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by sraquo 7y ago
We do plan to do some tests, to the extent that we're able. We can A/B test much of the UI but we can't A/B test the insurance terms that we give people because that would require different pricing and thus different rat
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by sraquo 7y ago
(Goodcover dev here) It could be, along with say family size. But the UX cost of asking such questions is real, especially on an insurance application form. People get worried why we want to know such things so early on. Today we're ab
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by sraquo 7y ago
Scala.js too! Been a great experience overall. (I work at Goodcover)
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by sraquo 8y ago
What I'm saying is outside of the virtual DOM paradigm you might not need to diff any elements at all, real or virtual, and so you wouldn't care about the performance of DOM reads, as you're not doing them. Then it becomes a
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by sraquo 8y ago
Well... faster than what exactly? You have to do the virtual DOM pattern (generating new DOM state and then diffing with old state) with virtual elements. You can't compare proper virtual dom to using real DOM elements instead of
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by sraquo 8y ago
> Oh wow. You just described the existing imperative DOM APIs, haven't you? Inflexible implementation wasting everyone's time. Existing DOM APIs are very simple, low level and unopinionated. A pleasure to build libraries on. Th
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by sraquo 8y ago
> Why waste time implementing and “reducing it even further” and not just implement it in the browser? Because the browser should not offer inflexible implementations of complex, highly opinionated and currently overhyped paradigms, beca
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by sraquo 8y ago
There is enough differentiation in virtual DOM designs[1] that I don't think implementing a lowest common denominator that is flexible enough to support competing strategies would be useful. Being a browser API it would need to be a ra
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by sraquo 8y ago
Because virtual DOM is not the only way to achieve efficient DOM updates, and even within the concept of virtual DOM there could be many different ways to achieve efficient diffing (e.g. React vs Snabbdom). There is nothing special about a
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by sraquo 8y ago
ScalaTags is indeed not relevant here, but Scala.js has its fair share of reactive UI libraries such as my own Laminar https://github.com/raquo/Laminar
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by sraquo 8y ago
Yup, I've seen more than one friend leave Vancouver for Ontario and Quebec. But hey if you work remotely, you're in the same timezone as SF!
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by sraquo 8y ago
Directly. One of my friends is holed up in Yukon working via a website similar to upwork. Seems to work for him although these kind of sites generally get bad rep on HN.
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by sraquo 8y ago
Yes, I worked remotely for both US and Canadian clients. Dealing with Quebec clients is a pain (need to file their sales tax, _in french_), otherwise it's been a smooth sailing. Just remember that you're a contractor, not an emplo
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by sraquo 8y ago
Spoiler alert: the best setup is to hole up in a nice town in Canada working remotely for a client in the US. Vancouver numbers I know from friends, mostly from a couple years ago, web application dev: - Starting salary around 60K CAD - Mid
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by sraquo 8y ago
> What are the 12 most common shortcut keys? FWIW the WhatPulse app can tell you that (for your own typing) e.g. https://i.imgur.com/SuPLw9h.png I used its data to drive my custom layout decisions.
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by sraquo 8y ago
You don't have to change from the qwerty layout for general typing. For example, you can program the keyboard in such a way that pressing X+A sends Ctrl+C keys to the OS, where X is a custom modifier button (Not Ctrl but a separate but
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by sraquo 8y ago
Keyboards like Diverge and Ergodox are fully programmable so nothing's stopping you from doing that today! Also, I found that putting a small touchpad^ in a thumb-accessible area (near where a laptop touchpad would be) is a good enough
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by sraquo 8y ago
I tried Dvorak for a month a few years ago. For me it was just useless agony, not only with key positions but also with app/OS shortcuts that are very much designed for qwerty layout. I have since switched to a split ergonomic keyboard
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by sraquo 9y ago
It would be great if you had a public preview of the content there. I've seen it done before, so there must be some kind of a slack app that lets you do that. As a remote contractor I sometimes feel that it would be nice to have a chat
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by sraquo 9y ago
I was told they would send me a replacement if they determine it to be a hardware problem. Return wouldn't be an option (I'm past the first 30 days). I'll try to negotiate with them anyway.
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by sraquo 9y ago
> Dell isn't doing anything special to the version they distribute. From what I've read on their website, they actually do bundle it with custom software like drivers. But really my bigger point is that a lot of things do not w
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by sraquo 9y ago
I don't think so. A lot of my issues are with BIOS and various linux apps or the window manager, not technically the distribution flavour itself. Also, I'm done spending time on this :)
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by sraquo 9y ago
Earlier this year I bought a Developer Edition (Ubuntu) of Dell Precision 5520, which is the business version of XPS 15 9560. Same chassis and hardware, better factory QA and different GPU options. I very much regret this decision. I spent
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by sraquo 9y ago
Thanks! You know, if it comes to that, Scala.js community is a passionate bunch, we could probably crowdfund it :)
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by sraquo 9y ago
Scala.js has been an amazing tool for my personal projects. I literally hit euphoria sometimes writing stuff in it. I am yet to truly grasp the benefits of full stack Scala (shared models, Autowire, etc.) but even for purely front-end devel
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by sraquo 11y ago
I built http://hnapp.com specifically to generate custom RSS & JSON feeds for HN. It's opensource on github too. For example: http://hnapp.com/?q=haskell%20type%3Astory%20score%3E20
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by sraquo 11y ago
There isn't an option to get more results per page, but you can get to the next page by clicking "next" at the bottom. If you don't see the "next" link, then there are no more results. Note that hnapp only has
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by sraquo 11y ago
If you prefer RSS (or JSON) over email, my http://hnapp.com works well, and it's open source too.
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by sraquo 12y ago
Thanks! I myself could use a recommendation for Vancouver area.
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by sraquo 12y ago
Apart from big finance / trading corporations there are quite a few smaller companies building SaaS software in finance. Also, multiplayer games with trading. Personally, I like Economics problems too but chose to focus on software dev

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