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kaibyon Using Prettier to format your JavaScript code

It's also a great answer to dissenting opinions about code style. No more arguing about when to line break inside an 'if' statement.

kaibyon Washington state has passed the country’s toughest net neutrality legislation

The best line for me was:

“Just because the FCC claims it has the power to preempt state laws doesn’t mean that it actually does,” says Hansen. “I can claim that I have the power to manifest unicorns on the Washington State Capitol lawn. But if you look outside right now, there are no unicorns.”

I hope it succeeds.

kaibyon Do not use NPM 5.7

I had the same issue. Internet archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20180222160101/https://github.co...

kaibyon Practical Tips for Cheating at Design

Another concern is performance issues with box-shadow. A product I worked on displayed hundreds of twitter-like messages, each with its own box-shadow. Scrolling on less powerful devices would noticeably thrash. Disabling box-shadow improved it significantly. This was back in ~2012, so perhaps devices have become more powerful since then for this issue to be negligible.

kaibyon Apple Expands California Self-Driving Test Fleet to 27 Cars

They could've done a lot more if they were more focused, but that's not really how Apple works. They don't really research based on current technology, they like to spend time & money what could be invented. They even investigated things like "spherical wheels" [1]:

> Apple even looked into reinventing the wheel. A team within Titan investigated the possibility of using spherical wheels — round like a globe — instead of the traditional, round ones, because spherical wheels could allow the car better lateral movement.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/technology/apple-self-dri...