ergothus

6 ms·

1.
by ergothus 6y ago
Re: comparing to jQuery. A lot of the ease and benefits depends on your style. If your code pattern was to have variables holding your state and rendering html based on that, you will have an easy transition to React ( and likely didn'
2.
by ergothus 6y ago
> In retrospect it's fairly typical behaviour for less literate types to adopt a word that sounds sophisticated beyond their standard repertoire This seems an excessively negative take on it. How do we learn new words? Sure, we COU
3.
by ergothus 6y ago
> I'd say there is more transparency around unethical behavior by elected officials And that's what worries me - note in my post above I was careful to talk about "public". Before there was a veil of deniability, the
4.
by ergothus 6y ago
How many things have been aberrant and denounced, only to become the regrettable norm in the last few years? When I was a child, the US wouldn't open admit to torture. It didn't have publicly known programs to ship prisoners to o
5.
by ergothus 6y ago
I struggle to understand the target audience for this. I'm currently crushed by lack of productivity, and overthinking is definitely a large part of the problem. But I can't just "not think" - I'm painfully aware
6.
by ergothus 6y ago
> Consistent style is more important than each block of code being perfectly pretty "Pretty", yes, but we're literally talking about using language to communicate. Consistency taken to extremes is harmful to communication
7.
by ergothus 6y ago
When the communication loss (visual noise) from the added static typing info is of bigger impact than benefit type safety offers you. All of which depends on a lot of variables.
8.
by ergothus 6y ago
Thank you! Hopefully I'll be able to property quote and cite next time now that I know.
9.
by ergothus 6y ago
I forget where I saw it, but I appreciate a comment that says: When faced with extreme inequality, you can redistribute wealth through taxation or you can redistribute poverty through revolution.
10.
by ergothus 6y ago
They'll find out how much of the rhetoric the company feeds them is true or not. They'll know for themselves when they deemed it important to draw a line. As a matter of calculation, the timing isn't ideal. None of them see
11.
by ergothus 6y ago
> But why? This is my key question, and I ask with minimal assumption that either one is better. What are the criteria we are even using to judge? Clarity that there is state is one. Elsewhere there are arguments about ABI that I fail
12.
by ergothus 6y ago
> Our company moved to it and its been horrible with any third party application or marketing pixel. Isn't that part of the point though? 3rd party marketing and tracking pixels are NOT things that improve the experience or perform
13.
by ergothus 6y ago
The article assumes that the policymakers (and public) AREN'T considering the drawbacks. I disagree with that. Many non-US countries have acted to minimize those drawbacks, so it is misleading to act as if those drawbacks are unavoida
14.
by ergothus 6y ago
> Customers cost money, why even have them? That certainly seems to match the customer service attitudes I've seen from many banks...
15.
by ergothus 6y ago
I'm not a psychologist so I should probably shut up, but I'll continue: It seems like it does hit the tech field more often, yet overwhelmingly I see leading people in tech get softer, more empathetic, and more open to outside ide
16.
by ergothus 6y ago
But until recently an unhandled promise failure was NOT a thrown error, and when it is it's not the error you want.
17.
by ergothus 6y ago
> if you can't explain the earlier oscillation, why should I accept the later oscillation Clearly women in the 1970s had no other obstacles - they couldn't obtain credit(!), much less be on equal footing in so many other ways.
18.
by ergothus 6y ago
As of this writing, a lot of comments are sharing their varied personal experiences in WFH. Which is good, because they are all more interesting and valuable than the article, which skips the "varied" part and basically lumps ever
19.
by ergothus 6y ago
Reread their comment - they are pointing out that CS classes had a DROP in women attending them, and that decline does line up with the rise of computer gaming. They weren't saying women have never had an interest as a result of gamin
20.
by ergothus 6y ago
> 1) Women in absolute aggregate seem to not like CompSci. Based on what? They don't end up there, but we have evidence (based on decreasing enrollment in degrees) that they USED to be "more interested" (If you use that a
21.
by ergothus 6y ago
You are literally describing critical thinking. To assume no one would lie, mislead, or even just be blind to their own biases is to be part of the problem. How did I "convince myself of an ulterior motive"? I read what was wr
22.
by ergothus 6y ago
1) I'd argue that you arent paying much attention to those other industries. I certainly see issue commonly raised in a few you mention that are in my circles. Things that still make me double-take. 2) tech is just the latest in a ser
23.
by ergothus 6y ago
Focusing on the idea that women are biologically "less interested" (but don't worry, we aren't talking about the good ones you may know, they are just statistical outliers) and trying to twist up scientific "proof&
24.
by ergothus 6y ago
> As someone who actually read what he wrote, I just had to bite my tongue. That's not what he said at all, As someone that also read it, those arent the words he used, but that is very much what he was saying. A facade of misrepre
25.
by ergothus 6y ago
I've bought my own router and had Comcast later claim it was theirs (because they collected the SN off it, and put it in their system, then later, lo and behold, the SN is in their system). I've had issues, called them, they say i
26.
by ergothus 6y ago
Except that math doesn't work either. 3-4 times the morality rate is not the same as 3-4 times as many dead, for the same reasons I listed above - we've already made lots of societal adjustments to change the input number before
27.
by ergothus 6y ago
> Which means a response three to four times as strong as the one to the seasonal flu would be appropriate. I'm not sure that's a meaningful statement. Our response to a seasonal flu - for which we spread a vaccine in advance
28.
by ergothus 6y ago
Parents observe their child learn the most in-depth actions and knowledge from a dizzying array of input...and then too often decide that children can't handle nuance or depth. I know _I_ can't, but children seem to be quite good
29.
by ergothus 6y ago
Can you say any ways life changed due to the 1918 pandemic? Do most people even know about more recent ones? (1958?) People are terrible at adjusting, we keep asking for (our definition of) "normal"
30.
by ergothus 6y ago
And yet, the US legal system is built around such assumptions, invalid as they may be.

More ›