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nerdfaceon Tell HN: How USA school closure seems to be working out

From Santa Clara county's official statement:

“The reason we are not recommending school closures at this time is because children have not been shown to be a high-risk group for serious illness from this virus.”

https://files.constantcontact.com/82fe691f001/dc8c682d-3257-...

nerdfaceon Facebook shares shoot up after strong Q4 earnings despite data breach

Do you not look at facts backed by data? The whole market is up as of today. Heck, read the news: https://www.wsj.com/articles/global-stocks-waver-ahead-of-th...

The stock increase is not unique to Facebook today. ALL major tech stocks are up today.

nerdfaceon Facebook shares shoot up after strong Q4 earnings despite data breach

The whole market is up due to today's announcement of interest rates remaining the same, not any unique announcement to Facebook.

nerdfaceon Marie Kondo's Advice Praised by Scientists: “Clutter Is Not a Good Thing”

Did you read the research paper?

> Three experiments tested the novel hypotheses that orderly environments lead people toward tradition and convention, whereas disorderly environments encourage breaking with tradition and convention—and that both settings can alter preferences, choice, and behavior

Drawing conclusions from a single research paper referenced from an _opinion_ piece correlating messiness to alterations in choice and behavior in no way discounts the benefits of a clutter-free environment.

nerdfaceon Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly

I think once we get hot-swappable batteries then it'll really kick start the industry. The only problem is Li-Ion isn't recyclable or easily disposable.

nerdfaceon Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress

… and a Cylon.

nerdfaceon Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations

Yes, this is another one that confuses developers. When you 'git add' a file, it's added to the staging area as it was at that time. If you make subsequent modifications after you've staged it, those are unstaged changes. And you can diff between them. So despite git add'ing a new file, you still have to 'git add' afterwards if you make changes to it.

nerdfaceon Dictionary and Set Improvements in Swift 4.0

You can use Swift on Windows: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/Windows.md

nerdfaceon Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor

Will there be feature parity between the two, or will HipChat be left behind?

nerdfaceon Tesla recalls 53,000 cars over brake issue

> The electric car maker said about 2% of the 53,000 vehicles built from February to October 2016 were affected, but all of those cars are being recalled

That's 1,060 cars altogether are affected.