jordanlev

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by jordanlev 10y ago
To get started with Vue, all you need is to include 1 javascript file, and it works with plain old javascript, all the way back to IE9. As one gets more advanced, there is the ability to compile templates, but that is an optional thing that
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by jordanlev 10y ago
Of course it's subjective, and different people coming from different backgrounds / experience levels find different things easier than others. But... that tutorial you say you like to show people utilizes jsx, which needs to be c
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by jordanlev 10y ago
If you already know react and are happy using it, then there's no reason to use Vue. But if (like me) you were never quite able to figure out how to use React (especially all the build tooling that's suggested in every tutorial),
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by jordanlev 10y ago
You say "css fans" like we have a choice in the matter :) I am a fan of building websites, and css is the only way to achieve that. Yeah it sucks, but it's all we got. Grid spec solves a LOT of problems so even if the syntax
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by jordanlev 10y ago
I was a desirable customer because I was paying for their most expensive offering (delivery of the print paper, as opposed to just digital access). And I'm baffled by the rest of your response... What sort of effort am I supposed to
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by jordanlev 10y ago
This is anecdotal, but just today I cancelled my print subscription to the NYTimes because they kept messing up the delivery (not showing up, going to the wrong house)... and every time I contacted their customer service reps (who were obvi
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by jordanlev 10y ago
I believe the parent was asking about the tutorial, not the editor itself
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by jordanlev 10y ago
And what happened to whole "don't build different markup for different devices" mantra that has been the accepted wisdom in web development for the past 4 or 5 years (whenever responsive design was discovered)? Feels like &qu
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by jordanlev 10y ago
And if "then" your flex-box usage actually worked for people not on Internet Explorer.
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by jordanlev 10y ago
Your front end devs in this case were suffering from a bit of cargo culting (not truly understanding the difference between HTML and CSS). There is absolutely nothing wrong with using the display:table css properties (as long as its layout
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by jordanlev 10y ago
Ugh, their customer service is terrible. I can understand from a business perspective how they aren't incentivized to make it easier to cancel subscriptions... but I'm a paying customer and have had frequent delivery problems (I l
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by jordanlev 10y ago
Out of curiosity, is there anything significant other than flexbox that's not in IE9 but is in IE10/11?
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by jordanlev 10y ago
> Google built blogger to the point where it killed every other blogging platform... No they didn't. Wordpress powers some absurd number of all websites (25%-ish). Tumblr is still fairly popular. And Medium of course. What google
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by jordanlev 10y ago
They may be harder to find, but HN comments are probably less ephemeral that most blogs (that is, HN comments are more long-lasting and at the same "permalink"... seems that plenty of blogs fall off the internet after a few year
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by jordanlev 10y ago
Curious how using this for a complete page layout "feels" to someone who's familiar with designing websites. Since flexbox is intended for 1-dimensional layout only (as opposed to the old-school display:table or the forthcomi
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by jordanlev 10y ago
I took the essence of his essay to be "communities that are primarily negative about things are hurting themselves because they push out the people who are in a position to help them".
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by jordanlev 10y ago
I appreciate your explanation and have a question for you (and I mean this with genuine curiosity): what about where God came from then? Is he/she/it a reflection of some other entity's perception? Or does it just not matter
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by jordanlev 10y ago
Eh, if I get cash I feel compelled to put it in my bank account and use it for normal daily expenditures (bills, etc)... but with a gift card I feel like I have permission to buy things that are just fun (especially if it's something l
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by jordanlev 10y ago
tl;dr... > Do we really want tech companies to turn their attention away from beating board game players and producing business products to start 'solving' social problems? The answer to this question should be an emphatic &qu
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by jordanlev 10y ago
If you want PHP and FTP, I've been successfully using webfaction < https://www.webfaction.com/> for years now (they're a developer-friendly shared host). $10/month. Their setup is a little weird to figur
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by jordanlev 10y ago
Looks interesting. A few questions: - How do you handle the design process in terms of reviews/changes? Do you just present a design and if the customer doesn't like it then they're out of luck? Or will you make a million cha
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by jordanlev 10y ago
I am not very knowledgable about basic income and don't (yet) have a strong opinion one way or the other on it. But, in my understanding, the idea is that not having to worry about meeting one's basic needs then frees them up to d
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by jordanlev 10y ago
Ye old "LAMP" stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) is pretty boring, and widely used. Very stable, very performant (and lots of options for caching / indexing / tweaking code when you encounter bottlenecks). Lots of competi
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by jordanlev 10y ago
> A layman equipped with some of this knowledge, for example, will be much more able to understand current events in... Any recommendations on good places to learn / keep abreast of this kind of info? I'd love to read news th
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by jordanlev 10y ago
To me it looks different than the standard "grey text on white background with lots of whitespace and a few basic and/or muted colors" style that you see on the vast majority of websites these days, and I think it's grea
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by jordanlev 10y ago
I've given up on task-specific tools -- because of both lack of structural flexibility and lack of data portability (several computers at home and work, mobile devices, family members you need to share a list with). Now it's all j
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Hence one of the proposed solutions at the end of the article is to generate a new token when the link is used and put the new token into the form. But some sort of token needs to be used even after clicking the email link because the &quot
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by jordanlev 10y ago
The thing about https only applies when an https page is loading assets from a non-http address. But if your site uses https and so does your CDN, then the referer headers are still sent.
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Yes, it's a bit dated (check out those screenshots!)... but the fundamental concepts are still valid. He's trying to explain that you should make programs behave as the user would expect them to -- but it's up to you as the d
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by jordanlev 10y ago
Joel Spolsky's "User Interface Design for Programmers" is concise, educational, entertaining... and free (even an easy-to-read all-in-one HTML page): http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/fog0000000249.htm

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