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by rovek 6y ago
> JS the language isn't great but it's JS the culture that is the real problem. This is the money quote of the thread for me. From the perspective of someone whose main language has been JS or TS for about 8 years, it's ge
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by rovek 6y ago
I don't know if there is a "main reason" for all instances. For me, on this kind of project at one of the Biggest Co's, it seemed a bit like the safety net point you make and it creeps into everything. There didn't
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by rovek 6y ago
To be fair all Apple products do come with the handy caption "Designed by Apple [for] California"
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by rovek 6y ago
I had a similar experience with a company called RateSetter. - They email me some marketing - I respond with DSAR - They acknowledge receipt of DSAR - 6 months pass - I bump the email thread - They respond saying they have deleted my data a
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by rovek 6y ago
I also missed it, I'd say it's not a good example. Apple is not a generic word, it's very specifically about fruit or tech which are concepts with little-to-no overlap. Element is a word that appears throughout life and techn
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by rovek 7y ago
I had been thinking recently as I've been using Firefox more that Google maps had got clunky. With a little fiddling prompted by your comment, it turns out Maps sniffs specifically to reduce fluid animations on Firefox (and probably so
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by rovek 7y ago
Relevant but not exhaustive: https://monzo.com/help/legal-stuff/information-facebook
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by rovek 7y ago
You're right, it does assume a certain screen width and doesn't scale at all in any way. I was also thinking when I returned to HN from the article that I couldn't actually read HN because the white-on-black was such an extre
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by rovek 7y ago
My DoH in 71.0 and 72.0 is off by default, I haven't changed those settings.
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by rovek 7y ago
I assume mentioning AL is a joke. Hadn't heard of Kabbee before though, doesn't look outrageously expensive for one of my common journeys.
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by rovek 7y ago
Cost is only one, relatively small, part of Uber's USP in London. The general shittiness of Black Cab drivers about taking you anywhere close to the edges of zone 1 is the biggest issue for me. Night tube only runs on Fri/Sat nigh
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by rovek 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy's_law#cite_ref-3
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by rovek 7y ago
This was optional on the ESTA form when I completed it less than a month ago, maybe it's different for different countries. Not a good direction but also not enforced in my experience.
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by rovek 7y ago
The audience for the product is not the same as the audience for the website.
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by rovek 7y ago
It's been obvious from the beginning that the aggressive idealogues decided she was a mascot for progress, regardless of her willingness to participate. It's a shame that the genuinely colossal achievements of Katie and her collea
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by rovek 8y ago
> If however only or predominately females encounter attitude and males dont, then it is likely gendered issue. And vice versa. Every frontend dev I've ever worked with has received this same treatment, so I would find it difficult
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by rovek 8y ago
I'm not sure if this is satire or nonsense. > ...women (and men) who feel their roles as front end devs are considered less... > I didn't see it as a gendered issue until it was brought to my attention by female co-workers..
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by rovek 8y ago
It's fair to say GS has credibility for running a profitable business, not necessarily doing so while adhering to any given ethical (or in some cases legal, since 2008) code. Also, as pointed out elsewhere in the comments, Malaysia has
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by rovek 8y ago
It feels to me like Bluetooth consumer products are a lot like consumer printers; for 90+% of users they will be obsolete before they "just work" to any layperson's definition. Every Christmas, you will have to fix your paren
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by rovek 8y ago
If you didn't use JS for date pickers, you didn't have very inclusive browser support - especially for something like a healthcare website. [1] Were the designs and layout of these SPA and HTML5/CSS3 website also identical? [
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by rovek 8y ago
Paying attention to what other people think is vital for converging on an agreed "right thing to do" as the social challenges become less obvious and more complex. This exercise requires proponents of ideas to engage in civil conv
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by rovek 8y ago
This would be my complaint having had a quick look at Fastmail. Their mail client provides only the most basic of email functionality - folders, filters, contacts etc. It seems like you're paying a monthly subscription for privacy when
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by rovek 8y ago
They seem to be using Na as a justification for using N, since the other chemical symbols don't match the acronym either. Unless they're just using the first letter of each symbol, either way it's not a great name.
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by rovek 8y ago
If she were doing an interview with playboy you may expect them to dig into her love life and other such things but she is an engineer interviewing with motherboard.
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by rovek 8y ago
It seems the player needs to click words to make them vanish, while letters continue falling - this is the first thing that should be changed.
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by rovek 8y ago
I would argue the only significant area for improvement is in fact the compactness. There is too little whitespace on the listing pages to easily read the links, the fonts are small and the lines of text are too long. The latter can be fixe
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by rovek 8y ago
I don't know what you mean; I've just been working on 3 Node lambdas, deployed by CircleCI to AWS infrastructure provisioned by terraform which take a CSV from an email and output multiple CSVs.
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by rovek 8y ago
> It tends to mean i don't know about volcanos eruptions till hours after everyone else - but I usually get something like "did you know volcano/Bourdain has died" from a human within hours. A friend of mine was telli
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by rovek 8y ago
The fact that the Microsoft of the past 2 years is "getting better" at something they've tried to do for many decades is a great reason to be worried about them taking ownership of a product they are unfamiliar with. e.g. &qu
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by rovek 8y ago
It's telling of the "adult" community that this level of blatant assholery is always downvoted to oblivion unless it's coming from the C++ super race.

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