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Raphael

2,771 karma · joined February 9, 2008

Web developer in Seattle.

http://hackdash.com/

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/raphaelb; my proof: https://keybase.io/raphaelb/sigs/HfTpUbt_i9aQUzm8_mjaAR1sRY18CfNPD9nMSaaGCvk ]

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Raphael··on This VR cycle is dead
It still places the content in geographical locations, requiring you to physically travel. It's a form of augmented reality.
Raphael··on The U.S. is risking an academic brain drain
Yeah, don't tell them that. If, at the very end, you get an offer that won't budge, then you can take the cut if you want.
Raphael··on Google is releasing 20M bacteria-infected mosquitoes in Fresno
What an unfortunate headline.
Raphael··on Crypto-currencies have lost 30% of their value in the last 3 weeks
You are required to pay taxes in your state's currency. You can't really buy much with Bitcoin when it tanks, because all of those stores are just using the current exchange rate with state currency.
Raphael··on Redesigning Google News
I'll take the redesign on mobile gladly. The horizontal cards from the last redesign were a travesty.
Raphael··on Caffeine Smalltalk – Livecode the Web
Does it really have to use a blurry canvas? I'd be much more interested in a normal HTML version.
Raphael··on A First Reason React App for JavaScript Developers
Babel has a bunch of extensions to JavaScript that are widely used. Sounds like it just finds and strips out type annotations.

https://babeljs.io/docs/plugins/syntax-flow/

https://babeljs.io/docs/plugins/transform-flow-strip-types/

Raphael··on Visualize data instantly with machine learning in Google Sheets
Seems similar to what Wolfram Alpha does, but restricted to a smaller data set.
Raphael··on Browse Against the Machine
Seems easy to blame bloated JavaScript, e.g. Dart, with Chrome having some edge for this kind of thing, or at least a bias for caching Google scripts.
Raphael··on Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to get things done
"every day" is 2 words in your case.
Raphael··on Amazon's Leadership Principles
I always considered it "disagree and roll and over".
Raphael··on Imitating people’s speech patterns precisely could bring trouble
We'll need Signal to beep after every sentence to indicate that it was signed with the supposed person's key.
Raphael··on Apollo Client 1.0: A flexible, community-focused JavaScript GraphQL client
Hopefully a GraphQL server can't be far behind.

Edit: I guess you do something like this: https://github.com/RisingStack/graphql-server/blob/master/sr...

Raphael··on America Needs Small Apartment Buildings
Noise dampening should be part of the health code or something.
Raphael··on Google Talk Is Being Discontinued
Neither did Google. The Android app for Hangouts is com.google.android.talk
Raphael··on Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?
Deluge and qBitTorrent look much the same.
Raphael··on A fork in the road
The website is really nice. I hope the transition is smooth.
Raphael··on Amazon Go
closed beta
Raphael··on Microsoft Solitaire Collection
It's actually a lot better than normal Solitaire. You can stack cards by rank (lower on top) in alternating color. The goal is to get the cards in stacks of their own suit in the reverse order in the upper right. The upper left are the free cells, that can store a single card each. The cool thing is that using the free cells and other empty spots, you can move larger stacks of alternating colors.
Raphael··on Firebase gets better analytics, crash reporting and more
The best way around that is to use Chrome's "Switch Person" feature.
Raphael··on Next.js – A small framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript apps
Is there a reason the files are ".js" rather than ".jsx"?

As it stands, my text editor defaults to the JS syntax highlighting. I suppose one could make JSX their default JS syntax, but then JSX would incorrectly appear to be correct in non-React files.

Raphael··on Why we challenge Microsoft’s battery test
> Reducing frame rate to 30 frames per second

Many users may not like this.

Raphael··on Firefox tops Microsoft browser market share for first time
I use this dark theme with rectangular tabs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ft-deepdark/
Raphael··on Analyzing the names of almost every Chinese restaurant in the U.S.
It's all about the Korean and Vietnamese on 99. Never have to go to the same place twice.
Raphael··on Obama wants to tax oil companies $10 a barrel to pay for clean transportation
I would guess that Biden wrote this bill and wanted to propose it one last time.
Raphael··on Microsoft Edge records browsing history in InPrivate mode
Shouldn't other users have separate OS accounts?
Raphael··on Mysterious Android codebase commit
Every time an Android device installs its monthly security update, it spends an inordinate amount of time, with the screen on, "optimizing" every single app.
Raphael··on April Zero v3
Oh, another mystery-meat menu.
Raphael··on The United States Postal Service Will Now Email You Your Mail
The link to sign up for Informed Delivery Notification just goes to the preferences page. I was only able to opt into My USPS (package tracking), as well as choose to receive communications from USPS.
Raphael··on Repair is a Radical Act
The entire article appears in bold.
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