duhi88

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by duhi88 6y ago
"Variable bitrate" encoding is a thing, which allows chunks of a file to be encoded at a higher or lower bitrate depending on how much is happening. I don't know exactly how it happens, but I assume that each chunk is determi
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by duhi88 6y ago
I have a Vizio Quantum X and a PS4 Pro both work great. YouTube videos show the occasional dropped frame on the Vizio app, and generally 0 dropped frames on the PS4. I don't have the best speakers or room acoustics, but I can't co
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by duhi88 6y ago
Because this happens with every SV company that is often in the news.
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by duhi88 6y ago
Pretty sure that embeds enable all the tracking stuff you don't want, too.
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by duhi88 6y ago
There are plenty of devs outside of Silicon Valley. They don't have to look halfway across the world to reduce their costs.
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by duhi88 6y ago
I have to disagree with you there. Previously, I had to click on the tiny strip before I could see the languages. Now it is available right away. For a new visitor, this is infinitely better because it is clearly labeled. For returning user
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by duhi88 6y ago
I wouldn't consider any of your criticisms as being "less accessible". To take your example of the languages, the new design is more accessible. It has a clearly labeled heading, and I can see the names of the languages are b
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by duhi88 6y ago
Ruby is definitely not new and shiny. There are plenty of long-lived Ruby on Rails projects that need to be maintained. Makes sense not seeing React, though. It is far more complicated and fragile to get SEO-friendly pages rendered with Rea
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by duhi88 7y ago
I'm a "power user" and I like the change. It's not like it gets in the way when you're not using it. By the way, what even is a power user on the web?
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by duhi88 7y ago
They made a statement within the last few years that they don't use GA data for their own purposes. The scarier implication is they don't need GA to understand web trends. They can collect far more data using Chrome, AMP, Android,
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by duhi88 7y ago
How did you have that conversation? The clients I work for are all still worried about losing business due to dropping IE11...so we don't. They have no analytics on which devices generate income, so it is hard to have that conversation
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by duhi88 7y ago
I support the second half of your comment. All websites (webapps excluded) should strive for as little JS as possible. It isn't all that hard to support IE11 for most things, if you aren't doing anything super crazy with your desi
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by duhi88 7y ago
Seems fine to me. There's still Bootstrap 1-4 to build outdated websites for outdated browsers with. We gotta move forward. The web can't be held hostage over decade old corporate contracts.
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by duhi88 7y ago
there is, it just sometimes doesn't matter. Styling an important or often reused component? You best find a better way. Adding a tagline to a marketing site or temporary banner? Yea, do whatever you want to get the job done. Just don&#
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by duhi88 7y ago
Neat, but I find it hard to believe devs are going to reach for this verbose format without a default fallback. hsl is a much nicer syntax for humans to describe color than rgb channels. I'm sure there are good reasons under the hood,
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by duhi88 7y ago
Yea, that's why I choose it, too. It isn't as opinionated as Angular, but it has enough structure that you know where to look to find most things in an unfamiliar project (my gripe when working on inherited React projects). Rarely
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by duhi88 7y ago
I use the web app version of Instagram, and I see no ads whatsoever, and I spend less time on it overall.
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by duhi88 7y ago
1. The study of wildlife migration patterns has been a thing for a long time. Methods exist, and are always being improved upon with better technology. A well-placed hunting camera could do the same thing without all the trendy Bay-Area BS.
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by duhi88 7y ago
You can get all of Lighthouse features in Google Page Speed Insights.
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by duhi88 7y ago
"read it later" window, sites for research, Slack in the browser, podcasts or music in the background, etc. I usually don't close my research tabs until I've completed the task I was working on. Not having to worry about
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by duhi88 7y ago
It's the one reason I'm glad that all web browsers on iOS run Webkit. Now if Apple could just fix their damn flexbox bugs and implement web app features...
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by duhi88 7y ago
It means that Google can push technologies that benefit their ad tracking business, or choose to use non-standard APIs to make their apps run faster than competitors. Both of these things they're already doing. While they might not go
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by duhi88 7y ago
Just Google tracking everything you do in their browser, and preventing you from blocking other trackers.
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by duhi88 7y ago
Yea, I've run user feedback sessions. Page loads never come up as a complaint (plenty of other things to complain about :P) The goal was to keep an average of <3.0s for the first meaningful paint, after login. Before login, all page
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by duhi88 7y ago
I'm a fan of these sorts of brands, too. I'd guess these products are hard to find because they don't show the same year after year growth you'd see with heavily marketed brands. Not the kind of returns a VC firm is goin
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by duhi88 7y ago
In my experience, it's OK to have a (slightly) longer load time for content behind a login wall. I also spend extra effort caching whatever I can for return visits. Refreshing the page should give you an almost instant load time.
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by duhi88 7y ago
Then they could have chosen WebKit. I get the Electron reason...it just sucks.
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by duhi88 7y ago
Well they could have picked up one of the other less-dominate browser engines. WebKit and Firefox are good starting points, and both could use the extra help maintaining their open-source core. I get that they wanted to use the same browser
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by duhi88 7y ago
Deploying JS (or anything) over the web usually requires a lot of extra considerations. Devs want flexibility in their deployment options, which is why Webpack is so complex. Parcel is probably the closest to zero-config that I've seen
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by duhi88 7y ago
Did previous generations not go out to eat? Or did they save money by going to Applebee's and Red Lobster over smaller, local options?

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