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New comment by thex10 in "Ask HN: What kind of whiteboard does not use dry erase markers?"

thex10 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 04:23:44 +0000

I recently learned whiteboards can also use wet erase markers. This has the benefit of not getting utterly destroyed if you graze it slightly.

New comment by thex10 in "Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it?"

thex10 — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:09:54 +0000

I refer to the documentation like my forefathers did. But I do happen to work with a language with good documentation (Elixir).

New comment by thex10 in "Sanding UI"

thex10 — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 00:39:05 +0000

This attention to detail is what separates the mediocre frontend devs from the rest. How the heck do I improve our hiring process so we get more of you!!!

New comment by thex10 in "Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out?"

thex10 — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:39:35 +0000

ACE 4, raised by my grandmother and alcoholic drug addict mother in the projects. I made it out only because my aunt gave me a handmedown PC when I was 13, I lucked out into a magnet high school, and was granted admission with full financial aid into MIT (and was somehow able to graduate in 4 years). Grateful for it every day.

After I birthed my first kid in my early 30s at the start of the pandemic, my struggles with depression and anxiety seemingly vanished.

I've always been very risk averse, so I fear I'll never be able to start a startup or something like that. It's always sounded fun. Now that I'm very stable and well, and ok financially (the house cost way more than I'd like)... it still feels too risky for me to leave my normal job. Maybe I'll try in my 40s...

New comment by thex10 in "Amazon is chopping jobs at its One Medical and Pharmacy units"

thex10 — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 20:27:32 +0000

> Have you personally noticed any downgrade in your experience yet?

Longtime One Medical customer here, it feels the same good experience to me.

New comment by thex10 in "A South Carolina lawmaker is suing Instagram after his son died by suicide"

thex10 — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 18:32:17 +0000

I recently watched a documentary[0] about the social media dangers for children. It mostly centers around narratives & interviews from a variety of people young and old, and in my opinion decently avoids trite pearl-clutching over vague assumptions about 'technology' or any particular company. Among other things, I am a bit floored by how much child suicide has increased over the past decades.

[0] "Childhood 2.0" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He3IJJhFy-I

New comment by thex10 in "Lessons learned from bringing promotional sweets to a conference"

thex10 — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 02:16:27 +0000

At my last conference I got a (unfortunately unbranded so I don't even remember who it's from) spinning top, my toddler loves watching it go!

New comment by thex10 in "The question of poverty vs. instability"

thex10 — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 01:54:26 +0000

Having grown up in the bottom decile of poverty in the USA I can believe it. I credit my childhood's stability for much of my success in life. Sure my life, especially at home with my family, was broke, boring, uninspiring, not the least bit enriched... but it was incredibly stable thanks to living in public housing and being on welfare. It's much easier to find your way out if you don't have to process and respond to chaos :)

New comment by thex10 in "U.S. cities opt to ditch their off-street parking minimums"

thex10 — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 20:27:07 +0000

No one is prohibiting Alice from building the 10-story parking structure. The change is she's no longer required to build it.

New comment by thex10 in "Making OKRs more playful using hill charts"

thex10 — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 14:35:59 +0000

This was much nicer for me to digest compared to the original post, thank you for sharing!

New comment by thex10 in "Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2023"

thex10 — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 20:04:54 +0000

Noise canceling wireless earbuds. I’ve had both a Jabra and a Beats… very happy with both. Nice for blocking out noise. No messy cables, can use with any device…

I was skeptical, I liked my corded headphones fine. Just turns out these sound better and are way more useful for me.

New comment by thex10 in "You don't need JavaScript for that"

thex10 — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 21:40:13 +0000

I try to push for making websites without JavaScript but nobody wants to because it requires some forethought. TIL Amazon has a functional no-JS version, amazing!

Screaming Architecture (2011)

thex10 — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 00:03:24 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2011/09/30/Screaming-Architecture.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37278053

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by thex10 in "Server-side rendering is a better choice for many applications (2020)"

thex10 — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 13:18:25 +0000

Many apps with moderate interactivity don’t need thousands of lines of JavaScript. And using a backend framework for templating is not mutually exclusive to using a JS build system for helping transpile files and purge CSS and such.

New comment by thex10 in "Server-side rendering is a better choice for many applications (2020)"

thex10 — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 13:13:03 +0000

Right on.

Related, the junior FE devs want our web app to be a SPA because they think it’s the only idiomatic way to write reusable components (think a JSX-written React component). Often they’ve never used anything else (so like TFA mentioned, for them it’s not an open choice).

I hate that my job these days has to involve counteracting this notion, probably looking like some weird Luddite in the process, for simply highlighting the same points from TFA.

New comment by thex10 in "Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React"

thex10 — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 01:11:46 +0000

> React is still a good tool for writing MPAs, if you can get your team to stick to it. But unfortunately, if you aren't careful, React has become an infectious disease and slowly eats your whole frontend, even where it's not necessary and in fact, counterproductive. Pages which initially had a component or two, slowly are completely rendered in React, and when this happens to enough pages, someone starts wondering why your site isn't an SPA.

This started happening to me this year. And all the other senior devs who know better happen to be gone from this project, so I'm alone having to convince these junior engineers (working on a very large non-JS-backend web application mostly with content pages!) that SPAs are not the ultimate solution to all. It's so frustrating.

New comment by thex10 in "Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React"

thex10 — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 00:50:54 +0000

> business incentives work more strongly against reuse because the higher ups can actually see the work that is being shared

Can you talk more about this one? I think this is getting at something I've seen but have been unable to articulate thus far.

Places on Google Maps. Can They Still Be Trusted?

thex10 — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 03:00:31 +0000

Article URL: https://maphappenings.com/2023/08/10/google_places/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37084636

Points: 44

# Comments: 21

New comment by thex10 in "If we want a shift to walking we need to prioritize dignity"

thex10 — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 18:59:52 +0000

excuse me, what? No, if I need to walk through late at night, I want to be safe. You have some options: - put the bedrooms away from the street - invest in some curtains - live somewhere more pastoral???

New comment by thex10 in "Show HN: I made a customizable iOS browser for minimalists and myself"

thex10 — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 14:03:59 +0000

About to download this for the easy access to "Close Tab" alone, thanks for sharing!