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izolate··on Milk alternatives produce up to 4.5x less greenhouse gas emissions as milk
Dairy is not going anywhere in your lifetime, you (and I) don't have to worry. Choice is good.
izolate··on Ask HN: Rural Rentals for Remote Workers
This is the ideal use-case for Airbnb. I hope to see properties like yours on that platform!
izolate··on Guido van Rossum: Let Web3 die in a flaming ball of fire
I was referencing what happened to Ethereum, which apparently has one.
izolate··on Guido van Rossum: Let Web3 die in a flaming ball of fire
> For integrity reasons, no one can delete anything from it.

Except if they're the central authority, in which case they can unilaterally rollback the blockchain, rewrite history and fork? Totally makes sense.

izolate··on Tell HN: Apple Music Is Down
Yep, getting 502s here.
izolate··on Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display
FYI the Studio Display website was outsourced to an agency, and not developed in-house by Apple engineers. Outsourcing rarely improves the quality of software.
izolate··on Long-term visa for remote workers
> I'd love to see this from Japan or Korea.

The only problem would be the time difference, assuming you're working for an American company.

I've spent 4 months in Japan as a digital nomad, while working for a company based in Europe. It worked. Now that I live and work in the US, I'm pretty sure the time difference would be too disruptive.

izolate··on Please make a dumb car
They can be done well, think about the Haptic Touch home button in the iPhone 7/8. I'd be happy with something like that on the steering wheel.
izolate··on Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge
I suspect something similar. They have a good partnership. While we're dreaming, I'd love to see a version of Windows with a Linux kernel. They could do what they did with Edge, replace the core with something better.
izolate··on You Don't Need the Cloud
It's really disappointing to see the author fall victim to the thinking that whatever works well for their tiny use-case can be applied across the board.

Honestly, this seems like an ill-attempt at garnering views to their startup-in-80-days endeavor with a clickbait article.

izolate··on Overengineering can kill a product
The "super simple code" at both ends of the graph aren't equivalent. The latter is more "simplest code possible".

Overly simple, hacky, narrowly spec'd code produces the same tech debt as overengineering. Anybody who's worked in a move-fast-break-things type startup will know how much engineering resources are wasted on rewrites/bugfixes due to this.

Ultimately, as with many things in life, you need to find the right balance.

izolate··on Ask HN: Are NFTs a Circlejerk of the Rich?
Nobody is going to trust the deeds to their house to a blockchain with a BDFL who has demonstrated the ability to rollback/fork their blockchain at will. Or worse yet, some insecure side-chain. I think the post title is a valid remark on the current state of Ethereum NFTs, which I believe are the most popular.
izolate··on Gitlab from YC to IPO
The CTO position isn't for everybody. A few years ago, I used to work at another tech unicorn from Amsterdam, at a time it was rapidly expanding.

The CTO at this company was the first engineer. He was talented, and more passionate about engineering than management. He eventually stepped down to a similar role as they brought in a suit from the corporate world to replace him. That was around the time that I left.

Funnily enough, I always thought he was the most grounded person on the leadership team.

izolate··on Ask HN: Is Google, as an employer, losing its prestige?
I don't think an asshole is going to care if you're a Dr. or not. In fact, it might be used as tool to further degrade you.
izolate··on Alternative Milks
Unsurprising since most dairy-free milks have more salt/sodium than regular milk.
izolate··on Square to acquire Afterpay for $29B
Yes. Sometimes a store will offer free returns when paying directly, but not when the item was bought through BNPL.

Pay it outright, if you can. It's usually the best way.

izolate··on Should I make an LLC or Corp for a social app?
Can't speak for OP, but I personally don't want my personal name printed anywhere in public. The iOS app store for example lists your app under your name if you apply as an individual developer rather than a business entity. For that reason alone, I'm considering an LLC too.
izolate··on Deloitte tells staff they can work from home forever
I can see what you're getting at, but everything you described can be achieved by joining a coworking space.

It boils down to this: a 100% remote policy doesn't rob you of what you need, but a 0% remote policy robs those of us who prefer WFH from what we need.

izolate··on $365B wiped off cryptocurrency market after Tesla stops accepting Bitcoin
It's the non-mining nodes that verify transactions and have the final say, and those can be run on home devices by regular people. That's the difference.
izolate··on Ask HN: Simple(st) Static Site Generator?
Just write your own. It's the new To-Do List app.
izolate··on CSRF, CORS, and HTTP Security Headers Demystified
> The reason access-control-allow-origin cannot be '' when access-control-allow-credentials is set is to prevent developers taking the shortcut of adding a and then forgetting about it altogether - this behaviour forces developers to think about how their API is going to be consumed.

Instead developers take the shortcut of creating middleware that captures the Origin header in the request and mirrors it into the response, effectively creating the same insecure ruleset.

izolate··on Ethereum: A Store of Value with Cash Flow [pdf]
So is assuming bad faith against HN rules. Etherium seems like an innocent error.
izolate··on Time flies in Google Earth’s biggest update in years
Most striking to me is that Google registered a custom TLD (.gle) just to use as a URL shortener. Impressive use of funds.
izolate··on Ask HN: What are some tools you wish you had while doing your day to day work?
100%. It's not infallible. There are CSV plugins for Vim that bring increased confidence.
izolate··on Ask HN: What are some tools you wish you had while doing your day to day work?

    58G 63f,
1. Go down to line 58

2. Jump to the 63rd comma

3. Edit

izolate··on Ask HN: What are some tools you wish you had while doing your day to day work?
> And it was most frustrating when they had like 100 columns or so. Having to change column 63 at line 58 is not something you do easily in Notepad++. Import to Excel was my way to go, but since the file was not a standard CSV file (e.g. also had sections like an .INI file) it was time consuming: first just select a subsection from the file, save to a different file, import to Excel, modify, paste back, etc.

Suggestion: have you considered learning to use Vim? I imagine most Vim users are reading your example wondering what the big deal is.

Not to take away from the spirit of your post, though. You have valid questions.

izolate··on Show HN: FAANG.io – Engineering jobs from FAANG in one spot
> It’s obvious MS and any other company that compensates similarly is included when stating “FAANG”

Then why is faang.io using a strict definition of FAANG? I think a loose definition is preferable, but clearly that's not a universally-held opinion.

izolate··on Female Founder Secrets: Fertility
This is a heartbreaking read, I feel for the author. This is a true case of biology not having kept up with societal progress.
izolate··on Amsterdam displaces London as Europe's top stocks centre after Brexit
Perhaps the person you encountered was a recent migrant who hadn't mastered Dutch yet? The poor individual is probably just trying to earn an honest living in your country's increasingly globalized city.
izolate··on Bad TypeScript Habits
I like the "why we do it" part in every section. Kudos to the author for that.

However, the type guard section seems a bit off to me. Is the suggestion to check each and every property of `Product` in `isProduct`? Seems a bit verbose.

I tend to use Axios, which uses generics to set the payload return type (obviously, some trust in your API responses is needed here):

    axios.get<Product[]>(...);
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