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The example on using emojis is very strange:

> It'd be nice to get that report by this afternoon.

This phrasing is inherently passive aggressive since it's not a direct ask, regardless of how many emojis are included.

Why not:

> Hi <name>, will you be able to have the report on X ready by <time>?

Re:Don’t try to sanitize input – escape output on Thursday February 27, 2020 @01:43PM (#22436333)
Don't filter input. Instead, prevent certain characters from being input in text elements. This is a user experience problem, not a software problem. The software can validate that a "name" is rejected if it does not follow the front end validations, but it doesn't need to do any more than that.

Of course, this argument does not extend beyond a "name" field to more complex fields. But more complex fields are less susceptible to introducing UX problems if certain characters are sanitized.

There's nothing wrong with having a prescription for marijuana, even if the "prescription" is really just a state medical license provided by a sketchy doctor that you slip 200 USD once a year.

But please stay off the roads while you're under "psychoactive" effects (read: high) . There are LEGAL drugs that are illegal to use while operating a motor vehicle.

Re:The Difference Between Amateurs and Professionals (2017) on Thursday August 01, 2019 @03:15AM (#20581689)
There's valid points here, but the impact is lost in the disjoint laundry list communication style.
Re:React is the new Dojo on Saturday October 21, 2017 @12:19PM (#15522330)
> used by hipster startups to Facebook

Well, yeah, it's developed by and for Facebook...that was a weird line.

Re:React 16 on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @01:45PM (#15340939)
I think you're overcomplicating how transferrable framework knowledge is. An expert React developer could switch to Vue no problem if there was demand for it. Similarly an expert Vue developer could switch to React no problem.
Clickbait. The author switched from Angular 2 beta 9 (not even a release candidate) because he was unable to migrate to Angular 2.0.0 since 'too many things broke to make the upgrade non trivial'. Yet somehow rewriting the entire app in Vue is easier?
Re:Malicious crossenv package on npm on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @10:31PM (#14907464)
Drug lords
Not as long as ads/tracking make companies money
I'm assuming it's the Reddit effect. People read headlines, upvote, and move along without ever clicking the link.
Every framework is going to have flaws, but if you perform a comparison I think there's a responsibility to accurately represent the frameworks being compared.
yet another web framework medium article with a misleading angular vs react comparison.

it isn't angular 2 anymore. it's just angular. it's been out for over a year and if people were having problems running it in production, we would hear about it. there are many sites running angular 2-4 in production, google it and see for yourself. just because google didn't rewrite gmail in angular doesn't mean you shouldn't use it.

I wonder if there is some highly ranked google search result that spreads this misinformation, months after some of these points were valid.

Re:Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @03:06PM (#14755567)
There was a missed opportunity here to format HN posts using Facebook styles
Re:ECMAScript 2017 Language Specification on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @03:15PM (#14747105)
the trend of style over readability. google recommends avoiding list comprehensions in python yet 99% of stackoverflow python questions have some convoluted list comprehension answer
Re:Show HN: BotEngine – Easy tool for creating chatbots on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @10:45AM (#14744590)
>BotEngine allows you to create a chatbot for any service.

except for the ones that are not implemented. would be interested to try this out once it has telegram support.

People die and people deal with it in different ways. I'm not sure what is unique about this. Lots of people learn to get in shape for marathons.
Re:Angular 2/4 Is Too Little Too Late on Friday June 30, 2017 @09:58AM (#14670730)
How to get upvotes on hackernews: write yet another clickbait medium article on how bad angular is.

I don't think the OP has ever used Angular CLI or followed Angular development. If he had then he would have not written this article since a majority of his claims about Angular are wrong.

Re:Is it possible to host Facebook on AWS? on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @10:19PM (#14660296)
>anyone
Re:Show HN: GreenPiThumb – A Raspberry Pi Gardening Bot on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @12:22AM (#14651664)
the codebase is really elegant. thanks for open sourcing everything!
this was posted earlier in the month and most of the top level comments have already been made

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14508201

or I could use Lyft
Re:My biggest mistake as an F1 engineer on Thursday June 22, 2017 @11:27AM (#14612891)
why does linkedin have articles
Re:My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @03:41PM (#14607192)
before uber, I don't think I've ever rooted for a company to fail
>"It shouldn't be a big surprise that there are cases in which we'd prefer our most sensitive data isn't sitting on a competitor's platform, " he said, adding that it's a "small number."

what is unreasonable about this? do you trust amazon?

what kind of accounts do you use throwaway mail services for? the use case where NBox would be useful for me is sites I don't use often, i.e. a clothing site or online video game store. but i wouldn't trust those to a throwaway email
how do i know i can trust the security and privacy of this?
Re:Introducing Highlights on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @12:56PM (#14554033)
they should make the search usable first
Re:Teacher spends two days as a student (2014) on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @11:47AM (#14301006)
This article is nothing more than low effort clickbait. People love hearing about "shocking" revelations.
Re:Early Nintendo programmer worked without a keyboard on Thursday April 27, 2017 @03:27PM (#14214037)
Yeah the SEO for Angular is honestly a nightmare.

I can't search Angular since then I get AngularJS (Angular 1) results even though the current iteration of the framework is called Angular. I can't search Angular 4 to filter Angular 1 out since not many articles are labeled with Angular 4 yet. I can't search for Angular 2 since new articles for Angular 4 are not going to be labeled with Angular 2, and searching for Angular 2 includes tons of useless media about Angular at various stages of release candidate.

/rant but I guess most of the time I'm just reading the Angular docs anyways.

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