jasonthevillain

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by jasonthevillain 8y ago
Bigger than both of those groups are the people who don't realize they use RSS but listen to podcasts.
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by jasonthevillain 8y ago
Better yet, I'll only read people who take the opposite approach.
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by jasonthevillain 8y ago
Or that native apps are better. Their problems with javascript aren't the technologies, its the ways they're abused. That's not a web problem or a javascript problem. I just kicked Facebook Messenger off my phone because ever
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by jasonthevillain 9y ago
Mozilla Persona tried this. It was a good user experience, but it never gained enough traction and eventually they shut it down.
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by jasonthevillain 9y ago
The weird part about this article/thread is that the product didn't suck. It did a thing, and it was as good as the groups in your area.
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by jasonthevillain 9y ago
Not at all. I also go to all sorts of concerts that don't allow cameras. It's the "how" that rubs me the wrong way. Your state park would indicate "no vehicles beyond this point" and I assume if anyone starting
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by jasonthevillain 9y ago
I was about to buy Jack White tickets today and... I think I'll pass. Don't get me wrong. I've seen several shows, including Jack White, that politely ask the audience to keep their phones away for part or all of the show. Th
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by jasonthevillain 9y ago
I suspect he's consistently this awesome because he doesn't post that often, and can actually put time and effort into things.
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by jasonthevillain 9y ago
I've learned the hard way to check Babel's output for sanity. Sometimes its fine. Other times it's madness or pulls in a massive polyfill. That's sort of inherent to making a transpiler: they need to match the spec. I us
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by jasonthevillain 9y ago
What's cool for developers like you and me is the AI/ML technologies are being commoditized. I have no idea how to build an image processor, or a database, or cloud infrastructure, but I can use Pillow, Postgres, and AWS to build
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by jasonthevillain 9y ago
I've been doing the same, and wrote a small app that combines the feeds into a small daily email newsletter for myself. I wish I'd thought of this years ago. The worst part about these feeds is they're infinite. Converting mu
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by jasonthevillain 9y ago
Not at all. Most reporters have a beat. They accrue and build relationships with sources around a broad subject. If you're reporting on books (the author does), you'd probably know quite a few a librarians who you keep in touch w
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by jasonthevillain 9y ago
Be careful. A little backlash has been brewing all over the place. Some of it's about privacy. Some of it's about power and influence. Some is about addictiveness. It's not much today, but the gap between a little backlash an
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by jasonthevillain 9y ago
Well, that explains the battery life tanking.
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CityLab and Traditional Front End Development: A Love Story(medium.com)
1 points by jasonthevillain 9y ago|0 comments
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by jasonthevillain 9y ago
Yes (crazy CPU/memory/battery usage). I switched to using it in a browser tab and it's been much better.
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by jasonthevillain 9y ago
I went back and timed it. The overhead is at _most_ 100ms in my use case (there's some ambiguity because of other problems with the async implementation, I suspect it's actually lower than this). Given many of the requests are 1s
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by jasonthevillain 9y ago
Agreed, testability is a big problem, I'll add a note. Thanks.
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by jasonthevillain 9y ago
That's fair. What got me thinking about these ideas were cases where having a distributed frontend felt overengineered. If you have problems where GraphQL makes sense, this would be a step in the wrong direction.
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by jasonthevillain 9y ago
Oh, I know exactly what you're talking about. I've seen Jinja code that assumes "Jinja has this feature, so I should use it." I'm not sure that's the template language's fault and more than Python is respo
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by jasonthevillain 9y ago
I agree. Other people are pointing out that soundbites existed before Twitter, but it opened up the ranks of the public babblerati to everyone, and promoted it as a platform for public discussion. I dropped Twitter years ago, subscribed to
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by jasonthevillain 9y ago
I really think this is a symptom of iOS not supporting free trials.
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by jasonthevillain 9y ago
It depends what you're doing. It shines on low level features like authentication and image cropping, where I need ways to do these things, and I can use them across the board. It breaks down when you have a lot of views and urls that
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by jasonthevillain 9y ago
Well, the worst interview I've ever had was the ones where the interviewer wouldn't deviate from the script, even after he recognized that these questions made no sense for someone with my background (I was self-taught, and had ne
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Cambridge Analytica vastly overstated capabilities and impact(nytimes.com)
3 points by jasonthevillain 10y ago|0 comments
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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
Well, for example, "According to The Vaccine Research Institution..." Now I just made up that organization. But how can an algorithm tell if it's a legitimate medical institute that develops vaccines or anti-vaxxer propaganda
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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
It looks a lot like the early days of commercial radio.
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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
Cool! I usually suggest people pick up a book and try learning enough to build something simple first so they get a feel for what's involved and whether they like it.
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To Fix Your Brain, Try Paper(whatisjasongoldstein.com)
4 points by jasonthevillain 10y ago|0 comments
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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
I agree. The open source analogy is actually pretty good. Some projects you know you how to go about right away. But when you're not sure, start anyway; rough drafts are like prototypes. Dropping a few (not all) can be part of the proc

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