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kasparsklavins··on Tesla Flips the Switch on the Gigafactory
To be fair, Tesla existed before Elon took over it.
kasparsklavins··on Use Maps in Lite mode
Playback is okay. Its the homepage and subscription pages that are freezing up.
kasparsklavins··on Use Maps in Lite mode
Youtube also does this.. the interface is frozen for me on page navigation for around 2-5 seconds before I can start interacting.
kasparsklavins··on You’re an Adult. Your Brain, Not So Much
By that logic, neither do 18-year-olds. You'd prefer the minimum voting age be raised to 60, so only people with "experience" can vote?

I'd wager that at least 90% of voters do not do any research no matter their age and just vote for what the media or the people around them say.

Also.. I don't vote.

kasparsklavins··on Ask HN: What is something you do for clients that consistently blows them away?
In my experience, the _stupid_ questions are the best ones, provided they are on topic. They hint at an edge case or something not covered deeply enough.
kasparsklavins··on Saving the Internet 2000TB a Day: Fixing Font Awesome’s Fonts
I'm sure you mean - those are two different colours. If not, oh boy do I have news for you.
kasparsklavins··on Saving the Internet 2000TB a Day: Fixing Font Awesome’s Fonts
`fa` would basically be free for gzip because the icons use fa as a class name.
kasparsklavins··on Chrome 56 Beta: “Not Secure” Warning, Web Bluetooth, and CSS Position: Sticky
Even AMP own page suffers from headers taking up 1/3 of the screen on mobile devices. https://www.ampproject.org/
kasparsklavins··on 30-Day Vanilla JavaScript Coding Challenge
Obligatory http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/ Although its more aimed at library devs.
kasparsklavins··on A Billion User Load Test on Healthcare.gov
> The current observed peak load for HealthCare.gov’s Open Enrollment in 2016 was on Dec 14

2016 Dec 14? Did I miss something?

kasparsklavins··on My fight against CDN libraries
Not sure if this is a feature of youtube or chrome, but when opening a video in a new tab, it does not play until I have that tab in focus.
kasparsklavins··on Alphabet Creating Stand-Alone Self-Driving Car Business
By the time you are in the drivers seat, it will already be too late. A vehicle can't just stop and do nothing. A bad decision may be better than no decision at all.
kasparsklavins··on Ask HN: What cool development languages/tools changed your career?
Joe will chooses 0.25, Mary picks with 0.125 while Huan goes with whatever is the default. There will be inconsistency if there is more than one choice available (empty is also a choice). Someone will slip up, it is only inevitable.
kasparsklavins··on Ask HN: What cool development languages/tools changed your career?
Doesn't it lead to inconsistent layout if someone forgets to add it? I am not a designer, but few things irks me more than paddings varying across the same 'components'.

From experience, your method is easier to think through, but later on it is more time consuming to modify a layout. pa1 and the like should be treated the same as magic numbers.

kasparsklavins··on Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time (2012)
There are situations in which it is not acceptable to make a "loud crash", e.g., while a plane is flying.

There was a quote by a nasa engineer that an incorrect action is better than no action at all, but I cant find it at the moment.

kasparsklavins··on What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber [video]
There is less commuting on weeekends.
kasparsklavins··on Employee #1: Dropbox
Half the [low priority] bugs I fix are because they get too annoying while developing.
kasparsklavins··on The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses
Because of code style (I do not mean spaces or tabs, it is beyond that). Different developers have different ideas of how a function should behave, where it literally has no effect on how the rest of the system works.
kasparsklavins··on The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses
When I forget my banks password, I have to go to the closest client centre. Ironically, the only time I've had to do that is when my password was truncated.
kasparsklavins··on The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses
Had this bug in a system I was working on. Pushed a patch in april.. and there still is an ongoing discussion whether it should be merged or not.
kasparsklavins··on The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses
My bank limits passwords at 15 characters. The best thing? There is no verification, it just cuts off. Have fun figuring out why you can not login anymore.
kasparsklavins··on Google shelves plan for phone with interchangeable parts
LG tried it with their G5 model. It isnt very interesting
kasparsklavins··on Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes
Blowing fire as well?
kasparsklavins··on Why should children program? A review of Seymour Papert's Mindstorms
I teach kids low level programming. It can be quite rewarding.
kasparsklavins··on Undebt: How We Refactored 3M Lines of Code
Reminds me of Ubisoft claims that its Assassin's Creed crouching mechanic had 6M LOC
kasparsklavins··on The Solitary Vice: Victorian Views on Masturbation
It could be argued that food is a form of drugs. It does affect our brains in a psychological manner.
kasparsklavins··on GitHub was down
That was more than 3 months ago. Github goes down more often than that.
kasparsklavins··on GitHub was down
Why not using google for authentication? Seems like github is down relatively often.
kasparsklavins··on Microsoft's Bing Isn't a Joke Anymore
I'm one of those people that types "youtube" into the omnibar and then click the first result. Typing the extra .com at the end is too much of a hassle when auto complete fails me.
kasparsklavins··on Tabs slower than spaces in Firefox
Isn't that the whole point of tabs? So everyone can have their own width preference without going mad with git merges.
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