jameslk

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In defense of concerns over the $1.9T relief plan(piie.com)
1 points by jameslk 6y ago|1 comments
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by jameslk 6y ago
I guess I find it slimey in the sense that when you update your profile, you're usually not expecting the old information to follow you around. Someone may remove information because it hurts their career (e.g. removing information tha
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by jameslk 6y ago
I've been wondering when something like this would be made. I've felt that it would be even more disgusting to track changes on LinkedIn profiles (imagine these changes being purchased by companies where you're interviewing).
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by jameslk 6y ago
> he's never been very adept at objectivity or impartiality. > I'm honestly surprised more folks haven't seen through his shtick yet In these you attack the author rather his points. Being hard to read for you doesn&#x2
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by jameslk 6y ago
I'm not sure why this comment is getting downvoted and flagged. The point is valid. This is an ad hominem attack with non sequiturs too like "He clearly holds disgust for his subject, which ruins his ability to speak" It&#x27
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by jameslk 6y ago
I wonder what Telegram and Signal are hosting on? Is it one of the big cloud providers? Could they be deplatformed for harboring "terrorists" on their platforms?
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Get a perfect Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) time with a single line of code(devisedlabs.com)
2 points by jameslk 6y ago|0 comments
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Iran's blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web(theguardian.com)
134 points by jameslk 6y ago|52 comments
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by jameslk 6y ago
This will hit the PC Music scene hard. SOPHIE was one the main artists that helped put PC Music on the map. RIP
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Powell and Yellen aren't worried about inflation. Maybe they should be(cnn.com)
3 points by jameslk 6y ago|0 comments
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by jameslk 6y ago
These studies seem to keep contradicting each other: http://www.nautil.us/blog/studies-shoot-down-techs-harmful-e... > A new study in Nature Human Behaviour, which looked at data from more than 350,000 adolescents,
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by jameslk 6y ago
It's nice to see some competition in this space, especially open source. I'm a little confused though I thought Singer was the open source version of Stitch (which you mention briefly): https://www.singer.io . But maybe
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by jameslk 6y ago
I run a small B2B service/product hybrid company, DevisedLabs, focused on ecommerce in a somewhat similar fashion. Our team of 12 is entirely freelancers, from engineering, to project management, to sales. We only hold meetings when ne
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A graph of US money supply since 1975(fred.stlouisfed.org)
3 points by jameslk 6y ago|0 comments
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You can’t sue Pfizer or Moderna if you have severe Covid vaccine side effects(cnbc.com)
18 points by jameslk 6y ago|10 comments
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by jameslk 6y ago
I remember the days when the Columbine school shooting was being blamed on video games (amongst other things like movies and goth culture) and as a result, all kinds of new fun censorship measures and laws were being talked about here in th
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by jameslk 6y ago
You're right, I stand corrected on the parsing bit I mentioned, which to be honest is a nuance I had not heard of. But it doesn't change my point much. Using script tags without `defer` will still delay the page load. They might n
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by jameslk 6y ago
I'm comparing website vs website when I'm talking about web performance. You're comparing Electron apps vs... native apps?
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by jameslk 6y ago
You can render SPAs before the page loads, which eliminate any potential issues with SEO. This is how it should be done and the approach frameworks like Next.js take.
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by jameslk 6y ago
jQuery is a large library, but it isn't exactly the source of web performance issues in my experience. It's the way it's used: many sites use it to render content, especially above-the-fold content (like image galleries, such
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by jameslk 6y ago
It seems web performance is one of the least understood topics, even for engineers. Unfortunately even this author makes the mistake of confusing DOM Interactive[0] with Time to Interactive[1]. And yet this is a better analysis than what I
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Facebook Repays News Industry It Destroyed with Ads Begging You to Hate Apple(gizmodo.com)
6 points by jameslk 6y ago|1 comments
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by jameslk 6y ago
I ask for sources when I see bold statements and have already done my own research that didn't turn up much results (such as in this case) so I can learn from it and not spread misinformation. In fact, the reason I found out this user
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by jameslk 6y ago
> This is the petrodollar hypothesis, a debunked theory of global trade. You keep saying this[0][1], without providing any citation. What sources do you have to back up this claim? 0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by jameslk 6y ago
There's something poetic about using Google's own tools to demonstrate why their own frontend code is slow. Maybe the author can suggest they use Lighthouse CI next to track which commits improve/degrade UX (but I'm gues
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by jameslk 6y ago
Actually OP is right, I wasn't talking about retail per se. I was proposing the reason why ecommerce stocks are higher is due to changes in consumer discretionary spending (less spending on restaurants, travel, etc allowing more spendi
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by jameslk 6y ago
Usually Black Friday/Cyber Monday (BFCM) or in-season traffic is when I see the most traffic for my clients. The new normal is BFCM traffic as a baseline, with the highest traffic 2-3x that. They've done nothing more than they&#x2
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by jameslk 6y ago
I work with medium-size Shopify brands to assist on the development-side of things. When the pandemic started, a lot of ecommerce brands were clamping down on budgets. Shortly after the CARES act was passed, suddenly revenue for a lot of my
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by jameslk 6y ago
No, more that I work in the ecommerce sector, have seen how crazy it's become as of recently, and I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. But I agree generally that trying to time the market is a bad idea for most retail investors
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by jameslk 6y ago
It's not just Etsy's stock that's up, but also the stock of Shopify, Amazon, Overstock, Walmart, Ebay, etc. And all the tech infra companies that support these ecommerce sites. There's a huge ecommerce bubble, and to a d

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