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by vcarl 10y ago
Awesome to see GraphQL get some mainstream adoption, hopefully this leads to some more community tools for consuming it :) Relay is an awesome concept, but the learning curve is pretty steep.
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by vcarl 10y ago
The improvements to code reviews are really exciting. Having comments submit all at once instead of one at a time is a great UX change, I've definitely gotten sidetracked mid-review because somebody started responding to my initial com
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by vcarl 10y ago
Gary Johnson wants to get rid of the Department of Education[0] and is against mandatory vaccinations[1]. [0]: https://www.johnsonweld.com/education [1]: https://twitter.com/govgaryjohnson/status/1
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by vcarl 10y ago
I second this. No shortcut to search history, just start typing and hit up. Instead of ctrl-e or whatever it is, it has the same "move by 1 word" shortcut as literally everything else on the computer. The pre-made prompt configura
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by vcarl 10y ago
Chromium dev tools essentially IS an IDE with a built-in debugger. You can set breakpoints, step over/into/out of code, monitor network requests, view/edit the DOM tree, edit CSS in real time... For some code, you can even ed
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by vcarl 10y ago
100% agreed. Webpack 2 is going to be a fairly sizable change, but for the better. I've been following the webpack meeting notes, pretty excited to see where it's all headed.
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by vcarl 10y ago
> JS is actually a crazy powerful functional programming language in disguise. I feel the same way. And since you can write a cruddy jQuery mess that fetches data and spits out to backend-as-a-service providers, Javascript is hands down
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by vcarl 10y ago
It's not going to kill professional photography, but the folks who buy a DSLR for the bokeh might not have a reason to buy that camera. Might shrink the market for DSLRs.
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by vcarl 10y ago
They're even a YC company!
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by vcarl 10y ago
I love that Africa is the highest continent (at time of posting) for "learning" and "opportunity." I've seen some articles about entrepreneurs in various African countries and it's always amazing how much impac
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by vcarl 10y ago
But when you come across a Torx screw, I bet you're really happy you have the configurable screwdriver.
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by vcarl 10y ago
>I think this is where starting out small and simple usually works. Very much agree. Make something quickly that somebody really likes, and try and find more people who like it. Figure out what people like about it and expand in that dir
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by vcarl 10y ago
> We had to write in the most passive tense possible. That’s why you’d see headlines that appear in an alien-esque, passive language. I was just thinking that the Facebook summary headlines are surprisingly journalistic compared to Buzzf
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by vcarl 10y ago
This is an edge case of one of many libraries that attempts to make form handling simpler. It's well known that rapid rerenders of complex components is bad for performance, rendering 83 form elements every time a key is pressed is obv
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by vcarl 10y ago
Agreed, as much as I support the ideals of the EFF, this kind of misleading scare tactic really rubs me the wrong way. It feels like they're compromising the moral high ground in order to elicit a larger response--which I understand mi
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by vcarl 10y ago
I'd say it's a good idea to get enough familiarity with code to be able to distinguish between good and bad code, and to be able to have a rough idea of whether something is well architected. Spreading vision is an important nonte
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by vcarl 10y ago
This seems like a great style, but it's not going to catch on because it's a separate dependency. If this were distributed as a configuration file for the most commonly used linters, I'd be interested. Since it's its own
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by vcarl 10y ago
This is the problem with lots of companies making their own bots--it doesn't actually make people's lives easier, it just shifts the problem. We don't need a bot for each business and service we use, we need well architected,
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by vcarl 10y ago
Agreed on On The Media. It's basically just meta-news, but stepping back and looking at the narratives being presented is really interesting. Their recent show about this history of political polling was fantastic.
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by vcarl 11y ago
Additionally, React is intended for highly complex, highly interactive applications , time-to-content is less important than on, say, a news reader. It might take 2 or 3 seconds to get the first page, but once you're there your intera
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by vcarl 11y ago
There's interesting work happening with tree shaking, which allows you to do static analysis at compile time to remove unimported code. The new JS `import` syntax is specifically designed to enable this, so it's just a matter of t
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by vcarl 11y ago
I try to shoot for meaningful individual commits, squashing to get the intent of each change (more or less) self contained. I've found it really helpful if I ever need to `git bisect` to find what introduced a bug, I get a small(ish) c
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by vcarl 11y ago
Slack offers markdown, message editing, emoji reactions (which I use the hell out of, one of my favorite features), large snippet sharing, link previews, in-app gif/youtube previews, don't need a logger for scrollback... I love IR
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by vcarl 11y ago
It throws off my reading if I'm just checking that I know what something is and only need a quick skim to verify that. I immediately lost track of what was the explanation and what was the original text.
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by vcarl 11y ago
With Venmo/Square Cash, I find myself paying people via app more than anything. Forgot your wallet at lunch? Splitting up bar tabs? Our landlord wants a single check, and paying my roommate rent via Venmo removes all the pain of handin
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by vcarl 11y ago
I agree, a better process than voting would be "evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of each practice and determine which results in the highest quality, most maintainable code." But since when have we been any good at identi
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by vcarl 11y ago
It doesn't make it less valid, but "is JSX bad" has been done to death. It's been the subject of Medium posts like OP since I started using it in 2014. If you're "ramping up a team that's unfamiliar with J
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by vcarl 11y ago
But optimizing for those with no development experience isn't one of the goals of React. From the "thinking in react" page in the docs, "React is, in my opinion, the premier way to build big, fast Web apps with JavaScrip
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by vcarl 11y ago
It was discussed a long time ago. Some googling found this very old link http://facebook.github.io/jsx/#why-not-template-literals
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by vcarl 11y ago
Seriously. If you like it, use it. If you don't like it, don't use it. If you work with a team, take a vote. This post spends quite a bit talking about beginners who are learning Javascript, React, and JSX all at once. Of course t

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