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Re:Ask HN: Who regrets choosing Elixir? on Saturday May 23, 2020 @04:20PM (#23286042)
All well and good if the engineers want to learn/work with that language. But not everyone does. I’ve left jobs over forced decisions like this.
Then he sold four hair dryers and was all even stevens the next day.
Re:Why I'm Not a React Native Developer on Saturday March 16, 2019 @01:03AM (#19406427)
Title should be “I want to whine about JavaScript”
Re:Reasons not to use Netflix on Saturday July 07, 2018 @09:48AM (#17478481)
You’re not supposed to watch videos. You’re supposed to sit there and sniff your own farts, like Stallman.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018) on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @04:17PM (#16971077)
I agree. I read through this and, despite being able to speak to most of the points, my first thought was "this is not a group of people I want to work with."
You should visit Ukraine. Ha
Re:The Zen of Just Writing CSS on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @01:38PM (#15185554)
Indeed. Thanks.
Re:The Zen of Just Writing CSS on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @11:49AM (#15184568)
Pure zen is vanilla-css.com
Re:A look at my BBS Software from '93 on Thursday April 20, 2017 @12:59AM (#14154077)
This was a great post. I remember playing LORD and writing doors in turbo pascal back in high school. Thanks for posting!
Re:Apparently the CIA Pays for Sublime Text? on Thursday March 09, 2017 @10:24PM (#13836096)
Of course they couldn't use vim, they'd have to tell everyone.
Re:Finding the most depressing Radiohead song with R on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @11:56PM (#13703125)
They need to do this with morrissey.
Re:No tipping means better business on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @07:04AM (#13262652)
I'm assuming you've never been to a country that doesn't have tipping, or were shielded from service in such a country, if you were. Customer service in these places is horrible. Why? Because it makes no difference to them if you are pleased or not. They could care less.

If doing some simple math is so difficult, your phone has a calculator, or ask for a pen and paper.

Re:Google on Monday September 26, 2016 @10:19PM (#12587066)
Lycos is better
Do you attend a lot of paid conferences that stream live for free in real time? That must be cool.
Re:Major Slack Security Vulnerability Discovered on Monday May 30, 2016 @10:04PM (#11804169)
Feature, everyone who's spent 10 minutes with the interface knows about, exists. Add click baity headline. Profit!
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2016) on Thursday April 07, 2016 @01:29AM (#11444924)
Location: Chicago, IL USA

Remote: Yes, highly preferred

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: HTML (Haml, Mustache, Handlebars), CSS/SCSS/Sass, JavaScript (ES6/Babel), MariaDB/MySQL, Go (beginner - learning), PHP, React/Redux, jQuery, Webpack, Gulp

Github: http://www.github.com/aethant

Resume/CV: by request

Email: [email protected]

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I've been working with web technology and programming since the mid-1990s. I love learning new technologies, solving challenging problems and sharing what I've learned with others. I'd like to work with others who feel the same and are willing to share their experience with me and vice versa.

Re:iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta on Friday February 19, 2016 @11:27AM (#11134432)
Loving it so far! Thanks for all your hard work.
Re:Branding and distributing swag like a BOSS on Monday October 12, 2015 @06:28PM (#10377290)
If they are, wow. That heroku one is definitely one of their swag shirts - I got one at an Amazon event.
Re:Moral causes of the collapse of the Soviet Union (2011) on Sunday October 11, 2015 @08:13PM (#10371768)
There is rampant blocking of religious freedom in Russia - online and in real life, enforced by government and England's by the Orthodox Church. It is a regime and it is a tyranny.
Re:Junior assigned to a 10 year old project on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @08:36AM (#9764197)
I feel your pain. But, really, that sounds like a typical junior starting point, at least to me. It's a major pain but most places aren't going to put a newly hired junior on a major project his/her first time at bat.

Consider it a learning experience, and make yourself available when/if other projects are mentioned. If nothing else, consider it training for a future position. Quitting right away will only look bad down the road to future employers.

Re:Ask HN: Why isn't Ember popular? on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @09:24PM (#9615535)
Probably two very large factors have to do with Google being the force behind angular, and the fact that you can inject it into existing pages. Whereas with ember, you more or less need to build from scratch with ember.

Personally, I prefer ember myself. I find angular very awkward and slow. I agree with you, ember doesn't get the respect it deserves.

Because front end is so much more than vanilla html css etc. You have Sass, handlebars, svg and more to deal with. If you only use the basics, maybe a simpler solution works for you. But calling the others into question just because they don't work for you is pedantic.
Re:HTML natively supports autocomplete without JS on Thursday February 26, 2015 @10:08PM (#9116968)
What's a good shim - the best - to make this work? We're using autocompletes for a project and I've yet to find a good poly fill for it.
I'm with you. I don't have either fb not Twitter, and I can't sign up for medium (or product hunt) without them. Lame.
Re:Ask HN: How would you define a good work ethic? on Thursday January 22, 2015 @08:43PM (#8932996)
I'd say quality over quantity. If someone turns out terrible code at four times the rate you turn out decent code, s/he's doing more harm then good. Sometimes I browse the Internet for twenty minutes, hunker down and write something marvelous. It's just being ready for the moment.
Re:Sass Guidelines on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @01:29AM (#8849199)
You changed leading zeros in the body, but in the to; dr at the end you didn't.

Great document!

Re:Santa Claus occupies a strange place in Christian belief on Thursday December 25, 2014 @02:40PM (#8796980)
I didn't seem to catch it but it stands to mention that Santa and most everything about Christmas don't have any Christian origin, so yes, the concept does occupy a strange place because it's not cohesive to Christianity, but rather pre Christian paganism.

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