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Re:Fragmentation Is Why Desktop Linux Failed [video] on Friday December 14, 2018 @01:37AM (#18678900)
This is precisely what fragmentation causes.
Re:Fragmentation Is Why Desktop Linux Failed [video] on Friday December 14, 2018 @01:35AM (#18678892)
Which is what a lot of people have been saying for a very long time.
Re:Atom 1.33 on Friday November 30, 2018 @01:25PM (#18571231)
IntelliSense. Definitely my reason for not going back.
Re:The Baseline Costs of JavaScript Frameworks on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @12:12PM (#18553300)
> in exchange for paying this cost, you gain maintainability, developer efficiency, and (hopefully) better performance during runtime.

You also gain responsiveness to user interactions, a programmatic way to reason about your application/website & and some animation-sugar if you want. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water simply because people follow trends instead of good design practices.

Re:A story about Upwork and freelancers on Sunday November 11, 2018 @01:28PM (#18427754)
The amount of colossal horror stories I've heard about that company has made sure I don't go near it with a 9 foot pole. Their platform is designed to obscure process in lieu of exploiting workers - all whilst advocating to "serve the client". Utterly toxic.
Re:Don’t offer co-workers help unless asked on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @04:51AM (#18290738)
But this is exactly what the article talks about - and what I agree with - let them ask for help. To each his own, I agree that some people need that intervention, but for the rest of us, don't assume it.
Re:Don’t offer co-workers help unless asked on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @04:30AM (#18290614)
Co-workers who have a tendency to "shepherd" newbies are downright annoying. Other than the initial on-boarding, there is no reason to be involved in solving someone's "new comer experience".
Re:GitHub launches Actions, its workflow automation tool on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @03:21PM (#18232358)
Is the "extend" portion of the new Microsoft strategy commencing...
Re:How I’ve Attracted the First 500 Paid Users for My SaaS on Monday October 15, 2018 @07:14AM (#18218802)
This reminded me a lot of how DHH described their thinking (paraphrasing A LOT): other people don't have to have a bad product for yours to be successful. Good article!
Re:Alphabet Backs GitLab's Quest to Surpass Microsoft's GitHub on Thursday September 20, 2018 @09:02AM (#18032047)
Me too.
Re:Google is discontinuing Inbox on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @03:07PM (#17972024)
To be honest; I'm a little surprised it's lasted this long.
Re:Why we needed Redux in the past, and don’t any more on Friday September 07, 2018 @04:50AM (#17932783)
The way Redux works is that it essentially stores all the dynamic information of an app in a single JavaScript object.

This is the temptation when starting with Redux/Mobx/GraphQL/etc. You can't simply relegate reasoning through your application architecture to a single library or because some big company solved a problem with it.

Redux is a fantastic way to organise some of your app state & GraphQL is also great at a lot of stuff! Absolute no need to play the all-your-eggs-in-one-basket game.

Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL on Thursday September 06, 2018 @03:11PM (#17928754)
Because the battery drainage with Firefox is unacceptable.
Re:Why You Need to Stop Using Reddit, Plus Reddit Privacy Tips on Thursday September 06, 2018 @10:03AM (#17926341)
I don't know why, but some people assume these services are being used as a utility rather than a community. So they make their case based on stats and data, and completely ignore the relational aspect of being part of it.

You can spit facts & figures all day long, but unless you make it clear why your own community is intentionally betraying you, it's all noise.

4. Reddit is lame.

Thanks mom. Carry on.

Re:Bye bye BetterSlack on Thursday August 30, 2018 @01:54AM (#17874369)
That is sad! My condolences. That was a very well written letter from Slack and I completely agree with them, but unfortunate for BetterSlack nonetheless. Always room to pivot!

How important are domain names vs. company names?

Hi guys, so I'm in a bit of a situation here with my co founder. We have a very new startup, and we've chosen a company name that we both really like, but it's unfortunately (no surprise) proving to be a bit of a headache with getting a decent domain that even vaguely resembles our chosen company name.We've done some research and we've read a lot of opinions that it's highly beneficial to get...

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Re:Twitter ‘smytes’ customers on Friday June 22, 2018 @02:16PM (#17376072)
Yea me neither. Generalizations like this aren't helpful, or least bit fair.
Re:Why We Disagree with The New York Times on Monday June 04, 2018 @03:07PM (#17231067)
As a non-user of Facebook, I completely take their side with all of this.

1) If people don't want to read the fine print, whose fault is that? 2) How have we gotten to a point where we are abdicating our choice voluntary, and then acting begrudgingly toward the new owners when they misuse it?

I must apologize for my cynicism here, but we've been going around this mountain for a very long time now (circa 2013 IINM?). I'm getting tired of hearing how people are feeling violated due to their own actions.

Absolutely agree.
Re:Chrome is Not the Standard on Thursday December 21, 2017 @02:44PM (#15982154)
Everybody favours the underdog.

Mr. Robot was stupid because - why do I want marketing in a product I use as an eveyday utility? Chrome is the standard because of the majority market share and also because they do a great job of delivering a good developer AND user experience.

Re:Updated to High Sierra, all Admin accounts now Standard on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @12:59AM (#15804932)
Updated with no problem at all.
100% spot on.
Re:How we do Vue at GitLab: one year later on Saturday November 11, 2017 @03:42PM (#15678076)
Nothing to disagree on. :)
Re:How we do Vue at GitLab: one year later on Saturday November 11, 2017 @03:07AM (#15675449)
So I've used Vue for personal projects before, it's really nice. I lead the dev on a small team within a large corporate company, we focus on React & Angular(io).

The primary reason why I would not adopt Vue is because Vue is still driven by Evan You - which is great, but if something had to happen to the guy (and I hope nothing does), I'm unsure Vue would have the long term support & drive it does right now.

So I reckon Docker & PHP7/HHVM have contributed for sure. So much easier deploying Nginx - not to mention just plain nicer.
Re:Mobile App Developers Are Suffering on Thursday November 05, 2015 @07:50AM (#10512985)
This is quite interesting though. On the web, search engines were built to fulfil a very specific need... finding content. The more open the web became the better search engines could find what you were looking for. Now with apps, they're being built at an extremely rapid pace, I wonder if we could expect to see some content-finding framework popping up to solve the saturation/discoverability issue.
Ya, it's the usual HN comment section crap. Everybody's an expert.
Just a quick note; but "sugar in general" contains fructose. Given that you're talking about simple sugars.
Re:Google’s product strategy: Make two of everything on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @06:11AM (#9890544)
I must admit - this is kind of why I started moving AWAY from Google. You just don't have any guarantee that the product you're using won't be shelved in leu of a "better" (newer) solution.
Actually really agree with this. As someone who develops for Android I can't tell you much potential "mental damage control" you have to be prepared for with implementing stuff. Accommodating the different support packages, APIs, device & hardware specifications - it's a headache sometimes. But I think that's part of why I love it too, the freedom and "openness" relative to iOS eco system.

That being said - Apple might be closed and all the rest, but make no mistake: they know their customer and they are willing to defend them. Even if it means pissing people off. Which is kinda nice.

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