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by coffeefirst 8y ago
I’ve been going through the same thought process on a similar project in Django. Every way I look at it, the SPA route is slower and far more complicated. I don’t know much about Rails’ perf, but by and large “SPAs are faster” only seems to
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by coffeefirst 8y ago
CSS is great, but its poorly taught. I've known so many developers of all skill levels who get stuck somewhere between "I can make it red but I have no idea how to apply all these random properties into the layout I want." Th
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by coffeefirst 8y ago
The Atlantic | Experienced Front End Developers | DC or NY | Onsite We like build a fast news site to deliver world-class journalism. HTML/SASS/ES6/Gulp and we're getting into decoupled Express services, Service Workers,
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by coffeefirst 8y ago
Yes and no. TV audiences were measured through surveys. You have margins of error and some percentage of viewers going to the bathroom, but by and large, you were paying for placement in a show with 500k viewers. Some of them wouldn't
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by coffeefirst 8y ago
Sparrow. Yes, still.
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by coffeefirst 8y ago
That's true, but it's also on the assumption that the paywall adds just enough friction and reminds readers "you know, if you like this, eventually you might think about paying for it." Some will. Some won't. Automa
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by coffeefirst 8y ago
I have an actual answer for Times New Roman. TNR was derived from a newspaper typeface that addressed two problems: 1. Newspapers are laid out in lots of narrow columns. You want to be able to pack a lot of letters in a short line. 2. Newsp
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by coffeefirst 8y ago
There's a couple of developer positions open. Please throw your hat in the usual way--those forms go straight to the lead developers and we really do read everything. Good luck!
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by coffeefirst 8y ago
> We spend a lot of our time reading long-form content online already That's exactly the point. There are things I do on paper for no other reason than I'm tired of looking at a screen all day.
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by coffeefirst 8y ago
And a friendly reminder that people have known how to conduct themselves in a civil manner for at least 1400 years.
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by coffeefirst 8y ago
Right. The rent is the problem. You can find coffee shops/bookstores/wine bars/libraries that will provide or rent out space for these events and it's far less risky.
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by coffeefirst 8y ago
Global reach has also given us a global misinformation and harassment crisis that nobody has figured out how to manage effectively. We'd probably be better off if we moved the good parts to smaller platforms.
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by coffeefirst 8y ago
There's two major oversights in all the arguments like this: 1. Books are more analogous to vinyl than they are to CD's. People think they're cool, they like having bookshelves. In the age of screens, having something physica
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by coffeefirst 8y ago
That would be fine. In the unlikely event I was ever the target of one I would frame it and add it to the bottom of my resume. The problem isn't that Linus is legendary in his abrasiveness. The problem is that other people (mostly youn
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by coffeefirst 8y ago
What do you like about it, besides just not being Google?
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by coffeefirst 8y ago
> Sounds like a conflict of interest, to get money from the government There's a way to fix that. Until recently, it was common for certain announcements, requests for public comment, etc etc to go in the paper, which meant buying c
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by coffeefirst 8y ago
I keep trying to switch. The thing that stops me is it chokes on big single page apps. Arguably the problem is the sites being choked on (too much javascript) but there's not much I can do about that.
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by coffeefirst 8y ago
The Atlantic | Front-End Developer | Washington, DC | onsite We’re looking for an experienced developer to join The Atlantic’s Revenue Team, a new part of the Product Team focused on the hardest problem on the Internet: how do we fund journ
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by coffeefirst 8y ago
Yes. All the slowest, buggiest sites I encounter every day are SPA's that could easily be a regular old forms, especially once you consider datalist, validation, date inputs, and other things that used to require javascript enhancement
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Python3 Asyncio for middling developers(whatisjasongoldstein.com)
35 points by coffeefirst 9y ago|14 comments
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Universal Jinja: a crazy idea for a Python-ready front end(whatisjasongoldstein.com)
171 points by coffeefirst 9y ago|124 comments
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by coffeefirst 10y ago
"Culture fit" is a weasel word. It means nothing at all.