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laander

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About laander

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    Comment #48112621

    Stunning - both the result and interactive walkthrough of how you got there. Will store this next to my collection of Sebastian Lague favs. Thanks for sharing it with the world

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    Comment #15805705

    A few different tech projects that we consider open sourcing: - A CLI release tool that properly ensures deps & CI are green, bumps version, creates Github release notes (with link…

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    Comment #12115798

    Appreciate the effort, but this one seems waaay too strict for mere mortals: CHECK #53: JavaScript disabled in the Safari web browser.... FAILED!

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    Comment #12115651

    We have a #world-is-on-fire that's only meant for doomsday-like events e.g. the API servers are down, slow queries exploded or a deploy resulted in 10 fold exceptions. Pingdom and …

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    Comment #10636746

    Hey there! All the way down to 15 minutes and as long as you'd like them (in 15 minutes intervals)

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    Comment #10632741

    We're working on a Stripe integration (see https://github.com/timekit-io/booking-js/issues/20 ), but you could actually add it yourself with the callbacks. Check out the docs on Gi…

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    Comment #10632732

    You can customize the timeslot lengths, see the following config key: { timekitFindTime: { length: '30 minutes' // natural language input of duration } } There's also a dropdown in…

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    Comment #10631542

    Hey, here's an interesting challenge: The widget is using a Google Calendar underneath and as people try the demo and book timeslots, the calendar gets filled up and availability d…

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    Comment #10631532

    Hi, lead developer here! The widget itself is based on open source components and is on Github ( https://github.com/timekit-io/booking-js ), but the trigger is that's it's using ou…

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    Comment #10149767

    The Danish government has introduced a local version of this concept called NemID (i.e. Easy ID). It's essentially a universal online identity that government departments and busin…

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    Comment #8005851

    To this day, i still find the HackerNews+ (or simply HN+) chrome overlay by @jarques quite awesome. It has a Google-esque look to it and does a great job in keeping the overall sty…

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    Comment #7311580

    My quick summary: 1) Bad example of a detail-poor wireframe that actually could have been good with actual content text and more precision. 2) Explanation that wireframe leads the …

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    Comment #6616915

    I am blasted away by your completely staggering domain-knowledge and my lack of the same. Probably should stop seeing universe docus and study more science

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    Comment #5745097

    Oh yes, PLEASE add tab completion, would please my inner shell-mage. Tried 'sudo apt-get install bash-completion', didn't work :(

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    Comment #5442206

    I'm curious as to what Achoo actually did? What service did they provide? Their homepage simply links to the blog post which doesn't really state anything about their product

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    Comment #5393030

    Well congratulations, your first noteworty achievement: You just made the frontpage of Hacker News, gained a serious amount of replies and (most importantly) connected Wieth thousa…

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    Comment #5382094

    Facebook events have always been broken - in many ways, as you correctly states. This is a nifty little tool to fix those mistakes and must've been a fun evening hack-it-up project…

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    Comment #4902113

    A little investigation: Anon_Online notices of the event, OP probably high/drunk https://twitter.com/Anon_Online/status/278269562422697987 Odd-looking whois of facebook.com (notice…