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> you dont figure it out for days or weeks? If it was important and estimates on how long it will take are overrun, then don't wait to follow up on it and find out how it's going. …

Shortly after your post, they did revoke all access tokens: https://status.npmjs.org/incidents/dn7c1fgrr7ng > To protect potentially compromised accounts, npm is invalidating all n…

> 30) Existential angst is part of life. Definitely a 20-30 thing, never even crossed my mind before I was 25.

Ah yes, makes total sense if you're setting up not just a Python environment, but an entire stack. Very cool.

Interesting. So by that line of thought, aging would be an evolved trait giving certain species an evolutionary advantage over others without aging.

I think I'm in the group that doesn't immediately see the obvious gain of teaching in a Docker container vs. teaching how to install pyenv/virtualenv. Is it mainly cutting out trou…

The wiki links to a French article which has quotes from the author of this book: https://www.amazon.com/Maos-Great-Famine-Devastating-Catastr...

Marathon swimmers swim 20+ hours depending on the swim.

Consumer perception, mainly. It depends on the target audience of the page. Modern consumers have come to correlate certain appearances with quality. It's not an awesome cultural d…

I often hear people point to security as a reason to avoid shipping sourcemaps in Production, but it seems like such a non-issue given that anyone can unminify the code shipped out…

The winter can be a bit much if you're not used to it for sure, but the upside is that tourists leave and restaurants no longer need reservations :) Plus, not far from some excelle…

2 quick points: - The paradigm shift in writing interactive web pages in the React "write your app like a game that re-renders every frame"-style is extremely compelling. You are c…

One funny (ab)use case that may not be immediately obvious: any public API that accepts payment for goods via credit card will sooner or later attempt to be used by carders to test…

Ditto, I was able to get a Leap from an office surplus store for my home office and I enjoy its adjustability better than the Aeron I had at my last job. The breathability of the A…

I think that's a difficult comparison to make because you can reasonably secure your house against unwanted entry and it's fairly likely that breaches could be detected. Obviously …

Is anyone aware of repots on the comparative level of security of the various cell providers? I'd be interested to know how providers in various tiers of scale like US Cellular com…

From the mypy docs linked in the article ( http://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/duck_type_compatibility... ), it seems it supports a small number of built-in duck types currently, …

Less aggressively, you may also be inheriting someone else's design.

But... people talk to their phones all the time :) Just hold it like normal when you're talking into it!

Django's recommended project structure is one that immediately comes to mind. A project is broken down into "applications" each which have their own models, views, and controllers …

It's a problem inherent in any system offering pure anonymity in an unrestricted way. It's really a shame. An opinionless platform offering anonymity cannot flourish in an opiniona…

"You make your own luck." There were a sequence of events that lead to you getting the opportunity to be in the right place at the right time. Random luck happens for sure, but how…