RobertKerans

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by RobertKerans 5y ago
sorry, it just seemed a bizarre comment: you said it was less busy when you visited it, at a point in time when everywhere was less busy, nothing to do with overall sales Edit: sorry not OP
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Is this a joke comment? I'm starting to lose the ability to see sarcasm I think. Why would you have expected them to have been busy in the last six months?
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
> And a regular truck driver can be trained in a few months. It's not rocket science. I get why you've said this, but I'm not sure this kind of flippant remark is helpful -- what exactly isn't rocket science? Is it
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
It was a good screed, not tedious! It made a lot of sense, thank you.
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Part of the spec, as sibling says implemented in Safari, was also implemented in a few specific other engine versions for testing then ripped out. Benefits didn't seem to outweigh the extra complexity: iirc the issue was to do with t
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Its not groundbreaking, it's just a condensed package of foundational knowledge that you'd be expected to understand implicitly. It's just a nice overview, all in one short book, that's all. It's a different categor
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Yep, all vector drawing applications [that are any use] have boolean operations (add, subtract, intersect, difference plus normally a few variations on these). The one the writer is talking about in Illustrator is the shape builder tool, w
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
This is great! Very nice indeed, good to have alongside kerntype and similar.
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
That's similar to my experience, it seems so trivial when you describe it to people, but it's ridiculously useful. Just a recommendation for anyone reading the comments & wants this kind of base level knowledge, Visual Grammar
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
https://github.com/tc39/proposal-record-tuple Only stage 2, so whether it'll get through to next stage is up in the air, will depend on interest (compare to Temporal which started fairly slow but has gained huge m
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Doctors IME will always advise not to do it, but also IME it works far better than anything else. I've always had blocked ears, and my grandfather had been an NHS doctor back when this was standard (before the advice not to do it came
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
That was a good summary, was useful and really enjoyed reading it. The key takeaway for me, which really reified ideas I have about UI design tools, was this: > At the opposite end of the spectrum is, say, an oil painting, which is also
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Yes, that has direct precedent. And with the most obvious precedent, was the alternative taken when that group [surprisingly! /s] didn't do what Gandhi thought they should have done. Edit: but that isn't nonviolent protest, i
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
It's not Western though. You're right in that it generally doesn't work, but it's well known to only work in specific circumstances. Yes it's part of a political strategy, but the point of it is to demonstrate dig
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
This seems slightly bizarre -- sorry for /s but if you have engineers who are familiar with {language} rather than Node then they'll probably generate more sales for your company building an application in {language} than they wou
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Re React, it just uses the same interface: in this case performance is basically just what threejs' performance is (there's naturally a very slight overhead, but what you're looking at is a very thin wrapper over three) Edit:
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
> With that said generalisations like the one quoted are not substantiated. I don't think real commitment/passion to anything was that popular to begin with if we take the general population. Even historically if we take educat
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
As parent is an actual user, I guess they'll be able to tell if the UI pleases them. Edit: > UX used to be driven by researchers like Bruce Tognazzini and Jakob Nielsen, who absolutely did studies with actual users to drive their d
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Or it reveals?
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Oh, as I dig through it this seems to be pretty good! The bits of AWS I have to deal with daily tend to drive me up the wall but I'd be a lot happier to take that if I've a deeper understanding of the whys and wherefores.
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Looking at the razor pages overview & that seems a very reasonable comparison (now you mention that, see PHP, in the form of "just chuck a few files on a server that understands them and off you go, dynamic website")
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Yeah, it's good. Working with with learners, I always recommend his books (particularly the ES6 one) as reference once they're past the basics. He's very good and not someone who disseminates much information that isn't
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
I understand where you're coming from, but I feel like this ignores practicality and, coupled to that, social use. You can go on numbers related to health, or raw effectiveness, but those numbers don't measure practicality. MD, m
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
That may be because it's self-evident to most people.
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
> Alcohol hangs around because it was accessible in earlier eras. There will come a time, I suspect in the very near future, when it will look ridiculous. Where having a `drink' will be an anachronism Why do you think this? It seems
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
It is quite simple: someone is offered a cigarette, and they accept. And they have some more, and it is pleasant and social and/or stress relieving (both in ritual and physically: warm smoke in the mouth and throat is pleasant, as is t
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
This is important, and it's probably the main reason I like using them so much. But then surely the comeback is that what I'm then attempting to do is produce a diagram in code, when I could just write the diagram on paper, check
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Just to note, I think I do agree with you. With the above flow, it's behind an interface that just provides update functions, the current top-level state, and the values that are updated by it (the user object the remote calls return f
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Auth logic or similar. Somewhere area in app that may be genuinely complicated and can't go wrong, where you need granular control over a set of states which often have sub states, and where there are things like remote requests to dif
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by RobertKerans 5y ago
Actions defined in options are the killer for me at the minute (and guards, but actions are more important generally). I've had to resort to using enums (+ type guards + coercions) for everything. Have you any idea on if/when can

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