waffleau

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by waffleau 4y ago
I spent a lot of my career trying to find roles where I didn't have to deal with people. A lot of time in startups and small businesses, where my job was to just build. At a certain point, there weren't that many new technical pro
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by waffleau 5y ago
It definitely requires more work. If you're starting from scratch, you need to either read the API documentation or makes calls to the API to understand the data you're getting back. You then need to build correctly typed data mod
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by waffleau 5y ago
I didn't choose to adopt GraphQL, but I joined a company where an ex-developer had integrated into what was at that point a core codebase. They didn't add it due to any particular merit, they just wanted to play with shiny new tec
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by waffleau 8y ago
Hacker News has a pretty well educated community, so it's not surprising that the general response seems to be that this was an obvious outcome. But this story is not unique to this woman. There are a huge number of people that seem to
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by waffleau 10y ago
From a historical perspective your reservation is totally fair. But I think the issue is a lot more complex than just looking at the impact automation has had in the past. Here are a few points worth mulling over: 1. Automation in the past
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by waffleau 10y ago
This is a complaint I've heard often about React, and usually it's by someone that's never actually tried it (myself included before I first used it). But it's a visceral response. Until you sit down and give it a go, it
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by waffleau 10y ago
The sanctioned way forward for React is Flow. It's not as comprehensive as TypeScript, but there's no compilation required - Flow annotations just get stripped out. As of a couple of weeks ago it is part of create-react-app. http
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by waffleau 10y ago
Coming from a startup background: 1. Senior people leaving (as has been said by pretty much everyone else in this thread). 2. Not having a clearly defined problem to solve, or a well understood target audience. 3. Not knowing who the compet
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by waffleau 10y ago
This is something that tripped me up when I first started learning Redux too, and it would be great if there were more articles about what to do with the bits that don't really fit nicely into the model. My personal take is that the Re