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Outside Google, ClojureScript (with a "j") used to depend on the Closure compiler (with an "s") - partly because the library that came with the compiler provided a Java-like API wh…

I find it frustrating that web development moved away from encouraging developers to use a collection of consistent visual styles and basic components (like Bootstrap offered - and…

You're absolutely not alone. This is what Paul Graham's post "Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule" is about. http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

The majority of the content and comments on HN tell about the benefits of remaining an IC and not moving into management. Why do people need to convince each other _not_ to move in…

By who's authority should the word "who's" be spelled "whose" and not "who's"? In all seriousness, it's interesting to see how the live language is diverging from the rules. The du…

You probably meant 𐤁𐤓𐤀𐤔𐤉𐤕. Side note: to a Jew, this obsession of Christians over Hebrew and Biblical things feels rather... creepy - although I can't quite rationalise it.

Here is my story: - got an applied maths / CS degree in the beginning of 2000s, followed by a non-STEM master's degree and almost 10 years in a non-tech career - burned out, quit j…

The argument that US companies have a larger addressable market is valid, but it doesn’t seem particularly convincing. Israel’s domestic market is tiny, and most Israeli start-ups …

Is there any app segment or niche safe from being killed by Google?

Why is Facebook singled out vs. all social media? I feel worse after half an hour spent reading Twitter, Reddit or even Hacker News than after half an hour spent on Facebook or Ins…

The principles listed in the article look like general common-sense design principles. I can hardly imagine anyone designing a system without understanding the problem domain first…

As someone from outside the EU, I had to go through the bureaucratic hassle described in the article to get into the UK. After Brexit, the visa requirements were somewhat relaxed i…

> Edit: this might make the kids think you need some 'magical' insights to do math and if they don't see it they are not apt for it, while the opposite might be true. That's a vali…

Basically it would be ideal to have a query builder that is easily integrated with shells and notebooks (so that it can be used outside the context of writing programs in a specifi…

SQL and the relational model mostly works well and it's probably not practical to redo the enormous amount of work that was invested in SQL and its implementations and extensions. …

My experience in Go in production is limited to ~150 lines of code I wrote to contribute a small feature for one Terraform provider. The provider in question is a very thin wrapper…

The website is down right now, here's the archive link if anyone is interested: http://web.archive.org/web/20210418161124/https://midrange.t...

The birth of our child was the greatest contributor to both happiness and stress for my wife and myself. Everything else that happened last year is inconsequential in comparison to…

If I understand correctly, by "well-adjusted" you mean "a person who has no evident quirks" (like being a Tolkien fan to the extent of naming your practice Lorien, or blogging exte…

> most GraphQL-based web services only accept POST requests (not also GET requests) A GraphQL server should generally be able to accept GET queries according to the spec [1]. Are t…

GraphQL specifies schema and documentation, and implementations usually come with introspection tools, which is not the case for REST. It would be more fair to compare GraphQL to s…

Telegram is fine for a single-user setup or for a small team. If you need better multi-user and multi-channel support, you can use Slack. Both have an easy to use bot API and both …

I wonder what makes people launch new products using non-metric units in 2020. Oil trading has a tradition of using barrels, but crop areas are measured in hectares and water volum…

Not sure if that's relevant - but were you aware that you can pass GraphQL inputs as plain JSON in variables? In the vast majority of cases, you don't need to build mutation inputs…

You have to thank the OFAC regulations for that - they have created issues for both businesses and customers in the name of political goals that don't have any relation to them.