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Can't agree enough. Declarative programming makes sense for lots of things, React is a great example. With such a big dependency graph for infra, adding loops and variables and tem…

It's not. Australia calculates fully loaded car costs at $0.72AUD/km. If you add up depreciation, registration, insurance, servicing, fuel, repairs and amortize it the numbers chec…

Here is another community compiled document regarding plausible origins https://project-evidence.github.io/

"Meanwhile, 90 percent reported they have been trying to negotiate their leases, but their landlords wouldn’t budge." This is alarming. It may seem like just another statistic lost…

Very few, and I don't think it's a reasonable parallel. I don't think 8 hours of cognitively demanding, yet physically sedentary work, is part of our human nature. If you frame it …

I guess I'm going outside today.

What do you do when you see this lying around? http://www.fiftythree.org/etherkiller/img/etherkiller.jpg

He's referring to https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/release-notes/t... rather than boolean coercion.

Whatever role you're in, don't underestimate the value of relationships, communication, and soft skills in being able to influence the impact and value of the work you can deliver.…

I had 3 days of tired/weakness from 7-10 Jan, and a severe dry cough for about two weeks after that. I strongly suspect I caught it from a friend that had travelled all over Europe…

I am extremely bearish on this whole global situation, but given the gravity of the situation, we're going to see the world's best institutions and minds working on vaccines and tr…

Pushbullet (Chrome extension) might work for copy/paste to/from your phone.

Yeah - I use this workflow and love it. cmd + esp (with caps lock remapped to escape) to toggle a full screen terminal from any application. Means don't have to cmd + tab and hunt …

https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/7520318?hl=en Locksmiths are now a restricted business as grey hat marketers figured it was an industry with a high ticket price and aut…

This could be a HN demographic thing. The comment definitely piqued my curiosity, too. Interested in others thoughts. I think the sibling commenter may have got it right with the f…

Can anyone that has been in the industry for a significant period of time comment on this feeling? I'm 5 years deep professionally, 15 years as a hobby, and no longer enjoying soft…

Try vimium, I've been using it for years - as long as the HTML is semantically correct a surprisingly amount of the web is navigable.

Keyless start cars (e.g. Volkswagen) have a way to start with a dead fob. If you hold the dead fob against the little key symbol on the steering column it'll power the fob by induc…

Looks great, not having a go at you, but instantly reminded me of this https://youtu.be/8wfG8ngFvPk

Firebase has ergonomic free auth that does all this out of the box.

I'm going to do Rust.

True, but consider some folks are content with a 38 hour week, may have automated large chunks of their job, and find the demands of working for a big public sector organization fa…

Perfect description of that color, thanks.

Thanks for the release regardless!