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by firasd 10y ago
Two simple practical benefits: (1) Performance for first page load. (2) SEO. Also because of network latency sometimes it's faster to just reload the whole page than to send a few async requests and wait for them to return while the us
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by firasd 10y ago
I think the internet really exacerbates the problem though. It's one thing if PowerPoint animations don't work well on an old computer, but with network requests it's like people don't even realize that something that ha
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by firasd 10y ago
The thing is that batteries are usually stateless (is there power or not?) whereas if you're handling offline vs online mode you are going to have to sync changes and that's a mind#!%$. You know the line about the two hard problem
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by firasd 10y ago
Between this article, the recent front page article on contrast[1], and something I've written recently (about missing loading indicators) [2], it seems the common feature is that developers are losing empathy for end users. Our device
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by firasd 10y ago
I got a Mirra a couple years ago, still going strong, would happily recommend it. Haven't tried the Mirra 2.
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by firasd 10y ago
Good article. It's true that tech in general may be facing challenges because smartphones are not new anymore, but I was especially annoyed at the On-Demand bubble from last year, which felt to me like a "fake startup" trend.
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Show Your Work: UX Tips from James Bond Villains(uxdesign.cc)
4 points by firasd 10y ago|0 comments
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by firasd 10y ago
I kinda like that if I spin up a new Google Compute Engine I jump into a shell just by clicking a button in the browser v.s. struggling to configure SSH public keys and wondering why I got an error on login etc.
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by firasd 10y ago
I've only been using it for the last few months but the UI has struck me as more pleasant than Azure or AWS.
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by firasd 10y ago
Trust me, although I've written a tutorial about this[1], it's not that straightforward to do for a live site :) To put it another way, making the same app work with and without JS isn't made much easier even if you use React
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by firasd 10y ago
Right. I'm not comfortable with this idea of big data being dependent on the actual file size of the data. There really are problems where doing stuff like reading files or using a relational database break down and you need something
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by firasd 10y ago
My code is supposed to be just an accessory to the data. Fred Brooks: "Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowcharts; they’ll be o
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by firasd 10y ago
The trade-off isn't about the dangers of not refactoring v.s. refactoring. The trade-off is about time plus the aspect this article hammers, which is lack of knowledge about the future--i.e. if you made a multi-purpose multi-client fra
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by firasd 10y ago
When I started working with PHP over a decade ago I had some experience with Java so I thought it was funny that in PHP everything is an 'array'. Now that I'm working with JS and Elixir and getting into functional programming
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by firasd 10y ago
I like this part: “Duplication is sometimes essential for the right abstraction. Because only when we see many parts of the system share “similar” code, a better shared abstraction emerges. The Quality of Abstraction is in the weakest link.
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by firasd 10y ago
Like if you have an error saying "no results for this book title", you'd have logic that sends JSON and checks that, and on the server side you'd need logic that checks the POST request and checks that (and there'd
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by firasd 10y ago
It's useful for views, I've done it with React. But yes more for demo apps than in production, at some point things break down because you can't write both server-side and client-side code handling for every UI state.
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by firasd 10y ago
While I think the idea has merit, I think people are 'cooling' on AMP because it causes weirdness like the URL being hosted by google (??) and the original URL being hard to share, etc. They have to encourage browsers or publisher
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Don’t Brake for Fonts(hackernoon.com)
1 points by firasd 10y ago|0 comments
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by firasd 10y ago
Regarding the original piece, I felt it's a mistake for the writer to go, 'well I used the timeline years ago and the timeline looks the same in 2016.' They built out a major advertising and metrics system in the meantime tha
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by firasd 10y ago
I've been making an app that filters Twitter[1] and I've been realizing, from the kind of people who are positively reacting to screenshots and want to use it, that there's an interesting phenomenon in services that aren&#x27
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by firasd 10y ago
But working on a blogging engine (producing feeds) or saying parsing libraries will handle it is just externalizing the problems with RSS to the consumers. That's where the real pain point is: understanding the content of an RSS feed,
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by firasd 10y ago
Atom is just a more precise and accurate protocol. For example, timestamps in RSS feeds come in all shapes and sizes, whereas Atom has an unambiguous time format. I would want to validate the product before I start messing around with this
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by firasd 10y ago
That's very naive given the specification in question. Atom was an effort to do this. The process created years of strife. And after all this drama, Facebook took over and RSS/Atom/et al became irrelevant.
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by firasd 10y ago
It's because Apple integrated podcasts really early and everyone else has still been ignoring them. I know someone who switched from a Windows Phone to an iPhone spurred in part by the desire to listen to podcasts. Google is slowly lum
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by firasd 10y ago
Fair enough. It's true that whatever metric a platform uses for either manual or automated curation, publishers will know about it and optimize for it.
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by firasd 10y ago
I'm making a podcast discovery app (info in profile). My plan is, if I (hopefully!) get enough critical mass to get podcast publishers' attention, to switch over to preferring Atom feeds. Just because Apple made a decision in 2005
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Show Your Work: Don’t forget ‘loading’ indicators(medium.com)
2 points by firasd 10y ago|1 comments
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Show Your Work: Don’t forget ‘loading’ indicators(medium.com)
1 points by firasd 10y ago|0 comments
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by firasd 10y ago
Yeah it would be nice if social networks had a 'lockdown' button so all your public stuff can be hidden mid-controversy or if you were a target of harassment and/or otherwise inquisitive folks. The real question is, how did h

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