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Yes, yes, yes. Thank you for posting this. It drives me absolutely freaking crazy when people do the "Oh, I'm just not _____," having essentially decided they are not _____, and th…

Man you must be really fun at parties

All of this is exactly why I started Slow Code. I like programming. Lots of people like programming. I don't want to stop doing that. So we meet up once a month to practice that. h…

> did Psychedelics more than a few times If you want to specify LSD, you should do that, not "psychedelics." There are many, many psychedelics. They have sometimes radical differen…

Whose record?

Man, the Nitro stuff is garbage, but it's bizarre that you're equating the ENTIRE UI to that. It's really not that obtrusive. I don't like it either but it's like 0.5% of the UI

Yeah; I get the impression that people saying this really mean "I hate the stupid upsells." Which is fine, I do too. But I guess on HN there's more clout to claiming it's the UI th…

This reminds me in the best way of Lynch's Lumiere competition entry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds-OKH2ow4o

Monumental Deployment Mastermind

The Freakonomics podcast did a series on rats and their relationship to cities and humans and talked about Alberta's approach—it was really fascinating, I'd recommend it: https://f…

> Except you can check the differences easily Huh? No you can't. Without regulation or oversight, companies will simply lie about what's in their product. The libertarian vision re…

+1 for Purelymail. Most things that appear to be too good to be true are not true. Purelymail is the real deal.

> Actually, I don't think it's a good idea to bring your politics into a an enclosed pace like this Ah yes, the classic "your politics," but of course the person having this opinio…

> Things which look effective on the surface, but has real UX problems in the underneath, are getting prioritised because someone in the room can talk better and enrol a leader to …

> After that I worked with vendors to get it in ecommerce storefronts ASAP to not let the hype die out Give yourself credit for this move, because it might seem obvious to you, but…

> “are you ready to be bad at this for a long time?” Oh, I love this so much. It communicates so many important things in one go. My kids must be absolutely sick of me saying in a …

Well... "hobby electronics" is extraordinarily broad :) It depends massively on what kind of DX you want. If you want to work with a 'regular' operating system, you're looking more…

I live in Figma, and I’m constantly creating autolayouts, and I tend to know as I’m going what parameters each new autolayout is going to need. Figma gives you shift+a to frame obj…

> Nobody wants to pay for anything Congratulations, this might be the single most trivially-disprovable statement I've ever seen on this site

This is so funny, as though wanting to boycott specific entities is some kind of absurd notion, and as though saying "Sure, what ELSE don't you like?" is some kind of proof that it…

Hi all, I'm thinking of starting a monthly meetup (in NYC) where we spend an hour or 2 (or whatever) writing some code the old-fashioned way (no generated code). Currently looking …