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solidr53

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solidr53··on What will programming look like in 2020? (2012)
Writing scrapers with it is also amazing. All from the puppeteer code, response interface and casting to a local class model. Very time saving indeed.
solidr53··on My MacBook Pro had over 10k USD in repairs
Airplanes man… my 15” MBP 2015 would always make this case cracking sound when the plane reached a specific altitude. It had some battery swell, not noticeable.

Scared the shit out of me, every time.

solidr53··on Invert, always, invert
Can be very difficult when you can only see the problems in other people's ideas. Knowing that it's not the purpose, but rather to actually help, people that don't know you will not appreciate it.

My advice is to stop doing it with people that don't know how you think. It's usually the people who have unexpected problems again and again in their life.

solidr53··on How Apple Is Working From Home
Keynote has an online collaboration functionality, just through the web interface IIRC.
solidr53··on Meet Dash O’Pepper
You can go to a random user that you have not followed, and inspect the "Follow" button, change the action of the form to "/users/follow?target=-" and press it.
solidr53··on Volkswagen’s plan to create a new car operating system
The article mentions they will use Android as the base platform.

> Senger also revealed that VW Group will be using Android for future versions of the MIB infotainment platform, in large part because of the robust third-party app ecosystem with that OS versus Linux.

Huh? Android is running on a modified linux kernel. But I get what he means...

solidr53··on Base Web, Uber’s New Design System for Building Websites in React
Ant.design is actually quite nice. I picked them for my open source project mainly because it's written in TypeScript.
solidr53··on Ask HN: What's the most important piece of code you've written?
Very important!
solidr53··on Before the Electric Car Takes Over, Someone Needs to Reinvent the Battery
It may be an unpopular opinion, but what about radioisotope thermoelectric generator? (Nuclear)
solidr53··on Before the Electric Car Takes Over, Someone Needs to Reinvent the Battery
Plug-in Hybrid EV (PHEV)

There are loads of them available and many are popular, heck even Toyota Prius has a model that has this capability (Prius Prime).

I am on the market for buying a PHEV, because fast charger availability in my country is very limited (which is weird given that we are super green electric giants), so pure EV is going to be hard unless I have a backup car for road trips.

Kia Optima is the one I like the most, but I may end up buying Tesla Model 3 and just ship it through the Atlantic (yes, we also don't have Tesla in my country) and have a backup car, or rent/borrow a car when doing road trips

solidr53··on 2018 Mac Mini Review
I'm going to hold on to my Mid-2015 MacBook Pro for dear life.

I'm hoping it will be good for 3 more years.

solidr53··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)
Ueno | Technical Director | SF (US only) | Full-Time | https://ueno.co/about

Ueno is a full-service agency, busy designing and building beautiful digital products, brands, and experiences.

- React, React Native, TypeScript, Mobx, MST, Prismic, GitHub, Heroku, and the next tech you feel relevant.

- Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage, 401K Matching Pre-tax Commuter Benefits, 22.5 days PTO + 10 days sick leave, Parental leave, $1,000 birthday bonus, $100/month fitness stipend, $1,000 annual learning stipend, $2,500 annual conference stipend

- We will only consider candidates with US work permits

- Ueno is a firmly committed Equal Opportunity Employer

https://ueno.co/careers/6R83B6qvcWgUuiUC0MM4cq/technical-dir...

solidr53··on TypeScript support added to Create React App
Pretty much just file extension support and docs. The support mainly comes from Babel 7.
solidr53··on Zero-day in jQuery plugin sample code exploited for at least three years
Hey Larry $$
solidr53··on Ask HN: What's your favorite elegant/beautiful algorithm?
Bencode is such a piece of junk though.
solidr53··on Ask HN: What's your favorite elegant/beautiful algorithm?
Nice! I studied the library by porting it to TypeScript.

https://github.com/birkir/csg.js/blob/patch-1/csg.ts

solidr53··on Redux vs. The React Context API
Heck yes! https://github.com/birkir/hekla
solidr53··on Redux vs. The React Context API
MST is a beast, I use it for everything. It great for abstraction, has good typescript support. tree based nodes are just a super nice structure for applications in general.

I've used flux, redux, mobx, context, combinations of those, and I think I finally found something that will stay.

If you haven't tried it, I highly recommend it!

solidr53··on Thank you HN
What evidence is that?
solidr53··on Sclack: The best CLI client for Slack, because everything is terrible
imgcat can do gif in iTerm
solidr53··on Announcing Dart 2 Stable and the Dart Web Platform
Wait... we were talking about ease of access right?

Just re-reading the getting started guide for flutter, you need a set of tools, the flutter SDK, xcode etc.

That's not one command.

The same goes for React Native, you need node and xcode for building locally just like with flutter.

I am talking about the advantage expo offers to try React Native without any tools.

Heck you could try it in an iPad only if you'd want.

solidr53··on Announcing Dart 2 Stable and the Dart Web Platform
I love how Container takes 'child', but Column takes 'children'.
solidr53··on Announcing Dart 2 Stable and the Dart Web Platform
Yeah, and in Flutter it's actually impossible to use system native UI libraries like navigation etc. So if you would like to build a simple app using each platform's native components, you'd have to build them yourself. (And update them as iOS/Android updates their UI).
solidr53··on Announcing Dart 2 Stable and the Dart Web Platform
> If you want to try building a mobile app then definitely go for Flutter+Dart, even if you don't need to support both Android and iOS I think it's just much more easy to start with than alternatives (RN/Swift/Android Java).

How is it easier? You can literally start your React Native development by opening up https://expo.io and scan a QR on your phone.

solidr53··on Introducing Android 9 Pie
This. I am a React Native developer, while working on a lot of backend things, bridging native API's to JS, I must say the developer experience on iOS is absolutely fantastic. Made me switch from Pixel to iPhone X, I've had android since the Google Nexus One, so yeah longtime Android user.
solidr53··on Ask HN: How to overcome fear of flying?
I could add to that; Watch Air Crash Investigations (also under the name Mayday). It's amazing to learn how everything works and has dual failsafe systems, most crashes result in changes in aviation regulations and/or service bulletins for the airlines.

Then think how many car crashes there are.

Fun fact: on average 2 people die every day in an air crash. Wow... guess how many die in car crashes per day?

How do you feel when you get into a car?

solidr53··on Why the New V8 Is So Damn Fast
Yeah, I've always wondered this too. It would be cool to be able to extract typings in a separate file, like source maps, and send over the wire along with the JavaScript bundle (for compatibility).

It would definitely help moving sections of the code up the tier ladder, not unlike Web Assembly.

I even predict that future typescript versions would include stricter typings optimized for an browser to solve problems like others have mentioned in the thread.

Or just a TypeScript engine in the browser, like ehm Dartium. I guess someone at Microsoft already did this on IE in a hackathon or something.

solidr53··on Turbo Button
Police Quest was simply impossible without the turbo button back in the day. Or that is, until I discovered the menu bar by accident.
solidr53··on Show HN: Hekla for Hacker News
Op here

What you are looking at is a Hacker News client inspired by the Apollo client for Reddit. It's built with React Native for iOS and Android.

There have been recent statements from big companies, like Airbnb, about phasing out react native because it doesn't play nicely with their native codebase. The feedback I've seen is all based on the misunderstanding that React Native and native isn't a good fit. I wanted to demonstrate that this not the case, and that, if an app is built from a react native first approach, it will not just work, but work very well.

The codebase is in TypeScript, Native Navigation, Firebase for API, mobx-state-tree for app state, Code Push for OTA updates, Sentry for error tracking and CSS Modules with Stylus for styling.

I'd love to get some feedback, I've been building this on weekends for the last month or so. I can answer questions about the app or React Native in general.

solidr53··on Google announces Cloud Build, its new continuous integration platform
Do they have mac images for building with XCode?
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