martinbooth

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by martinbooth 1mo ago
It says: > For most web apps, the DOM remains the better choice. It gives you accessibility, responsive layouts, text selection, input handling, and countless other features for free
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by martinbooth 4mo ago
One example I have that made me excited for this feature is the free recipe manager website I run. Many of the paid-for competitors give users the ability to import unstructured recipe data these days from sites like instagram or at least t
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by martinbooth 4y ago
Why do you think this is madness? FB doesn't use git for these monorepos, so that's not really relevant, but I don't understand why you think that it's better to break a repo up because the SCM can't handle the size
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by martinbooth 5y ago
The questions are designed to allow an interviewer to get as much signal in the 45 minutes spent in the interview.. that's why they're contrived rather than your typical piece of work. They're not designed to test you on some
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by martinbooth 5y ago
I conduct interviews for Facebook and we do not discriminate on age. I assume the recruiter just got the impression you really didn’t want to interview with us. I only do the coding interviews but every piece of interview feedback I write i
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by martinbooth 5y ago
This is the correct explanation (thank you) There’s no intention to hide the fact that certain links are blocked. The bug is that the status of failed message sends (not limited to blocked links) only shows an exclamation mark against the l
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by martinbooth 6y ago
This was the result of a lawsuit.. getty images if I remember correctly
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by martinbooth 6y ago
At the company I work for UI accessibility issues are automatic high priority bugs. You'll be an asset (as a frontend developer) to any company that values accessibility (and I'm certain that many do). Contrary to your concerns, I
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by martinbooth 7y ago
In firefox it skips one letter at a time and maybe that is the intended behaviour, but it doesn't seem consistent with what I'd expect from a WYSIWYG editor. I'd expect there to be 2 positions between the "e" and th
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by martinbooth 7y ago
There are lots of positive comments in this thread in support of this approach and I think it's great when anyone challenges the status quo. It is more common these days than it was for websites to support multiple styles/layouts.
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by martinbooth 7y ago
Distributing an altered binary to specific targets should be impossible as WhatsApp don't control the distribution, Apple and Google do. They would also have to be complicit too for a targeted attack to be feasible. By having to distri
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by martinbooth 7y ago
I think the interviewer may have been a bit standoffish because he/she was expecting you to work out how to reverse a linked list rather than memorizing the algorithm. My CS degree only taught me what a linked list is, not how to rever
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by martinbooth 7y ago
I'm pretty sure you can. They're building a wallet, but it's not the only one. It's also separate to the rest of Facebook but likely would integrate with it well
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by martinbooth 7y ago
Reasonml is just an alternative syntax for ocaml so you can definitely use it for IO. It's bucklescript that is an alternative backend for the ocaml compiler which allows you to output js, but you don't need to use it
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by martinbooth 8y ago
One reason to avoid imperial units is that people seem to be generally unsure if they're even using them! I might be wrong, but you're probably more familiar with the US system rather than imperial units (given you said you'r
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by martinbooth 8y ago
Yes.. and just like trying to get out of Ikea
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by martinbooth 11y ago
The fact that the generated javascript doesn't look as neat is a pretty poor argument. Does the author avoid other language features that get "lowered" ( http://ericlippert.com/2014/04/28/lowerin