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by vcarl 9mo ago
It's definitely a defensive statement, proactively covering the situation as "normal". Normal it may be, but emphasizing that in the limited space of a tweet thread definitely indicates where their mind is on this, I'd t
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The latest news in the React world: React Conf; React 19.2; React Foundation(reactiflux.com)
1 points by vcarl 11mo ago|0 comments
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by vcarl 2y ago
Yes, you stand behind your comments so strongly you created an anonymous throwaway account just to share them.
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by vcarl 2y ago
Phenomenal answer. No, you don't need it, but if you build something long enough you'll avoid a couple categories of common problems by starting with it (and choose a different set of common problems)
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by vcarl 3y ago
I'm not sure breadth of adoption and retention are the right metrics here — the use cases I've heard about are highly specialized, so I wouldn't expect it to be massively and quickly adopted, the same way it took a long time
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by vcarl 3y ago
> all this VR/AR hype has yet to deliver something... anything... anything at all …in the consumer space. There have been some really incredible tools I've seen in industrial or medical spaces, and I think that's unlikely
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Reddit Developer Platform private beta opens(developers.reddit.com)
2 points by vcarl 3y ago|0 comments
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An Anniversary and a Milestone for Reactiflux – 7 years and 200k members(reactiflux.com)
9 points by vcarl 4y ago|0 comments
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by vcarl 6y ago
I meant this as a commentary on the strike as a tactic for tech workers generally. SREs and Ops are the teams that seem most able to effectively use a strike to disrupt revenue, to be sure. Many services, though, would be able to operate fo
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by vcarl 6y ago
Cheers for the correction, though I'm loathe to learn that's the state of labor law. > Mackay Radio has been called "the worst contribution that the U.S. Supreme Court has made to the current shape of labor law in this cou
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by vcarl 6y ago
I know that the Tech Workers Coalition (TWC) has done some significant organizing against Amazon, in the form of protests/drawing media attention, and in deeper/less visible aspects that more directly work towards warehouse worker
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by vcarl 6y ago
One significant change since that era of unionization is that programmers can't actually shut down the business with a strike. If programmers stop working, that doesn't actually directly impact revenue—if a group of factory, wareh
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by vcarl 7y ago
Well, you still can't do that—WASM doesn't have DOM bindings, you'd still have to ship out to JS. I believe that's a goal, so yes eventually that could be a benefit, but not at the moment.
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by vcarl 7y ago
Web assembly is generally an optimization, not an app alternative. Think of it the way you would the C bindings Node.js has. If you've got a compute-heavy code path, writing it in C (or Rust etc) and shipping it as web assembly could b
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by vcarl 7y ago
This reads like you're equating collective bargaining with salary negotiation, but there are a ton of other dimensions where negotiating as a group would be beneficial. I've worked at a number of companies where I was well paid, b
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by vcarl 7y ago
Vocational training absolutely could be done in tech, web/app development is much closer to carpentry than it is to computer science in my view. Unions are definitely complex, it's not a silver bullet to solve issues in the workpl
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by vcarl 7y ago
Not sure where "tying pay to tenure" came up, unless that's how you view what unions do? A union just means a group of employees negotiating as a unit, what changes they ask for isn't dictated in advance.
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by vcarl 7y ago
Bob Glickstein wrote a really phenomenal writeup https://medium.com/interstellar/understanding-the-stellar-co...
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by vcarl 8y ago
Not sure where you're getting that it's deprecated. Both the repo itself and the styled components website list it as a highly recommended (but optional) addition. https://www.styled-components.com/docs/toolin
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by vcarl 8y ago
That "worst sentiment of 2018" comment was directed specifically at > Things like that (CSS into JS/ typed JS/Elm) are done because the developers are not competent enough in their field, and instead of learning about
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by vcarl 8y ago
We've not run into any performance issues in our 80k LoC JS app using styled components 100%. I'm not sure it's accurate to say it's ditched static styles exporting, with babel-plugin-styled-components we're getting
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by vcarl 8y ago
We use styled-components, which is one of the most commonly used css-in-js libraries, and it supports both pseudo-classes and browser breakpoints. I'm not sure how applicable this argument is, my experience runs counter to the premise.
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by vcarl 9y ago
React has extremely careful versioning with a precise internal definition of what a "breaking change" is. Judging React by Angular's terrible version numbers doesn't seem fair to me. They're on v16 because they incr
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by vcarl 9y ago
Very excellent writeup of some tricky concepts. Nothing in here is terribly new (or, I would even argue, particularly controversial among those familiar with Redux), but until now it has mainly been available through a combination of Twitte
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by vcarl 10y ago
I didn't realize that so many of the React team had worked together, let alone on a project as well known as MooTools. Some of their answers mirror my perception of React, especially: We were so focused on the API design, rather
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by vcarl 10y ago
Turns out hardware is hard. My view of it is scope creep that caused delays in starting environmental testing, ultimately leaving us with too little time to properly address the problems that we discovered. We tried to use 3d printed cases
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by vcarl 10y ago
No, I was in my early twenties, didn't know how to scope a project, didn't know how to effectively push back on scope creep, and didn't really have the technical chops for what we were attempting. I learned a ton and wouldn&#
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by vcarl 10y ago
Hey, I tried to do this! I was CTO of a little student startup called A2B Bikeshare for a while. We called it "stationless" though :) We got a prototype working with a custom Android device with touch, 3g, GPS, and built in credit
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Role-based authorization in React(medium.com)
3 points by vcarl 10y ago|0 comments
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Migrating 140,000 commits from Hg to Git(medium.com)
4 points by vcarl 10y ago|0 comments

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