dmethvin

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by dmethvin 3y ago
Enshittification. https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/
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by dmethvin 6y ago
Okay, I'll take a little time to brag. The word count challenge here got my interest at the time, so I whipped up an assembly language version of it and iterated several times, trying to figure out the value of switching different regi
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by dmethvin 6y ago
> If CSS was designed the way it is just to satisfy the constraints of 1996, then maybe that gives us permission 20 years later to do things a little differently. Yeah, just like we can choose which side of the road to drive on or pick a
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by dmethvin 7y ago
This has a lot of really serious implications. I built a form for a charity that allowed users to buy a subscription but include an additional donation amount. Chrome was sometimes filling that field with the two-digit year. The charity got
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by dmethvin 7y ago
AMP is just a set of conventions and limitations that, when followed, make for a fast site. Anyone can make a fast site if they follow similar rules. Most sites don't do that because either the developers want to use something that&#x2
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by dmethvin 7y ago
Yes, things are changing rapidly everywhere on the stack, but it seems that with front-end dev the same two things are left behind with each generation: performance and accessibility. Each time we get close to making performant and accessib
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by dmethvin 7y ago
I wasn't able to find any working examples from the homepage, even with the updated link. Can you link directly to a demo page or two that uses the library, rather than a Github repo with code that uses the library?
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by dmethvin 8y ago
I don't think they want control over the browser market, just the browser users on Windows. People are less likely to ditch Edge if it is more compatible with the way Chrome and Safari work (including the ability to run Chrome extensio
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by dmethvin 8y ago
It's important to express the underlying reasoning for the policy: things with similar size and speed can be together, dissimilar things should be separated. Cars and bikes/scooters are not the same, and streets need to separate t
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by dmethvin 8y ago
The Microsoft Edge browser has had this feature for two or three years, by the same name. Chrome has something similar. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/devtools-gui...
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by dmethvin 8y ago
Quite often you have to manually do the task at least once to determine how to automate it. That tells you your upper bound on how much time can be saved. If for example it only took 15 minutes of manual work it's highly unlikely that
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by dmethvin 8y ago
Why did you hire a psychologist from the company that inappropriately disclosed data to Cambridge Analytica? https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/18/facebook-cambri...
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by dmethvin 9y ago
I completely agree that you can do a lot with jQuery or even plain DOM and JS. It's often the right way to go when there's already back-end structure like Wordpress, Drupal, or ASP.NET and you just need simple things like form val
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by dmethvin 9y ago
Here's the 990: http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/463/4634857... See the bottom of PDF page 8 under Independent Contractors and the bottom of page 27. Note that p27 is NOT saying that all that
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by dmethvin 9y ago
That would cost Apple a lot if those people had Apple Care. Better for Apple if the minority people who perceive a problem come in and ask for a replacement/
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by dmethvin 9y ago
I agree with your premise but the example problem already has many established companies including Engaging Networks, EveryAction, Salsa, and Luminate. As a startup your job will either be to completely replace their stack in one fell swoop
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by dmethvin 9y ago
This is from a year ago. As someone who wants to contribute to a project for the first time, there would be nothing more frustrating than spending time creating what I think is a good pull request, only to have it be turned down (which it w
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by dmethvin 10y ago
He might think otherwise because it climbed to the top of HN but doesn't have any explanation (here or on the actual page) of what it does or who/what it might be useful for.
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by dmethvin 10y ago
Corrosion from leaking electrolyte would eventually short the battery terminals to the protective shield around the battery cells. At that point the battery would catch fire. It just happened to me 3 months ago, 2002 Prius on a battery that
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by dmethvin 10y ago
It's quite a burden to maintain two different sets of APIs.
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by dmethvin 10y ago
jQuery 3.0 lets you do for..of for a jQuery collection even.
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by dmethvin 10y ago
Right, that is the advantage of having an API layer that the developer (not the web platform) controls. The more we dump into the web platform the bigger it gets because it's nearly impossible to remove anything. The idea of the Extens
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by dmethvin 10y ago
Got the original Coin, it was defective and I was sent another one. I used it on a transaction and it charged a card different than the one showing on the display. By then most of my frequent buys were at stores that take chip cards so I st
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by dmethvin 10y ago
I sympathize with the libertarian "I should be able to decide what I put in my body" but the fact is that right now anyone using e-cigs has no idea what's in that juice they fill their devices with. Studies have found some
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by dmethvin 10y ago
The only time I have heard of that is when sponsors buy a slot to pitch their product or service. Was that your situation? In most conferences that are not marketing-oriented, the speakers are the product being sold to the attendees. Many c
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by dmethvin 10y ago
> "As a responsible developer you will, of course, want to verify that any package upgrades function as advertised. The real world is a messy place; there’s nothing we can do about that but be vigilant." Being a programmer you
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by dmethvin 11y ago
Dedicating your development time to a laundry list of "best practices" doesn't pay off that well. Measure where your web page is spending its time and fix that. Take image sprites for example. Setting them up takes extra step
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by dmethvin 11y ago
Right, for the human there are still the English API docs to figure out the arguments and return values. These are the type annotations that TypeScript uses to let you know when you've misinterpreted the API docs, which is an incredibl
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by dmethvin 11y ago
I have to assume he's been told not to speak about details until the executives came up with a plan. If that is the case, GitHub management is really making his job a living hell. Why have someone whose job it is to work with the commu
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by dmethvin 11y ago
> why not just charge the superusers with tens of thousands of followers, like Mr. Jones, who really do get some tangible benefit from the service? The big users with lots of followers are the ones who create the large audience for Twitt

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