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by azangru 2y ago
To be fair to React itself, it evolves quite slowly and cautiously. It is almost the same now as it was in 2019. But the closer your stack is to the native browser apis, the more robust and long-living it will be, which is why I have faith
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by azangru 2y ago
> You: If these tools are not ideal, what is a better tool? I am sure there's the word rust in there somewhere ;-) After all, HN has been raving about polars.
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by azangru 2y ago
Grand-parent: programming languages are tools. The more tools you can wield, the better you can choose the right one for the job. Parent: yeah, but R and python are shit tools; learn how to use better tools too. You: are you paid to learn
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by azangru 2y ago
Has it died? I am getting mixed signals. For example, the Javascript Jabber podcast, which targets front-end web developers in general, ran an episode with some sort of introduction to web3 (and not in the negative sense) just two months ag
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Avoiding sunk cost fallacy? I.e. if their metrics show that a certain service is a net loss for them, they kill it? At least I hope that's their reasoning and data.
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I don't disagree; but why does the work need to be soul-crushing?
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> Meet someone who went to your Alma mater? Same gender? Same race? Give them the same question as everyone else, but hint them through it, ignore some syntax errors, and give them a strong hire for “communication” when they didn’t even
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What's with those Chinese names (see both https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/faq.html#asian and https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/vita.pdf )? Why did they become part of his i
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Does this mean indexing within the database that drives this Mastodon instance, or indexing by web crawlers such as googlebot?
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What would you rather see people use instead?
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Has anyone remarked on the irony that this appeal to stop using discord, because it isn't searchable from the outside, is published on mastodon, which is also not searchable from the outside? I tried to google for things I had earlier
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> The table of contents makes me feel like the book title should be "How to use a computer like a scientist" I can understand the reluctance about computer science; but what about the table of contents made you think scientists
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Web components are approximately where react was in 2014. Which is pretty usable.
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Odd, I thought I saw something about React in Microsoft's communications as well. Anyway, here is the horse's mouth: https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/112521248529973776
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Performance. Alex Russell, formerly of Google and now the product owner of Microsoft Edge loves to rant about it. His latest rant is how Edge has significantly improved the performance of some of its UI features by moving off React [0]. [0]
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Several years ago, I used to respond to conversations where people hated on Facebook by saying that Facebook had given us at least two great gifts — react and graphql. Since then, I've grown to realize that these might in fact be its t
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> Meet is just so much better than Zoom, Teams, FaceTime, WhatsApp Video, etc. So much better? Does Meet have instruments for whiteboarding or on-screen annotation?
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> But I might be willing to make an exception for people who write CSS that requires you to read the MDN article on Specificity to understand it. May I ask you, are you a front-end developer?
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Looks more like a status page. Where blogs are historical lists of articles, this page gets updated regularly, with new content overwriting the old.
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> Moving from pixel-based values to rem units as a company-wide change in CSS practice can be a significant challenge, especially when working across multiple teams. What bothers me is why does a company find itself in this situation. Wh
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> Why is the software engineering interview wildly different from the traditional engineering interview I am guessing here, but wouldn't a candidate for a traditional engineering role normally hold a college degree in a relevant fie
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They will be solving other interesting problems caused by unemployment.
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> Actually it does render and then immediately turns black This sounds like javascript behavior (MDN, to my surprise, is built on React).
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> Offended by the above? Tough shit. The web is for documents. Meh. Not offended, just bored by the silly maximalism. The web is big enough for all kinds of shit, and is better than anything as a distribution platform. Who is he to say w
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The article says those recommendations are very easy to disable in the settings? If so, doesn't sound like a big deal to me.
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> It's not the early 2000s, Linux is fine. It's not the early 2000s; and you still can't just walk into a store and test-drive and buy a laptop with linux on it.
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by azangru 3y ago
If the alternative is having to pay fines or leaving the market, why shouldn't Apple obey? It wants access to the market.
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> The fact that Pixel was in another division was always weird Was there a mechanism to communicate this weirdness to decision-makers? In a company that is in control of all of its teams, what is stopping a faster reorg?
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Why was this bad in the old CSS?
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> As more web development (in JavaScript) moves away from anything resembling inheritance, the cascade in CSS starts to feel annoyingly out of place. I am puzzled by this statement. The cascade is the algorithm for resolving conflicts wh

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