leptons

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by leptons 21d ago
The DOM is the slowest part of the browser. It's not Javascript, it's the DOM. React is an attempt to manage the slowness of the DOM. One seemingly small change to a page (like setting innerText) can have many ripple effects with
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by leptons 22d ago
Just because someone can code front-end doesn't mean they can design good UX. One of the "full-stack" devs I work with who started as a back-end dev thinks rewriting a full WYSIWYG front-end system is fine to replace with a s
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by leptons 22d ago
>Also telling people to "calm down" over text when they are not even talking to you is very passive aggresive for no reason. Your "This" quote was the least genuine comment I've seen on HN in a very long time. Yo
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by leptons 22d ago
I honestly think specializing in front or back end is a good thing. Sure, it does help to know both, but there's too much ground to cover for any one person to do well at all of it. I'm full-stack leaning towards front-end, and wo
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by leptons 22d ago
>This You're cherry-picking a single word to start a pointless internet argument? Calm down. Nobody claimed this exact event lead to problems for anyone. This is what OP actually said: >>This is exactly the sort of thing Yes,
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by leptons 22d ago
I spent 2 years developing and polishing a front end web application, and then some other engineers at my company pointed Claude at it to try to reproduce it. The slop it crapped out would make most if not all our users leave for the compet
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by leptons 22d ago
>But in general, frontend code is a lot more ephemeral and replaceable than other types of code. Tell that to Digg. If you slop oit a front-end, your users will leave. It's that simple. The front-end is the part the users use the
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by leptons 23d ago
>Everything else is manufacturing a problem where there was none. That's this administrations exact intended purpose for forcing this.
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by leptons 23d ago
Kid Rock is probably next, or worse.
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by leptons 24d ago
That's a pretty hilarious story of war dialing. I used to wardial every night too. I had the FBI show up my house this one time... one of my warez/phreak acquaintances had started a world-wide conference call of phreaks originatin
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by leptons 24d ago
My grandfather worked for Sperry and we had circuit boards from Univacs in our basement when I was young. Then I bought an Atari 400 and B&W TV for the display when I was 11. Looking back it was pretty neat getting to see what came befo
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by leptons 24d ago
That's amazing. I often thought that if I had kids, this is how I'd introduce computers to them. Give them a great C64 setup, the whole manual and when they can do something impressive, then they get a more powerful computer - an
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by leptons 24d ago
ouch
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by leptons 24d ago
I have a similar story. Single mom, early/mid 1980s C64. I recently found the framed receipt for this purchase. My mom still had it and framed it when she found it years ago, as it became clear that purchase led to my prosperity (unt
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by leptons 26d ago
In my experience, Burning Man is all 3 types of fun at the same time.
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by leptons 26d ago
It's participants that make it what it is, and not everyone participates. Quite a lot that come are purely spectators.
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by leptons 27d ago
https://www.linkedin.com/top-content/engineering/engineering... There's quite a lot of evidence out there. Just because you're unwilling to accept it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I've pr
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by leptons 28d ago
Your comment is a little overdramatic and lacks and grounding in reality. Lots of companies overhired, including mine, and we also had layoffs that were not a result of AI, it pre-dated anyone using AI at our company. But whatever, this poi
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by leptons 28d ago
That wasn't necessarily caused by AI, in fact quite a lot of the layoffs came well before AI was useful. Most of the layoffs happened because companies over-hired during covid, and a lot of other economic issues causing people to spend
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by leptons 1mo ago
Apparently some people think republicans were the only presidents elected in the last 25+ years? Even senile Joe Biden was more competent than the current malicious moron in power.
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by leptons 1mo ago
>All past elections prove you otherwise. This is not a fact. This is bullshit trolling. This pointless internet interaction is over .
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by leptons 1mo ago
If you honestly think that, then you are not paying attention, or you're just a typical troll.
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by leptons 1mo ago
Iran is not a war funded by congress, so it's really no wonder the US appears inneffective. Trump didn't get the support he thought he would from congress and now he's flailing around trying to save face. Change the leadershi
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by leptons 1mo ago
>US backed off last year when there were talks about protecting Taiwan. They pulled Patriot missiles from Taiwan and South Korea too. >US cannot blockade Hormuz, as we've seen. JP cannot do that with their current constitution un
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by leptons 1mo ago
Some devs . To think most or even half of all devs do this is a bit overly optomistic.
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by leptons 1mo ago
Thanks for reminding us what it looks like to lack a moral compass.
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by leptons 1mo ago
It's absolutely an iffy example, I told you exactly why - you had to reach back a quarter century to find anything , and it was a knee-jerk reaction to a catastrophic terrorist attack. You can't really defend that by saying &quot
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by leptons 1mo ago
Pretty hilarious that you have to reach back 25 years for one iffy example that happened right after we had the largest terrorist attack in the history of the earth. It was absolutely a knee-jerk reaction, and wasn't the norm, it&#x
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by leptons 1mo ago
Only a small part, maybe 1/3 of the US wanted this. Not the whole population. Sadly 1/3 of eligible voters don't vote - they are the ones who didn't want this but don't have enough sense to vote, and that's dif
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by leptons 1mo ago
Republicans are in every way trying to turn this into an authoritarian hellhole. "Cruelty is the point" is a phrase used with regards to right-wing politics in America. We're heading in the worst direction possible, but it ta

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