region to region. The goa…

> Can you try to formulate those values? This is an issue I see with effective altruism and other (new atheism, veganism) hyper-rational movements. It's not enough to establish a v…

I've made reddit more enjoyable in the past by using plugins that auto collapse comments past depth 1 or 2. On avg, conversation devolves past that point. I've since quit Reddit bu…

I think the climate has a big role in this. In NYC you see the same homeless ppl for about a year, then the hard winter weather hits and they (hopefully) head somewhere warmer. NYC…

This doesn't explain why IRC can't compete with Slack or the other corporate messaging services. Slack was a side project by a failing game company. Its growth was largely organic.…

I would love it if people who think SF's homeless problem is easily solvable would create startups to solve it. Unfortunately they're all busy making the fourth, fifth, sixth, elec…

SF already has those things. The bathrooms are expensive because they need technology that prevents ppl from hanging out in them, so they automatically lock down and power wash the…