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by tomelders 7y ago
Barbarians is a great read too. It was the first non-fiction I read got me hooked on history. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0031RDVRS/ref=dp-kindle-redirec...
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by tomelders 7y ago
This really resonates with me, but I don’t agree with it. It resonates because there’s a problem with software development that remains unarticulated. It seems no one is happy. Developers aren’t happy, and the stake holders aren’t either. F
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by tomelders 7y ago
> Unfair competition from the state, with limitless pockets, driving them to bankruptcy. Nope. The competition can still sell a better service, and can pass the free tier on for free. Also, ISPs sell bundled services, such as SIM cards o
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by tomelders 7y ago
A clever twist in Warren's proposal is that the Government has the right to buy your property for whatever you've listed it for. Now I'm sure any attempt to actually do that would end in a court case, but it's not really
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by tomelders 7y ago
Developers are optimists.
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by tomelders 7y ago
It sounds like Quantum Supremacy is the Turing Test of our time. A worthwhile milestone to aim for, but not the holy grail people thought it was.
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by tomelders 7y ago
> Turn off comments
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by tomelders 7y ago
Writing code is also UX. some future user will have to understand it. More often than not, that future user is you.
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by tomelders 7y ago
What is your fascination with my forbidden closet of mystery?
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by tomelders 7y ago
It turns out I was wrong about this, but not in a good way. It appears you can pass functions to the config that render components, which presumably can also take an override config which in turn can take a function to render components and
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by tomelders 7y ago
That is not better. Just look at what you've created vs the idiomatic way of accomplishing the same thing with vanilla React. It's a new DSL on top of React that just adds unnecessary noise. It over complicates what should be a si
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by tomelders 7y ago
You're out of your mind if you think that's an better way to compose components. How would you do something like this? <DNDLlist render={(listItem => { switch(listItem.type) { case 'foo':
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by tomelders 7y ago
I didn’t propose the solution to a Select input that you said I did. There’s no need to define multiple render props since the most complex of selects is going to be a nested tree structure. Each node of that tree can be passed as an argume
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by tomelders 7y ago
But you’re still creating a suite of components that can be composed to create a specific instance of a date picker. Except with the override config, you’re now complicating and limiting the simple and versatile concept of composition. Your
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by tomelders 7y ago
For the past few years, i’ve been building “reusable component libraries” and I can say with confidence that they’re a massive waste of time. When you get into it, the UI usually the least difficult problem to solve in an app. The real chal
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by tomelders 7y ago
Ok, fair enough. It was a drive by shooting of a comment. So here’s a more considered criticism. There’s already a way to overwrite props in react. Just use props. If you need to expose the native API of the underlying element, do this (doe
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by tomelders 7y ago
Nope. This is replacing composition with configs for no good reason. It's like the people who made Grunt and Webpack teamed up to ruin React for everyone.
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by tomelders 8y ago
All running the same route, at the same time? It doesn't look like it. https://www.omio.co.uk/search-frontend/results/1307902350/tr...
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by tomelders 8y ago
Well that is a question many writers are asking themselves. What agents can offer is contacts, introductions, sage advice and the benefit of experience, to both writers and to studios, show runners etc. But eventually, agencies will always
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by tomelders 8y ago
It's worth listening to the last few episodes of the Script Notes Podcast. John August (Big Fish, Titan A.E., Charlies Angles) is on the board of the WGA and they've been keeping listeners up to date with these negotiations. This
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by tomelders 8y ago
We need to nationalise the railways EU wide. Privatised rail makes no sense anywhere in the world. Flights are cheap because competition drives down prices. But there's no real competition on the rail network. You can't have two t
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by tomelders 8y ago
I don't own a car because I'm fortunate enough to live in London with an awesome public transport system and a half decent cycle network. But the air quality here sucks and pollution from cars is through the fucking roof. We just
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by tomelders 8y ago
Are you sure? I suspect that they’re the people most likely to participate in those polls. I personally can’t be bothered with these kinds of questions, but I remember that back in my early days, I was something of a zealot when it came to
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by tomelders 8y ago
Eh... i’d disagree. But what do you mean by “Top Notch”?
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by tomelders 8y ago
Yeah but... at the risk of sounding like a dick... is stack overflow the best place to guage opinion on such things? I mean we’re essentially asking the people who post questions like “why is my HTML table not look right?” To posit an opini
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by tomelders 8y ago
There are a few companies who could all have the same slogan, but I’ll use Oracle in this example... Oracle: we make the stuff that other people make you use. Other candidates include (but not limited to) - Atlasian - Microsoft - Adobe
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by tomelders 8y ago
But why? You can enforce coding styles in a passive way through linters and formateers that work actoss IDEs. And in those rare cases that a junior dev is trying to show their worth by using a poorly configured VIM or Emacs, then there’s pr
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by tomelders 8y ago
Two wrongs don't make a right.
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by tomelders 8y ago
There was a Chinese mobile browser that essentially did this if I recall. And didn't Amazon have something like this for one of their earlier Kindles?
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by tomelders 8y ago
They should just ban first, explain later, in this scenario. The app developers know full well what they're doing, and the remedy should be punitive for scumbag outfits that operate like this.

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