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Thank you for breaking it down like this. As someone without an engineering background, your explanation (along with some Googling for terms and definitions) really helped me grasp…

This is a great example of how a font can really compliment the style you're going for. It fits so well that you hardly notice it at all.

> Haven't used MSW, but don't people use it for mocking APIs? Isn't that apples and oranges? At first, I was confused by what OP meant, too, but I think the point is that if you ca…

Would either of you mind expanding on this? What kind of roles have you held?

The article linked by the commenter above addressed your concern. They mention the toggle should have an _immediate_ state change. I really liked the iOS airplane mode example the …

Specifically for reviewing a pull request in GitHub, wouldn't the "Hide whitespace" setting reduce some of this noise? I could be mistaken, though, but that's how I interpreted tha…

> Douglas Downing's Trigonometry Made Easy is also a really great book for non-maths people. > but this book really helped connect trig in an intuitive way. To me, understanding ma…

The advice in this blog post is specific to college, and the author of this post is in their last year; they certainly have the qualifications to give advice catered to incoming co…

I'd argue the link is the most influential and historic element of the web. Its behavior should rightfully be preserved.

> The really impressive thing is... if you follow a user profile link to a comment and vote, the vote doesn't count. I've been a Reddit user for a while, but I never knew this. I t…

> The other thing that drove me nuts is lack of care for low-res (aka full HD) displays, where rounding and thin borders leads to visible artifacts in common controls. A designer w…

> The standard of human interaction will either be meeting IRL or signing communications biometrically. From a convenience standpoint, it seems like we've gotten so technologically…

I just had to do this in React, and you're correct in that it makes you write logic around the lifecycles in ways that feels like I'm abusing their lifecycle methods. It's a lot of…

These are precisely the type of "ahas" I hope to experience, too, when I begin studying computer science. I've been taking introductory college math courses at my community college…

It also doesn't trap focus within the dialog.

Can you further expand on uploading text docs? I'm not sure I understand why that helped you. Also, what did you get your degree in?

> For historical reasons we now call hand computers phones Recently, I've been wondering why the name "phone" has stuck around for a device that has evolved with many more features…

On this note, contributing to open source was the best "experience" I've ever gotten as it related to my day-to-day job of maintaining a large, but still growing, project.

I'm not the author, but I thought these were nice illustrations showcasing the various pitches used in the sport of baseball. If I wanted to understand a bit more intricacies invol…

I'm curious: what do you consider best practices for font-size and line-height, as well as margins between paragraphs? I've recently revamped my website and used an online type sca…

I've worked at a consulting firm as a dev where we used React for our all of our projects. Given the nature of the industry, we had a fairly high turnover rate with new devs consta…

Ironically, I have done exactly the two tips you mentioned, and I can confidently say that my life has changed drastically. In fact, so much so, that when I catch up with people wh…

When I first stumbled on a senior engineer browsing HN at my very first internship, I assumed it was a hut for developers. However, the more I've browsed this place over the years,…