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acifanion Rome v12.1: a linter formatter for TypeScript, JSX and JSON

Source on that? I can’t find anything and I’d be interested in knowing more, especially for the future prospects of the project

acifanion 60M Americans have taxes so simple the IRS could do them automatically

Same in Italy, tax report is actually not needed if you're a regular employee and don't have anything else to declare. If you do, each year you get a pre-filled form on which you only need to add your deductible expenses and/or additional income outside the regular employment.

acifanion Restoring a Vintage Rolex GMT

I guess it depends on what affordable means to you. You can find quite a few Orient watches without date at really reasonable prices, a couple of Timex too. If you're willing to spend a bit more you can also get various no-date Hamilton.

acifanion EU is building an $11B tunnel connecting Scandinavia to Italy

Franzensfeste was chosen by fascists as well, according to the Italian Wikipedia page. The previous name was Mezzaselva all'Isarco/Mittewald am Eisack.

Italian people used to be the majority (~60% in the '60s) down to ~40% now, which is still a significant number.

acifanion The Miseducation of Maria Montessori

How do you measure the quality of education? Knowledge, monetary or political wealth, happiness?

acifanion Ask HN: How are you using Go to write production-grade back end services?

- Test -> stdlib + testify/assert + vektra/mockery

- Dependency injection -> manual DI passing values and objects down

- Routing framework -> gorilla/mux

- HTTP web frameworks -> stdlib + go-kit for the general architecture

We then have a pretty large internal library for all things shared

acifanion Why Arabic Is Terrific (2011)

There's a (not so) fine difference between the rolled/trilled R [1] and the guttural/uvular R [2]. The former is indeed produced by vibrating the tongue

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental,_alveolar_and_postalveo...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guttural_R

acifanion EU fines Mastercard more than half a billion euros

Same in Italy, actually. Every POS accepts Bancomat[1], which is the standard debit circuit over here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bancomat_(debit_card)

acifanion Porting 30K lines of code from Flow to TypeScript

I actually think TS team is much closer to the community than Flow's. Just look at the number of open and closed Issues on GitHub.

To me, Flow feels like something they needed in Facebook and they happened to open source. Their main focus is still FB's internal use and the direction is set by it.

TypeScript, on the other hand, does not feel like this at all. They truly put the community first, or so I - and many others - feel like.

acifanion Why Italy Could Be the Epicenter of the Next Financial Crisis

What welfare are you talking about? Italy has been a net payer [0] in EU contributions from since I could remember

[0] https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2016/50/netherlands-largest-ne...

acifanion Ask HN: Self-hosted digital assistant: alternative to Siri, Alexa, Cortana?

I don't know of such apps, but you could try asking on r/selfhosted as well, as redditors are more into this kind of stuff.

acifanion Flask-SQLA2api – SQLAlchemy Model to REST API in One Line

Author here. Feel free to ask anything and feedback is very welcome.

This package is not yet fit for production usage, it is just a short exercise I did on weekends.