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by ablomen 5y ago
No shit - person that once was a child
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by ablomen 7y ago
I did not like/see the real benefit of strict typing until actually using Typescript. Now for me the more verbose code and extra typing is vastly outweighed by knowing what arguments the function actually wants, especially when using 3
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by ablomen 7y ago
"A low moment in Apple’s proud history" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.#Criticism_and_contr... I think Apple has done a lot worse in its "proud history" and is still doing it.
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by ablomen 7y ago
I totally agree, as a dyslexic big pieces of text look like a garbled mess. I need > 2 spaces to be able to navigate a file with code with any speed. Tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment looks to me like the best of both worlds.
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by ablomen 9y ago
Haha yes a lot of breweries have been started by IT people over here too. To be fair, brewing includes some science, a lot of self learning and creativity, so there is some overlap there. Not to mention the fact that until recently (over he
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by ablomen 9y ago
Coming from a country with cushy laws on the side of employees etc (the Netherlands), and as a male, I can say that I can really identify with the opening paragraphs of this piece. When I started as all round IT guy 10 years ago it felt lik
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by ablomen 9y ago
In this example it is, but a nice thing about using map, reduce etc is that you can chain them together, ex: let out = ["a", "b", "c", 1, 2, 3] // Turn letters to upper case .map(i => {
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by ablomen 9y ago
"Fortunately for women who just want to get their work done and go home, we do not live in the world of Mad Men anymore" Yes we can all be happy about that, but it's not an either/or situation, lots of relationships star
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by ablomen 9y ago
Thanks, I'll be sure tell my parents (mom used to be dad's secretary) that their 35y relationship will end in failure.
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by ablomen 9y ago
Sorry custom elements might have been the wrong term to use. I mean custom interfaces, say an image gallery or a realtime search box where you would use elements like buttons and input's in a different way then the usage this framework
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by ablomen 9y ago
It looks great at first glance. A big problem though is that it styles basic elements. If for example you want to use a <table>, <mark> or <nav> where it would make sense in a custom element you'll have to reset all t