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harrisonhopeon We are all nerds: The literary works of Neal Stephenson

I really enjoyed Zodiac. It’s reads like a thriller novel but it’s a little more grounded and less weird than Snow Crash. I think it’s a good entry point for Stephenson novels.

harrisonhopeon Google and Facebook execs allegedly approved dividing ad market among themselves

Yes, this is why many larger media sites opt to use header bidding. The decrease in CTR (click through rate) is offset by increased demand for each ad unit, driving up CPM (effectively the price of the ad).

The downside of this for websites is more middlemen extracting away value - but it’s usually still a net gain, otherwise publishers just wouldn’t use header bidding.

(I’ve worked in several large media companies and have implemented header bidding solutions for them in the past)

harrisonhopeon Peritext: A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration

How is this different than something like yjs?

harrisonhopeon What React Gets Wrong

A lot of the code create-react-app generates is for the build/compile step. Hopefully leveraging things like native browser module loading, perhaps with polyfills for fallbacks, will become more commonplace for major frameworks in the future. Generally I think this post makes some very good points.

harrisonhopeon Show HN: Redux with a UseState Hook

Yup, that's the "magic" part.

harrisonhopeon Show HN: Redux with a UseState Hook

It's redux under the hood so with this library you'd be able to use existing redux tooling such as redux dev tools. Usually that's not possible with bespoke state management libraries (although I'm not familiar with Recoil)

harrisonhopeon Show HN: Redux with a UseState Hook

Thanks. It uses useDispatch behind the scenes which I believe has a bit more overhead compared to using connect. It should be comparable performance-wise to using the normal react-redux hooks.

harrisonhopeon Show HN: Redux with a UseState Hook

Probably a fair point. I hadn't really taken typescript into account for the purposes of this library.

harrisonhopeon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)

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