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by ng12 7y ago
I'd wager it's even more true among top-tier candidates. Anecdotally the best engineers I've ever worked with have been among the most uninterested in politics.
872.
by ng12 7y ago
For every politically woke CS student there are two dozen completely apolitical ones (and a sprinkling of wrongthinkers). I don't think Palantir is really desperate for applicants.
873.
by ng12 7y ago
Have you ever tried to support a native application? There's a reason why the web is the preferred mode of delivery over the internet.
874.
by ng12 7y ago
Uber and the gig economy are just a small part of a much larger trend. American labor has been increasingly devalued since the late 70s. The only difference is, opposed to say offshoring manufacturing jobs, that it's very visible to yu
875.
by ng12 7y ago
It's because I've been trying very hard to understand what your contention is. The bits about peacocking and resume-padding are... unconvincing. > ...improve UX, performance, maintainability, and development cost. I don't
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by ng12 7y ago
> Your manager or project owner or whoever says "we want a webapp" are you gonna stick your neck out and argue against it? The question is: what are you going to argue for instead? Not using the web at all is a non-starter, esp
877.
by ng12 7y ago
So a thing nobody wants or needs became extremely commonplace because JS devs (and only JS devs, I guess the Java guys have yet to discover this) realized they could invent some new frameworks and managers would gladly pay six-figures a hea
878.
by ng12 7y ago
This is such a lame meme. A community built an entire distributable developer toolchain from the ground up, in a completely modular fashion, and then get lambasted for it existing on disk. Or maybe non-JS developers are just upset that they
879.
by ng12 7y ago
You think an _entire industry_ has been built up around a desire to pad resumes? I don't even know how to respond to that.
880.
by ng12 7y ago
> We have grafted an application platform on top of a document delivery platform. The problem is this is incredibly valuable and we have no good alternatives. There is simply no better format for deploying applications than the web.
881.
by ng12 7y ago
I hate that you're downvoted. So many people on HN are truly ignorant about what web development is about. > Because we're no longer making websites, we're making apps This is exactly right. Some projects should be SPAs, s
882.
by ng12 7y ago
Yes, no, no, very rarely, absolutely. It's really not that complicated.
883.
by ng12 7y ago
> Web browsers are being used as a run time. Yes, because that's valuable to the business. My department makes money doing what we do, I'm making my life easier using an SPA framework.
884.
by ng12 7y ago
Uh, it's not like PHP and jQuery don't exist anymore. Use the right tools for the job.
885.
by ng12 7y ago
> Someone else mentioned SPAs. I 100% guarantee that no user in the world ever wished for their “back” button not to work as they expected. This opinion invalidates the rest of your post. If you lack a fundamental understanding what peop
886.
by ng12 7y ago
I don't buy it. The Continental Army and regional militias existed independently, both predate the Bill of Rights. It's debatable by the dictionary definition of the word, but definitely wrong in the context of the US Constitution
887.
by ng12 7y ago
I think that's a very questionable interpretation of the word militia. By definition a militia is separate from a country's military.
888.
by ng12 7y ago
The problem is we live in a digital society, and comparing Cloudflare to a notice board is wildly reductionist.
889.
by ng12 7y ago
I think you'd find a great many talented engineers don't share the same politics you do, and an even greater number who are far too apolitical for it to factor into their job search.
890.
by ng12 7y ago
Preventing HFT would mean exchanges make less money, meaning they'd either have to charge more or find a new way to subsidize market activity. It's akin to how Robinhood sells data to trading firms to subsidize trades for long-ter
891.
by ng12 7y ago
> If you think that the best ideas naturally win out you're either ignorant So who gets to decide which ideas are the ones that deserve to win and which ones get snuffed out?
892.
by ng12 7y ago
HN is the only place I've seen people outright defending the PRC's human rights abuses. Something about HN really brings out the ultra-nationalists.
893.
by ng12 7y ago
Elizabeth Warren has been calling for the same thing. Seems relatively bipartisan. https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/03/08/politics/elizabeth-warren-a...
894.
by ng12 7y ago
> This is the ideal use case for react context. Not really. React.Context solves the global availability bit but it does not scale with the size and complexity of your data. You'll end up building a custom Redux store inside your Co
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by ng12 7y ago
> You just don't need it I have a lots data that needs to be globally available between multiple pages and is largely interdependent (i.e. one update might affect multiple slices of the data). The data needs to be updated optimistic
896.
by ng12 7y ago
I feel like Redux is a foot-cannon. Too many people use it for simple apps where they take on all the pain but see none of the benefits. I always advise people to avoid it until you're sure you need it.
897.
by ng12 7y ago
You could implement this in a dozen lines of code using React.Context. What's the benefit for React specifically?
898.
by ng12 7y ago
It doesn't, but blogs aren't built to present content they're built to sell advertisements and collect data. That's much easier with an SPA than a SSR app.
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by ng12 7y ago
> And most JS frameworks confuse the logical structure of an app with the 'physical' structure of the DOM. Because that's what JavaScript does. How is it any different than document.getElementById or the window event handl
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by ng12 7y ago
I don't think so, at least not for the kinds of apps I build. My biggest problem is largely around interactivity -- shuffling lots of data back-and-forth between the client and the server. If I'm going to have a SSR app with lots

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