skipants

23 ms·

121.
by skipants 5y ago
I think your comment has a lot of merit. Personally Tailwind has been awesome but I think it's because it makes all these abstractions for you. It also forces less experienced developers to follow this abstraction rather than making th
122.
by skipants 5y ago
In my experience it's because any web app with complicated styling rules tends towards this anyways, except all the CSS names are custom, undocumented, and duplicated. The main tradeoff is that the CSS names are not domain specific, bu
123.
by skipants 5y ago
I slightly disagree. The land definitely factors; I don't think we can argue that. But there's also a lot of value of a house just being on the land, no matter its quality (ignoring complete dilapidation). If labour and material c
124.
by skipants 5y ago
> When was the last time you made a stcak of changes that was over 30 branches tall? Is this a thing? I think the highest stack I've ever had was 2. I suppose it could depend on company culture/tech stack/code organization
125.
by skipants 5y ago
Your counter-points to (1) don't seem any different to the monolith vs. microservice debate. Much of your critiques are not so much problems as they are trade-offs. And they've been talked about ad nauseam.
126.
by skipants 5y ago
> and check if account A has $1,000 It was a convoluted example for examples sake, but I'm pretty much referring to them missing this important check here.
127.
by skipants 5y ago
Hell, I can forgive it in games -- it seems pretty easy to forget a detail that can accidentally give too much authority to a user in that space, especially when you're trying to crunch your frame time. What really surprises me is how
128.
by skipants 5y ago
> The problem is these things waste social bandwith: Someone reading your code for maintenance or code review will first declare the code bad (GOTO is ugly! SHA-1 is insecure!), then you have to signal to them that it's actually OK
129.
by skipants 5y ago
And yet, in Canada, every Software Engineer I know works no differently than a Software Developer.
130.
by skipants 5y ago
I'm Canadian and I'm assuming it's the same as Brits: We start counting with our thumb but if we represent a number less than 5 without counting then we do not use our thumb. That's why it doesn't contradict what
131.
by skipants 5y ago
It's the hacker mindset -- and this is hackernews after all. Isn't this kind of like walking into a wood shop and saying, "you know you guys can just buy this stuff at Ikea, right?".
132.
by skipants 5y ago
I don't. My initial comment is assuming they use the public version. Whether they use the public or a private version they still have back-channels for support that the rest of us don't have access to.
133.
by skipants 5y ago
It's also a sample of people who, if they run into issues with Codespaces, are just a Slack message away from someone who can fix it.
134.
by skipants 5y ago
I took a Ukrainian class but this also applies to Polish: The tip they gave English speakers for pronouncing "szcz", was that it sounded like the sh-ch connection between the words "Fresh Cheese". Ironically, I didn&#x27
135.
by skipants 5y ago
Well explained. Thank you!
136.
by skipants 5y ago
I don't have expertise in video codecs or file formats, but couldn't you hash the first N bytes of a stream? Stream those N bytes to the client and if it matches start the video, else stop the download and not start the video.
137.
by skipants 5y ago
A setting I turned on to make it more manageable is to ignore patch updates and have dependabot only make PRs for major & minor version bumps.
138.
by skipants 5y ago
Is this really sound criticism? The first iterations of lots of technology were worse than their contemporaries. You could easily out-ride the first car with a horse in both speed an distance. You could out-calculate the first computers. Th
139.
by skipants 5y ago
Does your average person want to vote for an engineer?
140.
by skipants 5y ago
This is an absolutely ridiculous response. Even if we've come to reason that tech companies can not be trusted to be ethical with our data it's a false equivalency to compare them to a criminal organization. I don't think it&
141.
by skipants 5y ago
I suppose it's tough to balance detail with complexity when it comes to a general wiki like Wikipedia. Especially with math and its domain language. I believe that the issue you're outlining was the precursor to simple.wikipedia.o
142.
by skipants 5y ago
Didn't they have some way to transfer your account over from OpenID? Pretty sure I used it at the start as well, but now my account is a normal SO account.
143.
by skipants 5y ago
Same. I tend to use my tabs as a stack. On the left side I have the tabs I never close; like my Jira dashboard. Going towards the right I have my tabs that are todo -> in-progress. As I get through each thing, I close the tab. This tends
144.
by skipants 5y ago
I generally agree. One thing I'm still not sold on is that interns are a net loss. They would often get to do work that was novel to them and tedious to your full-time developers. Work that was nice-to-have but no-one-wants-to-do. It&#
145.
by skipants 5y ago
This has to be the fault of the organization. _Every_ intern!? I've worked at places where the onboarding was generally terrible and I'd still say 80% of the co-op interns we hired were value-positive. Although, when I do reflect
146.
by skipants 5y ago
GPL is "toxic" to the companies I work at because using GPL-licensed code would force them to disclose the source of their proprietary software. There's not much else to it.
147.
by skipants 6y ago
Is this similar to Investor's Exchange? https://iextrading.com/ Similar principle... IIRC it delays execution to try and prevent HFT. A big part of Flash Boys by Michael Lewis was chronicling the history of what led to
148.
by skipants 6y ago
Seems really nice. It's just a Rails abstraction for Multi-table inheritance (MTI) but to me that was sorely needed. MTI always felt much more manageable to me than Single-table inheritance but the latter was the only one with built-in
149.
by skipants 6y ago
It's definitely a lot better -- performance-wise -- now. It has its flaws but I still feel like its one of the best frameworks out there.
150.
by skipants 6y ago
In direct contrast to this article, I've had to specifically set `security.enterprise_roots.enabled` to true on Firefox because completely legitimate sites were not trusted.

More ›