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by azangru 4y ago
As a layman, possibly under the distant influence of Jordan Peterson, I thought "disagreeable" meant strong-willed, principled, uncompromising (on what one considers important), direct, etc., i.e. what the article probably designa
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by azangru 4y ago
The scanned copy of the book at Internet Archive [0] is probably a better representation of this text than the pdf made from a Word document that the title links to. [0] - https://archive.org/details/englishassheissp00a
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by azangru 4y ago
> Why did Frontend development explode in complexity? The browsers became more capable (as someone said in another comment, they are effectively shooting for operating systems now), and more ambitious projects became possible. Consider s
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by azangru 4y ago
It's deeper than GitHub now. I believe git itself has changed the default name of the initial branch [0]. [0] - https://github.com/git/git/commit/028cb644ec6450fa9438ba6b6d...
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by azangru 4y ago
Were old men of the early 20th century who were making their living writing about science using the language of the 19th century told to change their language? What does the story say?
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by azangru 4y ago
From the article on the new viewport units, from the web.dev site maintained by Google[0]: "Caveats There‘s a few caveats to know about Viewport Units: - None of the viewport units take the size of scrollbars into account. On systems t
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by azangru 4y ago
No, they address ui elements other than the scrollbars.
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by azangru 4y ago
Dear Santa, Please consult the list of gifts you brought to us for Christmas before the last. You will find included in that list the scrollbar-gutter property. With scrollbar-gutter set to stable, you could safely skip steps 3 and 4 in you
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by azangru 4y ago
The most common problem that I see is that people (almost always writing their CSS on a Mac, because Macs, by default, would hide the consequences of this) assign a width of 100vw to their header, footer, or main section, as a result of whi
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by azangru 4y ago
It's in the standard, so it'll come.
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by azangru 4y ago
Dear Santa, I would like to have CSS units of viewport size that automatically subtract the scrollbar width. A cross between 100% (which discounts scrollbars but is unaware of viewport) and 100vw (which is aware of the viewport but does no
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by azangru 4y ago
Of course. scrollbar-gutter: stable.
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I keep thinking how modern philosophers of science, who talked about how science is done, would have a field day outlining recent social changes in sciences, with various shifting incentives, pressures from various media, strings attached t
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by azangru 4y ago
What do you expect from a mentor? For example, if you work with other engineers (preferably, experienced) in the same codebase on the same project, won't code reviews – a routine practice that a team ought to have anyway — count as con
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by azangru 4y ago
Kryptonite isn't something you can't stay away from. It is something that makes you weak. As it did to Superman in the movie. An Achilles' heel. Merriam-Webster's definition: https://www.merriam-webster.com&#x
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by azangru 4y ago
Cryptonite? I am... not sure it means what you think it means.
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by azangru 4y ago
> That’s why I would never be able to work for FAANG. I sincerely doubt FAANG has no use for regular web developers, or that web developers there need to know C++ internals of Node.
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by azangru 4y ago
When will we reach a point when articles and talks no longer start with "let me explain to you what webassembly is". After all, you don't see the same introductions in articles about javascript, or python, or even rust. When
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by azangru 4y ago
The hypothetical "someone" in my sentence (a professor or a student) is indeed probably male if I look at him closely. I pass no comment on whether professors or students _should_ generally be male; but at the same time, have no q
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by azangru 4y ago
> Genuinely asking (codebase is Typescript/ES6 modules) No luck for you then. Rails doesn't seem to love typescript: https://github.com/rails/importmap-rails/issues/124
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by azangru 4y ago
That's exactly what I am talking about :-) In my idiolect, it's a he; in your idiolect, it's a they; our idiolects are perfectly understandable to both of us; and yet, instead of simply recognising a variation in my speech, y
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> Okay, but Stanford is not demanding that; this site is about words they don’t want used on their own websites and marketing materials. This isn’t a list of words they don’t want you to use, it’s a list of words they don’t want to use.
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by azangru 4y ago
> the same "hip-hip hooray" rally cry was used by the Red Army Which Red Army? Unless it's the Chinese Red Army (which I have no knowledge about), but rather the Russian (Soviet) Red Army, then, firstly, the battle cry of
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by azangru 4y ago
> Why _wouldn’t_ I want to avoid using any but your last category? Thing is, _you_ are free to avoid anything you want for whatever reason you want. It is when someone else (e.g. myself) who doesn't want to have his language policed
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by azangru 4y ago
What's wrong with Mastodon? I thought that because it isn't serving you ads, it has much less incentive for keeping you constantly engaged and outraged.
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> When I see something like this Where do you see something like this? It's rather unusual for app developers to write code like this; such code tends to be abstracted into libraries. > Honestly, WTF is that? A nested partial, as
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Yes, I also liked the 2019 winner.
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> Honestly all of this applies to Django as much as Rails. And probably Laravel as well. And maybe Spring Boot.
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This is an audiobook, in which a narrator reads the printed transcripts; not the original tapes.
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After an (admittedly, cursory) search, I was unable to locate the audio original. The only original that seems to be available is the published [0] Russian transcript of the tapes; and an audio recording of the Russian transcript, reference

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