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Fifer82on Ask HN: One thing you wish would happen in the next 10 years?

Is that not just saying discount everyone who doesn't agree with what WE want to talk about, and then lets talk about it?

Fifer82on Passive event listeners

Yeah exactly. I can't even really find what I am trying to say, but Doctypes had some other piece of data with it. Was it a link or string to a spec? Like XHTML vs HTML4. Randomly I am sure that if you omit it, then it is "html5".which is random, shouldn't they have forced a spec HTML5?

That choice basically says to me that the idea of partitioning, or whatever those doctypes were for, is now abandoned.

Fifer82on Passive event listeners

I know this is a silly question and probably argued already over the years.

But can't and shouldn't this be solved by some mechanism? Like, some umbrella "native-web-1" meaning that any project without that tag renders 2020 and below whilst anything with it as a brand new shiny implementation.

It would also help prevent the relentless "wow I really like that 2024 feature, lets make a shit version now today and another 7 over the years so that everyone is stuck with a dependency which doesn't even follow the specification" (promises etc)

Fifer82on Show HN: A stop-motion video of an engine

It stresses me out, I imagine being left with a few dozen spare pieces at the end.

Fifer82on Ask HN: Where do Adult Websites advertise tech roles?

He was just making a joke that he spends too much money on porn. Although given his nickname was "dirtbox", one can never be too sure.

Fifer82on Subscription is the only way to do software

I agree with you entirely. I will pretty much never pay any subscription. I was even happy to throw my 1999-2011 Adobe Suite bread and butter in the bin over the cloud thing. It just doesn't work for me. It is indeed a complete mugs game.

Fifer82on Annual note to self: most of the world exists outside the tech bubble

No? I spend 30 hours or so a week learning my trade. No one else does unless they get paid for it.

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Companies (not the big SF ones) are seeing the complexities of web development multiply and don't want to pretend any different. A full stack developer just does everything they used to pay someone to do half of without much of the salary increase.

There will be people like me who are the sole developer at a small company, but my job role is simply "do all the stuffs". They will claim they are full stack developers too. The same way I am my own Creative Technology Officer, Project Manager, QA....

I just steer away from the bullshit titles that companies generally use to devalue your skill set.

Fifer82on The 1980 Citroën Karin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY1Ka1BlNwQ

I think this was it! OK, it looks terrible, but at the time it looked amazing!

Fifer82on The 1980 Citroën Karin

Ha I remember that, and i remember that tomorrows world (or whatever show it was) was mind blown by it. 2/3 of the piece was about how the steering wheel moves. I recall the car looked pretty nice at the time though.

Fifer82on Playing action video games may be bad for your brain – loss of grey matter

I disagree. I am pretty sure that the guys saying they wanted me to die didn't actually want me to die. It was just a way to taunt.

It is absolutely ridiculous that someone who has never seen me, met me, know where I live, any of my history, my sexuality, my family can possibly achieve any of emotion that could ever be taken seriously enough to be considered bullying. It is stretching the term almost far enough to be meaningless.

Fifer82on Playing action video games may be bad for your brain – loss of grey matter

I will never forget being verbally abused for the first time on xmas day 1996 Doom Deathmatch. Funny stuff, about 2 minutes of insults and death threats.

The sad thing is nowadays this is bullying, sexist, racist, trolling and so on. It just made me laugh. I think the trash talk was always in this community.

Fifer82on Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D

A great explanation of FOV, thanks!

Fifer82on Baby Boomers Who Won't Sell Are Dominating the Housing Market

I personally have a problem with this. Sure sitting on your arse and enjoying the income is a good thing, but in a situation where there is a housing shortage, it is definitely a scummy thing to do. Each to their own of course.

I am so tired of seeing the government line "supply and demand". Maybe if people weren't allowed to own 30 homes simply because they existed before an incredible housing boom there wouldn't be so much of a problem.

Fifer82on JS 2D physics engines benchmark

Thanks for this, it went under my radar.

I would also like to see https://github.com/schteppe/p2.js/

Anyway I imagine this tool a little effort so thanks for sharing.

Fifer82on Languages Which Almost Became CSS

Something about it reminds me of being new to programming.

var the_first_left_menu_item_animation_enter

var the_second_left_menu_item_animation_enter

What causes this problem? Does CSS not have any modular capability and that is why? Is it global by definition? Not really sure what I am trying to say.

Fifer82on Languages Which Almost Became CSS

To be honest, I still find CSS a mess. I really dislike it. I feel like JS and HTML are pretty solid, then you have this CSS hacky shit with no decent docs and I just didn't get it.

Recently I wanted to use Material Components, and the whole BEM thing makes my eyes cry.

`custom-on-dark .mdc-icon-toggle.mdc-ripple-upgraded::before`

`custom-on-dark .mdc-icon-toggle.mdc-ripple-upgraded::after`

`mdc-toolbar__section mdc-toolbar__section--align-start`

I just am not going to work with that in my code and it screams to me something is wrong.

Fifer82on NSA Unlawfully Surveiled Kim Dotcom in New Zealand

Piracy. MegaUpload was a huge warez distributor around the same time as RapidShare. File Hosters over HTTP

Fifer82on Message encryption a 'problem' – UK home secretary

"We are under attack day and night from people who do not share our liberal values....". In order to combat that threat, lets remove those liberal values.

Fifer82on Message encryption a 'problem' – UK home secretary

Oh god, I despair of this country. After a decade of conservative I have never been so disillusioned. I feel like I am stuck in a rut or like, I don't belong here. It is a horrible feeling. Deep down I know that the government is stuck in 1740 and by the time that millennials walk the halls of power, their parents will have signed away all their rights.

The very last thing I love is my country, that is for sure.

Fifer82on Netflix is $20B in debt. Can it keep borrowing its way to success?

$20B looks so innocent, but that is a staggering amount of money. From merely grazing NH, I feel like Netflix seems to "Secure 2 billion investment" every couple of months.

I had the impression the company was essentially working as a street sweeper with a 20 million pound credit card limit.

These documents https://ir.netflix.com/results.cfm show it is picking up 2.5 billion a quarter.

I am pretty speechless.

Fifer82on Kerbal Space Oddities

Can't you tell? I can't tell the difference between Lumberyard, Crytek, Unreal (I could Unreal until 2012ish), but I always know a unity game because it looks and runs like shit.

Fifer82on Kerbal Space Oddities

I have not yet played a Unity game which doesn't have the "unity look and feel". I don't think anyone is going to be able to convince me otherwise. I am happy to purchase a modern (in the last 3 months) popular unity game tonight. If you can think of one that doesn't run like a Flash SWF, I will buy it.

Fifer82on Kerbal Space Oddities

I really love Kerbal Space Program but I stopped playing a couple of years back. Unity is really terrible. I remember landing 3 pieces of a moon base, and I was getting like 3fps... After another 3 weeks of making a space station, again was getting 5fps.

The funny thing was, I went out and splashed 1.5k on a new PC just for Kerbal, I loaded my save file of my moon base, and now I had 7fps....

Absolutely useless. KSP is like a Mr Universe Body Builder wearing a 3 year old girl's dress.

Fifer82on The death of reading is threatening the soul

I listen to Audiobooks on a daily basis, in the shower, if I am doing a task alone (fixing stuff, cleaning etc), and always half an hour or so before bed.

Everyone is different but if you enjoy reading, yet feel you don't have time, or want to strain your eyes after a day of screen staring, I would recommend trying it.

Fifer82on The gig economy of the 18th Century

I think the problem is that "some cost" and "individuals" pretty much means means batter the poor desperate people.

Fifer82on UK to bring in drone registration

National Treasure? It is literally state media, you only had to watch the BBC during the Scottish Indy Ref to show how far it will go to tow the government line. I think it is a disgrace so no longer have a licence. When Trump branded it FakeNews, people in the UK were outraged but it is one of the few things I agree with.

Fifer82on Why Should I Start a Startup?

You seem a little more confident than me but otherwise we are fairly alike. Maybe the desire comes later in life?

Fifer82on MPC-HC v1.7.13 is released and farewell

I want to second this. Been using it for years and appreciate all the work you guys have done.