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by jotaen 4y ago
Disclaimer: I’m not your target audience, and I only wanted to leave some minor bits of feedback about your home page. The page does look very neat to me overall, and I like the idea of making it an interactive demo. However, there are some
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by jotaen 4y ago
To clarify, I was referring to the mere technical fact that only if you type in a character like `“` (U+201C, “Left Double Quotation Mark”) using one font, it isn’t guaranteed to be rendered in the exact same style in a different font. E.g.
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by jotaen 4y ago
Yeah, so we could conclude that punctuation is not just a cultural thing, but – to make matters worse – depend on the whims of the font maker as well.
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by jotaen 4y ago
> Some people prefer the way a “space-en-dash-space” looks. I think this isn’t just a matter of personal preference, but it’s also largely a cultural thing – in German, for example, the “space-en-dash-space” form is common. This is true
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by jotaen 4y ago
Regarding the usage of `crypto.randomUUID()` to generate unique `key` properties for list items, such a technique should only be necessary if the items don’t come with unique and stable ids on their own. This is the case for the example in
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by jotaen 4y ago
Discussed already here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35060657
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by jotaen 4y ago
My main take-away is the same, I wonder though whether “parse, don’t validate” is the right term for it. To me, “parse, don’t validate” somehow suggests that you should do parsing instead of validation, but the real point for me is that I
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by jotaen 4y ago
Not sure what you mean. To me, it looks like the last submission of that link was in December 2021 (so 1+ year ago), and their podcast launched in 2018 (98 episodes since).
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by jotaen 4y ago
Sure: - All moderation queues: https://files.jotaen.net/!nmezmQKFdH - View for reviewing something: https://files.jotaen.net/!KwekXrbj36 - Popover when selecting “Share Feedback”: https://files.j
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by jotaen 4y ago
> Of course people who think the literal translation is the meaning will miss the connotations. Isn’t that exactly the problem, though? In my mind, these loan words from other languages create the illusion that they were clear and unambi
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by jotaen 4y ago
What I find off-putting about StackOverflow is their crowd-sourced moderation system (which I got access to at some point due to karma threshold). It’s based on pre-categorised moderation queues with flagged submissions that you can (have t
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by jotaen 4y ago
I think this might be a problem of expectation management that could stem from the title. A headline along the lines of “Patterns to organize your code for testability” might reflect the general character of the article more clearly. But as
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by jotaen 4y ago
I’m not sure I manage to follow the author correctly, but to me it seems that by “mock” they strictly refer to external mocking libraries, in the sense of JS’s `testdouble` [1] or Java’s `Mockito` [2]. The static fake object as returned by
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The fallacy of software development principles(jotaen.net)
4 points by jotaen 4y ago|1 comments
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by jotaen 4y ago
Did you come up with the headline “Twilio Flex outage now 6 hours after laying off ~26% staff”? If so, could you provide any factual insights that back the implicit claim how this particular outage is the direct cause of the recent layoffs?
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by jotaen 4y ago
Same for me. I’m pretty deliberate what newsletters I subscribe to, and I also regularly prune my subscriptions when I lose interest. I also cannot relate to: > Have killer voice. In regards to tone, my preference is authenticity. If som
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by jotaen 4y ago
The discussion is pointless. I know the history around the term, and yet, I – and many people that I know – don’t attribute any relevance to it in regards to their usage of that term. If people choose to use the phrase “open source” in a co
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by jotaen 4y ago
> The fact that you thought you knew what it meant without being given a definition “Open source” can be legitimately used as generic term, and as such one doesn’t need any definition at all to use the term in its colloquial sense. Imagi
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by jotaen 4y ago
The term “open source” might have originated with a particular meaning in mind, but I think OP’s point is that the term developed a life on its own thereafter. “Cheerios” is a made-up product name, and without knowing the definition of it
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by jotaen 4y ago
A somewhat related technique which I often find useful is something that’s known as “immediately invoked function expressions” (IIFE) in JavaScript. That also creates a sub-scope in place, but it let’s you return values to the enclosing sco
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by jotaen 4y ago
I think what’s confusing here is that there are two mental models that use the word “type” in an opposing way: if you think of types in terms of set theory, then “subtype of type A is a subset of type A”. But if you think of types in terms
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Nvidia Broadcast 1.4 Adds Eye Contact and Vignette Effects(nvidia.com)
1 points by jotaen 4y ago|0 comments
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by jotaen 4y ago
One feedback/idea in regards to the API: instead of using positional arguments, the parameters could also be named flags, i.e. `wfh.sh --user shunak --visibility public`. That’s slightly more verbose, but it would make it easier for th
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Like App Store, but open, cross-platform and decentralised(jotaen.net)
2 points by jotaen 4y ago|0 comments
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by jotaen 4y ago
It’s cool that you’ve launched a native app for TaskTXT. I think the UI concept is terrific, as it let’s me see and manipulate my plain data, but then also dynamically amends it with useful extra information and functionality. Is the video
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by jotaen 4y ago
I realised that I made a small mistake in my code sample above, but I can’t edit the post anymore. It should have been: [x] Example item [ ] Subitem [ ] Another Sub-Sub Item Continuation of the first it
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by jotaen 4y ago
> It's optional, so I'd assume it's for people who want to start the sentence from same aligned column. Yes, visual alignment is the first purpose; the other is if you want to sort your lines lexically (as described elsewh
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by jotaen 4y ago
You’d be free to format your titles like that, if you prefer. The only restriction for titles is that the line cannot start with whitespace or `[`. Not sure what you mean by the text wrapping bit, but I think that appropriate/pleasant
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by jotaen 4y ago
I’ve tried to implement the item nesting in the [x]it! Sublime Text plugin. The problem there was that I didn’t manage to implement strict rules for subitems. If you consider the following example: [x] Example item [ ] Subitem
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by jotaen 4y ago
Thanks for your feedback. I think for the status characters there are a lot of imaginable variations and preferences. In the end, I thought that restricting the spec to a single character per status would help to confine the overall complex

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