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by pixelrevision 2y ago
And unfortunately “productive” needs to be part of the package. I have worked with some incredibly smart people that I really respected who had a very hard time getting anything done.
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by pixelrevision 2y ago
You can earn cash shop points by doing a lot of grinding.
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by pixelrevision 3y ago
Thanks, I really didn’t get what they meant with the example they were using. Out of curiosity why is writing everything as a single element type more ergonomic? I’ve not done frontend web dev in a while and using <p> <h1> and
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by pixelrevision 3y ago
Heh. Going to be a lot less maintenance work if they are.
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by pixelrevision 3y ago
At work we use snapshot tests to see visual changes to ui. It helps a lot with code review especially with adding edge case data to tight designs. We use ui tests specifically for testing accessibility, analytics and data passed along duri
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by pixelrevision 3y ago
Spoiler: no one thinks they should have to pay for software these days.
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by pixelrevision 3y ago
It really has caused a race to the bottom anywhere it becomes the primary business model. Everyone hates it but no one’s got a solve to get people paying for things once they are “free”.
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by pixelrevision 3y ago
Unity is a really good alternative. Flash kinda went sideways and started really trying to lean into the Java crowd with flex. Unity is more like what would have happened if Flash heavily leaned into what it did well.
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by pixelrevision 3y ago
Yes. And the tooling is pretty straightforward to plug into generally if you need to tweak things. I’ve found that the biggest barrier here is generally not in openapi tooling, but in getting people to take time out to leverage it. This
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by pixelrevision 4y ago
“I don’t have to finish this” is also quite liberating
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by pixelrevision 4y ago
It also doubles as documentation that’s forced to stay up to date. Code has a way of becoming hard to follow especially when edge cases and performance enhancements are added.
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by pixelrevision 4y ago
Adding software can help. Alfred can either replace spotlite or run along side it. I’ve found it much faster and easier to use. You can customize it pretty well. (Just don’t download the Mac App Store version as it’s multiple versions beh
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by pixelrevision 4y ago
I think the problem here is that there are very few places where there is any time between pressing feature demands. This always seemed to me what the agile guys were saying. The approach was all centered around the idea that things would
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by pixelrevision 4y ago
It takes a bit of time. You’d want to do it one by one. I’ve done it the other way (mono repo code to library) and it’s worth the time to keep the history around where you are working. I just did a google search. First one that comes up
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by pixelrevision 4y ago
Some of the best engineers I’ve ever worked were just “going with the flow”. They certainly brought tons to the table. Some people are just quiet and don’t like conflict. If you ask them what they think plus give them a calm environment,
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by pixelrevision 4y ago
I think it’s more about the centerpiece being subjects rather than people. I read Reddit threads all the time and comments there are front and center. There’s plenty terrible subs and people but they are easy to ignore and not the norm wi
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by pixelrevision 4y ago
I’m surprised Reddit is even considered social media. The anonymity of the users and focus on subjects over people make it a very different experience. With Facebook and instagram you have a limited pool of people that interest each other
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by pixelrevision 4y ago
“Programming guides”! Those were so awesome because they explained the whole system. The core graphics one was an absolute lifesaver when I started working with iOS. Apples UI a frameworks seemed way more complex than anything I’d ever wor
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by pixelrevision 4y ago
I really wish apple would spend more time on their tooling. A lot of the new features like async/await and SwiftUI have way less visibility than what came before. A lot of this stuff makes the code compact and much easier to read but w
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by pixelrevision 4y ago
They do start to care when it stops working or it takes forever to change due to it being a mess. This is the natural state most projects end up at unless the devs are putting in a ton of extra effort to keep it clean, organized and mainta
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by pixelrevision 4y ago
It doesn’t sound like burnout to me. It sounds more like organizational issues that have left the author with a very limited amount of time to work on a sluggish product they can’t take pride in. The name brand and pay sometimes just don’t
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by pixelrevision 4y ago
Slack it really great for getting info but it definitely can become a firehose and a distraction. Many of those fire and forget posts are from people equally as exhausted with it as you are trying to keep up. I have also talked with plent
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by pixelrevision 4y ago
Tests are the only spec I know of that stays up to date. It’s code that is executed regularly and has to change by design if specs change. That doesn’t help a ton in your case as writing tests against specific animations would be very har
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by pixelrevision 4y ago
It was also better for the really quiet ones. There’s some really great programmers who can put out amazing stuff if you can keep them away from the agile/stakeholder circus.
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by pixelrevision 4y ago
Stars of the lid and Steve Roach have a lot of comparable stuff.
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by pixelrevision 4y ago
This syncs with my experience. The ones that think they are better than everyone else and don’t have any humility are the hardest. They tend to break things, write 5x more code than needed then stay defensive and finger point instead of f
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by pixelrevision 4y ago
Photoshop is Adobe’s flagship application so it’s probably not what you’d want to look at as a comparison. I’d look at the current status of all the products they bought from Macromedia (which were all wildly popular at the time) to get an
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by pixelrevision 4y ago
It was 2-3. My take at the time was that they built an add-on to crash xcode.
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by pixelrevision 4y ago
Swiping is I think how most people use nav on an iPhone at this point. The back button at the top did make a lot more sense on the original models where the screen was small enough that you could do everything with a single hand.
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by pixelrevision 4y ago
Skyrim is the raspberry pi of video games. So many hours getting something “just right” to the follow up by never using it for that purpose. Always good to have around though just in case.

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