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Comment · 5 years ago
For me (and I suspect a few other people working with react, but certainly not everyone), the main issue with hooks is exactly that class components were fine, and hooks are fine, and we did not need nor want more "fine".

Hooks feel more like something added to fill in space and another example of the ecosystem bloating itself just for show.

Comment · 5 years ago
Linkedin has also been doing this for years - tens upon tens of different "communication preference" options. They keep adding more, or renaming existing ones and defaulting them to on.
Comment · 7 years ago
You're right. Can't delete the comment any more but I edited it.
Comment · 7 years ago
"it triggers an almost existential crisis in them. It's kind of sad to watch."

Said the person (probably) working in an industry that's blooming, without a hint of irony.

Comment · 7 years ago
The 90 day limit in Greece is related to how income from the properties is taxed iirc.
Comment · 7 years ago
Yeah, highly marginalized people have historicaly been well accepted in excisting support groups, particularly religious and local political ones.
Comment · 7 years ago
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Comment · 7 years ago
Haven't used android in a couple of years but firefox used to support addons (and it looks like it still does).
Comment · 7 years ago
One could say the same for the ads industry.
Comment · 7 years ago
"The national Football League (LaLiga) was fined for offering an app which once per minute accessed the microphone of users' mobile phones in order to detect pubs screening football matches without paying a fee"

Yes, proof of weaponized gdpr use indeed (for very specific filtering cases of gdpr use).

Comment · 7 years ago
It's like software quality is sometimes irrelevant to monetary success or something.
Comment · 7 years ago
Yes, the absolutely correct group to take ideas from as far as our semi-long term survival goes is VCs (and the surrounding ecosystem), the same group that made "move fast and break things" the mantra for a decade. Nothing bad ever came out of that!
Comment · 7 years ago
This would have ben handled by military personnel in the (democratic) west, who would also "have no choice".

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