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Is this better than honey Chrome extension?

Yeah same. I've found there are a handful of games that are fun to watch rather than play. League of Legends and MOBA games for instance are super freaking boring for me to play because I suck at killing creeps (too tedious for me) but watching pros play is pretty satisfying because the higher level games are faster paced.

Also agree with the TV thing -- lots of things I don't enjoy watching or maybe if its an episode, I don't have an entire hour to watch so rather not start one if I'm not gonna finish it.

Damn... this hit me hard and makes me realize why corporations can be pretty evil :/... in the back of their minds, they're always thinking of how to please their "true" customers.

Wow that is REALLY fucked up. Does this mean they don't have back ups or restore points? Super concerning if they get hacked...

Well it sounds like this is more to have a centered Reddit-like forum for open-source projects on Github. It's more for discovery rather than saving.

You could make the same argument for Reddit by saying "But we already have bookmarks on the browser."

I also love open offices but I do find it heavily depends on who you sit around with. I'm pretty fortunate because everyone prefers deep work and if they do want to chat we just do it over Slack even if we're right next to each other and if we needed something more urgent we'd just give them a look haha.

Ah nice -- yeah we have a similar interview that tests debugging as well so glad to hear other people do it. We have found it really effective as it is a skill that is often overlooked in technical interviews but is something you do on a day-to-day basis. We have it so some tests fail despite the fact they LOOK like they should pass. Props to you for having a practical technical interview :)

doesn't the console tell you an error happens when trying to make that request? unless the typo URL is actually a valid URL that returns a 200 response

Yup I believe they announced this at Google I/O Keynote this year actually -- they mentioned that while it might not be enough with just the audio, looking at mouth gestures can give AI enough to know what might be said by whom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogfYd705cRs&t=7m0s

Would love to hear your findings :)

Woohoo Job security though right?

Well instagram TV is launching so that might be Facebook's play

Ah shoulda mentioned I looked at part 1's minified code and assumed the same for part 2. Thanks for clarifying :)

Yeah I find it too coincidental. There was a news article if I'm not mistaken about how Tesla put in a lot of work into trying to automate making cars that failed. A lot of big car manufacturers commented how they tried the same and he didn't learn from their mistakes.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/04/experts-say-tesla-has-r...

I've dug through their minified files and from what I can tell other than dependencies they use i.e. Backbone, underscore, jQuery, bootstrap, D3, etc I believe a lot of it is custom coded. It's truly incredible.

Thanks for the article -- especially agree with the "Lead and take the charge." I feel that's very important if you expect to learn from mentoring.

Shameless plug but I wrote a Medium article about what I learned from mentoring an intern last summer and what people can get out of it. I'm mentoring another intern this summer and it's really great working with different people and how they learn in different ways.

https://medium.com/@augburto/the-menternship-why-mentoring-i...

Wow that is shady as fuck. I've always respected Apple for delivering fairly high quality products because, well, they are all the same (granted for a very high price but some people they are willing to pay that for that kind of service whether it's expected or not)

I'm seriously disappointed they do that.

thanks for sharing!! :)

Why link to a fork?

They might have done it because existing people weren't doing it and it would have introduced a breaking change potentially.

Not making an excuse for them though. They should have done that.

I have some friends who work at Netflix and it's crazy how far the executive team foresaw how Netflix would grow. I know they put a lot of resources early on into Open Connect which was to handle working with ISPs.

https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/how-netflix-works-...

Apparently a lot of people (internally too) called them out it was unnecessary but it's paying dividends back now.

yup great point thanks for calling that out. I appreciate they made their tutorial free though.

Amazing post! Makes me want to get into ROM hacking :)

Clever blog! Design taking apart :) Hope he does more of these!

> Before we get carried away, it’s worth validating whether the meme really has basis in reality. Do front end technologies actually change that quickly?

> In the sense of major view technologies, probably not. Consider this list of the highest ‘starred’ JavaScript front-end technologies on Github:

Seriously? So you're basing front end technology changes based on stars on Github?

Also I think it's wrong to say that front end technologies have "changed." It's just people have discovered better or just different ways of building things and that should be okay.

I agree with the portion how it can be overwhelming to a junior developer, but it is also easier in some ways. In truth, if you are a junior developer (or hell any developer really), your focus should be less on choosing the right technology and more on understanding what technologies fit what needs.

To be fair, he said he was interested in it and not necessarily it was a solution.

Still though, he does make it sound like "Oh hey there are all these problems... but this one, the newest of em all, seems to be interesting" lol

Sounds like an interesting idea but would be awesome if rather than grayscale it just lessened the contrast and made colors a lot less vibrant. That would still help a lot

Well technically if you use async / await, it's built on top of generators and promises.

I feel Ghost is trying to be the ideal replacement for WordPress i.e. you have a lot of engineers who love JavaScript and node but also having a marketing team that wants a blogging platform.

I also agree it feels like static site generators are starting to take over (personally think its an awesome direction the web is headed towards for some sites) but not everyone is familiar how to use them so Ghost is another nice alternative.

I'll be honest -- we've been using Flow for JavaScript on our team for a while and we can't get over a lot of the problems we run into with Flow. We have been considering moving to Typescript. I can't really see how adding a static type checker to Python will be any better.

I know it's probably better than nothing but if the same problems carry through, it'll be a pain.