tomelders

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by tomelders 8y ago
I couldn't disagree more. To wheel out a tired old phrase, design isn't how something looks, it's how it works. The visual aesthetics of Stripe's output demonstrates great taste. But it's the way that taste compleme
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The T2 chip?
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While I agree that it's somewhat silly to try and predict a word cup winner like this (and I suspect it was just a bit of fun anyway), there is one other reason that could explain why all these attempts got it so wrong. Cheating. Befor
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Their job isn’t to build the whole thing. Their job is to research and explore how new ideas and tools might be useful to your business. It’s just R&D. It’s not an exotic idea.
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by tomelders 8y ago
I’ve carved a career out of rebuilds. I’m working on a rebuild right now. There’s a ton of companies out there who’ve done very well with their home grown antiquated systems from the late 90’s and early 00’s that are now facing stiff compet
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by tomelders 8y ago
The best advice you can give to someone staring out from scratch is "Don't try to learn programming. It's boring, frustrating, and pointless. Instead, think of something you want to make, and learn how to make that. Start sma
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by tomelders 8y ago
But there's not alternative to starting from first principles. Material UI and all other Ui libs are a premature optimisation that will paint you into a corner.
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by tomelders 8y ago
The alternative is to start with basic HTML UI. Almost no styling. And build from there. Understandably, few people like that advice because it doesn't make life easier. It does make your product better though, which is really all that
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by tomelders 8y ago
Design is hard and the value of it is difficult for most peolpe to quantify. So Material, and all other UI component libs, claim to offer an easy solution to a difficult, expensive, and seemlingly aestethic problem. They don't. And whe
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by tomelders 8y ago
Site's that block users for not allowing cookies and tracking are essentially paywalled. Communities like HN should do their part to penalise sites that pull these kinds of tricks. If not us, then who? So, anyone got a non-paywalled ve
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by tomelders 8y ago
Piles of spaghetti code will give your customers what they want today, but rob them of the features they want tomorrow and make every future feature orders of magnitude more expensive to develop than they should be. That's the interest
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by tomelders 8y ago
Two principles I live by (much to the annoyance of my bosses) 1. Don't fear the refactor. 2. If you don't want to rebuild your entire application from scratch, don't worry, a competitor will do it for you. There's nothin
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Yeah but... that means the people who do take on this work will be the zealots who never doubt what they're doing. That's not to say that non-zealots should take on this work to keep the zealots out. I'm just saying that we&#
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by tomelders 8y ago
Agreed. GDPR is a good thing. I feel like the LA Times is just being difficult to make a point somehow.
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by tomelders 8y ago
I had a recruiter call me up with what I suspect was a made up role. At the end of the call he casually dropped in the line "ok, well, is it ok if I get back in touch when something more suitable comes in?" It was conspicuous. I a
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by tomelders 8y ago
Makes a lot of sense. Adobe has some warped ideas about what makes something good.
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by tomelders 8y ago
Wait but what? Why is a religon being posted to HN?
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I don’t agree. All laws are up for interpretation. That’s why we have the judiciary. Law makers draft laws, courts decide where those laws fit into the wider body of law. The kind of law making you’re implicitly advocating is tantamount to
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by tomelders 8y ago
I suspect it's going to be a bit like IR35 in the UK. Menacing on first glance, but so broad in it's definition that any court is going to struggle to draw the hard conclusions for anything that isn't what the law was explici
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by tomelders 8y ago
Hmmm, then one has to wonder, how did AirBnb become so successful while so many others have failed? It's a mystery that will tease our imaginations until the end of time no doubt. If only there were some clue, some window into their co
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by tomelders 8y ago
Too many applications are really just crappy database UIs. Software is meant to do things for you, but so many software developers think software is there to stop users messing up their database.
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too little too late.
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Well the current reality isn’t feasible, but we’re doing it anyway. No one really knows wether UBI will be a succes or a failure. But then no one knows wether any policy will be a success or a failure, and there will always be supporters an
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by tomelders 9y ago
> Corporations like Facebook are there to make profit within the rules defined by society They seem to be having their cake and eating it. You hear the term "disruption" all the time from tech companies, and you'll hear te
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by tomelders 9y ago
Middleware. A UI events logger for example. Or finishing a network request may need to close some part of tge Ui and also trigger a reload somewhere else.
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by tomelders 9y ago
As far as libraries generally go, Redux is tiny. https://github.com/reactjs/redux/tree/master/src The largest and most important part is CreateStore, but at 250 lines long (mainly comments), it's sh
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by tomelders 9y ago
The strength of redux is that all your interactions with it are through functions. Redux today is far better than the Redux of yesteryear thanks to things like ReSelect, Thunks, Sagas, Higher Order Components etc. All these things augment R
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Ah, ah ha. Hah. My bad.
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React components that take configuration rather than allowing you to compose smaller components are generally a bad idea.
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I can highly reccomend the book “mazes for programmers” which introduces a lot of graph related alorithms in a clear, accessible way. Dijkstra’s algorithm is on page 36 and explained in 8 paragrpahs. https://media.pragprog.com&#x

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