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by dimmke 4y ago
I think the muddling of roles is what bothers me about it. In a workplace, the responsibility is reversed. You're the opposite of a customer - you're an employee. Here, customers (and honestly, what they are getting vs. what they
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by dimmke 4y ago
Also, after considering this further, I think the only reason these schools would not attempt an actual prohibition on the app itself is that it would be very difficult to enforce and they likely don't have the IT capacity to do it. It
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by dimmke 4y ago
The way colleges/universities work in the US is so odd to me. There’s so many contradictions: - You pay for a service where the amount you pay far outweighs the value of the service, by orders of magnitude. This is allowed because the
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by dimmke 4y ago
I have an Apple Card and it’s my only credit card. I like the integration with the app and the support when I’ve needed it and I think min/maxing for points or rewards is stupid. It’s why I don’t have any Chase or AMEX cards. It’s a bu
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by dimmke 4y ago
I hit a point where doing my current job just wasn't an option anymore. I was so unhappy, they could have been paying me 1 million a year and it wouldn't have mattered. I got there from a combination of feeling like I wasn't
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by dimmke 4y ago
WordPress serves as kind of an ad hoc CMS for many different kinds of backends. Because it’s easy to extend and a lot of people are familiar with it. When I worked at the CDC, the entire backend of cdc.gov was a heavily HEAVILY customized v
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by dimmke 4y ago
Articles like this are part of why I love Hacker News so much. I've done a little investigation into producing hardware myself and concluded it was just too big a task for someone without the background who didn't want to put up a
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by dimmke 4y ago
>To claim that you're physically safer in Mexico than in the U.S is an exercise in extraordinarily selective thinking or very particular, completely non-general circumstances. That's fair. And I think my comment was unintention
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by dimmke 4y ago
Actually, it matters to me quite a bit. And the fact that that’s the thing you zeroed in on in my comment is exactly what I’m talking about. You automatically assumed I’m some difficult to please customer- which isn’t the case at all. Obvio
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by dimmke 4y ago
>Mexico's image in the US media is quite negative, especially regarding safety. Yes, and every scene of Mexico in a TV show is sepia toned. It's very funny to me. Mexico's problems are basically: - Drug cartels - Poverty&#
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by dimmke 4y ago
To be honest, it's really hard to articulate to people that still live in the United States. But it feels like the country has turned rotten. You feel it any time you interact with a customer service person. Restaurants, stores, especi
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by dimmke 4y ago
Something I hate about stuff like this is people who work for media publications assume everybody else on the internet is like them. It reminds me of the Gawker days. They're all blue checkmark types and assume the world's discour
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by dimmke 4y ago
There's even https://cloud.gov/ But parent's comment doesn't make sense. The video file is only 1.2mb in size and it's already being hosted on a Azure's object storage: https://aambpublic
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by dimmke 4y ago
So, I'm in the middle of building a backend for the first time and I was evaluating PostgREST just yesterday. Here's the value prop: Your database is the "source of truth" but can be accessed in many, MANY different ways
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by dimmke 4y ago
Yes. This is the way. Once you use stores you realize how complicated state management was made. Redux in particular was so dogmatic about it. So much boilerplate. State is ephemeral. There’s no reason to need one global store.
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by dimmke 4y ago
Plus foundational work on concepts like Progressive Enhancement: https://alistapart.com/article/understandingprogressiveenhan... I think if you were not in the front-end scene during the 2000s, you don't understan
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by dimmke 4y ago
Cool find! I had not seen that before. But I still think the one I linked to is the canonical origin since it actually named it and described the method we ended up using (media queries) but this article definitely seems like an important p
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by dimmke 4y ago
An Event Apart was started by the A List Apart people. ALA was/is a website that was very important for front-end development during the 2000s and early 2010s. Famously, the article that outlined the technique and name for"respons
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by dimmke 4y ago
I rewatched this recently on HBO Max. It’s like a hippie Chinatown. I remember seeing it in theaters and being unable to follow the plot but a second viewing was a bit better. Great movie.
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by dimmke 4y ago
Congrats to the team for this! I have been building an application in SvelteKit and it's an incredible framework. I really believe it's going to become the dominant front-end framework in the next few years.
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by dimmke 4y ago
>you picked the wrong cofounder. Picking a cofounder can be extremely difficult. It's almost like finding a partner to marry. You have to trust them on so many levels: - That they're putting the same amount of effort in as you
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by dimmke 4y ago
I loved Carvana because I bought a car from them for about the same price I’d pay at a dealership but it was all online and I didn’t have to feel like I was getting swindled at any point. The experience of buying a car at a dealership is a
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by dimmke 4y ago
Basically this, and the fact that so many other fintech companies try to act like the only possible option is to use Plaid (seriously, a lot of them will only let you connect accounts via Plaid.) It's already a service I don't tru
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by dimmke 4y ago
But like, who at this point is not cynical enough to fall for this? I guess brand new college grads. When I worked at Amazon, it was all "Amazonians" like I'm supposed to feel some kind of kinship with the 1 million+ people w
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by dimmke 4y ago
I hate Plaid as a company and I chortled at this. The next tech boom may not include any sort of unionizing, but I feel like we should all agree that tech companies don't get to pick "fun" names to call their employees and ma
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by dimmke 4y ago
Yeah but banks and credit bureaus also know.
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This is a good idea. LogRocket does this to great effect. Instead of annoying people, they put a lot of great content out into the world. It certainly has let me know about their product in a way that having some smarmy dude named Josh scra
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Good disclaimer. I 100% agree.
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I think therapy provides benefits that friends don't/can't. Your therapist shouldn't be your friend. They're an objective outsider that can help give you new ways to think about your life.
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by dimmke 4y ago
>Most people desire to be happy. I don't believe I need to prove this. Happy isn't a long term state of being. It's a short term emotion like anger or sadness. If you expect to feel that way all the time, and think you can

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