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by jacquesc 4y ago
I also removed the last traces of EmberJS from our apps last year. It was a great feeling. Ember was fun and productive initially, but eventually turned into a quagmire when the app got larger. Seems like most people I knew in the community
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by jacquesc 4y ago
Maybe it's a glass half full scenario? I'm pretty happy the nanny state allows blood/gore at least. Imagine if they were consistent and movies/tv/video games were also whitewashed of blood too. What a miserable medi
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by jacquesc 4y ago
Lots of great advice in this thread, heed it. I would just add -- embrace the challenge. It actually sounds like a fun problem. After many years in tech, I've learned that I'd rather work on improving a pile of shit codebase that
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by jacquesc 4y ago
Not sure I understand, is this common knowledge?
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by jacquesc 4y ago
Ideas could be combined for ultimate creep. Open up web page and get matched with a cartoon avatar of some random other user, standing in the middle of the street talking to you. Extra points if you make the cartoon's mouth move while
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by jacquesc 4y ago
Cool, was just thinking how great this would be in VR. I'll give Wander a shot!
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by jacquesc 4y ago
Wow, thanks for the clarification. Totally missed this part. After having already evangelized this with my coworkers, I may need to take it back. If they made the core open and allowed users to use this language independently of their onlin
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by jacquesc 4y ago
Maybe it'll show up in their usage numbers. I stopped using IG because it's near impossible not to prevent the sound from blasting from accidentally scrolling or clicking on a reel. I feel like a product team that gave any shit wh
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by jacquesc 4y ago
Wow, seriously nice work. Downloaded it and started playing around. Pretty much exactly the features I wanted from a CMS. Both simple and powerful. I attempted to build a CMS years ago and this is pretty much exactly what I wanted to create
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by jacquesc 4y ago
Yeah, even as a frontend dev myself... half of these I haven't heard of. Frontend dev tools desperately needs some consolidation. Everyone seems to be trying to solve the exact same problems over and over again.
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by jacquesc 4y ago
Tough to justify watching a movie when I know it might be costing my library $152 for choosing to watch an obscure title.
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by jacquesc 4y ago
Amazing visualization. Much harder (and useful) would be to show the 10 cheapest airports to fly to from any given spot.
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by jacquesc 4y ago
Speed. I used Atom for a couple years, but quickly switched to VSCode once it was viable as it was the first electron editor to actually be "fast enough" for me.
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by jacquesc 4y ago
Agreed. I don't know how one could classify any of those as "Multi Level" either. If it were MLM, your local neighborhood Subway would by trying to sell you a franchise (instead of a sandwich)
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by jacquesc 4y ago
All I can say is this is an amazing read, so glad it's on HN.
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by jacquesc 4y ago
Also a great (short) one by Kurtzgesagt https://youtu.be/ulCdoCfw-bY
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by jacquesc 5y ago
Tried using Zelle last month to pay back a friend, and it triggered a fraud alert. They called me, we spent half hour on the phone verifying everything. Then the next day they locked my bank account. Took me a week to get it back, after hou
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by jacquesc 5y ago
They should exist, and will continue to exist because it's not just about the coffee. There's a social experience of going to a coffee shop, meeting friends, chatting with the barista. That's worth the 20x price to me, and ma
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by jacquesc 5y ago
Basically, no. I'm not OK with it
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by jacquesc 5y ago
It's really tricky when you end up using libraries 4 levels deep, and never consciously chose something. Looking at one of our production projects, we use colors via: "css-loader" -> "cssnano" -> "svgo&qu
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by jacquesc 5y ago
Thanks much for sharing your experience in detail
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by jacquesc 5y ago
They discovered the variant less than a month ago. The science will take time, all we can do in the meantime is make our best guesses
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by jacquesc 5y ago
I've read this same story over and over in the trusted media outlets. Here's one of many: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-08-17/vaccinated-...
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by jacquesc 5y ago
You're right, it was a bad take based on an old, strangely emotional experience I remember. Apologies
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by jacquesc 5y ago
Why can't we point out that the "default" choice for most java shops is one that is massively overcomplicated, a nightmare to use, and subject to security disasters like we are seeing? This wasn't "unknowable".
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by jacquesc 5y ago
Fair enough. But to me it was the smell of a toxic Java ecosystem, where people had to use crappy software even though they knew how bad it was. It took a simple problem and turned it into a clusterfuck of configuration and complexity.
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by jacquesc 5y ago
http://www.dolekemp96.org/news/releases/proct0796a.htm "When users first visit the site, they are given the option of setting up a custom Dole Web page. Each custom page contains a personal tool bar that welc
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by jacquesc 5y ago
Not only that, it keeps showing me the same posts over and over. Just because I liked something months ago, doesn't mean I want to see it every week
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by jacquesc 5y ago
Terminal cancer patient here, this advice is perfect. Goal is to live as normally as possible. I super appreciate all the support of my friends and family, I just don't want them to treat me too differently.
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by jacquesc 5y ago
The former works wonders for overall personal happiness.

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