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by mattwad 6y ago
I've been using date-fns on the backend. It's great; so long as you don't have to deal with timezones, because the functions only accept and return Date objects, which don't support internal timezone. The other day I nee
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by mattwad 6y ago
It's not just that. Timezones are the real bugger. Microsoft has their own list of names separate from the standard IANA timezones, for example. If it weren't for timezones, IMO dates are pretty damn trivial. It's just a matt
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by mattwad 6y ago
They would be great except the problem is once you're done with school, it can be incredibly hard to stay in the US. So we end up losing the people we help train. Fixing it by reducing these students entirely is going in the wrong dire
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by mattwad 6y ago
The thing is, having worked remotely for a year... the people working remote are the ones that become at a disadvantage. Because people in office may forget to include them in calls or conversations.
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by mattwad 6y ago
I love Pinterest for bookmarking things. Like, if I want to buy a new pair of hiking pants and shop around, I save them all to a new board. Dinner recipes, things like that. But I never look at the feeds or things they suggest.
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by mattwad 6y ago
OTOH, if you use Flow or Typescript, it is amazing to be able to share type-safe interfaces across the stack (not code). I suppose you could get this from any compiled-to-JS language too.
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by mattwad 6y ago
Well, same could be said for Macs. I have both a Macbook and Surface. Windows has surpassed Mac at this point in dev friendliness due to WSL. I've got VS Code and Docker Desktop running remotely to WSL 2 and my Surface Pro is silent. M
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by mattwad 6y ago
I recently started a new app using Material UI, after doing web dev since pre-CSS days. I'm trying to grok CSS-in-JS, and it's only been a few weeks but it still feels so completely unneccessary.
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by mattwad 6y ago
Pixel and Samsung were intended to compete with iPhone, so the cost is going to be somewhat similar. Also, these go on huge sales every year, whereas iPhone never does. If you buy these at cost, you're doing it wrong. If you're re
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by mattwad 6y ago
On Android I have a similar problem; I use Reddit is fun, and so it doesn't open that app; it always wants to download the main app.
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by mattwad 6y ago
you really use the same id twice on a page?! Heresey! Also.. I do the same (essentially: margin: 0 auto) but it works with display: block too, and you don't need text-align center on the parent.
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by mattwad 6y ago
> I worry the most about Scooters and AV as those are arguably core to urban mobility Scooters are a fad that was never needed. Bikes or mopeds like Revel are 10 times more useful. I don't think scooters replace anything of note, si
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by mattwad 6y ago
in the US we still aren't even following these simple rules consistently (even in NYC where I live). I agree with your point, I blame the guy in charge of everything who's repeatedly tried to downplay the severity, causing the res
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by mattwad 6y ago
Check out VS Code. It can now read and edit files inside of WSL remotely [1]. I've been using it on a new project and it works almost seamlessly * . I don't know if other editors will get this functionality, but there's reall
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by mattwad 6y ago
I really like this idea! The setup was also very easy too and honest about permissions (using Firefox). I 'enabled' Hacker News for 5 minutes so i could leave you a comment :) Next I need this for my phone.
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by mattwad 6y ago
I just learned how to make my website accessible to screen readers (using aria labels, tabindex, etc). You should definitely check it out now to learn how it works. I only did part of my website and it seems like a full-time job. I'm n
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by mattwad 7y ago
If helping some people that don't need it gets us to fix the issue for ones in need, who cares if a few people get extra help? Somehow, the Republican party, which uses this argument all the time, is fine with helping millionaires get
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by mattwad 7y ago
Ironically, even this list is a set of best practices that are sometimes specific to the use case.
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by mattwad 7y ago
Based on my experience, it's a rare skill if they can do it well. The problem is everyone says "I do tests"
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by mattwad 7y ago
Nice topic for the example ;)
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by mattwad 7y ago
I might get downvoted, but I believe that using "strict" mode is not worth it precisely for the reasons this article talks about. You get at least 90% of the benefit of Typescript (IDE support, typos, refactoring, etc) without --n
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by mattwad 7y ago
They should go back to offering free checked bags. I don't get why everyone thinks we should remove carry-ons. People didn't haev so many carry-ons when checking was free. If they really gave a damn to get us on faster, they would
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by mattwad 7y ago
It goes both ways. I've met engineers that want to be told what to do. I think they just looked at their role as "a job" which is fine. There's also people that are really interested in their work and should be included
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by mattwad 7y ago
This is how it always was. They always have secret keyboard shortcuts that don't have a menu option. Still, to this day, it's hard to even find your hard drive folder by default in Finder. Apple's UX is incredible if all you
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by mattwad 7y ago
This happened to us a couple weeks back. One day I woke up and our domain had been blocked from sending and receiving. We upgraded our account temporarily to get phone chat support, and what happened was they added some filters which uninte
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by mattwad 7y ago
I think the boon here will be for scripts that run once. Say I just want to query a few tables. Now, I no longer need a `main()` wrapper: const result = await db.events.find(); console.log(result); That's my whole script
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by mattwad 7y ago
You probably tripled your living costs and taxes too. I also moved from Dallas to NYC, so can't argue, but it's not apples to apples.
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by mattwad 7y ago
I also think it's mostly meant to be a deterrent. When I had BofA, any time I got overdraft I just called and they would take it off, usually without an explanation.
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by mattwad 7y ago
At least that means more jobs for us, right?
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by mattwad 7y ago
Twitter's website does this to me on my phone. Half the time I decide not to read the tweet.

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