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www.nytimes.com 2y ago

F-35 Jet Is Missing After Pilot Parachutes Free in South Carolina

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www.pgrammer.com 2y ago

Show HN: Practice coding interviews with tips and solution analysis with GPT

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twitter.com 4y ago

Mathematical illusion: Arrow spins 180 degrees and only points left in mirror

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www.bloomberg.com 5y ago

Apple Shifts Leadership of Self-Driving Car Unit to AI Chief

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zehfernando.com 5y ago

Things I’ve learned with an one-letter email address (2006)

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en.wikipedia.org 6y ago

Kilroy Was Here

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onlinelibrary.wiley.com 6y ago

Coronavirus disease: Harms of exaggerated info and non-evidence-based measures

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twitter.com 6y ago

A Story about Sun Microsystems and Google Stadia

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gobuffalo.io 7y ago

A Go web development eco-system, designed to life easier

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www.brandmeetscopy.com 7y ago

Your_audience != Everyone

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: How do we stop the cookie dialogs?

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www.britannica.com 8y ago

Time Warner Inc. – American Company

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www.objc.io 8y ago

App Architecture: iOS Application Design Patterns in Swift

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www.phact.org 8y ago

The Error Machine of Joseph Newman (1999)

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github.com 9y ago

Npm5 out for public beta

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medium.com 9y ago

Deploying a Phoenix 1.3 Umbrella App to Heroku

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: Does a viable alternative to ScreenHero exist?

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www.clap.chat 9y ago

Show HN: ClapChat – Instant messaging for HN users

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rubular.com 10y ago

Rubular: a Ruby regular expression editor and tester

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blog.mixpanel.com 10y ago

In Data We Trust: Max Levchin on Consumer Finance

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www.drivenbycode.com 10y ago

GlueStick: A Command Line Interface for Building Web Applications Using React

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brandmeetscopy.com 10y ago

Introducing Lyrical Learning

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m.youtube.com 10y ago

Table Saw called SawStop (won't cut your finger off)

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www.betterspark.com 11y ago

Show HN: BetterSpark – Connect and collaborate with businesses in same demographic

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: Can “on-demand” marketplace workers be independent contractors legally?

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www.commitstrip.com 11y ago

Our CTO has discovered an incredible way of making developers read his commits…

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addyosmani.com 12y ago

Spring-cleaning Unused CSS With Grunt, Gulp, Broccoli or Brunch

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davidwalsh.name 12y ago

Write Your CSS with JavaScript

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developers.google.com 12y ago

Getting MEAN With MongoDB and AngularJS

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docs.aws.amazon.com 12y ago

Amazon CloudFront – Using Alternate Domain Names (CNAMEs)

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This is super helpful. Not only does it help people understand how the system works but also this is invaluable for comparing offers. I always end up with a bunch of pencil scratch notes or if I’m really trying an excel sheet to compare offers.

I know sometimes we might only get one offer and you’re stoked about anything you get. However, I highly encourage everyone on the market to do what they can to have more than one offer. This has been the only way to truly have leverage while negotiating. I’ve also been surprised and joined a company that I thought was just going to give me leverage. Their offer was so much better and the team was a way better match for my skills and personality.

Feature Request: Add the ability to compare multiple offers and show a side by side comparison. Or maybe the ability to export to a CSV so people can do this themself.

Another feature request: add ability to compare their offer to offers on levels.fyi so they can know if they have room to negotiate.

That's now how I use Netflix. I watch when I'm in the sauna and I've been on my phone long enough that I start to worry it will start overheating. Then I set up phone up outside the glass and Netflix gets my undivided attention. There are still so many great movies and tv shows on Netflix.

I’m a recent convert to tailwind. I’m very comfortable with css and I was initially turned off on the huge horizontal lines I saw in tailwind projects.

However, more and more component libraries are based on tailwind so I decided to try some immersion therapy.

Here are the top things I enjoy that was not obvious to me:

1. The class names are css shortcuts. Using them save you a lot of time. This is probably obvious to anyone who’s seriously looked at tailwind but I didn’t see that browsing the docs. I just saw nightmarishly long lines.

2. The lines look longer when you are not familiar with the class names. I initially pulled all of my class names out into a string outside my markup and included similar to how I’m used to using emotioncss. This made tailwind tolerable for me at first. However after several days I started to feel less turned off by those lines. I think it’s because I could recognize them. I will still break down a line with something like clsx.

3. clsx helps so much vs trying to entirely rely on tailwind syntax. The docs don’t discourage this at all but for some reason I thought it wasn’t idiomatic tailwind at first.

4. My app has to support a very large number of themes. Tailwind has proven to be a very attractive way of solving this problem. CSS variables are cool but the long syntax of using them is helped a lot in tailwind.

5. Adding my own custom variants is so easy and made me feel like a power user with such a small learning curve.

All of this is just my two cents to guide anyone who is like me watching from the sideline and wondering why? Why would anyone ever want to tolerate those “disgusting long lines mixed into the html”. Neo, all I see is the lady in the red dress now

Tip for next time this happens: hold down the back button for a menu of your history. It can help get where you want faster. Although not sure it helps too much if you literally had to click 30 times

Sure, you can filter out some of the criticism as just haters. However, some of it might be deserved. It really depends on what the product is doing. Since Chat GPT is a very useful consumer facing product, any kind of chat bot built on top might not add a ton of value. Some companies are using an LLM such as GPT in very creative ways where you couldn’t get 80% of the value by just using the chat interface. You probably don’t see much hate in those cases.

I don’t think this should be downvoted. It’s a valid point and potential lesson for anyone thinking about reviving or doing something similar.

While this might not be the only issue I wouldn’t doubt that the name might prevent a larger audience.

I would say the daily subconscious reminder that I’m in a community that is run by an incubator. It keeps that incubator top of mind, it’s even in the URL. The built in marketing for YC helps keep them at the top.

Techstars should have bought Indiehackers or built a community like HN. I realize Indiehackers might not be a perfect fit (bootstrap vs VC). The fact that I’m on HN just about every. Single. Day. Keeps YC top of mind way more than I could imagine it would otherwise.

Go run 2 years ago

Sadly I haven’t been able to write any production Go for a few years now after switching companies. However, I got bit by the seemingly innocent _platform.go “feature”. I had a file that organized a bunch of windows for a cross platform GUI app. Well it turns out something like file_windows.go only compiles on windows. Our CI environment was compiling all the code but suddenly all platforms except windows started failing.

Was funny when it was diagnosed but not so funny for the time where I was deeply confused why things broke.

I was finally ready to be a full time Linux Laptop user and then Apple came out with the M series chips and I can’t commit. It would feel like such a downgrade. Asahi Linux looks cool but if I’m buying a Mac I might as well use Mac OS.

Anyone else feel this way or is it just me? Once I got the power and battery life from my M series chip I can’t give it up.

Could it simply be data driven? Is there any truth that the jobs that drug test most often are or were more likely to have drug related incidents than the others? I don’t know the data but my guess would be it is based on past performance as a whole more than individual impact.

Whether that is wrong or right I could see how there is an argument to be made