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Nice.

I’ve noticed that many light themes use relatively bright colours for text, and I’m finding them increasingly difficult to read.

The orange used in the explorer view is just bright enough to become slightly blurry to me, causing me to squint.

I may not have that issue if you use the same orange found in the syntax highlighting, which seems slightly darker to me.

The largest table was 100 million rows. They could have had hundreds more tables.

I'm still surprised What3Words isn't more popular outside of the UK.

What sort of quirks have you run into?

I find myself having to STRAIGHT_JOIN more often than I would like because it simply won’t generate sensible execution plans sometimes.

> Generally friends don't let friends use Mysql

What drives this sentiment?

Wonder why. We’ve got thousands of conditionally rendered components on a pretty interactive scheduling screen. One click can affect all of them but everything feels instantaneous.

Our bottleneck was that we have so much data, making it all observable up front led to slow initial load times and high memory usage. We now make things observable on demand which has eliminated a lot of that.

This is the one thing I wish I checked more thoroughly before I moved 5 domains from Gmail to Fastmail.

Yeah, interesting. In The Netherlands it is commonly used to mean "more or less", or "approximately", unless it is used in formulas.

How would you interpret “+/- 10 years”?

I don't find these kinds of what-ifs very useful. I haven't used Rails, but does it somehow prevent you from accepting user input and programming it to go where you say you want it to go? Isn't there an element of "holding it wrong" with any language or framework?

I deleted mine from Facebook years ago, and it periodically still tries to entice me to verify my number with it prefilled.

With that said my details do not appear to have leaked.

I've had several of our users call up over the years, angrily asking why we made certain fields in our app "dropdowns" with rubbish in them.

Chrome decided to add autocomplete to some of our fields with contextually irrelevant options. As far as I know there isn't anything I can reliably do about it.

Even a Google search for it doesn't bring it up. Plenty of fanfare about the launch, but no actual product.

Already lost interest.

I too can't shake the feeling that hooks are off. I like JSX and the component model.

In React and like-minded projects, I look at a stack trace and see that it starts at some kind of batch renderer. I can't tell "why", "how" or sometimes even "what" broke. The input part of it is completely lost.

I work on a Backbone application where stack traces are much more obvious. They usually tell you the whole story. I find that juniors who were mostly exposed to React have a tendency to completely ignore stack traces, and am now wondering if they are just conditioned to them being unhelpful.