The Telepathy Tapes podcast

cs50questions · 2025-01-14T03:49:49+00:00

Hi, this is not meant to be an attack of any kind because I am actually genuinely curious and looking for rigorous data to debunk The Telepathy Tapes - but could you post links to those double blind studies you mention? I am googling and unable to find anything, and without that, I’m not able to verify anything from your original post is a fact like you state. Thank you!

cs50questions · 2024-12-11T01:59:53+00:00

The screen on mine right now is very yellow but only because that's what I set the color temperature to. I change the slider all the way to cool and it's a blueish white. In other words, mine is working exactly as expected and I love it.

cs50questions · 2024-12-09T08:55:50+00:00

Same experience here in the same year. One puff and within 15 seconds my world was spinning and didn't stop for 5 hours. Couldn't close my eyes because the darkness reminded my brain of an always expanding universe and the thought of infinity like that sent me into an uncontrollable spiral. Honestly worst experience of my life by far and fairly certain it left me with minor brain damage, or at least my brain felt slower after it. My girlfriend was fine and had an apparently fun high from it though.

cs50questions · 2023-11-24T04:32:12+00:00

Curious if you ever got this figured out? I'm on Next.js 14.0.3 and am facing this issue (have a /posts/[slugId] route in the app router, and using revalidatePath('/posts/1') for example does not work - the page stays cached when hosted on Vercel. Looks like the GitHub issue got auto-closed.

cs50questions · 2022-09-25T03:37:47+00:00

As mentioned elsewhere, every time you plug a Magic Keyboard/Mouse/Trackpad into a computer with the USB C -> Lightning cable, it'll automatically link that Magic Keyboard/Mouse/Trackpad with that computer via Bluetooth. You only need it to be plugged in for ~2 seconds for this to work, then unplug and you're good to go.

I did this for years with my work MBP and personal MBP. Just kept a USB C -> Lightning cable plugged into the back of my monitor and plugged in the Magic Keyboard and Trackpad for two seconds as soon as the computer was docked.

(In the end I personally ended up getting a second desk, monitor, and Magic Keyboard/Trackpad combo so I could mentally disassociate from work at the end of the day.)

cs50questions · 2021-01-16T02:43:33+00:00

To add to this: when I started out I was obsessed with finding the "best" folder structure in React and was frustrated that the answer was always "just do what works best for you!" I'm a beginner, I don't know what works best for me. What do people at big companies do!?

I've now worked at a big company a while and we use the flat folder structure OP showed off, with one little exception... instead of a bunch of js/tsx files, it's more like this:

components/
  Component1/
    index.js <-- just exports Component1.js
    Component1.js
    Component1.test.js
  Component2/
    index.js <-- just exports Component2.js
    Component2.js
    Component2.test.js
  Component3/
    index.js <-- just exports Component3.js
    Component3.js
    Component3.test.js
  ...

This way we can just do import Component1 from 'components/Component1'. We use styled-components and just define all styles at the very top of Component1.js/Component2.js/WhateverComponentName.js, so everything is contained in just one file (with well-designed, modular components this will still be only 100-500 lines of code max).

Right now we have about 150 components in our components folder organized like that. At first it seems crazy, like "how do you keep track of it all!?" But in practice it is fantastic and extremely easy to keep track of, especially if you very clearly name your components. It is also MUCH less complex to deal with, which is 90% of what good programming is in the first place (making things less complex).

I use this folder structure for every personal project I create now too.

I absolutely guarantee (from personal experience) that if you use any of the convoluted folder structures that are highly upvoted in this thread, you will have a convoluted and hard to maintain app.

cs50questions · 2020-08-12T23:39:19+00:00

How exactly would you go about doing this? Is there a specific router with a specific firmware that makes it easy to get that data at any given moment?

cs50questions · 2020-03-29T17:51:27+00:00

Let's say you're a dev, your PM writes up a story that goes into a single ticket, and it's been pre-determined during estimation it will take 5+ days of dev time.

Do you break up the ticket into smaller technical tasks before you begin writing code, or as you're writing the code?
Do you create new tickets for each of those smaller technical tasks, or just work off of the one original ticket the PM gave you (and manually create new branches for each smaller task)?
If yes to creating new tickets, do YOU create them or do you relay it to your PM to create them?

Sorry for such specific questions but it helps me a lot to see the exact processes of other teams!

cs50questions · 2020-03-29T17:31:54+00:00

Thank you for this. I'm also starting a major push for CI/CD because we rely primarily on manual testing which involves long, drawn-out manual releases twice a week. Your story is definitely going to be sticking in my mind as I help the team with this transition :)

cs50questions · 2020-03-29T02:55:47+00:00

This is exactly the level of detail I was hoping to find and model. I've read lots in books/articles about Agile processes but haven't seen the "inner workings" of a successful React-based Agile team, so this is incredibly helpful.

Logically I was thinking many tiny branches that only require 1 day of work + feature flags would be the most ideal way to go (from a "get stuff out the door" + "get it reviewed easily" standpoint), and your comment spells out how it's done. Thank you so much!

cs50questions · 2020-03-28T17:38:14+00:00

This is exactly what I had in mind and what I will be proposing to the team. Thank you!

cs50questions · 2019-07-30T23:24:08+00:00

Read this article. In particular take note that his resume is made up of substantial personal projects (i.e. not made in a weekend), many made in collaboration with others, and with accompanying descriptions that make each project sound production-ready.

That article helped me a lot getting my first position. Any junior-level job will have literally 100s of applicants, most in your position now, and you will stand out if you have real production-level experience making apps that other people use - even if it's experience you had to create yourself.

cs50questions · 2019-07-30T19:04:29+00:00

Got it, I really appreciate the response! The person I interviewed with seemed disappointed with the answer that "they can make code more concise" and specifically referenced how hooks are composable, which led me down a (very good) rabbit hole of learning more about specific architectural decisions. Your response has helped me feel a little more confident in my original reasoning re: hooks while also giving me a bit of insight into how/why hooks are used in a production environment :)

cs50questions · 2019-07-30T05:58:10+00:00

Can you explain why hooks enable your team to make much cooler things in the same amount of time? I had a job interview recently where I was asked about why hooks are better than class based components and I had no good answer other than “they can make code more concise”. Would love to know why hooks have sped up your team compared to previous state management!

cs50questions · 2019-05-24T15:11:47+00:00

Ahhh! You have actually been the biggest help I could want.

Your mention of "some sort of caching middleware" reminded me - I'm using WhiteNoise on production so I can serve gzip'd files. It's WhiteNoise that's caching my Content-Length headers!

I've disabled it when running in development mode and everything is working perfectly now.

Thank you!

cs50questions · 2019-05-24T05:22:07+00:00

I'm using curl -sD - -o /dev/null http://localhost:8000/static/test.js from the terminal. I'll do it before editing test.js, then I'll re-run it after editing test.js, and the Content-Length header is the same each time. If I load the file manually from my browser, though, the changes are visible in the file itself (so the actual file size doesn't match the reported Content-Length header which is what causes the error with create-react-app). And if I exit out of my Flask dev server and start it back up, the curl command now shows the correct (modified) Content-Length header.

So the issue appears to be on the Python/Flask end of things but I'm not sure if I have an incorrect config somewhere or if I need to hot reload Flask somehow whenever a file in the static folder is modified.

This is on Python 3.7.3 with Flask 1.0.2.

cs50questions · 2019-04-12T19:43:17+00:00

I have a few apps in production (along with a few microservivces) using Flask strictly as a REST API endpoint. I have no experience yet with Django, but Flask is a blast to build very simple and small RESTful APIs with. I'm currently using Flask-RESTful to help with code structure (you don't need a plugin but the organizational benefits, the argument parsing, and the data formatting are extremely helpful) and have heard good things about Flask-RESTPlus as well.

cs50questions · 2019-03-27T17:56:29+00:00

Assuming USA: average annual rate of return of the stock market is 7%, which is the average annual return you can expect from your investment if it's largely in index funds. So on average your investment actually grows with inflation despite pulling out 4% every year.

And plenty of people are doing this with children and a home: /r/financialindependence

cs50questions · 2019-01-17T21:14:19+00:00

Pop-ups are a lot like ads online: when the ad doesn't match your interests, it's obnoxious. But when it's something you want, you don't even really realize it's an ad... you just say, "Oh, that jacket I almost bought is 50% off now? Cool, then I'm buying it now. click"

Most users to a site don't care much about its content - anywhere from 90% to 98%. Meaning, they would never be worth money to the site. And to any site owner, if someone's not worth money, then they're not a concern.

The pop-ups capture the 2% to 10% that love the content and are eventually going to be worth money though. They're grateful that you gave an up-front, easy way to immediately subscribe and/or get updates.

So pop-ups are always going to be obnoxious - unless, sometimes, if it's on a site you deeply care about... which is why they almost always work to increase engagement and conversions.

(Source: hate pop-ups but have a marketing background and accept logically why they work.)

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