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by tomgp 4y ago
My position isn't that we should be using a new library per se. It's that we should be more selective about what 3rd party code we use and espescially what we ship to end users. React has tended towards a kitchen sink approach and
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by tomgp 4y ago
> I'm not sure I'd ever expect a framework, React or anything else, to stop that behavior. If a child component signals to a parent that the state has changed then I would always expect that to cascade down the node tree. That
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The commodification of social spaces? If you can’t spend time in places without paying (in the cost of coffee, beer, gym fees, etc ) then that excludes big chunks of people, or they alert ration their social times to some extent
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There still must have been a time when you didn't know it, assuming you didn't spring from the womb with the knowledge hardwired.
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People wear name tags at house parties?
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Agreed. That said, ‘they’ has been “on duty” as a singular pronoun since at least the 14th century https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they...
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“ All but one of the first frozen futurists failed in their quest for immortality.” Seems like it might be premature to claim that the remaining one succeeded in their quest for immortality
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I tend to agree with this, I prefer the way Svelte make the not HTML/JS/CSS bits really stand out but it's definately just a personal preference. I don't really care about the "it's not JS" argument, peopl
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I've been using React for maybe 6 years now and Javascript for at least 10 years before that. I've started using Svelte in the last 6-12 months in professional capacity having messed around with it ofr 12 months of side projects b
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Everybody in the Place: an Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992 by Jeremy Deller is the best documentary I've seen recently. It's a history of dance music in the UK (and it's American roots) presented as a lecture given to
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Yes, highly recommend these videos. If anything the heat on Roblox is not turned up nearly high enough.
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Yeah, this matches my experience moving from React (5+ yrs) to Svelte (2 shipped 3 month projects over the last couple of years at this point). Svelte clearly lacks the massive community support of React but I've found it easier to ge
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Addiction By Design is one of the very best non fiction books I've read. I highly recomend it to anyone interested in the intersection of tech/ society/ psychology/ capital/ design and a whole bunch of other stuff.
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There's a fairly large section in Addiction By Design (the book which the OP is talking about) dealing with the specifics of machine gambling industry in Australia. Highly reccomend it!
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“Locally smart but globally incoherent” of a great, pithy way to describe many systems/projects/organisations I’ve worked with.
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Margret Calvert and Jock Kinneir’s work on UK road signage in the 1960s was a real turning point in research lead design and still looks great 60 years on the font and layouts were put through their paces and refined in all sorts of extreme
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by tomgp 4y ago
I’m on the other end of the spectrum, play quite a lot of games have never experienced drift. Our switch controllers are a good 5yrs old at this point and seem fine. That said I suspect I’m an outlier, when we took our PS2 to tradein after
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Adam Neumann's previous forary into residential lets(nytimes.com)
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If they're concerned about financially and socially disadvantaged users perhaps the place to start helping those people would be on the universal credit login page which currently delivers 100+ kb of javascript for a couple of form fie
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i imagine because you’re required to be present in some sense for ~8 hours a day 5 days a week. that doesn’t leave much time for anything else, especially if you have caring responsibilities or any other life commitments. once you’re in a d
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Looking at Meta’s product line at the moment it’s easy to see how people might not be motivated to give their all. Facebook and Instagram are so markedly driven by numbers rather than any kind of product vision, i can imagine it being prett
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That's not what the paper says.
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I’ve worked at both the bbc and ft.com and we put quite a bit of effort into accessibility. I think we were pretty successful but others are probably on a better position to judge
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I scribble stuff down on whatever scraps of paper are to hand the deal with them as and when our throw them out every couple of weeks out so. My todo list is on the ‘things’ app
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Instagram’s incessant design tweaking, it’s algorithm adjustments which now give preferential treatment to “reels” to an absurd degree and the expansion of advertising on the feed (I’ve seen people write as much as 5x more) all positively r
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Being a creepy sex pest will get you nowhere good (Just ask RMS). The hyperbole is good marketing for a certain audience.
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Feels like theres some cherry picking going on. eg whilst “the power rock of the ‘80s is… incredibly cheerful’ the 80s also played host to Joy Division and Suicidal Tendencies neither of whom exude incredible cheer (though the angst is expr
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Identifying that subset of the language was paradigm shift in JS development. around 2008 when the good parts came out i don’t know any serious JS developers who didn’t take on board many of its lessons. examples: avoiding ‘this’, understa
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thats a strangely abstract way of looking at it. i think of it as a way to capture some of the externalities of car use, the environmental, social and public health damage.
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leaving aside the fact that the speed limit is an upper bound on speed not mandatory… on my bike i’m more regularly held up by cars (often a single occupant) than i am by cyclists when driving my car. but overwhelmingly its cars holding up

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