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631.
by pault 8y ago
Don't format on keypress. Ideally, give the user feedback on their input while they type, and disable saving until the field is correctly formatted. If you must have automated formatting, do it on blur instead.
632.
by pault 8y ago
I think my comment has been validated by the dozens of comments here complaining about broken inputs. I didn't say it was impossible; the basic trick only works in simple cases and the edge cases are numerous. If I implement a feature
633.
by pault 8y ago
I have to deal with exactly this issue at work on a project that emulates spreadsheet behavior for number formatting. I learned immediately that you have to format on blur, because anything you do to the input value while the user is typing
634.
by pault 8y ago
Your original comment did not say that you prefer personal interactions. You presented a bunch of your opinions about the effectiveness of in-person communication as if they were facts. Several more times in this thread you've written
635.
by pault 8y ago
> You don't understand that many people prefer interacting with other people in person instead of via a slack channel? > I wonder if you have tried socializing in person and via a computer. It's so much better in person, tha
636.
by pault 8y ago
I don't understand your point. I worked remotely for ten years and there was constant banter in the slack (skype before that) channels. We would spend as much time socializing as we would if we were in the office. I won't make any
637.
by pault 8y ago
Last time I paid attention drop shadows were extremely expensive to render, and using too many of them would severely reduce the framerate when scrolling and animating elements. I stopped using them partly because of that, and partly becaus
638.
by pault 8y ago
No, you build factories in orbit.
639.
by pault 8y ago
One of the plot points in Neal Stephenson's Seveneves [minor spoiler alert] is an Elon Musk-type character that melts a nuclear reactor into an ice comet to make a thruster that uses the comet as fuel. I always thought that was really
640.
by pault 8y ago
Wow, I looked at it and was just about to come back here and bash non-functional science fiction design, but it's actually completely usable and every element is displaying relevant data.
641.
by pault 8y ago
> Calls can only be traced whilst the caller is on the line. You just punched a hole in the plot of every procedural crime drama. :)
642.
by pault 8y ago
The demographic of people that want to view the site on a phone?
643.
by pault 8y ago
If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say the fact that it's a landing page with very little information and a newsletter sign up form has caused some people to flag it. I doubt it's a moderator action.
644.
by pault 8y ago
This is a point that has been mentioned in many of the articles on this subject lately, and one of the research programs I read about is measuring exactly this. They took a bunch of volunteers and counted the number of bugs on their windshi
645.
by pault 8y ago
One of the primary benefits of YC is getting a bunch of other YC companies as your first customers.
646.
by pault 8y ago
I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not, but I think we all know that "ask an engineer" means "ask a male engineer" 99% of the time. Edit: I was just guessing at the ratio of male to female engineers, so
647.
by pault 8y ago
I guess I can concede that. If you can compose an algorithm using a flow-based visual programming language I suppose you can consider a series of selectors an algorithm for applying styles, but by that logic every selector is an algorithm.
648.
by pault 8y ago
I learned a lot of CSS early in my career by experimentation, but everything that has been added to the language since css 3 I have learned from MDN, CSS Tricks[0], and the autocomplete in chrome dev tools. [0] https://css-tricks
649.
by pault 8y ago
Algorithm? I see a design process but using the word algorithm to describe a CSS layout is a bit baffling to me. It's like creating a library of json snippets and calling it a json algorithm.
650.
by pault 8y ago
Clicking on this link on Firefox iOS I see: A dickbar at the top telling me to open it in the app. A small section in the middle of the screen with a 50% black overlay that allows me to see about a quarter of the content with no ability to
651.
by pault 8y ago
Eh, I don't know. Why bother securing exhaust ports when someone can just jump to hyperspace and destroy your whole fleet?
652.
by pault 8y ago
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not but yes, every device I own automatically accepts input from any keyboard I plug in.
653.
by pault 8y ago
I once worked with a security researcher that would use infrared lasers to measure the temperature of different parts of a microcontroller to reverse engineer it. I have no idea what he did with that information but it blew my mind at the t
654.
by pault 8y ago
A resonance cascade?
655.
by pault 8y ago
Careful with those fake chargers. They're known to catch fire.
656.
by pault 8y ago
> About halfway to the lot, a ribbon of cobalt rises on the horizon; when it’s cloudy, a common occurrence in the mid-Atlantic, the darkness stays pure. The spectrum of color will change with the seasons, but now it is winter and the su
657.
by pault 8y ago
That's the joke.
658.
by pault 8y ago
Where did you get that the GP was highly defensive? I didn't read that at all. TBH I also thought it was strange that the proposed solution to certain toxic personalities was to hire different genders and races, which seems like a non
659.
by pault 8y ago
I got my most recent gig through a recruiter/staffing agency, and while they no doubt take a big cut I'm currently making about $60k over any salary I've been offered anywhere else. Also, every person they have sent for newly
660.
by pault 8y ago
I'm not sure I buy this. I recently worked on a project where we had one .net core developer, a dev ops guy, and me doing the client SPA. We were all able to focus on our core competencies and turn around the project incredibly quickly

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