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Thank you for answering. I do appreciate it coming for someone actually involved, and it's an interesting perspective you give. And in some ways, I do have the
by bronlund 2y ago
Thank you for answering. I do appreciate it coming for someone actually involved, and it's an interesting perspective you give.
And in some ways, I do have the same perspective. I also wish for more long term thinking, and it's not really the FOMO that bothers me, but more the, as you so eloquently put it, the "incomplete weekend-hacks" :)
- badlibrarian 2y agoYou haven't lived until you had to upgrade the CoffeeScript compiler to fix bugs revealed when you were upgrading to JQuery 1.9 in a panic to fix a Safari-only carousel glitch. There was a time when Hacker News linked to blog posts where people bragged about being first to solve just these sorts of problems. "Get Lucky" by Daft Punk on headphones, and hitting refresh a lot, and watching the new guy slowly figure out why ActiveRecord was hitting the backend 1,285 times to generate a ten item to-do list.
- bronlund 2y agoI can imagine :) It kind of reminds me of #css on Freenode, in another life a long long time ago. When you got kudos for making one stylesheet work both in IE6 as well as all the other browsers :D