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whiskypeterson Ask HN: Is there a pure SMS based UI?

capsule does a great job with SMS based UI, my girl doesn't even have the app on her phone just texts with them

whiskypeterson Cloudflare Pages goes full stack

there is https://github.com/flareact/flareact in development by a shopify engineer, worth checking out... seems like a good architecture for deeper integration with workers runtime

whiskypeterson Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5D_optical_data_storage

whiskypeterson Kaitai: Describe the structure of data, not how you read or write it

i found the Kaitai toolset (IDE, compiler) to be useful in parsing or "deserialization" for proprietary financial protocols. if you are just reading data (especially in an environment with clients in different languages) it's a strong recommend, however lack of support for "serialization" means that you will still need to roll your own encoders. ultimately we created our own tooling/DSL for encoding as well as generating KSY files to generate clients as part of our builds

edit: i forgot to add - there is an issue for serialization on kaitai github repo for some time [1], with some interesting discussion around the implementation challenges

1. https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct/issues/27

whiskypeterson Redux-query – A React/Redux library for querying and managing network state

this is the first time i've ever heard someone complain of redux having too much magic

most people complain there is too much boilerplate!

whiskypeterson Getting started with Meteor and React

class is a reserved word in javascript

whiskypeterson Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock

THIS is inventing a clock

whiskypeterson Alex – Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing

automated enforcement of politically-correct verbiage. awesome!

whiskypeterson Show HN: Slack Meets GitHub Issues

Low hanging fruit: localize your marketing site for US english. I know it sounds silly, but language matters and is proven lift conversions.

Research: http://www.nngroup.com/articles/american-vs-british-english-...

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Thank you, looks like some useful feedback.

whiskypeterson Airbus patents aircraft cabins shaped like doughnuts

Initially I thought the "hole" was meant to be enclosed within the airframe, but it is there. See Fig 2 - Fig 8 in the patent application. They have even diagrammed a method for boarding passengers using retractable escalators from parallel hatches located on the forward and aft planes of the inner-torus, as well as using an elevator to board passengers from within the hole! Fig 9 - Fig 16 diagram the invention applied to a more conventional airframe (without the hole).

The patent title is "aircraft including a passenger cabin extending around a space defined outside the cabin and inside the aircraft." My understanding is that the patent covers the torus-shaped passenger cabin within any larger aerodynamic envelope as a method of reducing constraints related to cabin pressurization (the "hole" is incidental). Very interesting stuff. I'm not an aeronautical engineer or patent attorney.

whiskypeterson A JavaScript Quality Guide

Naming anonymous functions (and anonymous function expressions) provides useful context while tracing error stacks

whiskypeterson Subtle -isms at Hacker School

"we've been trying to stop using "you guys" to refer to mixed-gender groups."

Am I the only one that finds this over the top?

"No 'subtle -isms' is about recognizing the ways we're unconciously [sic] making our friends' lives a little worse."

I'm sorry, if your life is made worse by a completely benign (and friendly) statement like "ok guys, have a nice weekend" then you are naive and irrational. Creating an environment that indulges every childish sensitivity does not do those individuals any favors and makes a mockery of their cause.

"For the last year, the 'No subtle -isms' rule has carried some implementation guidelines. One of these is asking people not to debate whether or not something is an -ism."

Accusing someone of (even subtle) sexism or racism is not to be taken lightly—this rule forces the accused to apologize (affirming the alleged bias) without defending or explaining themselves. This is unethical and dilutes legitimate complaints.

A proverb that comes to mind: "Those who speak most about misfortune will find it. Those who speak most about success will find it."