jeffmcmahan

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by jeffmcmahan 9mo ago
This. People do not understand the implications of the most basic facts of modern science. Gravitation is instantaneous action at a distance via an "occult" force (to quote Newton's contemporaries).
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by jeffmcmahan 2y ago
It maps state to a set of reasonably efficient DOM updates that you generally don't have to manage or think about. Go play around with Angular 1, or BackboneJS, or try building a working SPA with jQuery, and you'll get a sense of
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by jeffmcmahan 2y ago
This. Lean on less. I use react and a SQL driver. I have many massive react projects in production.
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by jeffmcmahan 2y ago
React is not responsible for the stack of poorly maintained third party packages one chooses to use alongside it. You don't actually need a router, or redux, or other "state management" nonsense. Your application code can&#x2
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by jeffmcmahan 3y ago
As a former high end audio/video salesperson, I just want to state for accuracy that local dimming, as a feature, is not dynamic contrast. Dynamic contrast is terrible. By having an LED backlight array dim spots that are darker in the
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by jeffmcmahan 3y ago
Took my 7 year old daughter to a dentist. 8 cavities. Gotta get em right away! Went to another one. All good - zero cavities. Many dentists are criminals willing to drill holes in children's teeth in order fraudulently take your money.
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by jeffmcmahan 3y ago
Except that Google and MS search dominate and they can disprefer those not using WEI to "protect" users.
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by jeffmcmahan 4y ago
Yes, as usual, our pop science writer with a dim understanding of the issue quotes critics of the Chomskyan paradigm (the study aims to falsify Chomsky’s suspicion that a symbolic operation called “merge” gives humans a unique capacity for
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by jeffmcmahan 4y ago
Forgive me for having chosen pseudo js for the example - and npm. That conflates the issue. I meant to convey an attitude - let some random package do the work, who cares whether it is deep and complex and handling cases I won't ever n
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by jeffmcmahan 4y ago
No no you're so right. Let's have 500 packages installed to do multiplication. Zero performance impact, I'm sure.
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by jeffmcmahan 4y ago
Why is modern software slow? Because Joe developer's solution to a given problem is to Google up a package that solves the problem, check the license, and then run: > { packageMgr } install { randomPkg } Developer Andy, auth
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by jeffmcmahan 4y ago
I lol'd at this. :D
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by jeffmcmahan 4y ago
In 2008 or so, Steve Abney (Michigan, linguistics) suggested this book to me while we were discussing a meaning-is-use theory of semantic content. I went straight to the library to get it but their copy was out. Never did get it. Happy to h
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by jeffmcmahan 4y ago
I agree with OP 100%. I once went through multiple rounds, got an offer only to discover they wanted to pay me tens of thousands less than I was already making. I'll never engage another company about a job without knowing the salary i
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by jeffmcmahan 5y ago
It's weird to say 'her' once and then switch pronouns. But I hear you. You're picturing me with a peg leg. :)
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by jeffmcmahan 5y ago
That was my immediate impression as to what was going on. This guy doesn't know about service workers...
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by jeffmcmahan 5y ago
Uh, is that intended as a shot at Michigan? Maybe that's not what you meant. I don't know. When I sit on my break wall with friends, sipping scotch and enjoying a half decent cigar, I get to feeling like certain parts of Michigan
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by jeffmcmahan 5y ago
I'm a Michigander - across the water from Amherstburg and a tick south.
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by jeffmcmahan 5y ago
I'm deeply blessed to live on and own ~100ft of Lake Erie's shoreline. I can hear her waves now. Like all the Great Lakes, she is an inland ocean, enormous, inviting the misapprehension that she will dilute an infinite amount of a
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by jeffmcmahan 6y ago
How did this make it to the top of HN?
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by jeffmcmahan 6y ago
I live on Lake Erie, and I've seen this effect before. There will be a point between the shore and the horizon at which the water takes on exactly the hue and luminance of the sky, and makes lakers, sailboats, buoys, even a nearby ligh
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by jeffmcmahan 6y ago
Suppose I want to expand/contract a row view - toggle to see the details. The data is on the client and the HTML is already printed to the page; it just needs to be shown/hidden. You gunna hit the server to get back an HTML fragme
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by jeffmcmahan 6y ago
It has an alert at the top that says, "Irony Detected".
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by jeffmcmahan 6y ago
> but the post contradicts itself in presenting it as a product of our time. No. It doesn't. Nope. It presents the phenomenon as something that's always true - recall the discussion of time traveling and meeting the same dynami
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by jeffmcmahan 6y ago
This is one of those glaring problems that somehow was passed over the last 10 times people got together to decide to improve JS. Remarkable that it has taken so long.
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by jeffmcmahan 6y ago
Everything in this article is correct except the conclusion that it's better not to write tests. Testing is an artform all its own. I find two tricks indispensable. First I declare a "foo.src.js" file to hold a module's
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by jeffmcmahan 6y ago
I see a lot of comments expressing that all we need is markdown plus this or that little bit. I think that's unreasonable. It might suit Joe developer just fine for reading blogs and news, but the world benefits enormously from the abi
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by jeffmcmahan 6y ago
Just wanted to add a book recommendation for copy editing: "Revising Prose" by Lanham. It was recommended by a respected philosopher when I was in undergrad. Excellent.
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by jeffmcmahan 6y ago
Replicated on iOS 12.3.1 iPhone SE
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by jeffmcmahan 6y ago
I'd say the term 'sharecrop' clearly carries a strongly negative connotation...

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