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New comment by mcgwiz in "Ask HN: Resources for older developers?"

mcgwiz — Thu, 11 May 2023 22:49:33 +0000

If you're interested, another commenter here actually set up a Discord server.

New comment by mcgwiz in "Ask HN: Resources for older developers?"

mcgwiz — Thu, 11 May 2023 22:49:15 +0000

If you're interested, another commenter here set up a Discord server.

New comment by mcgwiz in "Ask HN: Resources for older developers?"

mcgwiz — Thu, 11 May 2023 22:48:32 +0000

Another commenter on this post set up a server.

Microsoft’s Phone Link app now lets you use iMessage from your PC

mcgwiz — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 16:55:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/28/23618224/microsoft-windows-imessage-support-phone-link-ios-iphone

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35527845

Points: 1

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New comment by mcgwiz in "You might not need an effect"

mcgwiz — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 18:01:00 +0000

Hubble Telescope Faces Threat from SpaceX and Other Companies’ Satellites

mcgwiz — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 18:37:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/science/hubble-spacex-starlink.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34999825

Points: 3

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New comment by mcgwiz in "Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell"

mcgwiz — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 17:43:03 +0000

https://blocvox.com

tl;dr: crowdsourced microblogging platform that encourages inter-community dialogue. I.e. wrest the very fate of your causes back from self-serving officials, celebrities, and mass media!

It started as a side project 10 years ago, before I took some time off to try to build it into something more. Alas I knew far too little of marketing and customer development.

Black Holes May Hide a Mind-Bending Secret About Our Universe

mcgwiz — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 00:11:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/10/science/black-holes-cosmology-hologram.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33157896

Points: 13

# Comments: 2

Issue 347016: Support user stylesheets

mcgwiz — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 19:51:38 +0000

Article URL: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=347016#c52

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24227969

Points: 2

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New comment by mcgwiz in "Old CSS, New CSS"

mcgwiz — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 19:31:01 +0000

The original thesis is very instructive.

https://www.wiumlie.no/2006/phd/

New comment by mcgwiz in "Having Kids"

mcgwiz — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 17:18:22 +0000

Agree completely. Have found that, in addition to the bursts of energy, I've honed my already-refined productivity and organizational habits to the extreme as a result. Hoping these will retain usefulness/accuity after we get through the early childhood years.

New comment by mcgwiz in "Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?"

mcgwiz — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 17:23:41 +0000

Corollary is to develop an openness toward their continuing evolution, that no one is static, and to expect and support this.

New comment by mcgwiz in "Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?"

mcgwiz — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 17:20:43 +0000

Learn the basic techniques and the rationale behind non-violent communication. It is a tool that can make the most difficult, risky discussions in your personal life a lot more constructive and beneficial.

New comment by mcgwiz in "CSS Utility Classes and “Separation of Concerns” (2017)"

mcgwiz — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 08:27:28 +0000

What's always missing from these perennial CSS deep dives is that HTML already gives us a paradigm worth extending: generic constructs, used in domain specific contexts. Generic constructs are those that are devoid of domain specifics and can be used by HTML documents from other domains, e.g. links, paragraphs, buttons, tabs, and modals.

A link can refer to a user profile page or a news article. Both use the generic anchor "component", which comes from the wider universe of components applicable to most/all HTML docs. HTML: ``, CSS selector: `A.user`.

To extend this, a media card could represent a video or a book or a sidebar item. Both use the media card component's HTML structure but can be tweaked visually with CSS. The root element of the video media card would be `

` and would be identified with the selector `DIV.MediaCard.video`.

(PascalCase is arbitrary but I like that it harks to class naming conventions from OOP languages. You'd need some other naming conventions as well. I like `_title` for internal element class names, like private class members from OOP languages. Internal selectors would be built using the performant child combinator. Some of these patterns are more verbose than current alternatives, but it's also the minimum necessary to get crystal clarity around inherited and cascaded values. Preprocessor nesting makes this less painful. And `-highlight` for variants, because they resemble CLI switches. What about non-generic components? Those aren't "components" as defined here - they are simply higher-level HTML fragments, typically organized in source as an HTML template.)

This gives you two dimensions along which to flexibly organize things - the generic forms and the domain-specific applications, and should keep you from slipping down the slope to utility-dominant CSS.

WeWork Accepts SoftBank Takeover Offer

mcgwiz — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 13:44:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wework-softbank-group/wework-board-accepts-softbank-rescue-deal-source-idUSKBN1X11JN

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21323511

Points: 69

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New comment by mcgwiz in "My Favourite Git Commit"

mcgwiz — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 18:20:37 +0000

Some of this background decision-making information can be included as developer documentation, whatever form that takes, e.g. as comments (usually for low-level) or sibling README file (usually higher-level).

Commit logs will have the greatest detail, but they also are the costliest to dig up, often requiring multiple rounds of `blame`. They are therefore most appropriate to include information pertinent at integration-time, namely code review context/justifications.

Merge commits (such as those created during typical PR/MR merges) have similar potential to include explanatory background, but at a coarser granularity, e.g. feature level.

How to Succeed When Marginalized or Discriminated Against in the Workplace

mcgwiz — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 04:28:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/smarter-living/productivity-without-privilege-discrimination-work.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21143712

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Announcing the first preview and code release of PowerToys

mcgwiz — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 22:43:58 +0000

Article URL: https://insider.windows.com/en-us/articles/announcing-the-first-preview-and-code-release-of-powertoys/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21011229

Points: 1

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Securing Software, Together

mcgwiz — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 20:47:37 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/features/security

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21010002

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mcgwiz in "Age Discrimination at Work"

mcgwiz — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 23:47:49 +0000

Age is just a heuristic. It's not an age gap, it's a culture gap.

Expectations of one's job are vastly different (fulfill all of my personal needs versus provide financial stability to support my personal life; work-life blend versus work-life balance).

Ethics are different (Adderall will get me through crunch time versus ugh! crunch time!; give me little projects like I had in college versus give me an area of responsibility and a mandate).

Standards are different (this project will be dead/replaced in a year, or I'll be at a new gig, so building quality is a waste versus always build quality, the definition of which I've determined based on decades of experience).

There's a gap of political perspective as well (boomers and, to an extent, Gen-Xers screwed up the world versus inheriting the established business/social order was generally accepted).

Easiest to understand is a vast difference in language and cultural reference points - not as different as an ESL candidate but on that same spectrum.