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folkhack
9y ago
> In the end, support chrome is simply supporting another Internet-Explorer-era. Maybe not as IE but it would be very similar. IMO - it is foolish to put Chrome and IE in the same box. > If you or your company only develop for chrome
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> most of all: your front end isn't going to be DOM driven I get this and all - but I also want to make a strong case for letting the traditional DOM manage application state. Putting a "component" abstraction between wh
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9y ago
> But just to be clear, it's really a function of what you're building. 110% agree here. Sometimes I just need a simple selector/UI event lib and don't want to fart around with the verbosity of vanilla JS - so I still
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9y ago
Eyyy asaph - was good to see you in here too! Always down to chat design. Stop by again if you're ever in the neighborhood!
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9y ago
Thank you! I have a ton of fun doing the development for that site, calculators and all. Definitely one of my flagship products over the years, great client -> great product =)
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9y ago
Huh. Crazy how close it is to my implementation - https://modelinvesting.com/retirement-calculator/ You have a UI bug on your tooltips on advanced fields. They show up way above where they should be =)
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9y ago
> A well patterned and modern site developed in the past five years shouldn't have these issues. All depends on the site at hand. A great example is a content aggregation site with lots of ways to slice the data... MANY ways to &quo
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9y ago
> why would you want to use Chrome? Chrome as a platform has the majority of browser market share and is continuing to be the top contender, I don't think anyone's going to knock them off their high horse anytime soon. Targetin
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9y ago
Firefox/Mozilla has been doing a great job with cross-browser initiatives like the WebExtension APIs, and dipping their toes into CDP. I am STOKED to hear you guys have been having cross-team conversations on these details! Shameless f
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9y ago
100% honest and non-hostile question - why would you want to use Firefox?
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9y ago
At this point you should really be looking into Google's Puppeteer - https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer One of the most active browser automation libs out there and it's just a pure joy to use =)
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9y ago
Who knows - but they issue permits to blind people: https://www.snopes.com/iowa-guns-blind/
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9y ago
Very slim, and entry pay for development jobs is outrageously low in my experience. If you're in tech, go for a coast. Anecdotal evidence from an Iowa > Cali transplant that almost tripled his income within a couple of years after m
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9y ago
> Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. IMO, it's also ultimately difficult to pull off.
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9y ago
My guess is they likely know and that it's tied to business applications that still rely on older software/hardware. Vendor agreements, etc. - just a theory. It's super impressive.
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9y ago
I agree with you, and I think your experience is more typical than you may think. It's a chore because you often get zero positive validation out of it (ghosting, relationships that go nowhere, blah blah)... You begin to not want to &q
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9y ago
Was suppose to be 9/10 whoops. People are not able to really compromise these days because we live in a very individualistic society. Any sort of dependency on another person is seen as weakness, especially if you're a man. Within
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9y ago
Because you hit a certain age where a HUGE chunk of people within the ( your_age / 2 + 7 ) algorithm are already spoken for. Online dating helps because both people are looking for "something" and that can avoid a lot of diff
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> "taxing physically, mentally and emotionally" it's supposed to be "Rewarding, stress leaving, and healthy" Have you dated in a major metro within the last 2-3 years? It's a pissing match of who can care le
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> But I think working in tech makes it harder for men Obviously anecdotal - but yea. I'm an engineer in America and for the entirety of my career I have worked with 95%+ men. In my office right now it's 25 men and one woman who
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> An industrial control system that crashes when it receives an unexpected network request isn't built for someone that knows exactly what they are doing. Yeah - I can see even the simplest of network vulnerability scans wreak havoc
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9y ago
Thinkpads. I moved from Windows 7 to Debian 8 a year or so ago and have never looked back (except for the Adobe Suite...) I use an OSX Macbook Pro for my 9-5 and have been avoiding High Sierra forever - it's just a slap in the face. At