BigJono

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by BigJono 5y ago
The average absolutely won't. The average dev misuses new language features. Every time one of these things is introduced, 90th percentile code gets cleaner and 50th percentile code gets worse.
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by BigJono 5y ago
This is specifically why, in the case of these exact protests, the police gave the crowd ample opportunity to leave the area without being arrested, around 5pm, after allowing them to protest peacefully the entire day. Half the crowd left,
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by BigJono 5y ago
"violators" aren't being shot with rubber bullets. Nazi fuckwits are being shot with rubber bullets after being given hours to leave their violent protests of their own free will before attacking police with projectiles and c
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by BigJono 5y ago
That's not simplifying, it's the opposite. We've made it easier by adding more complexity.
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by BigJono 5y ago
You joke, but PoE's use of stuff like 'increased/decreased' and 'more/less' to distinguish between additive and multiplicative calculations is one of the smartest game design decisions I've seen. The
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by BigJono 5y ago
> Therefore, we've elected to render our application completely on the client. On Next.js this means that we wrap our React app in a "client-side only" component that looks like this: > <pointless confusing newb-unfr
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by BigJono 5y ago
You've literally stumbled into the answer yourself here. > Drones have already long had the capability to do all this, lift and endurance, auto flying and navigation, GPS, even cameras and some autonomous visual recognition. If that
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by BigJono 5y ago
Those spoiled yuppies paying a 50%+ markup on coffee just to have it delivered by drone are the ones subsidising the research and engineering efforts that go towards delivering medicine to inacessible spots. If the market isn't there t
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by BigJono 5y ago
Pretty much. There's probably also an "in crowd" aspect to it as well. Everyone I know makes $100k+ as a dev here at least after a few years, but I've had Uber rides with older Indian dev drivers complaining that they ca
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by BigJono 5y ago
My parents asked me to help them get into streaming a few months ago after they got a new iPad. So I bought them a Chromecast, taught them how to switch the input source between the Chromecast and Cable on their TV, which they were cool wit
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by BigJono 5y ago
Sounds to me like it's some "random commentor" who has solved a similar problem at a similar scale with a solution that's much simpler.
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by BigJono 5y ago
Because the federal government is full of incompetent conservative fuckwits that couldn't organise a root in a brothel and would struggle to win 5% of the vote without decades of the worst Murdoch propaganda behind them that makes Fox
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by BigJono 5y ago
So, to make $350 you need to sell $4000 worth of mtx? That's ludicrous.
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by BigJono 5y ago
That's like saying an abusive relationship is a great way to learn about life and humanity. You can get a ton of valuable experience working for a startup without a CEO that's an absolute knob. You don't have to jump straight
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by BigJono 5y ago
This is eerily similar to a job I had. I also worked for a young asshole CEO called Andrew, with multiple rubbish businesses, pretending to have more money than he had, having no idea what he was doing, and faced jail time a few years after
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by BigJono 5y ago
To be fair, people were creating piles of overengineered bullshit for React long before hooks were a thing.
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by BigJono 5y ago
Exactly. What is with this fascination of removing information from code? My first thought when reading this was, ok, OP is "annoyed" at having to "run functions to see if they return a value or a Promise", then goes on
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by BigJono 5y ago
I can't speak to the others, but Twitch as a heuristic is going to be extremely misleading for WoW, since it's centered almost purely around the competitive aspects (raids and M+), and almost in sync with every other part of the g
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by BigJono 5y ago
This is the worst "feature" ever. What's the point in spending 20 hours learning some custom interface that's only used in like 5% of projects and will probably be gone in 5 years, when you could spend 30 hours learning
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by BigJono 5y ago
I must be getting old because I literally don't get front end devs these days... The landing page is like a few divs with some position centres. What would you even use a "component library" for in this case? The only thing o
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by BigJono 5y ago
> and with SVG support (which is insanely buggy - even the dev tools are bugged) I ran into this on a project a year ago, where our app was completely and critically fucked on Safari with no obvious path to fixing it, short of tearing ou
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by BigJono 5y ago
I've never got why people don't understand this. Judging people by their intent resolves a lot of ambiguity, for both political sides. If someone gets up infront of a room of 1000 people and says "hey guys!", clearly int
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by BigJono 5y ago
How would that even work? I doubt anyone is buying accounts for even a fraction of the amount spent on microtransactions.
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by BigJono 5y ago
It's not that, it's that when you eventually reach the point where you need to do something that can't be handled by the WYSIWYG editor, you're left with 50,000 lines of shitty machine generated code that's almost i
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by BigJono 5y ago
This is one of my favourite talks ever. I couldn't have given less of a shit about the topic and wasn't expecting to watch more than 5 minutes of it. Nek minnut the video is ending and I wanted another hour of it haha.
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by BigJono 5y ago
Checking for 'null or undefined' is an antipattern anyway, so there's no real valid use of '=='.
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by BigJono 5y ago
IME they hear "there's a 95% chance it'll be done between 5-7 months", when the real 95% interval is more like 2-15 months.
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by BigJono 5y ago
Excellent. Now we just need tools to automatically shit out convoluted JIRA cards, run them through this, and automatically generate the PRs. Then we can run it overnight each night, knock back whatever rubbish it generates before breakfast
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by BigJono 5y ago
I ran into this for the first time yesterday when trying to find out new info about a footy player. Some article from 15 years ago talking about how he had a good first game, tagged as 5th june 2021. Like, wtf?
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by BigJono 5y ago
The problem is that those marketing blurbs are never just on the front page these days, they're all through the documentation too. So I can't really fault people too much for falling for them. I'm not sure if this is just a f

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