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lucaspotterskyon The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew

additionally, BK shows this terrible modal banner to "use our app instead". gross.

lucaspotterskyon No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me

their UX is terrible. any decent PDF reader beats it. no more for me as well.

lucaspotterskyon NPM Is Joining GitHub

WHAT. A. JOKE.

lucaspotterskyon How some good corporate engineering blogs are written

tldr: fast track post approvals

lucaspotterskyon Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?

> Why would you voluntarily give up that freedom?

i don't even need a word to answer that: $.

lucaspotterskyon Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?

yeah. my bookmarks are basically for a quick access of things that i access over and over again, but that i can't reach out simply by typing in the address bar.

lucaspotterskyon Dealing with Loneliness

https://youtu.be/mRtMfF131Kk?t=332

lucaspotterskyon Grafana Labs raises $24M

I tried it 2 years ago. It was easy to get started, but not quite straightforward to extend it and use custom panels.

Also, it didn't support image uploads, you'd need to host them somewhere else if you wanted them to show up in a panel. rather inconvenient.

lucaspotterskyon Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies

cant read. paywall. nice internets.

lucaspotterskyon The exponential function is a miracle

for ages we've been adding the miracle tag for things we don't fully understand.

just get used to it.

lucaspotterskyon Sunsetting Python 2

sounds like they should probably sunset Python 3 instead

lucaspotterskyon Regex Crossword

should make the input 1st focus and jump to the next in fewer seconds (or after double enter)

lucaspotterskyon TypeScript vs. ReasonML

> "And while having that familiarity with JavaScript is nice, it means that every quirkiness that we love and hate about JavaScript is still there in TypeScript

> "... ReasonML is everything TypeScript tries to be (and a bit more) without all that JavaScript weirdness."

yeah, but what makes the author think that __INSERT NEW LANGUAGE HERE__ would not have other 'quirkiness'?

lucaspotterskyon Show HN: Hacker News Clone – Clojure, GraphQL Learning Project

thats a lot of code

lucaspotterskyon John Carmack on the Joe Rogan Experience [video]

yeah, but he could take a breath every once in a while

lucaspotterskyon John Carmack on the Joe Rogan Experience [video]

> “Engineering is figuring out how to do what you want with what you’ve actually got”

same lines as... _life is figuring what to do with what you’ve got_.

lucaspotterskyon YouTube faces creator backlash

false. you clearly don't know what you're talking about, sorry.

youtubers are getting strikes for background music, using famous chord progressions, teaching music snippets, mentioning songs etc.

lucaspotterskyon YouTube faces creator backlash

I have compiled a few videos from youtuber music educators that I follow. The current situation is worse than most of us think. One of them, Paul Davis, even had a copyright strike for playing HIS OWN music. LOL! So ludicrous!

- Craziest COPYRIGHT STRIKE from YouTube ever?! (Paul Davis) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvH77m_3MVU

- What I want to teach, but can't, thanks to Universal Music Group. (Adam Neely) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nryFmUjtwEY

- Why Record Labels STILL Suck! (Rick Beato) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoTl9V8cjH0

lucaspotterskyon To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public

I disagree. To break the Monopoly a new & innovative way to search needs to rise, not just a clone or "Google wanna be" like Bing/DuckDuckGo etc.

So, somebody gotta do what Google did 20 years ago.

lucaspotterskyon To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public

bad engine though (last time i checked was ~3 years ago)

lucaspotterskyon I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017)

my browser was really delighted to download the 4MB illustrative cover art.

lucaspotterskyon Hostyoself: Server in a browser – host from your computer, your phone, etc.

> What inspired this? beaker browser, ngrok, localhost.run, inlets.dev, Parks and Recreation.

lucaspotterskyon Hostyoself: Server in a browser – host from your computer, your phone, etc.

> Using these technologies instead of OP centralized proposition would improve reliability, scalability

i think i'll have to agree. getting 502 here.

lucaspotterskyon Black – Uncompromising Python code formatter

thats actually a very annoying feature that has thrown me off when i tried.

you can't even comment out your code while debugging. annoying as hell.

lucaspotterskyon Let’s Encrypt to transition to ISRG root

thanks! i was amazed how this information is buried and how they assume everyone should know what ISRG means.

lucaspotterskyon It seems that Google is forgetting the old web

Google is the new Yahoo.

lucaspotterskyon Reducing notification permission prompt spam in Firefox

Those omnipresent dialogs are a cancer on the web. It was the worst idea ever.

I actually can't believe the browser vendors made basically the same mistake as the obnoxious JS "alert()"

lucaspotterskyon Google has added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users

that means DuckDuckGo is harmless to them, no real competition there.

just like Apple lets Pandora on Apple Watch and not Spotify.

lucaspotterskyon Google+ for consumers will shut down on April 2nd

of course it does.

when they decided to shut it down it was because they wanted to channel Readers users to Google+

lucaspotterskyon Scanning books at 250 pages a minute (2008)

pretty cool. I'd improve the design by adding a foot lever and footswitch for taking the photo in order to reduce the back and forward hand motion