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I actually forgot that there is solid evidence now that Austronesians made contact with South America. So that's even crazier!

do you know how far madagascar is from easter island? if you're talking about mediterranean and river travel, yes you're right. but the pacific ocean + indian ocean are utterly mas…

Location: New York Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Typescript, NextJS, React, Python, and million others Résumé/CV: https://visualizeearth.com/ Email: john@vizear…

Has anyone made the switch from software engineer to product designer? Earlier in my career I went exclusively for developer-designer roles, then I switch to full stack engineering…

I'm a designer=engineer, and I feel like AI has given me super powers. Design has always been easy for me--it was just the incredible grind of coding that made creating my own thin…

we need at least 8236 more job boards

SEEKING WORK - Remote Product Designer and Software Engineer based in NYC/LA. Portfolio: http://visualizeearth.com Looking for part time product design work. I have 12 years of exp…

The "context" approach was the whole "Explainer" period that happened in journalism, most famously done by Vox (as another commenter mentioned)--but also many others. What you end …

We're a few narratives deep. You're responding to the "noble savages" strawman -- the OP article never claimed such. (Moreover, you're responding with a relatively isolated inciden…

I'm someone who is naturally strong at design, but studied CS/software engineering because I ultimately wanted to be able to build my own things. For years I tried to find careers …

>The notion of hunter-gather societies living harmoniously in equilibrium with nature that some people seem to view as an optimal societal arrangement doesn't fit very well with th…

It's gotten bad enough that if someone with an Indian accent is calling me and it sounds like it's from a call center, I hang up immediately.

The highest point of the maldives is 7ft above sea level. They are migrating en masse to neighboring countries. Bangladesh, similarly, is a very low lying nation without the capita…

I tried out nhost a few weeks ago and it was great!

Reducing emissions to zero, scarily enough, is the minimum. We actually need to actively remove carbon from the atmosphere in order to prevent further temperature increases, which …

And they pulled the plug on this thread while it was hot. They'll probably put it back when it simmers down and gets off the front page. YC has a vested interest in crypto. They al…

Was this removed from hacker news' front page? I don't see it there any more even though this post is ~3 hours old and has 300 points.

I think using managing state with an observable data service is a pretty good option w/o resorting to 3rd party libraries: https://blog.angular-university.io/how-to-build-angular2-…

I never used the flex layout package. That's a third party library, and I think sticking with CSS grid + flex makes more sense. (Alternatively, you can just use bootstrap or tailwi…

My experience with react with different: you have to spend a large amount of time upfront in order to get the basic features of a single page app. You burn a lot of mental energy f…

As far as sharing JS library code yes, but the baked in typescript support + nx CLI add a lot in terms of usability. 1. nx g @nrwl/workspace:lib data, 2. Modify the typed models/in…

Nest.js + Angular on the frontend is a dream. Nest.js was modeled after Angular and they both use a similar basket of concepts/tools (dependency injection, decorators, first-class …

Location: New York Remote: Preferred, but open to in person Willing to relocate: Yes, for the right gig Technologies: Angular, React, Typescript, Javascript, UI/UX design, Data Viz…

If you're looking for a fully featured framework, Angular is a joy to work with. React is great too, but the configuration overhead is enormous due to the fact that it's mainly a v…

There's a path dependence to everything. Had we started earlier, we would have shaped the curve of possibilities: renewables would be cheaper, storage solutions would have come onl…