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That seems to be the direction they're moving. Several flagship McDonalds have popped up around NYC with fully self-serve computer ordering kiosks. I haven't been yet, but people are talking about them -- people who I've never heard talk about McDonalds before.

They've got a pretty big gulf of social-class-stigma to get past, but it seems like McDonalds is at the beginning of a comeback.

Delivery might be a guilty pleasure gateway.

This is a great puzzle game and a very impressive demo web app. However, I wish it was available from the various app stores for two reasons:

1. I want to pay you for this.

2. It will be ripped off a dozen ways, and I would rather see you make money rather instead of some horrible knockoff app-vendor.

I've been using Vagrant successfully for several years, since shortly after it launched. It's dramatically improved the dev workflow for myself and my company.

The worst time I had with Vagrant was due to an authentication bug in v1.8.5. That was compounded by the previous release (1.8.4) being incompatible with the latest VirtualBox (5.1). Hashicorp was slow to release the fix, and we had to tell users to downgrade both tools. That sucked. This was late summer 2016.

It's been smooth since then, and I haven't had to think much about the VM aspect of our tooling in 6 months.

My life doesn't necessarily fit into a sunrise-sundown bracketed timeframe. I regularly need to postpone dimming until later in the evening, and then return to full color brightness before dawn. F.lux refuses to do this. Night Shift (at least on iOS) does.

Git for web history?

I'm a big fan of Trello but I dread using Atlassian products. I do not have a good feeling about this.

Hopefully Atlassian can learn from what makes Trello so wonderful instead of JIRA-ifying it into oblivion.

agreed about Liquid templates, it's extremely limiting after working with Jinja/Nunjucks/Twig.

> Its scientists altered the structure of sugar so that it dissolves more quickly.

So... powdered sugar?

I wonder if the $19 price is making up for sales volume lost to sticker shock. That's expensive for an iOS app.

I've got a pile of old iPads that would be nice to resurrect as displays. I downloaded the Mac app but balked and left at the double-digit price. (not to mention the unknown in-app purchase)

This is great and I will be moving my React projects in this direction. At very least this project represents a de-facto standard and guidance about how to work with React.

However I do wish the React team would pick between ES6 classes and `React.createClass`. I think I remember the main React tutorial was rewritten in ES6 at one point, but then switched back. I've read arguments both ways, but I suspect they ES6 is still too much of a barrier to entry.

People who aren't up to speed with ES6 will still be shaving a lot of yaks before actually jumping into React.

From January. Previous (already marked as dupe) thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11035143

I work at a small design firm which did not switch to the new pricing. Based on our current usage, our costs would have increased 4x.

Most of our creative roles are non-technical, but we like designers to have GitHub accounts to keep an eye on projects and for professional development and education. Those accounts very rarely commit code or assets to a project, but engaging our creative team in technical production has been good for us culturally. In a small way, this was inspired by the design of Pixar's lobby as a creative-technical meeting place.

We also hire a number of outside contractors. $9/month isn't especially onerous, but it is one more cost to keep track of.

To keep our costs the same, we'd probably have to kick the designers out of our GitHub organization. While practical, that sounds and feels terrible. So we did nothing, we're still on our old capped-repo plan and we just archive projects off of GitHub when we run out of slots.

I'd like to see a migration guide for bringing a small organization (company) from GitHub to GitLab. Not the Git part, but rather how to map organizations and organize repositories.

GitHub's new pricing seems incompatible with smaller studios and agencies who encourage collaboration from non-developers or which frequently hire outside contractors. Make it easier to understand how those migrations might work.

awesome :)

Looks like they trusted Google's recommendation and used WOFF2 which doesn't work anywhere but Chrome and Firefox.

- http://google.github.io/material-design-icons/#icon-font-for...

- http://caniuse.com/#feat=woff2

What happened to the website icon fonts? They work in Chrome, but are giant Times New Roman text on Safari, both desktop and Mobile.

Blogger's mobile template has chopped off the left side of the page so the first two letters of every line are hidden, making this virtually unreadable on mobile. Thanks blogger mobile template!

Unix much?

My biggest hesitation about WebPack is that it does too much and duplicates so many other tools. If I'm already using Gulp to watch files and BrowserSync (love!) as my local dev server, why do I need WebPack when I'm only going to be using one of its abilities? Isn't this bloat?

The React world embraced WebPack after a modularity-kerfuffle back in January[1]. Pete Hunt followed that with his webpack-howto repo [2] which kind of turned the tide.

I really like Gulp/Browserify/Watchify/BrowserSync, but I'm starting to feel left behind and need to give WebPack an honest try.

[1]: http://blog.namangoel.com/browserify-vs-webpack-js-drama

[2]: https://github.com/petehunt/webpack-howto

In the last few years NYC has closed stretches of Broadway (a significant north-south corridor) to traffic, squeezed vehicle lane widths to add bike lanes and introduced several measures to slow or impede traffic so the city is safer for pedestrians. These are all very good things, but they come with a cost.

Reducing the surface area of roads does not magically remove cars from the roads, it just creates congestion and traffic.

If anything, Uber's model would seem to reduce traffic since their cars are more deliberate vs. taxis' aimlessly wandering.

NYC should try to figure out how to partner with Uber. Taxi's are already expensive enough to be something of a luxury (though filthy), Uber is a far better experience.

PHP isn't as bad as it used to be. Yes fundamental operator order is erratic and I'm forever googling basic functions, but the ecosystem has produced some good stuff over the past couple years.

Read up on Composer and Packagist. It's basically NPM, Gems, or PyPi for PHP. There are now solid interoperable libraries for most common tasks.

- https://getcomposer.org

- https://packagist.org

Laravel is a great framework, but quite a bit of what's out there seems to be built on the Symfony foundation.

- http://laravel.com

- http://symfony.com

There are also great coding guidelines and tools that are evolving. The PHP Framework Interoperability Group has produced some solid coding standards and tooling has followed.

- http://www.php-fig.org

WordPress...it makes me sad. But it's ubiquitous. If you're stuck doing WP work, take a look at the Roots project. It's a sane, modern approach with good tooling.

- https://roots.io

Though I've used elevators pretty much every day for 20 years, I can't recall the last time an elevator had music playing.

Regarding Carousel: it was only in the past few weeks that they finally got around to letting users exempt content.

I really wanted to like Carousel. I've tried several times, but somewhere in my Dropbox are a mess of backed up websites, most of which aren't even mine. Scrolling through the very lovely Carousel views wasn't quite as rewarding as the demos when the photos I cared about were mixed up with stock photo thumbnails, web graphics and other junk.

Dropbox bought cloud photo services SnapJoy and Loom, they've got good people. But the letting the ability to filter content fall by the wayside for years was a terrible failure of design and likely contributed to Carousel's foundering.

note to self: never, ever run anything on Google App Engine.

React also has two years of battle-testing at Facebook and Instagram. I'm not a fan of Facebook the product, but they've got some great engineers and I trust their code.

Sundial. Northern hemisphere. Done.

I'm very excited about this, but can someone please write something down? The videos are nice an all, but information-wise they're incredibly low-density. If I have an hour to spend on React Native, I'd rather read for 10 minutes and experiment for the remaining 50...

But can they tell us if TJ Holowaychuk is really only one person?

Is the complete algebra test available somewhere?

How is it pronounced?

DEV-on?

de-VWAN? (like Juan)

dev-oo-ahn?