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cdpolyme | 8 years ago | on: Tom Lehrer at 90: a life of scientific satire

Different musical style, and sometimes cruder humor, but you might enjoy Les Luthiers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcx_Ovi9A4g&list=PL2nrB3BJrZ...

cdpolyme | 8 years ago | on: Tom Lehrer at 90: a life of scientific satire

I also thought of Mani Matter immediately. And I think you are selling him short. I love Lehrer's songs, but IMO Matter's lyrics even surpasses them in wit and poetical talent. His public body of work is more extensive, too. Shame really, that potentially only a few million people understand them.

cdpolyme | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What books do you keep on your desk?

Same here. Only book that stays on my desk. Others rotate.

cdpolyme | 8 years ago | on: How we interview engineers at CircleCI

Only a fraction of those 1000 get interviewed, if I am reading it correctly, and not every employee at CircleCI is an engineer.

cdpolyme | 8 years ago | on: After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat

Is it a global trend, though? Or is the energy consumption just being moved abroad?

cdpolyme | 8 years ago | on: Practical Tips for Cheating at Design

I have the same issue. Not being a designer I can spend hours tweaking CSS color values, only to come back the next day and think it looks awful again. Two things have helped me: 1) using https://coolors.co/app and just trusting it, 2) creating SASS functions that derive secondary colors from a primary one. I currently don't have it at hand, but it boils down to making a series of lighter and darker versions of a given color, where, very importantly, the lighter ones are also less saturated than the shadows.

cdpolyme | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: TablePlus – A macOS client for relational databases

DBeaver (https://dbeaver.jkiss.org/) and the IntelliJ solutions: Datagrip or the IDEA ultimate database tool.

cdpolyme | 8 years ago | on: We Mailed 100K Stickers Around the World, Made a Million Mistakes Along the Way

> So when we got inputs like Después de hogares crea, segunda entrada mano derecha, última casa verde (something about the last green house on the right according to Google Translate), we figured we had to validate these addresses.

Weird as it might seem, that's how addresses work in some places, if you make it invalid, you are excluding those users.