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by macando 7y ago
Bingo! Above the fold is the more common term. I usually call it "landing area" and the whole thing I call "landing page". Naming is important :)
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by macando 7y ago
One of my favorite writers. In his collection of short stories the two opposing math concepts are mentioned: The Aleph - A point in space through which the whole universe can be seen and comprehended. The Zahir - An object that has the powe
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by macando 7y ago
Maybe we are talking about 2 different things. I want to stretch the image to the bottom of the visible area not to the bottom of the site. If the height of the parent is 100% and that parent is the site itself and it's 5000px high (be
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by macando 7y ago
And set the height to what? Using percentages means 100% relative to the parent. What if the whole site is the parent and that site is 3 screens high? I haven't found the way to make it work without relying on vh or JavaScript.
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by macando 7y ago
If you have a site that's N screens high and you want to set the height of a div (i.e. an image) so it covers the whole landing area (what the user sees when the site loads) then this code won't help. You have to use vh
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by macando 7y ago
And no way to test it with the address bar visible in the Chrome emulator. So it's all nice and dandy until you actually load the site on a mobile device.
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by macando 7y ago
|Harry Roberts - 10 Principles for effective Front-end Development| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8adsZeMQjGQ Beyond languages and frameworks. One of my favorite speeches on development which I periodically rewatch. It wi
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by macando 7y ago
I can't recommend Effective Java enough. Even if one hates Java with passion. I haven't managed to find a better book on how to design an API in any language. It learned me to think about the consumers of my code all the time (eve
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by macando 7y ago
This is completely normal. Flexible layouts in any UI system are difficult. I was surprised that the authors of all the popular CSS books and courses usually skip or barely cover that part. Apparently they know it's a topic difficult t
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by macando 7y ago
I've just done it. You're right.
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by macando 7y ago
This is awesome! Clearing some of the challenges without having to Google for the right selector feels good =) Congrats to whomever made it.
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by macando 7y ago
Outstanding. I learned the Flex layout by playing this simple game: https://flexboxfroggy.com/ (from the same author I believe). I wonder if there are examples of learning through playing a game that are as effective as the
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by macando 7y ago
The missing context: I think that some of the practices used by startups are not inherently better but just performed in front of a much more tolerant and loving audience. If we are talking about big nasty systems full of legacy code - what
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by macando 7y ago
I'm a fan of React but I posted the link because this time the author actually used React for many years. Usually, people criticizing it are still learning and are frustrated by React's vast and fragmented ecosystem stemming from
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Why We Should Ditch React [video](youtube.com)
39 points by macando 7y ago|31 comments
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by macando 7y ago
https://slatestarcodex.com/ If you're into long intellectual essays on deeply investigated obscure topics you won't find a better place. I opened it once or twice. The community is surprisingly active.
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by macando 7y ago
Learning to drive in your 70s should't be that hard. From what I understood by reading the blog post, older people want features not feature phones. Do you want to be able to learn and have access to whatever is the latest tech when yo
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by macando 7y ago
I agree. I guess Andrew chose those examples to better illustrate what those properties could represent.
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by macando 7y ago
Can you elaborate or compare with some other tech that is easier to use for them? I think using a smartphone is no harder than driving a car.
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by macando 7y ago
After watching Andrew Ng's course on NLP is when it finally all clicked to me. Basically, every word can be numerically described with up to 300 properties, some properties being more important. So every word is a 300-dimensional vecto
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by macando 7y ago
"If the sharks disappear, the little fish explode in population, because nothing's eating them," Daly-Engel told Live Science. "Pretty soon, their food — plankton, microorganisms, little shrimps — all of that is gone, so
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by macando 7y ago
Following The First Tenet of Domain Driven Design: Ubiquitous Language. "Evans makes clear that using the ubiquitous language in conversations with domain experts is an important part of testing it, and hence the domain model. He also
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by macando 7y ago
(Speculative) Fiction: "The City and The Stars" by Arthur C. Clarke Nonfiction: "Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die" by Chip Heath and Dan Heath. The best book on how to communicate. The best part: the
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by macando 7y ago
The Immortal and The Aleph by Borges are pretty awesome too.
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by macando 7y ago
What's often overlooked by the people working in tech is how mobile phones positively impacted the lives of older people. "The Mobile Phone Generation by Fred Wilson ... But maybe the most amazing thing, to me anyway, is that my m
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by macando 7y ago
> Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no". Truth be told Node.js, Laravel and Phoenix are steadily chipping away at its piece of the
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by macando 7y ago
Intuition indeed. Nothing can replace a stream of several-hour long hyper-focused sessions of debugging bizarre multi-layer multi-language multi-concept bugs. The mind needs to expand and adjust to that.
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by macando 7y ago
Get them to read at least the first 13 chapters of "Clean Code" by Robert C Martin. I read it 6 months into my first professional engagement and it helped my development a lot. It will make your life easier too.
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by macando 7y ago
SEEKING WORK | Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina, Central European Time) | Remote 3-person team of senior software engineers and designers here. We all have 10+ years of experience working for Fortune 500 companies and several acquired sta
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by macando 7y ago
React in-depth: https://overreacted.io by Dan Abramov. Software architectures: https://martinfowler.com/architecture by Martin Fowler. AI and Data Science: https://towardsdatascience.com/

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