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Re:Wikipedia is getting a new look on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @08:29PM (#24573973)
Quite a pleasant change
Re:Wikipedia is getting a new look on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @08:24PM (#24573923)
It's not even an issue with adding JS, they could build it entirely in React and not have it crawl along like new Reddit does. The issue is 'redesigns' which real purpose is to add extra layers of user engagement, ads and tracking.
Re:The 1, 2, n pattern on Sunday April 05, 2020 @08:24PM (#22789897)
You learn this pretty quickly in practice, I think every junior dev has tried to make an abstraction the first time they saw some complicated business logic and failed miserably. Now if I think an abstraction is easy I'll do it the second time around, otherwise I'll wait until its absolute (n)ecessary.
OBS has dominated the livestreaming working for a while now (e.g Twitch)
Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @04:00PM (#22741845)
They're not ruining it, they're just not making their product available on a competitor device
Re:Throwaway Code on Sunday February 23, 2020 @02:35PM (#22398985)
Re:Firefox 73 on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @02:47PM (#22302017)
Big time, I use Firefox for dev work because the Safari tools kinda suck, but for everything else its amazing
Re:City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @04:50PM (#22122422)
Same here, was interested to see it was only certain suburbs which had the driveways mapped.
Re:Using Standard HTML (1997) on Sunday January 19, 2020 @02:17PM (#22093305)
Longevity of technology simply isn't a concern in a ecosystem where everything else is moving at such a rapid pace.
Re:Mozilla lays off 70 on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @06:18PM (#22059927)
Tesla also has a product that basically sells itself
Re:Mozilla lays off 70 on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @06:10PM (#22059852)
Less true if you consider only tech ceo salaries
xbox underground was batshit insane. I loved it
Just say "I googled it on duck duck go". I do find it interesting how it can feel more awkward to say "I searched it" instead of "I googled it"