vikingcaffiene

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by vikingcaffiene 7y ago
Lost me there too. FF has had a few foibles but has course corrected quickly. It's my daily driver and certainly haven't seen anything like that happening.
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by vikingcaffiene 7y ago
Every single one of these tools only connect to Gmail. It's kind of a bummer.
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by vikingcaffiene 7y ago
There are a few sure things in life. One of them is that speaking of OOP in a positive light will get an immediate comment on the orange site saying that it's garbage. Its almost comedy at this point.
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by vikingcaffiene 7y ago
IMO there's two ways to read this: either A) this is a baldly transparent attempt to "own the libs" and punish a company that the administration sees as a threat or B) they are too incompetent to understand the technical nuan
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by vikingcaffiene 7y ago
This is gatekeeping trash. This dude isn't the authority on who gets to be a hacker and who isnt. I work with some bootcamp grads who have "earned" their skills every bit as much as the "real" hackers this dude&#x27
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by vikingcaffiene 7y ago
Early versions of the Phoenix frameworks ORM would select every record if you didn't pass it an ID. I didn't know that and wrote a deletion endpoint forgetting to put said ID in. Tests passed (I mean it did delete...) and off to p
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by vikingcaffiene 7y ago
In addition to being completely accurate, this is one of the funniest things I've read on this site in a long time. Thanks for the laugh.
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by vikingcaffiene 7y ago
Yep!
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by vikingcaffiene 7y ago
House of Leaves. I've literally never read anything like it.
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by vikingcaffiene 7y ago
I am aware of the concept.
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by vikingcaffiene 7y ago
I was tasked with building a bespoke JavaScript framework for the web last year because that's just what the world needs right? :) Anyway, one of the requirements was that it be similar to building an iOS app so all the views, layouts,
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by vikingcaffiene 7y ago
Well yes and no. Even if you don't add any type annotations you still get some implicit type safety. You have to opt out with an Any type of something to totally turn that off. Our experience is different with tests.
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by vikingcaffiene 7y ago
I love JSDoc but it has the fatal flaw of being optional. It requires human discipline which, when your boss is breathing down your neck to get that feature out, you aren't gonna do. Same goes for robust tests etc. TS is self documenti
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by vikingcaffiene 7y ago
My claim comes from having built large scale systems with and without TS. I have the scars from working without it and I'll never do it again if I can help it. I'll also say that it's possible to write bad buggy code no matte
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by vikingcaffiene 7y ago
> I stand by my assessment that the TypeScript language may have a low or even negative return on investment. It could hurt rather than improve your productivity, and if you’re already using great bug prevention measures such as TDD, cod
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by vikingcaffiene 7y ago
I'd consider writing a json parser in 20 min a tough challenge for anyone. Also being good at algos is not the only way to get hired. I for one am terrible at them and mostly do fine in interviews :) The most important thing I've
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by vikingcaffiene 7y ago
First, give yourself some credit. You have some good experience with interesting languages and 2 more years of it than I typically see. Nobody in this industry has any idea how to hire. Second, have you asked for and/or received any fe
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by vikingcaffiene 7y ago
Are you referring to the real time flag? My understanding is that that is per shard and if you try to pull from another shard that hasn't updated its index, you'd get stale data. Maybe you are referring to something else or I am w
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by vikingcaffiene 7y ago
ES is an eventually consistent data store meaning that it makes no guarantees about data availability when you put stuff in there. That alone should be a deal breaker for you. If you use ES for what it's designed to be and make it a
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by vikingcaffiene 7y ago
It's YAGNI until you do. Since we're busting out the acronyms a lot of what you are saying sounds like a case of NIH syndrome. :) I have trained junior devs on Angular and I think it's a fair criticism to say it's a stee
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by vikingcaffiene 7y ago
I find it a little strange that you are pointing out comprehensive documentation on a module as proof of a problem with the framework... Lets talk about what you get with HttpClient: - Easy testing. Because its using the DI system, its very
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by vikingcaffiene 7y ago
Sorry but this is a terrible idea. ES is not meant as a durable store. Its designed as an ephemeral abstraction on top of a more durable storage mechanism like Postgres or the like. This is just asking for trouble to use it like this.
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by vikingcaffiene 7y ago
> Angular is over-engineered. I take issue with opinions like this that are espoused as fact. I've built large apps in both Angular and React. The React code base needed everything that I got out of the box from Angular. The differe
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by vikingcaffiene 7y ago
Its at the top of HN because its geeky and fun. For some of us this stuff is a hobby just as much as its a career.
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by vikingcaffiene 7y ago
Oh we are in complete agreement there. I was just speaking to another facet of the issue. :)
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by vikingcaffiene 7y ago
Besides the implied xenophobia here (the whole "war on Christianity" trope that's been getting trotted out by the far right), it's important to remember that an educated population is not in the best interests of the pol
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by vikingcaffiene 7y ago
Ugh. I have been a happy paying customer for many years now. I went all in on 1p specifically because they didn't do shit like this. When a CEO says things like "we need to grow aggressively" I hear "we need to find ways
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by vikingcaffiene 7y ago
Sorry, JS? While JS might get this stuff one day, these language features are for TypeScript which is its own language. It's strongly typed and just happens to interop with and in some scenarios transpile down to JavaScript. It'
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by vikingcaffiene 7y ago
> They noted that mobile web browsers also unintentionally help obfuscate phishing URLs by truncating them, making it harder for the victims to vet the legitimacy of the pages. JFC... I never understood why that "improvement" w
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by vikingcaffiene 7y ago
The Starbucks crowd about sums it up yeah. Its a luxury brand now. A fashion accessory. No thanks. I dual boot Windows and Pop OS (basically Ubuntu) with my new machine. So far the only thing I miss is the seamless messaging experience that

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