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hirzel | 7 years ago | on: Scavenging Russia’s Rocket Graveyard Is Dangerous and Profitable

Thank you! That reading left me hungry for pictures.

hirzel | 8 years ago | on: Marie Kondo and the War on Stuff (2016)

So true. My fantasy company (please anyone start it) is "reverse-Amazon-prime"-- Remove anything from your house in 2 days. Then you have all the connections to a) sell and share the money back with me, b) donate it, or c) dispose of it responsibly. This would be so awesome done right with solid research into the best ways to do all of the above for a huge variety of stuff.

hirzel | 8 years ago | on: Meet Datawake – Nomadic Research Labs (2016)

Yes! He was featured on the cover of a bicycle magazine back then and quicky became a nerd-hero of my youth.

hirzel | 9 years ago | on: Milking the iPhone

I like the mainframe PC analogy but I think in this case we are running up against ergonomics. People's hands are not shrinking and our eyes aren't getting any better. More interface may get offloaded to audio/voice, but we are such visual creatures. Until we are beaming data directly into our eyes, I don't think we will abandon the palm-sized display-- maybe foldable one like paper, or a tattoo, or my shirt sleave, but something.

hirzel | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?

I also have a soft spot for subs that reveal high craft in unexpected places. r/conduitporn is also on this list.

hirzel | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Overwhelmed with learning front-end, how do I proceed?

Thank you for that link! I am starting in react and there is a blend of ES6 and ES5 in the tutorials (maybe even within the official react tutorials?). This hits the spot in clearing up some confusion for me.

hirzel | 9 years ago | on: I went to Nigeria to meet a man who scammed me

This should be a movie. The screen play writes itself!

hirzel | 9 years ago | on: An External Replication on the Effects of Test-driven Development [pdf]

Although, isn't this more true for writing tests at all versus writing tests first or last in the coding process?

In terms of technical debt, does it matter when the tests are written?

hirzel | 9 years ago | on: Introducing Nomulus: an open source top-level domain name registry

I am so sorry. I have to write this here: NomNomNomulus

hirzel | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: When you feel stuck in life

This is trivial compared to lots of good advice here, but I've benefited in stuck times by cutting my hair. Of course, alone, this doesn't do much, but sometimes that moment in the mirror with someone looking slightly different-- it helps me lock-in a course correction just a bit.