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I once interviewed for a front-end role and had to google some CSS property name, as I still haven't committed to memory the difference between "align-items" an

I once interviewed for a front-end role and had to google some CSS property name, as I still haven't committed to memory the difference between "align-items" and "justify-content", but I got dinged for that in feedback: grateful to have received feedback, which often isn't the case. It was one of those things I considered unimportant in the grander scheme of FE development.

thoraway66 5y ago
Where merit is dictated by how much time you spend ogling others output and expectations. Amazing. I’m sure all those folks have extensive time spent curing cancer and not just writing web apps for profit too. I’m really looking forward to the day 80% of digital experience is just generated on demand by well known algorithms and filling dependency files just so for a machine (source files included as constraints on memory and cpu behavior, just like which deps to allow) is obsoleted dumb work
dceddia 5y ago
This is one of those weird little details that pretty much doesn't matter, because you just try both, and you do that every time, and it's fine. Maybe knowing the difference saves you 15 seconds. I had an aha moment a little while ago when I realized "justify-content" works like the "justify" buttons in Google Docs/other word processors -- left/center/right. It's not a perfect parallel, since justify-content changes its meaning if the flex-direction changes, but it matches with the default behavior.