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by peterangular 4y ago
> right now I'm working on a project where we have modals inside modals I know this is just expressing my frustration into the void... but how does that even get past a professional review? I've always been under the impression
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by peterangular 4y ago
Anecdotally, I've found that with lower-level tooling a more contentious and toxic community is attracted. The higher the barriers and difficulty of the tool seems to justify people's poor attitude of "figure it out, dipstick
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by peterangular 4y ago
> But you appear to have confused the article section titled "Accessibility" with the concept of accessibility. I mean. Yeah - I guess I expect the section named "Accessibility" to be about the concept of accessibilit
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by peterangular 4y ago
> I could probably write an article just about why the number input is terrible. And, with as many people are saying outright "don't use numeric inputs" I would very much want to understand what issues you encountered, whe
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by peterangular 4y ago
> What world of technology do you live in where the terrible UX of no javascript is acceptable? We're conversing on HN... a site that has specifically avoided UIX overhauls to maintain the simplicity and functionality of the forum.
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by peterangular 4y ago
> > As a web designer with a speciality in a11y > This is hard to believe Oof. Even if they're outright wrong they could still have lots of experience with accessibility. On HN we typically assume good faith even when we disag
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by peterangular 4y ago
> If you have a number element on your form, people will accidentally mangle their own inputs, because the value in such an element silently changes when you use the mouse wheel. Yeah this can happen if you're dispatching scroll eve
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by peterangular 4y ago
Linking that article from 2020 is problematic - please read my response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32141468
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by peterangular 4y ago
Article from 2020... many of these issues are no longer a thing and/or are just really weird to call out. From their accessibility bullets: > cannot be dictated or selected when using Dragon Naturally Speaking Isn't this just a
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by peterangular 4y ago
> How will you handle users who have javascript disabled? They won't/can't. Their only real options are to fallback to either the "text" field or the "numeric" field. > Why reinvent the wheel? Why no
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by peterangular 4y ago
100% not for everyone, and I have to run it along side of traditional monitors (gaming etc). That being said, it's the #1 thing I value out of my setup just by personal preference. When I'm traveling + using a traditional setup I
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by peterangular 4y ago
No, I don't think that simplification would apply here. The number of bots on Twitter has always seemed like a boon of an issue to me. Twitter wants to keep it's user/engagement numbers up and bots do help them. I can 100%
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by peterangular 4y ago
Not the LG but I've ran a 1:1 EIZO for years which is very close... Just gonna talk on how I've grown to love the 1:1 aspect ratio. 1:1... it's not for everyone, but it is for me for the following purposes: * Best LOC on-scre
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by peterangular 4y ago
I run the EIZO you linked and love it... since I'm such a fan of this monitor I've always kept an eye out for anything more affordable. Unfortunately, this LG is the first and only thing that I've seen that comes close with a
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by peterangular 4y ago
Minus Montana, every state is at-will employment of some sort or another. And, I think Montana may even have it in some form now. > And companies with strong employee unions do not have this issue of suddenly and without notice firing th
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by peterangular 4y ago
> It is dangerous that people consider layoff as a performance indicator for the employee. Hard agree. I've hired high performers from dumb layoff situations like start-ups going belly-up, companies resizing, contracts getting prema
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by peterangular 4y ago
This is about to be a ton of _personal_ anecdotes that outline why "then just drop it" isn't always as simple as that. I often use the "office beers" analogy on here to discuss the prevalent requirement of socializi
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by peterangular 4y ago
Agree. At almost every place I've worked there's this super pervasive "family" notion as-if they wouldn't eject you the moment it was in their best interests. I wish we could drop that pretense - it's just dish
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by peterangular 4y ago
> Are MBAs still taught the duties of leadership? Or are they just told to get out with enough cash for their next venture? Actively taught or not, capitalism specifically optimizes for the latter.
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by peterangular 4y ago
> Moreover, the serverless stuff is considerably easier to configure and operate than a VM. Yep - and to be 100% candid on my current project I'm running 100% with GCP Functions, AppEngine Task Queues, and Firestore for persistence.
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by peterangular 4y ago
Point taken, upvote given, but for a lot of people standing up a standard redundant DB config for MySQL and Postgres isn't that big of a deal. I say this as an engineer who has a ton of relational DB experience. Before cloud providers
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by peterangular 4y ago
> Something about being _in the code_ while stepping through lines one by one with explanations is just so much easier to follow. I just go straight to the code. Same with SO - I'm not reading words, I'm reading code. Even with
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> I'd rather spend a week at the beginning of the project and set things up the way I want them with minimal dependencies. Same. The only time that I've gone away from this strategy is when I need to get other developers to buy
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by peterangular 4y ago
> EC2 instance that performs the same computations at a fraction of the cost And typically with much lower latency/request times. GCP functions, AWS Lambdas, etc... my anecdotal experience is that they are way slower for request tim
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Also the cost of those services vs. a few well-configured basic VPS hosts is nuts. I was shocked to learn that to get MySQL/Postgres in GCP it's often >$40/month - even for the insanely tiny instance sizes. We're talk
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by peterangular 4y ago
Yeah - I really hate the term "full stack" as it can really mean vastly stuff in different contexts, between different companies, hell - even in leading teams I feel like I have to nail down what "full stack" means betwe
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by peterangular 4y ago
Node/JS solutions typically don't come "batteries included." "Fullstack" means different things depending on the ecosystem and for Node devs it means "hey there's a solution for the front-end and back
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by peterangular 4y ago
I'm contextually referring to those kids who have to learn "street-smarts" in the home as a survival mechanism. The same "street-smarts" you're valuing should never be something that is required of a child in
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You're afforded way less risk when you don't have a safety net. There's also the emotional part of still being accepted even though you stumble... without parents you're missing a literal cornerstone of support
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by peterangular 4y ago
Agree. > The extra years of "streetwise" Let's acknowledge exactly what "streetwise" is... it's the ability to operate in unsafe and not ideal environments in a way that maximizes personal safety. It's

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