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New comment by rudian in "GetElementById vs. QuerySelector"

rudian — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 12:52:23 +0000

Yeah but they’re not necessary for selection. Label elements actually need an input with ID to function. The other useful use for IDs is for deep-links in articles.

But then again that doesn’t mean the id should be used for selection (in JS nor CSS) as it’s probably easier to target many elements with a class, should they ever co-exist. This is basically what you end up with if you build components anyway (even without specific frameworks)

New comment by rudian in "GetElementById vs. QuerySelector"

rudian — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 12:47:22 +0000

A few minification transforms actually kind of speed code up. If Babel hadn’t turned into a hydra this kind of transforms would have been right up its alley.

New comment by rudian in "GetElementById vs. QuerySelector"

rudian — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 05:38:58 +0000

I know, that's why it's misleading and it should not be considered. A quick reader will think that "using getElementById will save me 32ms", but it'd be off by several orders of magnitude.

New comment by rudian in "GetElementById vs. QuerySelector"

rudian — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 04:47:41 +0000

Please don't listen to this, it's misleading.

querySelector *does not* take 62ms to run. Both of them take 0.01ms at most, try it yourself. This is the sort of micro optimization you should not concern yourself with.

How often do you need to select unique elements by ID? Don't use IDs in the first place.

This is akin to using `i--` in loops to "speed up your code" — we're past that.

New comment by rudian in "Modern PHP Cheat Sheet"

rudian — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 17:15:42 +0000

> It's why we get things like Deno, which attempt to throw all this cruft away and start again

Doubt. Your "something@v1.2.3" in Deno is no different than "something": "^1.2.3" in npm. The problems will appear when you update stuff.

The only thing benefiting deno currently is the clean slate and the lack of hacks (for now).

New comment by rudian in "Please Stop “Fixing” Font Smoothing (2012)"

rudian — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 13:55:05 +0000

Yes, that’s what doesn’t work on my computer.

New comment by rudian in "Please Stop “Fixing” Font Smoothing (2012)"

rudian — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 11:35:06 +0000

That's not true, I can replicate it in Chrome 96, macOS 11. It doesn't seem to work in Firefox though.

New comment by rudian in "Please Stop “Fixing” Font Smoothing (2012)"

rudian — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 11:32:41 +0000

This is an old article and I think designers kinda stopped doing this because its effect is not as pronounced on high-res displays.

Either way, 100% agree. Stop trying to change a OS’s text rendering, if you still are.

New comment by rudian in "IMF warns El Salvador: “Bitcoin should not be used as a legal tender”"

rudian — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 20:42:01 +0000

Most people are ignorant about Bitcoin and its risks; The fact that there are no protests should come as a surprise to no one.

What people see is that they get free money from the government and maybe they’re lucky to see it go up. They don’t know it could be half tomorrow.

New comment by rudian in "IMF warns El Salvador: “Bitcoin should not be used as a legal tender”"

rudian — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 20:39:49 +0000

I’m a normal user and I can see their message. Has it been vouched for in the past 4 minutes? My settings are still the HN defaults.

New comment by rudian in "Vercel raises $150M Series D"

rudian — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 17:25:04 +0000

Sounds like you never used Vercel now AWS. I wouldn’t call AWS “super trivial” nor is Vercel equivalent.

New comment by rudian in "How Google designed its wildfire feature for Maps"

rudian — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 16:18:24 +0000

I’m confident it’s two reasons:

- too many street names make for a noisy/busy/ugly map, and we all know maps must be beautiful and nothing else

- streets don’t pay for ads, businesses do, so between the two they prefer showing the latter.

Technically now you can tap anywhere on the map once to place a pin and get more info; In practice tapping in Google Maps has become horrendous, it never does what you expect. One such example is tapping on a business near a “walkable area”: you can’t. The area will always focus instead, even if painted behind the business.

New comment by rudian in "Native-like Navigation of Web apps"

rudian — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 18:02:08 +0000

I remember some browser blocking that at some point, but I still occasionally see it. I can’t believe there’s no way to “go back to the previous website” in most browsers. Safari iOS for example just clips the history so you can’t even hold the back button and scroll up if there are dozens of entries.

New comment by rudian in "How to programmatically find out if computer is on"

rudian — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 08:12:12 +0000

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

New comment by rudian in "Bring Back Our Knobs: Analog vs. Digital (2009)"

rudian — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 05:39:03 +0000

Heh, that’s the damnation of the expert. The more I know about movies the less I enjoy them, for example. It’s easier when you don’t notice defects.

New comment by rudian in "Kia EV6 Smashes Tesla's World Record"

rudian — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 18:45:31 +0000

Yeah, I get it, we have a lot to thank Tesla for the push towards EV, but that doesn't exempt them from bad reviews.

Tesla is not the only EV maker anymore, so they can't hide behind "but it's an EV, so… that's where the money goes"

New comment by rudian in "A Xiaomi phone might’ve shipped with a censorship list in Europe"

rudian — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 04:02:57 +0000

You’re an idiot or a spy if you think Facebook’s blocking is in anyway similar to China’s censorship.

Facebook does not block anything like “Winnie the Pooh” and you don’t risk disappearing by posting on Facebook.

New comment by rudian in "“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says"

rudian — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 03:12:37 +0000

I think “companies” have run out of the “benefit of the doubt” as far as I’m concerned. Using the web has become a pain not because companies don’t care about UX, but because they think popup X will increase profits — and it often does.

Certainly there’s a good amount of ignorance in every company, but many choices are purposeful.

New comment by rudian in "I hate password rules"

rudian — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 20:27:15 +0000

My internet-first bank’s passwords are limited to 8 characters. I'd take password rules over this idiocy any day. I reported it maybe 5 years ago and of course radio silence. I bet they plaintext it.

Oh and of course I also have literally 4 different digit-based pins to do operations.

New comment by rudian in "I hate password rules"

rudian — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 20:25:03 +0000

Congrats on getting them to use a password manager, now everyone can see all of their password by typing in the master password they stuck to the side of the screen.

I'm only half-joking sadly, people just don't understand why password exist in the first place, so they comply maliciously.