midiguy

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by midiguy 5y ago
Once again, author gives a couple vague points against single-page applications while conveniently failing to address all of the bullshit that came before with PHP and friends. These rants are always the same two or three substance-less par
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by midiguy 5y ago
It comes down to the inherent tradeoff of flexibility vs ease of use. Wix is easy to use because it does not offer much customizability. If you made it flexible enough to create any layout, theme, etc, you would probably end up with a GUI
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by midiguy 5y ago
It's not snake oil - with the right dosage it definitely produces opiate-like effects while avoiding the deadly dangers of opiate/alcohol overdose. However, it is just another addictive drug with it's own unpleasant side-effe
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by midiguy 5y ago
> All of these unresolved arguments are about team dynamics, not technology No, it's definitely about technology. Let me simplify this for you. Technology A can do thing 1 very well, and thing 2 decently. Technology B can do thing 2
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by midiguy 5y ago
I was going to say.... ironically NextJS is just an additional layer for creating static-rendered sites over an SPA framework. We have come full circle.
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by midiguy 5y ago
Every week someone posts some half-baked blog ramble about how SPAs are bad (except for media sites!). How about this - I am just as or more efficient working with SPA frameworks such as React as working with server-side-rendering. I have i
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by midiguy 5y ago
Ah QA Analyst, the person no one wants to be but everyone wants on their team.
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by midiguy 5y ago
Hey fellow accordion busker! I find my busking income has diminished vastly with age, despite my skill rising. Everyone wants to toss a coin at the 10 year old playing decent accordion. Not so much the 30 year old playing good accordion.
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by midiguy 5y ago
Maybe in S.... in TEM (especially computer science and engineering) there is no way it is close to 50/50.