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Comment · 3 months ago

I went to school with a 30cm ruler in the 80s. As a result I have an instinctual sense for that length.

Comment · 3 months ago

> Modern internet culture has steadily moved from mild expressions to drama, hyperbole and overwhelm.

rofl

Comment · 3 months ago

Legacy pebbles still work great with rebble.io. I still use my pebble time daily connected to my android phone.

Comment · 4 months ago

> A company facing market dynamism, price competition... Is unlikely to be investing billions in speculative r&d, for example.

The comparison to manufacturing isn't necessary because this seems to be contradicting by much of tech history itself. Plenty of companies have spent plenty of billions on R&D to outpace their real competitors.

If we're to update our view of monopoly (and I agree we should) it should be to clamp down on them even more.

Comment · 4 months ago

You're misapplying your evaluation here. The most you might say is "don't take front-end Dec advice from them".

Instead of discarding the whole thing, just take what's good and leave the rest.

Comment · 4 months ago

Many years ago I was a junior developer building cms-backed websites. I had the idea to recreate the database inside the database i.e. tblTables has lists of tables, tblColumns had columns with a tblTables.tableId foreign key etc. I thought it was clever of me to be able to edit the "database" inside the CMS. Except select were stupidly complicated and performance was terrible. SPAs remind me of my "clever" idea. What if we recreate a web browser inside the web browser?

Comment · 5 months ago

Aside: start getting that exposure to management people now. You can book regular skip levels with your bosses boss and the PMs boss. Better than waiting until you get promoted and having to learn how to do it with a weight of expectation.

Comment · 5 months ago

It's not so much invalidating Bitcoin - Bitcoin is valid and effective. Unfortunately what it is extremely effective for is money laundering and tax evasion (which was what your original comment seemed to advocate for.)

Comment · 5 months ago

Yes they are relevant. From the article, skills like "accessibility, progressive enhancement, network performance, interface design and user testing" are relevant to the ultimate goal of producing a web page. Front-end development is not merely implementing a design specification. The skills listed are relevant to transformkng the design specification into a web site/app that runs on the many devices and platforms and is used by a variety of users.

Comment · 5 months ago

The sea of divs and the abandonment of HTMLs is a result of the poorly built frameworks. Actual HTML and CSS has not abandoned those core ideas, and the frameworks often reimplement native features badly (e.g. the shadcdn radio button example). HTML crafted with care is not a sea of divs, it is markup one can read that logically and cleanly describes what you see.

Comment · 7 months ago

You might find this paper interesting: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11002-022-09626-7

".. preferences for popular music peak during early adolescence or mid-to-late teens, and that newer or older tracks do not command this same level of affection."

Most people generally don't like new music because it doesn't evoke the same emotions as what we heard at that heightened period of our lives.

Musicians haven't stopped wanting to make music and doing whatever it takes to make it, and commercial interests want to profit from that just like they did back then. There's so much good music being put out all the time, in new and old-fashioned ways.

Comment · 7 months ago

I couldn't do the mandatory onboarding training at a job once because the course web app had heavy scroll fade, and I got nauseous after a few minutes. I tried every few hours for weeks. Eventually I said I couldn't do it. They had to print it out to pdf for me, and gave me a pass on the courses that were dependent on animation to work.

Comment · 8 months ago

I tried a web search for "Minimal text editor" and Minimal vs Obsidian" and couldn't find any results that seemed to be an obsidian or notion equivalent.

Comment · 8 months ago

It's obvious from the context here what the intended meaning was. Everyone makes typos sometimes.

Comment · 11 months ago

I think this Veritasium video might speak to your questions: https://youtu.be/XX7PdJIGiCw?si=5lwB3rsFNKuXyMfA