Ligrev

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by Ligrev 5y ago
There's Bing Ads which alone may suggest otherwise. Also, they operate a search engine.
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by Ligrev 6y ago
Not only that, but developing websites 10 years ago kinda sucked. Browsers were wildly inconsistent, it was common to have another CSS stylesheet for IE only, JS was so fragmented that jQuery was an instant hit. On the other hand pages were
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by Ligrev 6y ago
GoDaddy have been caught doing some dodgy things in the past. Like taking your money for brokerage and not doing any work afterwards. Or registering domains and parking them if lot of people search for them e.g. via who is or the registrati
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by Ligrev 6y ago
It's really quality vs quantity. Some really utilize whatever analytics tool they use, others just throw in more tools. It's a bit of a hit-and-miss industry in terms of code quality. Even the big ones.
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by Ligrev 6y ago
Unfortunately my experience is as an outsourced employee so not too relevant for pitching as a contractor. But product managers are usually pretty happy to hear you out and usually benefit from referring people they've talked to. And t
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by Ligrev 6y ago
It's incredibly popular in the ecommerce world where every 1kb reduced is a lot. Target large ones - they often use Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Hybris, BigCommerce, Magento. Also any business with embeddable products and SDKs. No one is
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by Ligrev 6y ago
What are you basing your 10x comparison on? What costs 10x less? Does it consistently cost as much? I'm sure they would love to hear from you if you can cut 90% of their hardware costs without increasing other costs.
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by Ligrev 7y ago
Genuinely curious, not judgemental here. How did the usually-much-better-paid people feel about this? Did they complain that their salaries were now closer to the lesser paid people? Like, I could see somebody not feeling like that's f
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by Ligrev 7y ago
That assumes you have the means, the knowledge, and the time, to go through a build step. What you find to be clean code might go the opposite way for someone (i.e. why would I use scss if utils are all I need?). You might work with large s
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by Ligrev 7y ago
Your guess is as good as anyone's. Given the way the communication is going, I'd say more likely than not. But the article says all computer systems are off which is clearly not the case so who knows...
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by Ligrev 7y ago
Yes, with a small correction - "uit" is loosely pronounced as "out". A huis is pronounced like a house. Well, close enough anyway :)
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by Ligrev 7y ago
A while ago I was thinking the same about compensation but then someone pointed out that if you were eligible for one, they would have incentive to not let you go. It would be cheaper for everyone to just keep you unfairly.
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by Ligrev 7y ago
Bos means a forest, likely nothing to do with his name
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by Ligrev 7y ago
Yup. And you can implement something that loads all the content up until that point when the user presses F5 in the middle of the page. And you can implement smooth scrolling that takes into account your sticky header. And you can make your