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by untog 7y ago
Get back to me when there's something to actually see. Call my cynical but having made a few progressive webapps myself I'm very dubious that a "single line of code" is going to result in a great, performant PWA. How i
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by untog 7y ago
Why?
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by untog 7y ago
Yes. Because for the majority of users, who do not use extensions, it is an upgrade. And it comes with built-in tracking prevention and still supports ad blocking, surely the two the big reasons most people use extensions in the first pla
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by untog 7y ago
I think both Chrome and Safari have negative connections with memories of IE. For Safari it's the stagnation of IE6: installed everywhere but rarely updated with new features that other browsers have. That's not so much of a probl
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by untog 7y ago
Don’t get me wrong, I agree with you that it’s an amazing scripting language. But I think one of the reasons Electron has been so popular is that web devs can take all the skills they already have, including JS, and make a native app. Learn
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by untog 7y ago
It's a shame Sciter hasn't seen more adoption: https://sciter.com/ But a) it's a commercial product and b) uses it's own scripting language instead of JavaScript. But from some initial noodling around wi
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by untog 7y ago
It uses whatever the system webview is. So on Windows that is IE, on Mac it’s WKWebView, not sure about Linux. It’s a trade off: it’s much more lightweight but loses cross platform consistency. For some that might be absolutely fine, for ot
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by untog 7y ago
The only true answer is “TBD”. By all indicators the coronavirus has the potential to have a huge impact on people’s lives and the ability for markets to function, but it’s not yet clear how much of that potential will become reality.
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by untog 7y ago
The rape accusations were credible, he just refused to answer to them. That doesn’t mean they were invalid in the first place, it just means they’ll never be proven in a court of law.
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by untog 7y ago
> I think what happened was eventually the designer types got their hands in there No, what happened is Microsoft placed a bet on us moving to a multi-platform future where there are many fewer PCs and more tablets, hybrid devices, whate
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by untog 7y ago
Did you... read the thread? Or the post? This isn't about going in for a one day interview. It's about the huge amount of time required for the interview preparation that comes long before an actual interview. As the post I repl
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by untog 7y ago
> The position that they blindly incur this expense for no benefits is hard to believe You really find it hard to believe that giant companies like Google spend money needlessly?
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by untog 7y ago
> it would be pretty difficult to commit time to such a task when it's more fulfilling to work on personal side projects Or if you, I dunno... have a child. That's something that (as a relatively new parent) leaps out at me wit
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by untog 7y ago
I imagine there are industries where this is a lot more punishing. Personally I'm not prepared to go through that bullshit, so I just get a job somewhere else. But we're lucky that our industry is flush with jobs, I have to imagin
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by untog 7y ago
I'd be curious to know if this is typical. As someone that's never interviewed at Google but idly wondered at moments if I'd ever work there this sounds hellish. Not necessarily the exercises themselves (although they seem to
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by untog 7y ago
This stuff is so fascinating... and so frustrating. Now browsers have accelerometer data behind a permission prompt. It makes total sense given stuff like this but it used to be a nice little way to create immediately playable games, apply
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by untog 7y ago
There's this addon as well that Firefox marks as "recommended", for whatever reassurance that may give you: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/clearurls/?sr... "Recommende
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by untog 7y ago
For the love of God if you’re in the browser don’t use moment. It’s bulky and slow. Use date-fns and selectively import the functionality you’re actually using.
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by untog 7y ago
16.7kb is still too large if you’re not using it enough to justify the extra download. And given that size doesn’t contain locales, in this context it isn’t going to serve any useful purpose at all.
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by untog 7y ago
“equal pay” does not mean that all employees are paid the same amount...
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by untog 7y ago
No, they’re trying to make sure you never leave the office. A walk down the street to the nearest grocery store is a nice break, but not one the company wants you taking.
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by untog 7y ago
Is it really? It’s what Github recommends for every new user without explaining in real depth what’s going on.
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by untog 7y ago
> Why are we suddenly so reliant on this shit like it's some kind of third arm? I just don't get it. Because our lives are different. It was overwhelmingly common for a parent to stay at home a generation or two ago (yes, it wa
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by untog 7y ago
I really don’t think there’s anything obvious about the fact that logging into an SSH server also exposes other login information stored in your computer. Given that creating a Github account is one of the first things beginner devs are gui
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by untog 7y ago
If you have money (and they did) it’s actually not too difficult to solve. There are services out there to scale both video streaming[1] and websockets[2] for you. [1] https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/streaming/
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by untog 7y ago
Even if Google did do that (which they’ve shown no signs of, and they are still far from a browser monopoly when you look at iPhone etc) it wouldn’t stop HTML from being read. Translating from HTML -> GoogleHTML wouldn’t be meaningfully
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by untog 7y ago
I think you can generalise the advice: remove as many processing steps as you can. It's not so much that you needed to guess that HTML was going to be as long-lived as it is, it's that HTML is the final product that actually loads
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by untog 7y ago
You can replace a phone battery even when it’s non-removable though. Apple makes a nice little bit of extra money from it in fact.
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by untog 7y ago
As someone who thinks the iPhone SE is the ultimate form factor I’m sympathetic to the “build it and they’ll come” argument but I don’t believe it. The reason no one is making a phone with a removable battery is because there isn’t a large
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by untog 7y ago
> There's no "ISA debt" ?!?! Of course there is! What are you repaying when you get a high paying job?

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