Two people declined to re-license their contributions to Racket. We therefore removed their contributions and, where appropriate, replaced them with new code and/or documentation. Is that actually allowed by the GPL? I…
...which says > Warning you probably don’t want to use CGI for modern web development, see Why Not to Use CGI.
Stuff like https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-faq.html#how-can-i-measure-a-... If you're not aware of that, it is very tempting to use `useRef`, which is what I have often seen. Before hooks, we did not have the…
Tons of shitty "here's how to use hooks for X" articles on Medium make the mistake, so people learning hooks right at the beginning will not be completely immune. Also that the fix is "instead of using this one kind…
I've seen a ton of people make that mistake, though. I think it's because what you write is accurate - "refs are meant for values that don't need to trigger a rerender" - but most people think of refs (or at least refs…
I don't think that can explain it, because IIRC that rule has only been around since Obamacare, but the US/world price disparity for prescription drugs has existed much longer than that.
At least it'd be no worse than we have now with voting my mail.
Sometimes there are browser bugs that are impossible to do feature detection for, in which case have no better option than looking at the user agent. For instance, several versions of Firefox had a serious bug in shared…
Alternative title: Why does software development suck so much in _______?
And, sadly, if we could detect Alzheimer's a decade early, it would go from a 0% survival rate to a 0% survival rate. Early detection would still be valuable for other reasons, though.
In this specific case, they do test for the ApoE gene which can you a 20x higher chance of getting Alzheimer's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apolipoprotein_E#Alzheimer's_d... 20x more is not a sure thing, but for a…
What does "rationalized" mean? Highly respected open access publishers like PLoS charge similar fees https://www.plos.org/publication-fees - maybe that's just what it costs to run a journal? If not, PLoS must be some…
That's not true, 23andme tests the APOE gene (and possibly some others too) which does indeed have a large affect on the risk of developing Alzheimer's. Although having the good version of APOE doesn't mean you'll never…
Firefox 52 may be around for a while - it's the last LTS before extensions were broken by Quantum, and it's also the last release that runs on XP and Vista.
I'm psyched to see the fix to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1193394 released, which (amongst other things) mean that you can finally write code using both IndexedDB and promises without inadvertently…
Mandatory HTTPS? This discussion from 2 days ago seems relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16951831
Our first action, which began immediately after the incident concluded, was to implement a 24-hour cooldown on republication of any deleted package name. Why not infinity hours? I don't get it.
In my job, I edit the production database live because adding a special feature (or even a bug fix) takes like a year to get deployed to production, even if it's as simple as a one line change.
It doesn't seem odd if you've worked in enterprise, just sad :)
Or, shameless self promotion: https://basketball-gm.com/ https://github.com/dumbmatter/basketball-gm Currently no terminal UI, sadly. PRs welcome!
I drink decaf sometimes because coffee does taste good. Caffeinated I only drink rarely, like when traveling and I need to wake up really early. I remember growing up seeing people brag about how much coffee they drink…
You are right about that. They even financially support other projects that are not as rich: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/moss/ Anyone know someone working on Edge? Maybe MS can apply to that program and get some extra…
It's been 2 (nearly 3) years since the final version of the official spec, but 5 years since any significant changes to the spec draft. IE10 was released in 2012 with a partial IndexedDB implementation, and Edge is…
One of the most common requests we hear from people who use Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 PCs is "we want our browser experience to move to our phones". That's funny, my most common request is "IT'S BEEN LIKE 5 YEARS,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suprachiasmatic_nucleus The SCN receives input from specialized photosensitive ganglion cells in the retina via the retinohypothalamic tract. Neurons in the ventrolateral SCN (vlSCN) have…
Two people declined to re-license their contributions to Racket. We therefore removed their contributions and, where appropriate, replaced them with new code and/or documentation. Is that actually allowed by the GPL? I…
...which says > Warning you probably don’t want to use CGI for modern web development, see Why Not to Use CGI.
Stuff like https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-faq.html#how-can-i-measure-a-... If you're not aware of that, it is very tempting to use `useRef`, which is what I have often seen. Before hooks, we did not have the…
Tons of shitty "here's how to use hooks for X" articles on Medium make the mistake, so people learning hooks right at the beginning will not be completely immune. Also that the fix is "instead of using this one kind…
I've seen a ton of people make that mistake, though. I think it's because what you write is accurate - "refs are meant for values that don't need to trigger a rerender" - but most people think of refs (or at least refs…
I don't think that can explain it, because IIRC that rule has only been around since Obamacare, but the US/world price disparity for prescription drugs has existed much longer than that.
At least it'd be no worse than we have now with voting my mail.
Sometimes there are browser bugs that are impossible to do feature detection for, in which case have no better option than looking at the user agent. For instance, several versions of Firefox had a serious bug in shared…
Alternative title: Why does software development suck so much in _______?
And, sadly, if we could detect Alzheimer's a decade early, it would go from a 0% survival rate to a 0% survival rate. Early detection would still be valuable for other reasons, though.
In this specific case, they do test for the ApoE gene which can you a 20x higher chance of getting Alzheimer's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apolipoprotein_E#Alzheimer's_d... 20x more is not a sure thing, but for a…
What does "rationalized" mean? Highly respected open access publishers like PLoS charge similar fees https://www.plos.org/publication-fees - maybe that's just what it costs to run a journal? If not, PLoS must be some…
That's not true, 23andme tests the APOE gene (and possibly some others too) which does indeed have a large affect on the risk of developing Alzheimer's. Although having the good version of APOE doesn't mean you'll never…
Firefox 52 may be around for a while - it's the last LTS before extensions were broken by Quantum, and it's also the last release that runs on XP and Vista.
I'm psyched to see the fix to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1193394 released, which (amongst other things) mean that you can finally write code using both IndexedDB and promises without inadvertently…
Mandatory HTTPS? This discussion from 2 days ago seems relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16951831
Our first action, which began immediately after the incident concluded, was to implement a 24-hour cooldown on republication of any deleted package name. Why not infinity hours? I don't get it.
In my job, I edit the production database live because adding a special feature (or even a bug fix) takes like a year to get deployed to production, even if it's as simple as a one line change.
It doesn't seem odd if you've worked in enterprise, just sad :)
Or, shameless self promotion: https://basketball-gm.com/ https://github.com/dumbmatter/basketball-gm Currently no terminal UI, sadly. PRs welcome!
I drink decaf sometimes because coffee does taste good. Caffeinated I only drink rarely, like when traveling and I need to wake up really early. I remember growing up seeing people brag about how much coffee they drink…
You are right about that. They even financially support other projects that are not as rich: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/moss/ Anyone know someone working on Edge? Maybe MS can apply to that program and get some extra…
It's been 2 (nearly 3) years since the final version of the official spec, but 5 years since any significant changes to the spec draft. IE10 was released in 2012 with a partial IndexedDB implementation, and Edge is…
One of the most common requests we hear from people who use Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 PCs is "we want our browser experience to move to our phones". That's funny, my most common request is "IT'S BEEN LIKE 5 YEARS,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suprachiasmatic_nucleus The SCN receives input from specialized photosensitive ganglion cells in the retina via the retinohypothalamic tract. Neurons in the ventrolateral SCN (vlSCN) have…