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strongly disagree that studying openings is necessary to "do your best" at competitions. In my experience almost all games between players under 2000 (class players) are decided ta…

"they aren't, plain and simple" is the made up bit I was calling out. There is literally not much more to the original comment to be calling made up. "A lot of these humans" was me…

Chiming in as a former-ish member of the demographic you are just making stuff up about. There is no way to determine how much and how UBI would impact hikikomori because the demog…

Scrolling through the comments and noticed that they are a pretty good autism simulator for working in tech with autism. The entire cast of typical characters is represented. - guy…

I have pretty severe C-PTSD and structural dissociation and this has resulted in some moments... Usually this is just a tendency to have memory issues under stress. I have blanked …

A decade ago I was going to kill myself then what was essentially my suicide note went viral(ish) after I submitted it to HN (if u want to read the cringey post https://news.ycombi…

You are right that my method differed slightly so I did things again. It took me one try to find a sequence of moves that "breaks" what is claimed. You just have to make odd patter…

This is so easy to disprove it makes it look like the author didn't even try. Here is the convo I just had: me: You are a chess grandmaster playing as black and your goal is to win…

I had a similarish vision/idea about 7ish years ago https://github.com/Hactar-js/hactar I was way too early though and it didn't work well. I have recoded it probably half a dozen …

This is a tip for everyone struggling to find someone to hire; look in a different pool of candidates and be willing to accommodate them. For example, you can find a lot of very sk…

Location: North Idaho/Spokane, Washington area Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: React, JS, Ruby, Rails, Clojure, ClojureScript, GraphQL, Redux, MEAN Stack, VueJS,…

Build Your Own React https://github.com/hexacta/didact Create Your Own Programming Language http://createyourproglang.com/ Build Your Own Sinatra: https://getgood.at/build-your-own…

wow you must be fun at parties! (that is mostly just a pun on your username not meant to convey lots of snark) anyways lol some of that is too real jokes aside I think web developm…

Oops. Thanks for noticing and reporting! Will push fixes soonish!

It is more targeted towards people that know some JS but want to learn ES6 or are struggling with parts of ES6. It is a quick mini-book focused on ES6 with some refresher of more a…

Thanks for the feedback! You are definitely right that there is a ton of material on this subject already out there. I intentionally chose a tiny subject I know a lot about that ha…