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TheDrizzle43

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TheDrizzle43··on Comparing Bandwidth Costs of Amazon, Google and Microsoft Cloud Computing
Unfortunately OVH doesn't have any data centers in the US although they seem to be working on them.
TheDrizzle43··on John Carmack reviews VR app “Just Relax”
It would be nice if Facebook's register an account pop-up didn't occupy 1/4 of the screen.
TheDrizzle43··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)
Is the Full-Stack Engineer position remote or onsite? The posting is too clear on that. Thanks.
TheDrizzle43··on Show HN: Markov Generated HN Titles
I know I'm not the first (or last) to do this but I was interested in how Markov Chains work so I decided to create a simple Twitter Bot that submits generated HN titles.

If anyone has any tips on how to improve it feel free to share. The source is available at https://github.com/zcr1/hn-markov

TheDrizzle43··on The End of Coder Influence
This is why people got upset about the original post from Zed. One dude whining in a blog does not equal mass dissent in the community. The choice is inconsequential for 99% of programmers and hardly a difficult decision - flip a damn coin if you cannot decide. I make 100x more decisions when it comes to front-end development than I ever have with python 2 vs 3.
TheDrizzle43··on 2016 Retina MacBook Pro Caveats
Before it was announced I was 100% sure going to grab a new MacBook Pro but now I find myself looking at refurbished 2015 models.
TheDrizzle43··on The .blog Bait and Switch
Have you ever tried to buy a .com domain dude? There's hardly any useful names left.
TheDrizzle43··on The Median Level of Founder Ownership at Exit
Turns out VC's don't give companies millions of dollars for nothing :)
TheDrizzle43··on Foursquare’s CEO says Yelp is shaking down local businesses
Are you referring to the em-dash?
TheDrizzle43··on Peter Thiel Speaks at the National Press Club – Live Stream
What an inspirational group of people.
TheDrizzle43··on PM2.5 exposure possibly leads to 1.37M people’s premature death in China
I was curious how much altitude would affect aging so I did a quick google search. "The atomic clock calculated that for every 12 inches of elevation, 90 billionths of a second are added to a lifetime (79 years)"
TheDrizzle43··on WikiWikiWeb is back online
The content is gzipped so it actually loads 384kb.
TheDrizzle43··on Step-by-step tutorial to build a modern JavaScript stack from scratch
In fairness you definitely do not need everything listed here to have a perfectly fine web app. I think it's more beneficial to add in things when you find a use case for it. You probably don't need 3 unit testing libraries, you don't need Redux to use React, nor do you need Immutable to use Redux.
TheDrizzle43··on George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’
I guess that makes Hotz one of the "jokers" now?
TheDrizzle43··on Django React/Redux Base Project
Yeah you are correct.
TheDrizzle43··on Django React/Redux Base Project
Django + React is an awesome combination that I recommend taking a look at. This repo is a good starting point but you can probably get rid of half of the dependencies if you aren't working on a team of developers.

I am currently using Django + React on a personal project and took a slightly different route, no pun intended. Rather than using react router, as I never really liked client side routing, I use Django views to hydrate all the necessary props for the page and have a base template that loads the React component with the props. Since each page / component is fairly self-contained I also decided against using any Redux / Flux implementations. Furthermore, it only takes a few hours of work to get server side rendering up and running thanks to react + node.

TheDrizzle43··on Hotel CEO celebrates higher prices in NYC after anti-Airbnb law passes
Lmao
TheDrizzle43··on We can confirm Ecuador cut off Assange's internet access Saturday, 5pm GMT
There's rumors it's related to a pending charge for grooming of a minor online, who knows though. I'm sure we will find out the real reason in the next few days so I'll wait for that rather than go into full tinfoil hat conspiracy theory territory.
TheDrizzle43··on Be Kind
If it's a startup the more likely scenario is no QA employees and minimal test coverage.
TheDrizzle43··on Be Kind
Reminds me when my boss got pissed at me because we were discussing moving all deployments to production after 5pm and I replied something along the line "I'm not going to be on the hook after hours to fix problems other people caused".
TheDrizzle43··on Stack Overflow puts a new spin on resumes for developers
Techcrunch spams HN quite a bit.
TheDrizzle43··on The Killer Cats Are Winning
He's talking about pigeons.
TheDrizzle43··on Lawsuit: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led illegal purge of male workers
Not saying it's a good interview question, but if you ever need to quickly estimate exponents of 2 just remember 2^10 bytes=1kb, 2^20=1mb, 2^30=1gb, etc. so 2^14 would be 16kb.
TheDrizzle43··on Lawsuit: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led illegal purge of male workers
Yahoo and Twitter have been getting torn apart the past few weeks, coincidentally when they are selling. Probably a little bit of column A and column B.
TheDrizzle43··on ‘Security Fatigue’ Can Cause Computer Users to Feel Hopeless and Act Recklessly
There's already a few popular services that do password management i.e. LastPass & 1password. Unless you are describing something different?
TheDrizzle43··on Google Interview University – Plan for studying to become a Google engineer
Spend your time building shit instead of reading Cracking the Coding Interview and wasting time on Hacker Rank / Leetcode. There's the university.
TheDrizzle43··on A kidney donor at 18 now regrets it
Based on my cursory research men peak physically in their mid to late 20's.
TheDrizzle43··on Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend
I use to live next to a highway with the closets exit being a few miles away and I would constantly get drivers on the highway as my closest driver. I always had to cancel since they were actually ~15 minutes away, not 3-5.
TheDrizzle43··on How Writing To-Do Lists Helps Your Brain
If I don't write tasks in a TODO list I get anxious I'll forget about it forever. Even if I don't plan on doing a task anytime soon I like to jot it down so I have the freedom to forget about it.
TheDrizzle43··on Bulma – A modern CSS framework based on Flexbox
Minification + gzip is probably enough depending on your needs. Bootstrap, which is a fairly large css framework, is 23kb from the CDN link on their site.
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