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by themarkn 4y ago
I believe the issue is due to small changes in the overall tension on the instrument caused by changing one string’s tension.
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by themarkn 4y ago
It’s pretty fast to pop open a new tab and visit sheets.new, I do this a lot but not everybody knows about it (and the rest of the .new TLD) The in-line floating thing is not too attractive to me. But yeah, new window, sheets.new, split scr
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by themarkn 4y ago
I expect they want people who are willing to be persistent in working on hard problems that might be challenging or require learning new skills. I don’t see the implication others are drawing with grinding, long hours, overwork, etc. I don’
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by themarkn 4y ago
My bad, I meant clear in a more objective sense, in that it will be actually _true_ that these not-alive things will not be able to “possess” anything, rights included. Agreed that for sure people are going to get all kinds of meaning from
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by themarkn 4y ago
I suppose it reveals that the sentience of others is not knowable to us, it’s a conclusion we reach from their behavior and the condition of the world around us. Until recently, certain kinds of things, like writing about your memories, wer
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by themarkn 5y ago
> However, without knowing those breakdowns, taking any action to correct those breakdowns is wrong. We can’t accurately say there is a problem. You’re arguing a different point. I’m talking about the filter on candidates, not eventual h
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by themarkn 5y ago
Hmm. Without actively taking steps to widen the net and account for those irrelevant attributes, those attributes instead act as the first filter in your hiring process. IMO the process that ignores this is the one that’s not looking for th
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by themarkn 5y ago
Fwiw, starting in iOS 15, Siri will process speech on-device, which is huge.
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by themarkn 5y ago
Rosa Parks did not act in the heat of the moment when she refused to give up her seat. It was a carefully planned moment with multiple parties involved in the planning, intending to have a specific effect and executed calmly. Being calm was
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by themarkn 5y ago
I didn’t downvote, but … this is just some claims and assertions with no reason to believe them. It’s fine that you think these things I guess, but it’s not a useful comment cause it’s just speculation and frankly it sounds like you have a
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by themarkn 5y ago
But it may provide other benefits like helping others & being perceived as an expert, which can lead to paid speaking opportunities, workshops, or even just another thing on your resume to help you appear worth a higher salary next time
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by themarkn 5y ago
Web components have been a possible build target for Vue for a while. It seems totally possible to set up a Vue project like you’ve suggested, use all the Vue conventions & tooling, and output web components that you then use a la carte
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by themarkn 5y ago
A screenreader user cares if they are navigating between headings and the headings are not actually headings - and it’s always _better_ if the nature and structure of the content is expressed in the HTML so that the screened can announce th
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by themarkn 5y ago
If you see it as just inline CSS, then tailwind can be avoided for all the same reasons that we avoid writing inline CSS. It’s considerably more than inline CSS imo but that’s a different story. That said, I’m surprised by this: “Only when
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by themarkn 5y ago
It does seem like people ought to just think more about the permanence of what we put online and act accordingly. There is no way to guarantee ephemerality for anything you send to another person online. They can always record or whatever i
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by themarkn 6y ago
Uh. I mean. I see it. I’m not from here, I just live here. I came from the EU where 20 vacation days was the minimum to a state in the US where no vacation or personal time is required. I’m still blown away by what companies advertise as “g
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by themarkn 6y ago
They are where I live. The number of sick days required by law is zero.
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by themarkn 6y ago
I mean, there’s an upper bound on how often that can happen (how many personal days people have). Those days are intended to be used at short notice. So if people using them is a problem for the team, imo the team is not correctly matched t
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by themarkn 6y ago
I’m not against testing APIs. But testing APIs does not tell you if your latest CSS change broke pointer events on your “add to cart” button, so you can no longer receive orders, etc. If you are wholesale redesigning/rebuilding a whole
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by themarkn 6y ago
It’s possible (and indeed uh ... recommended) to write frontend tests that are resilient to DOM changes by not depending on things that are not essential to the functionality being tested. Eg select a form field by its label, not by its pos
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by themarkn 6y ago
A question that sometimes unlocks a task for me, when I can remember is: what’s the smallest possible thing I can do to move this in the right direction? And somehow, thinking about the thing in those terms helps me go “OK well I’ve been pu
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by themarkn 6y ago
The translation of thoughts, ideas and intentions into unified written works that have the desired effect on a reader is not something you can read your way into. Obviously you can’t _not read_ but to get good at writing you have to practic
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by themarkn 6y ago
They are definitely good general human skills. The article highlights the relevance in programming because it’s easy to assume that strong technical skills are enough and that this baseline “dealing with humans and solving problems” toolse
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by themarkn 6y ago
... “shouldn’t be laid out like this” doesn’t explain why it’s a _problem_ though. I’m curious about this as well. I think it’s fine as is.
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by themarkn 6y ago
The person does the same amount of work at home that they do in the office, because when being in an office there is a normal background level of distraction, socializing, breaks etc that interfere with the person’s work, causing them to on
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by themarkn 6y ago
I have a very different experience. I’ve often found sitting in a coffee shop helps things click and helps me get into a flow when doing development. It’s the right level of background noise for me and the little bit of public observation h
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by themarkn 6y ago
Tables are perfect for tabular data. They are the correct markup and should be used for that (so not avoided at all cost). Tables are not the correct markup for positioning various items here and there to create a layout on a page.
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by themarkn 6y ago
Just a note With MIDI 2.0 we now gone from 7-bit to 32-bit which makes a huuuge difference in terms of what can be achieved, no more 128-note limit!
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by themarkn 7y ago
I find the animations made me dizzy- a little movement is fine but every single thing moving and fading and sliding is pointless and distracting. I was reading the different stuff about the aspects of a color but I had to just stop.
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by themarkn 7y ago
> CSS Grid is a two dimensional layout tool. Flexbox is one. >CSS Grid is for architectural layout. Flexbox is for alignment and flow layout. I agree with the first (it seems impossible not to) but I think the 2nd is kind of a misconc

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