jasonthevillain

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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
Yes. The last thing the world needs is more half-baked self-promoting drivel. I love writing. I put more than half of mine in a drawer. A drawer is a wonderful place for of unfinished drafts that aren't ready or aren't working. I
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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
If you consider news only an entertainment product, that's a fair comparison. If you want to know what's going on in the world, it's not.
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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
Nope. They're different tools. They do different things. I find paper keeps me sane in a hyper-multi-tasked distraction heavy over-Slacked world. What made it work was an idea I borrowed from Bullet Journal -- every task needs gets fin
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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
Affinity is excellent! Thanks... I use Photoshop once every few months and have been wanting to lose the recurring cost for a while.
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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
No surprise. Investigative reporting is very resource intensive, and the people who are good at it don't do it for free. Opinions, on the other hand...
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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
Yes. There _is_ a duty to be informed, but it's not important how. You don't need twitter or cable news--you may be better informed without both, honestly. And there's definitely a value is slowing down and avoiding the botto
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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
Yes! Danny and Audrey do fantastic work.
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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
Django. I like the "batteries included" aspect. Flask and Sinatra are fun, but I wind up spending more time than I'd like stitching authentication etc together instead of building the project.
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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
I agree. The explosion of new ideas is also an explosion of learning curves. I suppose that's fine for people who just want to learn something new every day. I want to make stuff, and the less maintenance it needs the better. Most of w
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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
That's interesting. You could serve the delivery system from the same domain with a proxy or CNAME or something, but that would actually be less secure. Moving them onto the main domain means they'd have access to its cookies&#x2F
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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
> Also, I don't get why larger content owners don't self publish ads. You're right, it's about auditing. They need to be able to prove the quantity of ads were delivered as sold, which needs to go through a third part
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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
That's interesting. I've been working on the publisher side for a long time, and we definitely want technical enforcement. (The devil is in the details. It'd be dumb to automatically block an ad that's 5kb too heavy, but
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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
> I don't think that Google has the power you think it does to strong-arm other ad networks Not strong arm per se, but just having _any_ built in enforcement of technical standards built into DFP would solve the lionshare of the pro
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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
> The engineer anxiety about them is myopic and ignorant of business realities. Far from. The worry is not "this code is old." Plenty of old code (especially boring old code) is cranking along just fine. The worry is that if an
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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
Calling people lazy should also be considered harmful. Please stop doing this. Time is finite, and not all of it should be spent programming.
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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
Someone should! I ran into this when teaching myself Swift last year. Learning a new language is easy. Learning the ecosystem, architecture, and some initial best practices is a sisyphean task.
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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
The reason I keep sticking with it is the "optional batteries included" approach. User auth, for example, is something that just works out of the box with the admin/ORM, and has a lot of basic security necessities addressed.
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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
> Not everyone is in this position. I respect that, so I'd like to use my privilege to make it more of a professional norm. Exactly. It's the job of senior and experienced developers to set the culture and transfer knowledge. I
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One Weird Trick to Destroy Western Civilization(medium.com)
6 points by jasonthevillain 10y ago|0 comments
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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
To me, Yarn seems like the least troublesome new thing. Is it new and redundant? Yeah, but it's also a drop in AND drop out replacement for NPM. Many of the other "modern touches" would require you to rewrite your whole app i
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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
Shouldn't it be the other way around?
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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
Newspapers used to do this and it was wildly popular, but very labor intensive.
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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
They were a hack! They came about because legacy browsers didn't support SVG. Of course, IE8 is dead, so I can't think of a reason to stick with them.
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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
Asking a front-end developer to write a red-black tree is insane. Is anyone actually doing that?
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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
Correct. The press can report on whatever it wants and regular citizens can read it (I vaguely remember there being something like a clear and present danger exception for the former). Otherwise, it would be illegal for any news organizatio
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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
Which is an excellent example. Architects still do architecture, the tools just evolve.
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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
> And excuses about how today's customers expect an app-like experience Yes. If anyone has evidence of this I'd love to see it.
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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
Not necessarily. The client device may be old, underpowered, slow, and running out of battery. Which isn't to say thick clients are always a bad idea, but they're not the One True Answer™.
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Show HN: Beagle, a static site generator in Python(github.com)
2 points by jasonthevillain 10y ago|0 comments
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by jasonthevillain 10y ago
Also, wouldn't everyone start at 0X (beginner) and gradually accrue X's with time and practice? That's how most other skills work...

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