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by water42 7y ago
The example on using emojis is very strange: > It'd be nice to get that report by this afternoon. This phrasing is inherently passive aggressive since it's not a direct ask, regardless of how many emojis are included. Why not:
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by water42 7y ago
Don't filter input. Instead, prevent certain characters from being input in text elements. This is a user experience problem, not a software problem. The software can validate that a "name" is rejected if it does not follow t
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by water42 7y ago
There's nothing wrong with having a prescription for marijuana, even if the "prescription" is really just a state medical license provided by a sketchy doctor that you slip 200 USD once a year. But please stay off the roads w
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by water42 7y ago
There's valid points here, but the impact is lost in the disjoint laundry list communication style.
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by water42 9y ago
> used by hipster startups to Facebook Well, yeah, it's developed by and for Facebook...that was a weird line.
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by water42 9y ago
I think you're overcomplicating how transferrable framework knowledge is. An expert React developer could switch to Vue no problem if there was demand for it. Similarly an expert Vue developer could switch to React no problem.
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by water42 9y ago
Clickbait. The author switched from Angular 2 beta 9 (not even a release candidate) because he was unable to migrate to Angular 2.0.0 since 'too many things broke to make the upgrade non trivial'. Yet somehow rewriting the entire
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by water42 9y ago
https://skimdb.npmjs.com/registry/_design/scratch/_view/byFi... looks like there is an api
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by water42 9y ago
Drug lords
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by water42 9y ago
Not as long as ads/tracking make companies money
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by water42 9y ago
I'm assuming it's the Reddit effect. People read headlines, upvote, and move along without ever clicking the link.
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by water42 9y ago
Every framework is going to have flaws, but if you perform a comparison I think there's a responsibility to accurately represent the frameworks being compared.
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by water42 9y ago
yet another web framework medium article with a misleading angular vs react comparison. it isn't angular 2 anymore. it's just angular. it's been out for over a year and if people were having problems running it in production,
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by water42 9y ago
There was a missed opportunity here to format HN posts using Facebook styles
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by water42 9y ago
the trend of style over readability. google recommends avoiding list comprehensions in python yet 99% of stackoverflow python questions have some convoluted list comprehension answer
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by water42 9y ago
>BotEngine allows you to create a chatbot for any service. except for the ones that are not implemented. would be interested to try this out once it has telegram support.
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by water42 9y ago
People die and people deal with it in different ways. I'm not sure what is unique about this. Lots of people learn to get in shape for marathons.
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by water42 9y ago
How to get upvotes on hackernews: write yet another clickbait medium article on how bad angular is. I don't think the OP has ever used Angular CLI or followed Angular development. If he had then he would have not written this article s
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by water42 9y ago
>anyone
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by water42 9y ago
the codebase is really elegant. thanks for open sourcing everything!
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by water42 9y ago
this was posted earlier in the month and most of the top level comments have already been made https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14508201
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by water42 9y ago
or I could use Lyft
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by water42 9y ago
why does linkedin have articles
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by water42 9y ago
before uber, I don't think I've ever rooted for a company to fail
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by water42 9y ago
>"It shouldn't be a big surprise that there are cases in which we'd prefer our most sensitive data isn't sitting on a competitor's platform, " he said, adding that it's a "small number." what
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by water42 9y ago
what kind of accounts do you use throwaway mail services for? the use case where NBox would be useful for me is sites I don't use often, i.e. a clothing site or online video game store. but i wouldn't trust those to a throwaway em
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by water42 9y ago
how do i know i can trust the security and privacy of this?
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by water42 9y ago
they should make the search usable first
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by water42 9y ago
This article is nothing more than low effort clickbait. People love hearing about "shocking" revelations.
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by water42 9y ago
Yeah the SEO for Angular is honestly a nightmare. I can't search Angular since then I get AngularJS (Angular 1) results even though the current iteration of the framework is called Angular. I can't search Angular 4 to filter Angul

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