BigJono

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by BigJono 5y ago
I think HN is big enough that you're not going to beat the averages with advice from the comments here. They're filled with the kinds of opinions that are more popular on big company teams than good startup teams.
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by BigJono 5y ago
Yeah, I'd be on board with that if 99% of the people talking about typed languages at the moment weren't using Typescript for use cases where you literally get instant feedback from hot reloading as you code. Every time I see an e
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by BigJono 5y ago
I might believe that more if all the people I know IRL who talk about being afraid of being fired/cancelled/whatever weren't also the exact same people shitting out talking point after talking point from the exact same news s
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by BigJono 5y ago
If you're calling those functions once each in a particular order then I can't possibly figure out what that does for you that whitespace and a few comments wouldn't. How does turning 100 lines of code into 120 and shuffling
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by BigJono 5y ago
Not only that but I don't see how this problem isn't just trivially solved by putting an optional "parental" control on the setting. God forbid someone has to take 5 seconds to set a phone up for their mum.
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by BigJono 5y ago
I don't know that I even really buy into the idea of a "principal engineer". Even in a really large company where you have a shit ton of people working on one bit of software, principal engineer doesn't seem like a well
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by BigJono 5y ago
The end of this article is particularly weird. Is it really suggesting that a good general rule is to optimise for business metric queries (which sounds like something that would generally run daily during off peak hours or ad hoc when some
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by BigJono 5y ago
Half the problem with politics these days is that people still see welfare as "pity and a hand out". Welfare is one tool in a bag of economic tricks to keep a country prospering. A country without welfare is one that has most of i
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by BigJono 5y ago
The problem with this sort of censorship is that it has huge collateral damage that most people don't see. WPD is the best example because that kind of content wasn't hurting anyone. Go look at where it's moved to, and have a
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by BigJono 6y ago
Who uses 13px for anything? I literally don't get this. Just remember to use a multiple of 4px? Or 0.25rem? Or whatever your designer is desinging to? This is solved with a 5 second conversation at the start of a project. Why the fuck
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by BigJono 6y ago
The same people who foot the bill for road maintenance now? Obviously it's not the same in every city in the world, but roads are pretty decently maintained where I live. And it's not like we're talking about high tech stuff,
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by BigJono 6y ago
When people first started talking about self driving this is what I thought it was going to be. If you want to enter the "self driving zone" your car needs to be equipped with a government approved self driving module, and everyth
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by BigJono 6y ago
I've got a question. What on earth is with "double parked cars"? Is that an American thing? I've never seen it in my life. How can it be legal to just park in the middle of the road and block traffic?
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by BigJono 6y ago
What I never get about estimates is why people don't just reduce the granularity until they have some amount of accuracy they can work with. 95% of my teams have estimated using the 'story point' crap, or rarely in days (one
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by BigJono 6y ago
What? How is the best situation for a prideful introvert to have a scheduled meeting every morning where they can make it known to the entire team exactly how stuck they are? If anything those are the exact traits that make devs prefer 1-on
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by BigJono 6y ago
Wish I had a better answer, but it was pretty much just luck. A bit of accidental networking and good timing. When I finished uni I had a few interviews for large enterprise-y companies to get into their graduate programs. None of those pan
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by BigJono 6y ago
Yeah, that's totally legit, and what I would default to. The reason stuff like React exists isn't because it's some big generic library for doing "frontends" that everyone has to use (even though that's how peo
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by BigJono 6y ago
Yeah the key thing here is it's just so easy to spin anything as the solution to some problem the company has, and there's always problems around. "for funsies" probably isn't that far off. Because the process is mo
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by BigJono 6y ago
It's funny, I have about 13 years experience, have been senior in both enterprise, start-ups and everything in-between, and have basically the exact same view about front end dev as your original post. Except I fucking hate using Types
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by BigJono 6y ago
You absolutely can. React is the gold standard right now. It's already been king for 6 years and it's not going anywhere. The hype for angular died down. The hype for vue has started to die down. This little bit of hype svelte has
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by BigJono 6y ago
> I've never run into this, because I never explicitly pass an expression when I want the default parameter value to be used. What? That's not what prevents you from running into bugs. The bugs come when you treat null and unde
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by BigJono 6y ago
'work' as in if you explicitly pass in undefined as a parameter to a function, the default parameter will be used in it's stead. I've never ever run into this because I never use undefined for anything other than stuff t
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by BigJono 6y ago
Every few months the media here runs some bullshit story about some complete fuckwit that built their millions from nothing, assuming of course your definition of 'nothing' is a million dollar interest free loan from the bank of m
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by BigJono 6y ago
You just have other technical roles to handle those areas that are treated the same as the software engineers. Or "technical" roles in the case of bureaucracy (once it gets complicated enough to need entire people to manage it).
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by BigJono 6y ago
That's not the idea. There's a shitload of middle ground between breaking everything down into daily tasks and daily meetings; and disappearing for 3 years until you emerge with a completed product.
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by BigJono 6y ago
> I want to live in a world where I can trust developers when they say that the web is for everyone and that equal access is important, and I want to trust them to make educated decisions about what is and isn't possible to make ac
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by BigJono 6y ago
How does some private company getting labor for 10c an hour benefit anyone but them? It's "compensating" for jack shit. You might have a point if they had to pay minimum wage for each employee to the government to be used on
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by BigJono 6y ago
This isn't a "deep dive" in any sense of the word. Call it what it is: 'useRef tutorial'. If I'm opening up something called "deep dive" on a topic I don't know very well then I expect to learn a
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by BigJono 6y ago
Well, Immortal is in the first 5 album covers and they obviously have some all time classics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2rJrB2pHtY
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by BigJono 6y ago
Don't worry, there's plenty of 2020 cargo culting to replace it.

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