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If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

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_eric··on Omegle 2009-2023
Definitely, it's been a crazy and inspiring journey. I'm kind of bummed it's coming to an end, it was my favorite series of his.
_eric··on Omegle 2009-2023
His Omegle 100[0] video is one of the best one yet, Harry is a legend. [0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijVGIcVRIbk
_eric··on Tell HN: Reddit was showing “Blocked” when accessed with Firefox
Looks like it is, yes. A couple hours ago I was getting an error here and there, but now it doesn't load anything at all.
_eric··on Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
That's good to know. And how did the upgrade from 2.x projects go? I have got a couple of projects I want to migrate, but haven't started yet.
_eric··on Show HN: Mono Icons – A simple, consistent open-source icon set
I personally like to use https://iconsvg.xyz/, which not only lets you pick the icon, but it also allows you to customize it.
_eric··on Firefox 72.0
Yeah, the sharing button thing is something I miss from the ordinary Firefox too. I usually share links with my friends through Whatsapp and its icon is hidden far to the right.
_eric··on Firefox 72.0
I also gave Firefox another shot a couple months ago and I'm surprised at how much better it is nowadays. It's been such a good experience I'm also giving a go to the Firefox Preview[0] on my Android - even though it's still under heavy development, I like some of the changes to the mobile browser it makes and it'll make in a near future.

[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/12/03/firefox-p...

_eric··on Happy Hues – Curated colors in context
Lately I have been using color.adobe[0] or palx[1] a lot.

[0] https://color.adobe.com

[1] https://palx.jxnblk.com

_eric··on I Was the Fastest Girl in America, Until I Joined Nike
I believe the parent meant people literally doping in the parking lot space.
_eric··on Rock climbing and the economics of innovation
Another one, even though it's not about Alex per se, but about Brad Gobright (another great climber who loves to free solo) I'd recommend watching "Safety Third". It's on vimeo[0] if anyone is interested.

[0] https://vimeo.com/ondemand/safetythird

_eric··on Web Development Simplified with Svelte
Are you using Svelte for SPAs? If so, what are you using for routing?
_eric··on She Wanted a Man with a Good Job Who Is Nice to Animals
Pretty much when I finished reading it I got the news that my old dog had died. We were kind of waiting for it already, but it still hurts.

The article timing couldn't be better. Definitely a touching piece.

_eric··on Quiet Hacker News (2017)
This reminded me of the following quote by Stephen R. Covey: "Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply."
_eric··on Apollo 11 Had a Hidden Hero: Software
Kind of off topic, but for those interested, this reminded me of the public repo on github which has the original guidance computer source code for the command and lunar modules[0].

[0] https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11

_eric··on Show HN: Link Drop – Daily newsletter of your bookmarks
Oh, the irony
_eric··on Angular v8.0
I'm pretty sure it's more common than it should be, really. Everytime I had to create a new project I'd have to copy/paste the webpack configs left and right. Sometimes I miss the gulp days - it was way more straight forward and not so much magic involved.

> Also I've coded a project in Angular 2 and Angular 4 respectively; I have nothing bad to say about Angular but I still prefer Vue

I have used Angular 1 professionaly for more than 3 years with some big projects and when Angular 2 was released I ditched the idea of using it in a newer project. I was using Angular 2 since the alpha days and saw how some things got over complicated. And then I too chose Vue and fell in love with it.

_eric··on Show HN: Link Drop – Daily newsletter of your bookmarks
Great idea! I love me some newsletter too, so this should be pretty handy.

Minor nitpick: There's a type in the /about page:

> I want to change the time I recieve (->receive) my drop

_eric··on Show HN: CSSFX – Click-to-copy CSS effects
Yup, me too. I think clicking both on and around the elements should show the code behind that element.
_eric··on Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedded, and Desktop
Agreed. I love Typescript and picking up Dart has been quiet easy. Of course there's much more than the language itself, but other than one detail or another, tha transition seems to be fairly easy.
_eric··on Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedded, and Desktop
Are you using an Intel or AMD processor? Looks like some Bios config are specific to Intel.
_eric··on Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedded, and Desktop
Anyone using Flutter with windows 10? It's been a pain to get the emulators to work - having to changes some Bios config and all.
_eric··on Name one thing in this photo
> I need to go have a cup of tea. Looking at that has really shaken me.

I have had my episode of panic attack and just looking at that picture made me feel some of those bad feelings again. Really weird.

_eric··on Svelte 3: Rethinking Reactivity
Congratulations on the release, Rich!

Minor suggestion: it should be easier to find how to get started (read install) for people trying to give Svelte a try. I had already played a bit with Svelte before but wanted to try v3 and the only thing I could find about how to install it was in https://svelte.dev/blog/the-easiest-way-to-get-started.

_eric··on Show HN: Learn React fundamentals
`npm start` works aswell
_eric··on Neither PWA nor AMP are needed to make a website load fast
Minor thing I noticed on your site: a clean load is requesting around 425kb of data, but your /assets/img/dd-logo.ico alone weighs 362kb. Same thing happens in your new site. Maybe it's something to look into, reducing the size of it should make your site even faster.
_eric··on Panic Attacks
> I spent a few months largely crippled by panic disorder

Yeah, that's kind of what happened with me too. Only that the panic attack itself was only 2 months ago; Out of freaking nowhere. I remember I was reading a piece of code and then suddenly I felt my hearting beating faster and just couldn't breathe properly; you really just feel like you're going to die - right where you are. And then, after it has passed, you are left with the anxiety of it all and all the bad thoughts. I had to take medications for high blood pressure because mine was like 16/9, and my normal is 12/8 (I'm 29 and I exercise daily).

After 2 months visiting doctors I can say I'm "normal" again, but I have to be aware of the "long fuse" thing, because that seems to be the real killer.

_eric··on Gmail Icons are Hard
This website reminded of littlebigdetails[0] when it comes to analysing user interfaces. The difference is that the latter points out what's good about them.

[0] http://littlebigdetails.com/

_eric··on Show HN: Joy – a Go to JavaScript compiler
Yup.
_eric··on Learn web development
Google, Microsoft, W3C and Samsung have already joined the party[0].

[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/10/18/mozilla-brings-micr...

_eric··on #c0ffee is the color
> ctrl + f

> BADA55

> not found

> closes tab

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