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New comment by joshkpeterson in "Ask HN: Excluding WordPress, what is your favorite for blogs or small stores?"

joshkpeterson — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 11:41:41 +0000

I used kirby for a brochureware project and it went really well.

New comment by joshkpeterson in "Step-by-step tutorial to build a modern JavaScript stack from scratch"

joshkpeterson — Sat, 29 Oct 2016 21:43:56 +0000

The thing is, Yarn is likely to supersede npm at the command line so this is really future-proof.

New comment by joshkpeterson in "[dead]"

joshkpeterson — Sun, 16 Oct 2016 16:34:35 +0000

Political opinions are not always sacred - there IS a point where you must oppose what is wrong. If you don't think that Trump's racism, bigotry, xenophobia, misogyny, demagoguery, and general incompetence crosses that line...you're obviously not alone. But many of us feel that speaking against Thiel is justified.

New comment by joshkpeterson in "Why I'm Not a React Native Developer"

joshkpeterson — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 21:08:08 +0000

Author says the bad outweigh the good, but we haven't fully evaluated the good.

So, question for people who use React Native - how long does it take to go from [100% front end developer familiar with React] ...to [writing solid native apps] with React Native? And how much platform-specific knowledge outside of RN do you need to absorb in order to do this well?

New comment by joshkpeterson in "React Router v4 FAQ"

joshkpeterson — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 03:03:03 +0000

As someone just arriving to React - should I just learn React Router v4?

New comment by joshkpeterson in "Ask HN: Data visualization consultant"

joshkpeterson — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:36:43 +0000

Look at Eyeo talk videos like Ben Fry's. There's a lot of data vis that goes through there.

New comment by joshkpeterson in "BlackBox"

joshkpeterson — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 05:04:58 +0000

Exactly. And if people are curious about the type of pain that might drive people to a service like this, they can read about episodes like:

>"After fighting through FedEx's rigorous claim process they declared that the package is not valuable beyond the cost of the paper it took to create this handcrafted, original artwork," Scofield and Shuey wrote. "Even though the package was insured, they aren't willing to pay the full $6,000 it cost to create the intricate set and are only covering the cost of the materials."

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/12/17/fedex-l...

New comment by joshkpeterson in "Ways Your Wi-Fi Router Can Spy on You"

joshkpeterson — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 05:02:39 +0000

I'm a media artist who wants to do an implementation of this DSP algorithm for a piece of installation art. Get in touch with me on twitter @joshypants if you're an engineer who's interested in collaborating on the implementation.

New comment by joshkpeterson in "A few HTML tips"

joshkpeterson — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 13:50:47 +0000

Isn't it because of the way screenreaders prioritize which headings to read based on the #? Eg read H1, then H2's, etc.

New comment by joshkpeterson in "Cornell Opens Archive of Bird Calls Going Back to 1929"

joshkpeterson — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 03:40:08 +0000

Reminds me of this algorithm competition to classify bird species from recordings: https://www.kaggle.com/c/mlsp-2013-birds

New comment by joshkpeterson in "Twitter now lets anyone request a verified account"

joshkpeterson — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 07:29:37 +0000

And then twitter suspends that one. Rinse and repeat.

New comment by joshkpeterson in "Twitter now lets anyone request a verified account"

joshkpeterson — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 03:52:38 +0000

He's responsible for mobilizing lots of trolls to harass women and POC. Not a great human being.

New comment by joshkpeterson in "Show HN: Read someone else's Twitter timeline"

joshkpeterson — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 18:13:55 +0000

I moved to a new city and I wanted to see who I followed that lived there. I had to spend 8 hours learning the API and writing a script to put those people into a list. I shouldn't have to do that.

New comment by joshkpeterson in "WebAssembly Specification Prototype"

joshkpeterson — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 21:34:44 +0000

"Open and debuggable: WebAssembly is designed to be pretty-printed in a textual format for debugging, testing, experimenting, optimizing, learning, teaching, and writing programs by hand. The textual format will be used when viewing the source of wasm modules on the web."[1]

What would you like to see happen here? Maybe you should give them your input.

1. https://webassembly.github.io/

New comment by joshkpeterson in "How a team of young people helped rebuild healthcare.gov (2015)"

joshkpeterson — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 17:31:39 +0000

This team became Nava: http://navahq.com/

New comment by joshkpeterson in "Doctors issue warning about effects of LED streetlights on health"

joshkpeterson — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 03:03:07 +0000

Is it currently feasible to make LED's at that brightness that are closer to the old yellow-orange lamps?

New comment by joshkpeterson in "Doctors issue warning about effects of LED streetlights on health"

joshkpeterson — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 02:11:45 +0000

You can just use a different color of LED. Honestly people in Seattle, where these LED lamps were first piloted, have been raising these concerns for at least 4 years. This is the product of some combination of bad design, a lack of user-centered thinking at the utilities, and less than ideal incentives.

For example, daylight led's were touted as making it easier to identify cars involved in criminal activity because you can see the color of the vehicle more easily. But how many times has this actually made the difference in solving a crime?

New comment by joshkpeterson in "An interactive way of blogging about JavaScript"

joshkpeterson — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 15:26:41 +0000

Worth mentioning that you can embed CodePens. But yeah maybe this is nice for some things, like demos of pure logic that don't need markup/CSS.

New comment by joshkpeterson in "Four common mistakes in audio development"

joshkpeterson — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 11:23:56 +0000

How will web assembly affect audio development in the browser?

New comment by joshkpeterson in "Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour"

joshkpeterson — Thu, 26 May 2016 21:31:02 +0000

Well she also publishes stories on motherboard so what are you trying to say exactly...?