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teebot··on Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud (2021) [video]
I also thought EVs would be quieter but as they became more common in my street I noticed they’re only a little quieter than internal combustion cars from the moment they reach a certain speed (say 30km/h).

Most of the noise comes from the tire friction and aerodynamics.

teebot··on Heavier cars are safer for their drivers, but far deadlier for everyone else
Brussels has implemented a 30km/h default speed limit and it works. Our car journeys don’t take more time and it feels way safer to ride our bikes on mixed bike/car lanes
teebot··on Fresh 1.1 – Automatic JSX, plugins, DevTools, and more
I really want to try fresh together with edgedb. Any chance a builtin authentication will be added soon? Or is there a recipe to implement something like auth0?
teebot··on A critical step to reduce climate change
You could not be further from the truth. Carbon emissions per capita is way higher in the US and in Europe than in China and India.
teebot··on Is a Dumber Phone a Better Phone?
I've done exactly the same move 9 months ago. Nokia 3310 and carry an ipad+data if I'm on the move for a few days.

My car has a builtin GPS. Navigation has been an issue only once when joining a friend to a restaurant on foot, believe it or not I asked my way around and found the place.

teebot··on Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming (2015)
I actually really loved that. This is someone who doesn't take himself too seriously but treats the subject with rigor. Life is not a dress rehearsal.
teebot··on Ask HN: Best companies to work for in Europe?
Showpad is one of the fastest growing SaaS company in Europe. It's located in the really nice city of Gent in Belgium. Great culture, people and top tech. https://www.showpad.com/careers I might be slightly biased but you should consider it :)
teebot··on End of the conference era?
I feel that I get much more connections and information out of small local meetups than big conferences. In a small local meetup I'll occasionally pop my laptop open and start geeking out on some new tech with another attendee. Big conferences feel too corporate and impersonal to me.

The ticket price of the biggest conferences is reaching absurd levels too.

teebot··on TypeScript 2.4 RC
The await import to lazy load modules is quite impressive. TypeScript goes more and more beyond the compile-to-js promise
teebot··on All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware
I don't know if any amount of data collection and model refinement will allow self driving in ALL situations. We always see self driving demos in California on very large roads, I'd like to see one in a small crowded street of Napoli or on a crossroad in Ho-Chi Minh.
teebot··on The Command Line Murders
If it's a mystery to solve it makes sense not too include too many details :) You should just clone the repo. The zip option is always present on github repos.
teebot··on Facebook is closing Parse
I'm afraid google will kill firebase too. I built some sort of mvp with firebase and I intend to port it to express/postgres.
teebot··on Project Rider – A C# IDE
I can definitely relate to your experience. I've been a C# developer on VS/Windows then moved to Xamarin/iOS dev on a Mac and it was ok but not terrific.
teebot··on Firefox for iOS now available
When you think that Microsoft was accused of abusing its monopoly when they shipped IE with Windows. You cannot even install another true browser on iOS, just some sort of chrome around safari/Webkit.
teebot··on Ask HN : What side project are you working on?
Working on Recurvoice, a recurring invoicing system for freelancers: https://www.recurvoice.com
teebot··on The euro is a disaster even for the countries that do everything right
I think you came to the right conclusion. We need more Europe now (and a more democratic / less bureaucratic one).
teebot··on How old: deep learning age estimator from Japan
I'm asian and it showed me up as 26 (I'm 9 yrs older)
teebot··on The Electric Car
I agree it's not a good comparison. The network on which smartphones plugged in predated them which is not true for the electrics cars and charging stations.

"Electric cars are always full every morning" is only true for people owning a garage.

teebot··on 1980s computer controls Grand Rapids Public School heat and AC
Michigan hipsters
teebot··on Ask HN: How do you deal with professional jealousy and getting older?
Good piece of wisdom. I somewhat have the same opinion but could not put it into words.
teebot··on Microsoft Xim
Interesting feat is only one person needs the Xim app installed for all to participate
teebot··on Introducing Carrot
Typical Carrot fanboy
teebot··on Introducing Carrot
I'm just not sure about the form factor. Carrot is probably a bit too big for my hands and Carrot mini won't be released before 2015 so I'll skip on Carrot for now.
teebot··on Try-catch speeding up my code?
you're right it must be really tricky to spot and work around it but just the tought of blaming the compiler not sloppy programming is amusing
teebot··on Try-catch speeding up my code?
I wish I could say that more often
teebot··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?
Freelance - Brussels Belgium, Remote, Half time or Full time

I'm a full stack Web and mobile developer who loves to craft rich frontend experiences.

Xamarin iOS / Android, C#, ASP.NET MVC, Angular, Mongo, SQL Server, Entity Framework, HTML/CSS

Resume: http://cozypixel.com

Contact thibaut [at] cozypixel

teebot··on Ask HN: Help, I'm stuck on HN
Go buy a good novel. Here's some random picks for you:

The road by Cormack McCarthy (a real page turner), The New York trilogy by Paul Auster, Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, The stranger by Albert Camus.

teebot··on Evolution of the Web
It appears clearly in this timeline that since chrome made its appearance with its fast release cycle, web technologies evolve at a much faster pace.
teebot··on Ask HN: Is 25 too late to become a proficient developer?
no
teebot··on Ecstasy for PTSD: Not Ready for Prime Time
"Placebo controlled: 12 patients got the active drug, 8 got an inactive placebo Exit poll: 95% correctly guessed which group they were assigned to."

No kidding

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