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by nevir 9y ago
Agreed. You can be sure that whomever was involved with the bug will probably never make that mistake again.
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by nevir 9y ago
There's also several options for purely online editing (devving on a Chromebook isn't bad)
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by nevir 9y ago
If his machine was not configured to secure erase files (unlikely; not the default) when emptying trash, they can be "trivially" recovered by firms like this (HFS+ makes it harder than it should be)
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by nevir 9y ago
Convoy | Software Engineers | Seattle, WA | Full-Time | ONSITE https://convoy.com Help us optimize trucking and logistics - a $800B industry that still runs on fax machines and phone calls. We would love more engineers, up and d
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by nevir 9y ago
It certainly does introduce side effects (by default, for Apollo or Relay): * A network request is kicked off if the cache doesn't contain the data the component declares a dependency on. * other components that depend on any part of t
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by nevir 9y ago
Companies that take this sort of thing seriously ALSO have breaches occur. They just do a better job of mitigating them, and messaging them.
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by nevir 9y ago
I wonder if some sort of projection would help there: expand areas around the points of interest, and compress space between points.
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by nevir 9y ago
Convoy | Software Engineers | Seattle, WA | Full-Time | ONSITE https://convoy.com Help us optimize trucking and logistics - a $800B industry that still runs on fax machines and phone calls. We would love more engineers, up and d
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by nevir 9y ago
https://github.com/denysdovhan/wtfjs
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by nevir 9y ago
Wait, why does the volume of their countributions matter for an issue like this?
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by nevir 9y ago
If members of your community are feeling discouraged to the point that they're asking for a CoC, it seems like something worth taking notice of.
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by nevir 9y ago
It's really hard to do well, and in a performant manner. I'm glad they built it. Measuring glyphs, dealing with reflow, kerning, whitespace breaking rules, etc is no fun
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by nevir 9y ago
Their sites aren't very clear - what differentiates their open source version ( http://devexpress.github.io/testcafe/ ) from the paid ($500/dev/year) version? ( https://testcafe.devexpress.com&#x
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by nevir 9y ago
Most likely PDT. There aren't any regions currently observing PST
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by nevir 9y ago
How important is binary size for desktop apps, though?
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by nevir 9y ago
Freight brokerages typically have margins around 15% https://www.quora.com/What-kind-of-margins-can-non-asset-bas...
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Freight-booking startup Convoy raises $62M, led by Y Combinator(wsj.com)
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by nevir 9y ago
It's really not that much less secure than physical 2FA: I'm willing to bet that most people just leave their hardware key in their laptop at all times. (where "most people" ends up being corporate U2F users, who are pr
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by nevir 9y ago
Pik pics
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by nevir 9y ago
Some random points: * The caching clients (Relay, Apollo) out there are dog slow for medium to large response payloads. (they're working on it) * It can add more complexity than you need if used for service<->service chatter (pur
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by nevir 9y ago
Don't forget that there are actual people that come up with, and write the code for projects like React. They're often solving problems that affect large numbers of developers (initially, inside their company). And, because of th
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by nevir 9y ago
> This explains why the market share decline of Firefox has accelerated so dramatically the last 12 months despite Firefox getting much better during the same time window. (this quote is from the article, in reference to Google aggressiv
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by nevir 9y ago
Until then, lodash.mapValues is your friend :P
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by nevir 9y ago
> fine but this is entirely irrelevant. the problem is that no one was optimizing for the deliverable (JavaScript). the GWT folks could have easily written an excellent compiler so it didnt generate a bunch of slow trash. Compilers can o
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by nevir 9y ago
> Guys that made the Closure compiler must take JS seriously. Indeed; Arv is a TC39 member. > Gmail in particular is still written using GWT, AFAIK, hence the strange HTML, etc. Its current frontend is probably an unsexy maintenance p
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by nevir 9y ago
> And exactly what language do these fine folks do their frontend development in, Go, C++? For a very long time, GWT (Java compiled to JS) was the preferred approach. Then development moved to the Closure compiler (JS following very Jav
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by nevir 9y ago
Addy, Dominic, Eric, the Pauls, etc are (mostly) dev outreach for the Chrome team, which is why they're so well known. There are a LOT of talented frontend devs in Google; you just don't see them much externally. That being said,
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by nevir 9y ago
AWS was not built for internal-first use. For quite some time (often years) after S3/EC2/etc launched, they were not available internally. From what I hear, they are now used pretty extensively internally (and that may have b
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by nevir 9y ago
https://caniuse.com/#feat=cors and hit "show all" TL;DR - evergreen browsers, mobile browsers (except for images), IE 11+, and IE 8+ partially supports it
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by nevir 9y ago
Also deal with all the crazy situations that arise from cars driving humans through cities

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