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mpolichette··on The Trouble with Politicians Sharing Passwords
I very much appreciate Troys approach to criticism. It gives the other party a fair rebuke but also treats them as the fallible humans they are. People make mistakes, and I feel like out society should be a little more lenient sometimes, especially on issues which can be corrected, like this one.

Granted there are definitely times when a person really ought to have known better ahead of time.

In any case I wish we could see more leadership of this nature.

mpolichette··on Meshkit
I like this idea. I keep hoping that a solution with peer to peer networking can help us overcome the problems we have with ISPs owning and controlling all of our access to the internet.
mpolichette··on Ask HN: I would pay X for Y
I would pay $5 a month to have all physical junk mail filtered out of delivery.

Why can't I opt out of "or current resident"?

mpolichette··on Carbon Nanotubes Excluding Salt from Seawater
I wish it were so simple to remove economics from things. Unfortunately, the problem isn't the need (the demand), its the supply. We don't just have unlimited clean drinking water, and as soon as there is a constrained supply, we have to consider how we can divvy it up to meet demand.

Usually that means increasing price, but the what the commenter above was saying is that often we're making it artificially cheaper. Often by either subsidizing things w/ our taxes (hiding the cost), or by not adequately funding the collection, which will eventually cause failure or exhaustion of the supply.

mpolichette··on Ask HN: Anyone else scratching their heads about coin offerings?
I think we're just in the early days... things will formalize over time just as they have for current fiat currencies.
mpolichette··on Marijuana use holds three-fold blood pressure death risk: study
This is great, it really points to the how criminalization of marijuana has been hurtful to society. People are going to continue to smoke it, legal or not, but now that its (somewhat) legal, we can learn things about how it effects the body!
mpolichette··on Americans don’t need fast home Internet service, FCC suggests
Yeah and the telecoms are going to charge for each device... with my home connection. I can serve all my devices locally from one trunk... With mobile I have to have a data plan for each device...
mpolichette··on Ask HN: What language/framework do you plan to use in your next project?
React, probably redux, with a backend using either node/express or scala/play
mpolichette··on Ask HN: Do you respect DNT in your personal websites? How?
This is actually not a lame answer at all. It's a plausible approach for your users who are worried about privacy to still use your site.
mpolichette··on Switching From React To Vue.js
Do people like Vue because it's more declarative than react? Is it mostly angular devs switching and getting the best of react but still having directives?

I like the control react gives me without the black box 'compiler' which seems like it makes a bunch more choices for you.

I'm probably biased, someone cmv?

mpolichette··on Prepack helps make JavaScript code more efficient
I disagree with the premise a little bit. A tool like this could allow you to write code which is better suited for a human to read/maintain, but then still get the performance optimizations of pre-computed results being sent over the wire.
mpolichette··on Amazon Echo Look
The response as I explained this to my coworker is classic:

"So it, like, judges you?"

mpolichette··on Show HN: OS – GitHub issues to help beginners make their first pull request
It would be nice to see the project on the card also... Not sure if that was a design decision, but its really unclear to just have something like 'Add react' as the title without a little more info.
mpolichette··on Redux-query – A React/Redux library for querying and managing network state
This is cool, I was looking a library which would help me with CRUD and paging data recently and there weren't a lot of great options. So I started working on a library which ended up looking kind of similar to this.

One of the goals I've had is to stay encapsulated and not force any decision on the developer for the request library like redux-query does. I also try to avoid touching their data.

It isn't quite flushed out all the way, and needs more test, but I've started using it and enjoyed the way it works.

I'd love any feedback if anyone wanted to check it out, https://github.com/SpinGo/crudux

mpolichette··on Amazon Go
I agree, especially you see those videos on youtube where the kids are intentionally 'slipping' and throwing multiple jugs of milk onto the floor.
mpolichette··on Show HN: Primitive for macOS
Cool, I'm looking forward to giving this a try... I've always been a big fan of geometric art.

I do wish I could buy it from your site vs the App store... I've just had so many be experiences w/ having to 'transfer my license' away from App store purchases.

mpolichette··on On Phone Numbers and Identity
Did this really happen? I mean, you know what they say about the weakest link...
mpolichette··on Volume – The world’s first personal volumetric display
This is cool, can definitely see this getting better over time, it cool to see a new approach to display.
mpolichette··on Computer Vision: On the Way to Seeing More
Wow, I'm pretty impressed… Some of those I don't even know how I would describe...

"A woman's foot on a pink spiky floor"

mpolichette··on When to Avoid JSONB in a PostgreSQL Schema
I would think of any system where users can store additional 'custom fields.' In these cases, it is impossible to include columns for these as they aren't known yet.
mpolichette··on Why cities keep growing, corporations and people die, and life gets faster
It's interesting to find larger underlying principles of these systems.

I wonder if anything could be said about leadership... I don't want to delve too deep into politics, but there are many people who think running a country/city is like running a company and that electing a leader with business skills would be a boon for the country. However if these systems have fundamentally different underlying behaviors, maybe it wouldn't necessarily work the same...

mpolichette··on Ask HN: Developers – How did you learn to say NO?
You don't have to say no... Talk to whoever you report to, tell them the things you are working on and align your goals with theirs and prioritize what you should be working on.

When people ask you to do something, tell them where it will fall in your priority list and ask them if they would still like you to come back to them at that point.

I general this works for me, I have product managers come and ask me if I can work out a feature, I say, 'Yeah, I can do that, but i'll have to put off x in order to get to it... is this task more important than x?'

Also, in a similar but different note, at one point as a team lead, I did say no to a project which I felt didn't make sense for our company. It immediately went back up the ladder and turned into career growth for me. So there can be incentive for saying no also!

mpolichette··on Ask HN: What is your best advice for a developer to write better code?
Go read open source libraries. I started out barely knowing anything in Javascript and I had terrible code, as almost any dev could say. However, I was never afraid to follow the debugger through the code of the libraries I used. At the time these were things like Backbone and Marionette, which have incredibly clean and well documented code.

Find a library you use and have a feel for how it works, and read through their code. If you run into questions about why something is done a certain way, they'll tell you! Use git blame and see what the commit message was for those lines! Often there will be a description or issue tied to it and you can figure out the thought process they used. Then just start applying similar thinking to problems you encounter.

mpolichette··on Introducing SpotMini, a smaller version of the Spot robot [video]
Its really amazing to see how functional this robot is. I cant wait for one to take over for some of the more monotonous tasks around the house...

That said, the way it moves around and can keeps its head steady is both really cool, but somewhat terrifying... It seems to conjure up scenes from movies where the antagonist robots are scanning a target before deciding to kill or not.

mpolichette··on LELO HEX: The Condom, Re-Engineered
I think thats the idea. You can say no to the sex w/o rejecting the person. Its perfectly reasonable to not be ready for sex in a relationship.
mpolichette··on Effeckt.css – Performant CSS transitions and animations
This library has been "not ready for prime time" for at least 2 years now... :-/
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