tomlagier

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by tomlagier 6y ago
Uhh.. have you ever been on Twitter? That's like half the activity there, people dog piling on others based on circumstantial, if any, evidence of perceived slights or wrongdoing. Sure, people _shouldn't_, but they overwhelmingly
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by tomlagier 6y ago
This is likely a source of gender disparity in technology. Men tend to be more confident in math and engineering situations, even when they know as much or less than their female peers (the much-reported "gender confidence gap")[1
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by tomlagier 6y ago
I see GraphQL as a primarily organizational tool. If, for whatever reason, it is too difficult or costly to get frontend teams and backend teams aligned on the precise functionality of a REST API, GraphQL provides a spec that is almost cert
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by tomlagier 6y ago
One strategy that I'm really enjoying at a current gig: have the person writing the front-end write the end-to-end tests (or at least the specs) for the person writing the back-end. Just having a fresh set of eyes on the tests has flus
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by tomlagier 6y ago
> So what types are converted to what, automatically? And is it only for == or there are other traps? This is the question that you asked and that I answered. If you're looking for the language specification, it's here (first r
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by tomlagier 6y ago
Did you... read the link? It's literally exactly what you're asking for. Sorry for trying to help I guess, good luck.
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by tomlagier 6y ago
Yeah, that's really true. If I'm going to have more than one beer, I'll typically switch to something lighter and cleaner for my 2nd. For me it fills the place where a lot of people would put a stout or a Belgian - a really g
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by tomlagier 6y ago
My honest opinion is that you should read the npm-cli docs[0], the babel docs[1] and the webpack docs[2]. I think that most tutorials want to skip to the "getting stuff done" bit, and learning these tools with a bit of granularity
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by tomlagier 6y ago
I think this is what you're looking for. 3rd result for "Javascript type coercion": https://2ality.com/2019/10/type-coercion.html
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by tomlagier 6y ago
Huh, I've actually seen a move against that. A few years ago, the "West-coast style" IPA with enormous amounts of hops was the vogue beer. Today, you're much more likely to see a "New England IPA", "hazy&q
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by tomlagier 6y ago
I'm a Bitcoin skeptic, and much of my skepticism is around the practicality of use for day-to-day transactions. Seeing low fees is very encouraging to me - the last I had checked, fees were in the several to many dollars range. Now if
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by tomlagier 6y ago
> The answer to quality problems in software engineering is not less libraries, it's more and better libraries. In the same way that the high-quality civil engineering the author admires is not achieved by having one person do every
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by tomlagier 6y ago
Not to be pedantic, but there is manual "diffing": https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks#persisting-elements...
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by tomlagier 6y ago
Turbolinks is a full front-end framework. It just makes you manage the DOM diffing yourself by annotating nodes with various data attributes so that they are replaced, persisted and cached properly as navigation occurs. It might be smaller
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by tomlagier 6y ago
I think a big part of it is this: > staring at a spinner spin for far too long. You probably didn't hate it the first or second time you opened it up. Only after recognizing that many operations are extremely sluggish did you start
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by tomlagier 6y ago
Validation, datepickers, multi-select, other complex controls, dynamic forms (think "add row"), accessibility. You can definitely get away with simple forms in pure HTML, but again it puts a hard limit on the complexity you can su
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by tomlagier 6y ago
I think the fundamental problem I find when architecting a new website is that not enough thought has been put into making HTML and CSS sites scale with complexity. It feels like we put all of our eggs in the JS basket - we know how to fact
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by tomlagier 6y ago
In the real world, how is traffic routed? I often wonder what controls obviously inefficient intersections and how easy or hard it is to fix that. I assume that there are software systems that take in schedules and various inputs (cameras,
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by tomlagier 6y ago
I have repeatedly found Meet much higher quality than Zoom - straightforward to launch from the browser with a single click, clearer settings, better video quality, and no scummy installed app practices. That might be because of my location
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by tomlagier 6y ago
I think the standard response should be to allow the in-app signup/purchase with a 42% marked up rate and a very clear line item that it is the "Apple platform tax, not charged via other distributors". Worth doing the same to
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by tomlagier 6y ago
Honestly, it's not any worse than a more typical number and symbol stew. You'd be surprised how quickly you can type a 40 character sentence, especially one that you've developed a bit of muscle memory for. I think it's
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by tomlagier 6y ago
> snuzzles This word is a treat, thanks :D
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by tomlagier 6y ago
Mine's a more meaningful sentence, but about the same length, yes. It doesn't take long to type a wholly-memorized sentence.
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by tomlagier 6y ago
I love this idea! I feel like there are three paradigms that can cover 100% of software. The first is re-mappable hotkeys. An action bar would be great, but failing that - obvious tooltips of the hotkey on every single action. Also a comple
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by tomlagier 6y ago
That's a really cool idea, thanks for the heads up. Didn't realize it was possible but man would it make a world of difference in meetings.
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by tomlagier 6y ago
How did you set this up?
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by tomlagier 6y ago
I think that pattern scales really well up to a medium-sized startup. I stick those two (webserver/static content and API) plus a database in a docker-compose file, and put all three plus a frontend in a single repo. That feels like th
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by tomlagier 6y ago
I've wondered over the last week whether a strategy to fighting the perverse psychological changes that seem to settle in the minds of many police officers would be term limits? An "up or out" mentality like in the armed forc
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by tomlagier 6y ago
I made a tool that does this with Chrome memory profiles https://heapviz.com/ Also ported d3s circle packing algorithm to C++ for compilation to WASM https://github.com/tomlagier/circle-pack Definitely
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by tomlagier 6y ago
Thanks for the response, very helpful! I've done my best to build relationships over my 8 years in the software development industry, but I don't have much work to show for it after querying my network. All of my work to date has

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