tta

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Do you work on React/etc. on a regular basis?

I attempted to use Gatsby for a personal blog/knowledge base-style setup and was immediately turned off by the seemingly immense overhead involved (React, CSS-in-JS, GraphQL).

I ended up with Vuepress instead and I'm happy (so far, anyway); a big draw is that it doesn't really require any Vue knowledge to get up and running.

tta··on Ask HN: What are you learning?

This is great, thank you!

tta··on Ask HN: What are you learning?

I’m reading the Raft paper: https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf

tta··on U.S. immigration policy has been a boon for the tech industry in Canada

You appear to be misunderstanding the definition of "average" in this context. The first ~50k of your income is taxed at ~20%, the next ~50k is taxed at ~30%, and so on. The average of these percentages gets you to a ~39% average tax rate for 250k income.

Here's a detailed example (grep for "Average tax rate"): https://www.canada.ca/en/financial-consumer-agency/services/...

tta··on U.S. immigration policy has been a boon for the tech industry in Canada

Note that this is the _marginal_ tax rate; the average tax rate for 220k CAD is ~38% without deductions.

(Source: https://simpletax.ca/calculator)

tta··on Ask HN: What books do you keep on your desk?

Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann.

tta··on How to explain to a layperson why a developer should not be interrupted? (2011)

https://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt...

tta··on Show HN: Audobox – Android Voice Recorder

Is there a way to delete a recording on the phone?

tta··on Show HN: Pirouette - my First OSX App (PivotalTracker Integration)

This is my first mac app, so any feedback is certainly welcome.

tta··on Go read: fast Google Reader clone in AngularJS with Go on App Engine

Oops, j/k didn't work for me because I had Vimium enabled.

facepalm

tta··on Go read: fast Google Reader clone in AngularJS with Go on App Engine

Love the way this looks. Do you have any support for keyboard shortcuts?

tta··on Recursive Postgres Queries

Good point! I've flipped the queries around.

The difference is lesser, but still fairly significant (30x).

Thanks for pointing this out.

tta··on Recursive Postgres Queries

I'm not familiar with JSON in Postgres, but thanks for the tip. Definitely something we can look into.

tta··on Recursive Postgres Queries

Absolutely. We aren't using this code in production. It's sitting on a branch.

I just thought recursive queries were really cool...and I had an example to illustrate it with. So hey, why not?

tta··on Mac Pro

Relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L2fsubA2-c

tta··on DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator

I wrote a chrome extension [1] to load this for every new tab.

[1]: https://github.com/timothyandrew/DuckDuckGo-TTY-Homepage

tta··on Ruby 2.0.0-preview1 is out

rbenv (https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv) is better than RVM.

tta··on The iPhone “Icon Ceiling” has been broken: is this the beginning of the end?

Mirror: http://justinhileman.info.nyud.net/article/the-iphone-icon-c...

tta··on IAmA Ex-Digg Employee

If I snap the window to take up half my screen, the dumb (un-hideable) sidebar ends up eating most of that screen space.

I wrote a dotjs[1] script[2] that solves exactly this by letting you toggle the sidebar on and off.

[1]: http://defunkt.io/dotjs/ [2]: https://github.com/timothyandrew/.js/blob/master/reddit.com....

EDIT: Formatting

tta··on How To Train Your Robot

Coral Cache Mirror (with images): http://drtechniko.wordpress.com.nyud.net/2012/04/09/how-to-t...

tta··on Ooops.

Wouldn't that just delete the folder instead of emptying it?

tta··on Kindle screensaver: potential for community-driven custom book covers

I don't think it does [void the warranty]. I remember reading an forum post by an Amazon employee (at amazon.com) that said it was allowed.

tta··on Ask HN: What do you use?

That git snippet is tremendously useful. Hat tip.

tta··on Kinect by Microsoft Keeps You Entertained Hands Free

I almost thought this was going to be about Office 2011.

tta··on Gift HN: Anybody want a subdomain of ww.com?

tim.ww.com -> timothyandrew.net ?

tta··on Can you solve it? The Greplin programming challenge

Anyone know other 'challenges' like this one?

tta··on CPU vs. GPU

So many kinds of awesome.

tta··on Ask HN: Minimalistic web design works?

I think the CloudApp interface does an awesome job of being minimalist. For instance, check out this download page: http://cl.ly/e9dd6a48f2ef6bc63688

(If you haven't heard of CloudApp: http://getcloudapp.com)

tta··on Ask HN: tips for working with Mac OS X without using the mouse? (RSI)

There's also LaunchBar. http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html

tta··on Apple kills fonts in iBooks, strikes blow to standards

For once I agree with Apple's big-brother…ing. iBooks lets you choose a font for the content you're reading, and it'd be an absolute nightmare having content that isn't consistent.

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