totaldex

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by totaldex 3y ago
What sorts of "healthy laws" would you suggest the government pass to curb TikTok specifically?
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by totaldex 5y ago
I'd chalk it up to a difference of opinion then - I like simplicity, but I'd take verbose clarity over it any day. Having to explain to newer engineers the nuances of hooks (and the permutations required to wrangle them in) is har
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by totaldex 5y ago
I don't entirely agree - the old React way was verbose and explicit about when events are executed. This allowed developers to more concretely reason about logical workflows in applications. With hooks, we traded verbosity for a single
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by totaldex 5y ago
These effectively boil down to ROI - it's tricky to quantify what return a tool will give, but its even harder to quantify the cost of switching over. At a big enough company, most will shudder at the thought of a massive migration wit
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by totaldex 5y ago
In a perfect world, things would be like you describe. Unfortunately we live in a diverse landscape of browsers and devices, many of which have not been updated in quite some time. Factors ranging from IT policy at older companies, to geogr
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by totaldex 5y ago
Perhaps, but this assumes that this information is available and accessible. Many engineering organizations don't have full documentation on institutional knowledge, and many things travel by word of mouth.
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by totaldex 5y ago
There is value in 'ranking' things like books and authors: It may serve to emphasize a point someone is making about their relative importance or impact. It's helpful to have some sort of comparison, even if they're impe
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by totaldex 5y ago
It appears that this setting controls cross-account like visibility on posts: "Even if a user has Like Counts enabled, they will not be able to see the number of likes on accounts or posts that have hidden them."
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by totaldex 5y ago
Even with positive intentions, I'm not convinced this will solve the problem in any meaningful way. Turning off likes might be perceived as someone being unhappy with their social media status relative to their peers (ie, not getting a
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by totaldex 6y ago
Certainly true, but it doesn't counter the original claim: Anonymized telemetry collection with proper privacy considerations can have a net positive impact on the product.
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by totaldex 6y ago
+1 to this. As long as proper privacy concerns are addressed and the data gathering is imperceptible to the product experience, telemetry signals are immensely valuable for improving the product in a variety of ways.
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by totaldex 6y ago
The title requires context - although given recent events we can infer that it is referring to the specific mutation seen in the UK. This particular mutation is of note since it has postulated as being more transmissible than other variants
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by totaldex 6y ago
While this may fix the issue you pointed out, it gets rid of a crucial benefit of managing a team you're familiar with: context and trust. By the time a manager gets promoted, they often have enough context to functional well at that l
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by totaldex 6y ago
I understand the frustration, but A/B testing is one of the more objectively tools we have at our disposal. While there are good arguments against A/B testing UI changes and doing p-hacking, much of the modern web's current U
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by totaldex 6y ago
While I agree with your premise, its important to stress that finding solutions by 'blowing up your server' and starting fresh are rarely sustainable. It's often a useful exercise to dig into the root cause - a lot of times t
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by totaldex 7y ago
With respect to body fat percentage, I would caution being conservative with your goals. I don't know your personal situation, but my experience with this area led me to a powerful conclusion in 2019: Fitness has diminishing returns as
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by totaldex 7y ago
The headache doesn't come from building out this 'simple' bare bones solution. It comes from making it play well with the larger ecosystem you're integrating it with, and committing to supporting it for other engineers.