mkozlows

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by mkozlows 7y ago
Javascript being enabled/disabled has nothing at all to do with accessibility. A site can be JS-heavy and fully accessible. (Most aren't. But it's because they're developing it poorly, not because they're using JS.)
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by mkozlows 7y ago
Great high-DPI (which Linux is still not great at); great trackpad support (ditto).
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by mkozlows 7y ago
I mean, okay, but which other things that you would have selected would still be a good choice today? Would you be happy if you'd gone with Ember or Backbone?
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by mkozlows 7y ago
So there's not, as of now, a "native" (not using the Android emulation) Flutter API in ChromeOS?
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by mkozlows 7y ago
The "scam" is on everyone who doesn't have a rewards card. The increased interchange fees are shared by everyone, with reward card users reaping the benefit.
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by mkozlows 7y ago
Which is not a fact of nature, but a decision that Apple made.
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by mkozlows 8y ago
https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/mti/helvetica-now/ lets you choose stylistic alternates. Stylistic set 04 is straight-legged R.
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by mkozlows 8y ago
Agree with all this, but I'll also say that if you're an experienced developer who hasn't kept up with the times, that's not just a fact in itself, it's also a signal about what kind of developer you are. Most of th
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by mkozlows 8y ago
That's a product that was made by a failed company that Google acquihired people from. And Google supported it well past when that company would have if they had died on their own.
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by mkozlows 8y ago
They get paid very differently, is the thing.
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by mkozlows 8y ago
What I'd say to that is, yeah, it's true that a senior dev will have skills that go beyond a particular tech stack -- but if you're working as a dev, then those skills are still tied to your technical knowledge. You might be
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by mkozlows 8y ago
100%. I think this is the biggest trap that an experienced developer can fall into. "I know Tech X, I can still get lucrative jobs in Tech X, there's no reason for me to jump out of my comfort zone and learn Tech Y." But if y
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by mkozlows 8y ago
This whole "learn a new one in a couple weeks" mindset is toxic and needs to die. Yes, you can learn anything at a superficial level in a couple weeks. If you've spent the last ten years maintaining an ASP.NET WebForms app ru
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by mkozlows 8y ago
Java, Perl, and Python all date back to the '90s. Yeah, that was a commmon pattern in the '90s.
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by mkozlows 8y ago
"Breaking the API" is what we call "refactoring" in the (extremely common) case where your code is only used in a single project, and not part of a reusable library. And yeah, if you radically rework how you make your bo
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by mkozlows 8y ago
Implementing proposals before they become standards is totally normal and a good way to prove out the proposal. Google's implemented tons of proposals, and generally pulled out the ones that didn't become standardized.
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by mkozlows 8y ago
Decorators, which have to be added as a language concept because of classes, when otherwise higher-order functions would do what needs to be done.
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by mkozlows 8y ago
This is Exhibit N for the "the class keyword is ruining Javascript" prosecution. If you want a "private variable" you just use a closure. let incrementer = () => { let x = 0; return { value: () =>
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by mkozlows 8y ago
How's your Silverlight app working out for you? Does it still connect to your WebObjects server?
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by mkozlows 8y ago
Ergodox EZ has a graphical config tool.
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by mkozlows 8y ago
It's not just Java culture, though, it's also Java. For instance, you can't have "npm for Java," because that's not how Java works at a very fundamental level. Java gets gigantic monolithic framework libraries
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by mkozlows 8y ago
Whenever you're making a transition from one type of company to another, the hiring manager is going to be very concerned about whether you understand the kind of transition you're making, and are able to bridge that gap. If you&#
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by mkozlows 8y ago
Literally exactly what Arm is talking about in this roadmap.
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by mkozlows 8y ago
There are a lot of things that you simply can't learn by yourself, though. The practicalities of doing things on a team, at scale, are just out of scope for personal side projects.
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by mkozlows 8y ago
0.04% for Admiral shares, aka the ones for people who have $100k.
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by mkozlows 8y ago
This is the beginning of an (incomplete as of now) series on doing so, and should be a good starting point: https://matt3o.com/book/
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by mkozlows 8y ago
Don't get hung up on the problems. 98% of the people I've worked with couldn't, e.g., reverse a linked list to save their life. Many of them were perfectly fine professional programmers all the same. If you have a CS degree,
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by mkozlows 8y ago
This isn't my experience. I have a Chromebook Pixel, which is x86, and games and movie apps work fine on it. I think anything major is likely to be cross-compiled, and it's only niche apps that won't run.
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by mkozlows 8y ago
https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing/sheet/ has pricing for routes.
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by mkozlows 8y ago
This article is needlessly alarmist. Really, there are three ways you can go as you get up there in seniority: 1. If you're a good programmer, and you can/want to keep learning new things and jumping onto the latest technologies (

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