BigJono

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by BigJono 9y ago
> 10 years ago there was a such thing as standards in journalism Was there? Because last I checked all that these so called 'reputable' sources of news seem to put out is biased garbage full of misleading data and often blatant
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by BigJono 9y ago
Well I assume he has to if the law comes into place, or he'd be breaking it. I'm fine with the government tracking everything as long as it goes both ways. If this goes through, Turnbull shouldn't be able to so much as send a
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by BigJono 9y ago
Yeah that's what I figured. The wording of the post made it sound like it had something to do with the bacon though. You could just do this for any arbitrary pizza.
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by BigJono 9y ago
I'm struggling to grok exactly how that would work. 1 pizza with bacon, -1 pizza (without bacon?) Then what, hope the employee reads -1 as 1 and doesn't cancel the order and call you to find out what you wanted? I must be missing
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by BigJono 9y ago
You're taking a very narrow view of the issue. There's no arbitrary obligation for a company to pay a "liveable wage", whatever that is. The whole minimum wage debate in the US is a shitshow. Both sides of the debate are
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by BigJono 9y ago
The Airbnb one is definitely on the unethical side of the line. I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't do the same thing to grow my business though. I don't think anyone really got hurt by it. The others are mostly fine. Especiall
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by BigJono 9y ago
Oh don't get me wrong, I'd hire the good ones in a heartbeat. I was just saying I can see why managers like the strategy of going with something like Django then hiring a bunch of cheap "Django" programmers to whip up a
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by BigJono 9y ago
I'm not sure why you're getting down-voted. You're (mostly) right. Though it tends not to be a black and white decision. More of a sliding scale between how badly you want shit done and how much you're willing to sacrifi
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by BigJono 9y ago
This is my experience too, looking through online communities based around React and it's tooling. The vast majority of people in these communities work with a few too many abstractions and a bit too much tooling, and are content just
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by BigJono 9y ago
It's just part of the trend for every tool to come with a sales pitch
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by BigJono 9y ago
That's evidentially false though. We have a much better system in Australia and all the exact same problems. Most of it boils down to what the previous posters said. People are completely and wilfully uneducated. More than half the cou
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by BigJono 9y ago
My main goal is to just learn something really well in my spare time for fun. I'm not too fussed about actually building anything, so I don't mind materials that are more theoretical than practical. I also have a secondary goal, w
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Ask HN: What are the best books on modern computer graphics?
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by BigJono 9y ago
Yes, you're building a poor alternative. But you learn far more than you ever would just by using the existing libraries, by virtue of learning what not to do. Using other's tools is trading off knowledge for development time. It&
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by BigJono 9y ago
Quite often the decision to use new tech is made by CTOs, tech leads and senior devs. The majority of jobs are for plain old "one part of a team" dev roles. If you don't have the experience to jump into a role that commands r
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by BigJono 9y ago
> Nobody is forcing you to try new stuff and then talk about js fatigue This is just not true. I recently had a discussion at work where I was flat out asked "how do you expect to learn new things if you don't try new libraries
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by BigJono 9y ago
Stealthily sledging Javascript in unrelated threads seems to be becoming a sport in these parts
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The bogus claim is that it leads to less bugs, not that it enforces immutability. It very obviously does that.
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by BigJono 9y ago
That's not what GP was saying. The standard, non-library way of handling state in React is to use plain old mutable Javascript objects, and just pretend they're immutable (i.e never perform any mutable operations on them). The pop
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by BigJono 9y ago
Yeah but you don't seem to get notifications for people just uploading a plain old video either (at least not by default, unless I accidentally changed something).
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by BigJono 9y ago
Yep, this is just rehashing the same stuff you can find on any one of 1000 other blog posts, articles or pieces of documentation. The current literature on front-end development in React is woefully short on real world case studies. It seem
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by BigJono 9y ago
The Youtube notifications are absolutely terrible though. They stick around after the streamer is done, so every time I open YouTube I get notifications like "someone is live!" when the stream ended 8 hours ago.
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by BigJono 9y ago
I think that's the part of the blog post that resonated most with me. There seems to be this perverse belief that shortening code is always a positive, no matter how much black magic it requires. Traceability seems to always be the fir
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by BigJono 9y ago
The solution is to push through the correct solution by playing the exact same game. Politicians interested in reform are for the most part far too quiet. Every time there is a violent crime committed by an ex-convict they need to use that
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by BigJono 9y ago
"mildly" less convenient? Maybe in SV. I'll bet if I tried to hire a semi-experienced Rust developer here in Melbourne I'd be looking until Christmas at least haha.
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Ahhh, that makes a lot more sense!
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> People start forgetting which functions and data structures are and are not threadsafe. That sounds like something which could easily be solved with common sense commenting of code.
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by BigJono 9y ago
Preparing to be bombarded with downvotes for this, but resigning over such a remark seems like an overreaction. His apology seems sincere, that should be enough. On the scale of things said about women by men in power this is about a 2&#x2F
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by BigJono 9y ago
Using console.error for warnings was silly in the first place. The solution to people ignoring warnings is to change that mindset, not to reduce the granularity of information and make everything red. I see the same thing with ESLint a lot.
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by BigJono 9y ago
Yeah I'm under no illusions that me and Dan Abramov are operating under a vastly different model for how we think an application should be structured. The concept of a data store having a "solution for async" is, to me at lea

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