BigJono

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by BigJono 7y ago
Yep, I think you've hit the nail on the head here. I've worked with a lot of colleagues that could implement features faster than me, polish off more story points, or wreck me on whatever the metric of the day is, but if we were b
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by BigJono 7y ago
Yeah and both of those are less readable, and used everywhere add up to a really crap code base relative to the same code in plain JS.
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by BigJono 7y ago
I've never used Typescript, but I don't think these are really 'major' flaws. That's just my perspective as someone that's being doing FE for over a decade and picks this stuff up fairly quick. Obviously it&#x2
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by BigJono 7y ago
Which is complete fucking bullshit. It's driving me mental that when I search for something, Wikipedia usually isn't on the front page. It's almost always the best result for most things, it should be on top.
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by BigJono 7y ago
Yes it is, but if you're doing the first 90% properly you have a much better shot at mitigating the difficulty of the last 10%. I think there's some vague point in any project where it goes from being 'easy' to 'har
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by BigJono 7y ago
I mean, if you spent 20 years implementing nothing but static web pages and learning nothing then that prophecy would have come true by now, no? I don't see any jobs for just HTML and CSS anymore.
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by BigJono 7y ago
> And running a business isn't exactly easy. If it was so easy to generate $1.6M off of a $300k employee, you'd be flooded with other companies willing to pay higher and higher salaries. It's really, difficult and rare. Th
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by BigJono 7y ago
Ditto for Javascript. When I first used React in 2015 I thought it might be a harbinger for unix philosophy tools in the web space. A lib with a simple API that solves a single hard problem with a good implementation under the hood. What I
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by BigJono 7y ago
No? The mafia fucks your shit up if you don't pay. The government protects you from civil unrest, which is instigated by all the other people that aren't millionaires. If the mafia protected you from other people robbing you, th
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by BigJono 7y ago
You're taxed at that rate because that's what the government thinks is optimal for the economy. It's not punitive and it's got nothing to do with what anyone "deserves" or how much they use. The point of social
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by BigJono 7y ago
It's actually a great reason if you're optimising for the amount of money you make in a career in big business. Which is entirely the point of this thread.
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by BigJono 7y ago
Are they? I'd be interested to see some stats. What kind of plane crashes are there where you have a good chance of surviving? I'd have guessed the only ones where everyone survives are where they run off the runway at half speed
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by BigJono 7y ago
And the closely related Space Atmoblack is quite possibly the worst... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh1Kbh5Ln8tMJ_h7IykOFkg/vid...
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by BigJono 7y ago
Yeah my experience is pretty much all with beginners (usually fresh out of a bootcamp or college, or switching from tangentially related industries like CSE). I'd be interested to see how someone who was a beginner but learnt via FP wo
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by BigJono 7y ago
I think you're totally right, but just want to point out. I'd never, ever rely on junior devs in a startup, for this exact reason. I can't think of a better way to totally ruin yourself than risk that. Build it yourself until
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by BigJono 7y ago
The ironic thing is that hooks are marketed by the react docs as being the solution to avoiding the "difficulty" newbs have with classes. Which I (as a proponent of hooks) think is fucking batshit insane, and clearly shows the dis
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by BigJono 7y ago
The other thing about those places is that they only attract the desperate devs. So you know when they pull out that bullshit in the interview that if you were to take a job there you'd be on a team chock full of juniors with a few &qu
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by BigJono 7y ago
If this were the case then standups would be totally useless unless the org was so cooked that nothing gets done unless someone is made accountable in front of the entire team. If I run into a blocker why would I wait until the next morning
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by BigJono 7y ago
That head to head bingo format sounds really cool. Do you have any good example VODs?
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by BigJono 7y ago
Sure, but nobody gives a shit unless you're absolutely blatant about it. As long as you don't hold a press conference and do a dance, you'll fly straight under the radar.
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by BigJono 7y ago
Not sure what GP meant, but I'd guess promotions are much more susceptible to discrimination cases than hires, since there's something much more concrete to compare against. If you hire only one gender with narrowly targetted job
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by BigJono 7y ago
I've never used one, but it sounds like a great idea. 3rd party React components are a huge pain in the ass to work with. People do all sorts of bullshit like re-implement half of CSS in their component's API and half the time it&
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by BigJono 7y ago
Nobody on the planet has ever gone "oh fuck me I only made 300 million with my extremely successful business instead of 600 million. Well what a waste of time, I shouldn't have ever started it." No rational person that isn&#x
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by BigJono 7y ago
The worst thing about it is how fucking easy it would be to fix. Just treat the backticks as characters when backspacing or navigating with the arrows, that way you can 'enter' or 'exit' a code block reliably, and all pr
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by BigJono 7y ago
Breaking text up like that is the equivalent of chucking some line breaks in a function and a few comment headings, not creating a bunch of pointless functions and scattering them around the file (or codebase).
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by BigJono 7y ago
It's always a lie? You're basically arguing that code with bad test coverage never works. Production code is copping constant manual end-to-end tests. Those tests are more valuable than most unit testing, and some automated black
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by BigJono 7y ago
You're way off on this one. A lot of those use cases don't work because texting is an asynchronous communication channel unless it's got some sort of automated system behind it. The reason you can't order takeout or make
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by BigJono 7y ago
I really like the idea of #2. Maybe combined with some way to indicate the 'lifespan' of a piece of documentation at the time of creation. We've got bits of docs lying around that were intended to be updated weekly, and regul
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by BigJono 7y ago
> Australia has banned 5G as it is sourced from china What does this even mean?
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by BigJono 7y ago
This one seems a bit random, but there's been pretty good reasons for Australia to be relevant in the global tech news in the last few years. Our government is burning down as many freedoms as they can get away with in the tech space,

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