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by ratww 4y ago
Alright, we seem to be talking past each other. Maybe that's the sign this is not a productive discussion. I'm not calling jQuery is bloated or difficult to read, nor I am telling anyone they should count bytes. > Is going to
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by ratww 4y ago
Changing the meaning of a phrase to the point it becomes a strawman is not "making summaries".
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by ratww 4y ago
Once again, my friend, that's not the point, and I'm not even talking about it anywhere. I get it that you like jQuery, but your reply defending it has absolutely nothing to do with my reply. Nobody is reimplementing the 280k of j
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by ratww 4y ago
I feel like that's the only measured answer. This is normal. The thing that affects the team the most in this case is the complexity of the code base. A lot of comments are blaming speed for a supposed lack of sophistication, excessive
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by ratww 4y ago
That's not the point. The point is that this is a strawman. "Enough helper functions" to get to jQuery is 288580 bytes. A quarter of that, or even a tenth of that, is already a pathological case and way beyond almost every ca
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by ratww 4y ago
> Add enough helper functions are you're at jQuery anyway. I really hate these exaggerations. jQuery is, last I checked, over 200k unminified. Anyone writing enough helper functions to get to a fraction of that is already a pathol
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by ratww 4y ago
Once again you chose to selectively ignore most of the message and edit it to focus on a part you can use to paint me in the worse possible light. Similar to how you did with your original post. Your only tactic in this discussion is to sel
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by ratww 4y ago
You can simply not store any IP addresses whatsoever, or anonymise them. Current privacy laws have provisions for it. It's not only about which data goes trough your system. It's about what you do with it. When I go to my friend&#
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by ratww 4y ago
> Could be the paper makes a distinctive rattle, and he's learned it will elicit a distinctive response Yep, I think that's the answer! The cat discovered the dog clicker!
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by ratww 4y ago
I find that even using https://open.spotify.com in Safari is incredibly snappier and much less of a memory hog compared to the official client, at least on my own computer. (I'm not at all trying to convince you to "st
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by ratww 4y ago
In my personal and limited experience of being present in Union meetings, tech startups (the kind of we see on HN) were consistently more cut-throat and stubborn than enterprise, consulting and other tech businesses, so I doubt we'll s
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by ratww 4y ago
I’m always up for a productive discussion, but there are two paragraphs of text before the one you’re childishly replying to, which you dishonestly chose to ignore in order to make a childish personal attack. Just like you chose to ignore t
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by ratww 4y ago
The problem is that the removal of what you call "obvious exaggeration" and "figure of speech" completely changes the meaning of the phrase and transforms the author's position from reasonable to unreasonable. That&
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by ratww 4y ago
The author himself didn't claim they're universally bad, nor did anyone else. The only "claim" for that is in your original post, where you misquoted the author on purpose! You can't completely twist someone else&#x
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by ratww 4y ago
Sorry but you are wrong. Useless documentation, useless tests and useless arguing definitely exist, period, and they are tautologically bad. Maybe you haven't had the experience of working in such an environment where those things happ
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by ratww 4y ago
What's on the poster?
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by ratww 4y ago
I love this idea. Would be nice to see it in a search engine, or at least a browser extension showing how much analytics junk a site has before you click it.
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by ratww 4y ago
Big corps doing big projects are already doing risky stuff. Those big projects often fail to deliver the expected result within the expected time frame and budget. Devils advocate: Having multiple efforts in parallel with the crazy overhead
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by ratww 4y ago
This is not what the article says, however. You misquoted in order to leave out the fact that the documentation is 50 pages, and some of the tests are useless, and arguing with colleagues is not always productive.
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by ratww 4y ago
It definitely doesn't. I worked in the past at a company where Softbank asked for the dev headcount to be increased as a condition of the funding. Lots of teams ended up being responsible for halves of pages, half of a microservice, et
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by ratww 4y ago
However it is often the case that programmers "at the leaves of org charts" (to paraphrase another commenter) won't get to participate on meetings that can define if something can be replaced by "less code", let alo
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by ratww 4y ago
I think there's two kinds of SEO spam going on. The black-hat kind is definitely made to extract money from ads. But those are easy to avoid for web veterans IMO. And I also feel that Google is doing its part, even though it's cos
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by ratww 4y ago
Sure. The things you mention (Compliance, privacy, legal, internal tooling) also have to grow together with the number of developers to scale. Not only those, but also support, QA, management, UX/UI. All those ares have to increase whe
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by ratww 4y ago
This might be controversial, but I wish Google would exclude those websites too. Google started punishing keyword spam, then it started punishing black-hat comment spam. Even Youtube backtracked on the "videos have to be 10 minutes to
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by ratww 4y ago
Exactly, I mentioned it. But not only it's bound to go away sometime, it's also not trivial to find to anyone who's not an expert Reddit user, unfortunately.
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by ratww 4y ago
Twitter and Reddit still can be indexed, but they've also become increasingly hard to use without an account. Reddit doesn't let you fully expand threads when you're unlogged. Twitter limits the amount of things you can read
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by ratww 4y ago
The whole reason it feels understaffed is because there's too many people. I know it sounds counter-intuitive, but software doesn't really scale linearly. Unless they're 100% independent, the communication overhead will alway
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by ratww 4y ago
Yep. With an addendum: it's not that they do "nothing", and that's the "problem". The end result is minimal, but the amount of work is still significant. In any saner place it would amount to almost nothing, bu
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by ratww 4y ago
I see either racist stuff or someone who spammed hundreds of messages to get a job.
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by ratww 4y ago
Now that's a confession!

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