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Improving Performance on Complex Diffs

bitbucket.org

3 pointsby rcgshace 4 años1 comments

Brute Forcing Design Problems

jon.gold

2 pointsby rcgshace 10 años0 comments

JQuery is dead

ralphsaunders.co.uk

8 pointsby rcgshace 11 años0 comments

T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm Suddenly Resigns

allthingsd.com

1 pointsby rcgshace 14 años0 comments

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hace 24 díasdiscuss

Enjoyed this – very entertaining!

el año pasadodiscuss

I've used Notational Velocity for years, but couldn't get a working binary on latest MacOS/Chips and the newer variants I found seem to miss the mark on what made Notational Velocity great (imo).

So I'm working on an electron version[1] that has what I remember of the core UX. I wasn't the best user of NV – I'm sure it had features that I didn't use. If there are features that it had that you used, I'd certainly like to be aware of them.

[1]: https://github.com/ralphsaunders/nv-electron

hace 3 añosdiscuss

It still feels like these dialogues are really only something lawyers could think is a good solution to companies employing invasive/overbearing uses of customer data.

My gut feel is that most users don't understand what "tracking" really means and simply want to enjoy digital experiences without having to engage with the "what & how" that comes with modern platforms. My partner (and I reckon many other "normal" people) loves the ads on Instagram and enjoys the personalisation on YouTube & Netflix.

The current solution of "be transparent and it's okay" just forces decisions onto consumers that they do not want. The "good" solution outlined in this article (accept/reject) is a big yes or a big no – a green light for everything vs a red light for nothing.

There needs to be further regulation in this space that defines legal vs illegal uses of user data beyond the principals laid out in GDPR. The regulation should aim to define the "what & how", relieving the burden of choice from users and removing this "consent and it's okay" loophole for invasive use of data.

hace 3 añosdiscuss

Early Bird Edit: https://earlybirdedit.com/

I hate scrolling through twitter, so I built a service to email me the best tweets in my feed. It's self signup and there's a discount code in the signup process if you'd like to be an Alpha user/avoid the fee.

A handful of friends are using it and for the most part it's doing what I wanted it to do.

Not sure what the future holds given the recently cancelled 3rd party apps debacle.

P.S. I adventured into writing this on the Firebase stack (Firestore and Cloud Functions). Probably wouldn't again – the cold starts are simply too slow and the mitigations they suggest haven't been effective.

hace 4 añosdiscuss

It’s shocking Amazon aren’t doing anything about this instance when the issue is raised directly. How can a store be complicit in selling bootlegged items and when confronted with it do nothing?

If it is indeed endemic in some categories at Amazon then surely the leadership at Amazon are aware. Do they just not care?

If I were a publisher I’d be furious at this situation. A regulator really needs to investigate and make Amazon police this more effectively.

hace 4 añosdiscuss

Surprising no one who has been paying attention.

hace 4 añosdiscuss

As much as this may really damage the sector I work in, I’d cherish the clarity a stance like this could provide.

There are many businesses trying to be compliant whilst maintaining access to metrics their business depends on.

Compliance is very difficult at this time as the legal advice is shifting in different territories and there is conflicting guidance when you start to dig into it.

Id rather see a selection of activities and tactics entirely banned/regulated rather than this directive which is clearly too open to interpretation.

hace 5 añosdiscuss

Just sharing my experience - you may be dealing with something slightly different.

I burned out in a job, and went straight into a new one that was less demanding.

I didn’t try to do much at all for a while. It was more than a 18 months later when I had the itch to do more again.

My takeaway from this has been - be thankful and enjoy the process - don’t try to force things.

hace 5 añosdiscuss

What a meandering read.

hace 5 añosdiscuss

gf is a game changer! Great article – hard to soak up so much knowledge at once. Bookmarked.

hace 6 añosdiscuss

The difference really is that the Apple store is a monopoly.

It’s like there’s only one supermarket where you can sell your products, but they can still compete with you as you described.

hace 7 añosdiscuss

Mobile devices interpret it differently because of the hide/show browser UI they often have.

hace 8 añosdiscuss

This mirrors my experience in the MENA region (where a lot of staff are from asian cultures). It's hard to encourage people to work independently when they're coming from a "do what you're told" culture.

hace 9 añosdiscuss

What do people make of ICO's recommendation for production servers to have antivirus software installed? Is this a standard approach to Windows? Is it generally accepted?

Please excuse my ignorance.

hace 9 añosdiscuss

I think this is the 3rd or 4th time Opera has been reborn in recent memory? I actually quite like where they're going with the user experience. But who owns Opera now?

hace 10 añosdiscuss

It's a shame really. 2.5hrs a week isn't a huge commitment, especially if you're able to work it into your day, e.g. commuting to work.

hace 11 añosdiscuss

Hey, you put CSS in my JavaScript!

Surely this could be done in a smarter way, using one of the many CSS preprocessors to replace the variable mapping done by `classes()`?

After all, the `render()` template just needs to reference variables!

hace 11 añosdiscuss

It is possible to do that without the variable assignment in JS...

    [].forEach.call(document.querySelectorAll('div'), function(el) {
        el.classList.add('new');
    });

But I don't disagree that the jQuery example is easier to write/read/remember.

Though with frameworks like Angular or React I'm beginning to question whether we should ever be writing code like this at all.

hace 12 añosdiscuss

It's a vim plugin that prompts you to commit your changes after saving a file `n` number of times (20 by default).

hace 13 añosdiscuss

> Which is how we got the Ribbon. It was intended to place the most commonly used features front and centre.

So how come we ended up with something that placed all the features front and centre?