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I loved visiting paris this summer but was surprised by how archaic and slow the machines were too buy tickets. I also found it amusing how there are at least three different interfaces/machine styles throughout the system. I made the mistake of buying a one way ticket to Versailles. I missed the train back home although I was twenty minutes early because the line to buy a ticket took forever. At least two minutes per customer

Jira drives me crazy. Why do I need to mark an epic as closed two different ways? Why is it really difficult to see what tickets were in a closed sprint? Why is it so slow or why does it sometimes get in infinite reload loop? Features randomly break like the ability to create tickets from confluence. My company is locked in and I doubt we would change, I just wish Atlassian focused on performance and consistency

I completely agree about the unimportant details. It frustratingly cuts up a long stretch of freeway into alerts to stay left or right at unimportant exits. This often encourages me to be on the wrong side of the highway especially if it’s telling me to stay left at a small road exit when a mile later I need to be in the right lanes for a freeway split. It’s definitely gotten worse this past year

What makes the IKEA haunted? I’ve been there a few times, but haven’t heard anything

I sometimes call Gen Z the troll generation. I feel like they never knew life without Internet and so they naturally choose the most inflammatory answer as default. I heard a survey of Gen Zers that something like half reported themselves as gender non binary. I think it’s more protest than anything

I actually agree with this. We’ve really struggled with Apple Pay. It’s partly our payment processor’s fault but the limited documentation from Apple and the strict limitations we’ve encountered trying to debug Apple Pay has taken us way longer than it should have to get right.

Interesting, we’ve definitely had problems with Zendesk, on the implementation side. We’re really frustrated with the lack of customization of their chat client and just how massive it is, in terms of asset sizes. Simple things like showing the actual name of the agent you’re about to chat with just isn’t possible. Having phone, chat and email support all in one place is nice though and why we’re stuck with them.

The OP I’m pretty sure is being sarcastic and referring to this obnoxious book by Francis Fukuyama: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_history

He had this absurd premise that because the Soviet Union collapsed and free trade was surging every place everywhere would coalesce to a boring democracy.

I am having the same tingling issue where my hands fall asleep easily. Almost exactly as you describe. What could be causing this? I’m going to see a doctor in a couple weeks but wondering if I should try to see one sooner. Could it be caused by clots?

I prefer to use the grammatically correct and gender neutral latine/latines. That term seems to be embraced by Mexicans. Julieta Venegas is a proponent so is the show House of Flowers on Netflix. LatinX is just really awkward to say and doesn’t roll off the tongue in Spanish.

I prefer to work with a single large external monitor. If my device is a laptop I keep it in clamshell mode when attached to an external monitor. I find switching applications with keyboard shortcuts and focusing on one thing at a time has improved my productivity. Using two or more monitors made it so easy for me to get distracted. To each their own though.

Why not just use fixed versions and upgrade when you have a reason to?

Only thing that drove me crazy was the finale. Everything before that was great. Definitely dark.

I thought this was the case! A commenter on a previous thread said this was really unlikely [0], but I really believe it happens. Not sure how to prove it though.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20205969

Off topic but Facebook’s developer portal has a create test user capability that works pretty well. I don’t use Facebook either but if I need it for work I create a Facebook with my work email.

Yes absolutely. There are plenty of dropshippers that have relationships with manufacturers and wholesalers that only buy from the authentic manufacturer.

Spider solitaire is my jam. I played it every day of my commute on my phone for a year. Still go back to it sometimes. Definitely need to try other kinds.

Slightly tangential but I really like Linq syntax. The only problem I have with it is that it is really hard to debug if there is a logic error. I often see developers write linq find out the record set they get back is incorrect and then break up the linq query to a nested if clause to get what they want.

This is the exact same situation my company finds itself in. We are stuck with it because they have decent APM metrics for .NET Java and JavaScript and it’s nice it’s all in one dashboard. The new UI is pretty difficult to use and way too bright. Currently exploring other options and would be happy to switch to a more affordable competitor.

My partner and I bought our God Daughter an iPad for her sixth birthday because we were worried about her not being in school. We installed a bunch of educational apps for her. She loves it. We also get to FaceTime with her and our relatives which is fun. I’m sure a lot of iPads were bought for kids stuck at home. (Edit typo)

For A) I believe that is what https://mailinabox.email/ is trying to achieve

I really do not understand what the hold up is. In California I know over ten people whose results have taken more than seven or eight days to come back. This is in the past two weeks. I am still waiting for my results from Sunday six days ago. It really is inexcusable how mismanaged this epidemic is in the United States.

I agree with the GP about the air pollution. I also find the Salt Lake reeks in the summer. When I would go with my dad as a kid on his business trips, the smell in the summer was really off-putting. I think it's the same problem Mexico City has. Salt Like City is in a bowl, and there's no coastal winds to blow the pollution away like the bay area has, so the pollution just lingers. I do think it's a really clean city on the ground though and Park City is so close and really amazing for Skiing / Snow Boarding. The national parks in Southern Utah are also top notch.

I don’t know how standard this is but to prevent our third party JavaScript from impacting page load times, we defer our tag manager (Tealium) from being loaded until after the page has successfully loaded.

WASM doesn’t have a garbage collector built in. Languages that use a garbage collector have to also convert their language runtime into WASM which can dramatically increase the WASM file sizes and is more work to process by the browser. Since rust doesn’t have a garbage collector this should make its WASM files smaller and more performant

The federal government is made up of many different actors with different goals. The $600 unemployment pandemic bonus was only added to the relief package because of the house democrats insistence. I think it’s hard to believe that was not their goal.

I always thought the point was to keep people home during the pandemic instead of working odd jobs to compensate. Incentivizing people to not work by paying them more to stay at home was a public health policy choice. Of course, the bills were passed really rapidly and maybe weren’t that thought out.

Wine.com | San Francisco CA | Senior Software Engineer (JavaScript, NodeJS, Performance) | Full-time | REMOTE ok

Wine.com, the nation's leading online wine store, is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, who has a passion for performance, web technology, and JavaScript. We are building a better way to shop for wine. Our mission is to make it fun, easy and risk-free for our customers to discover great new wines from all over the world. We are searching for someone who has a thorough understanding of modern web technologies, is passionate about performance, and is framework agnostic. The core ecommerce platform that you will be working on is an isomorphically-rendered NodeJS application that uses an internally-developed framework based on BackboneJS and EpoxyJS. We are looking for an incrementalist, who can identify areas of request/page load cycle that can be improved over time. This person enjoys working with others and is open to mentoring other members of the team on an as needed basis.

Your Responsibilities:

• Profile our Server and Client Performance and determine incremental ways to improve page load times.

• Develop a system of automated benchmarks to detect performance degradations before they make it to production

• Improve our Asset bundler pipeline. Ensure the most minimal amount of JavaScript is executed on first page load.

• Identify optimizations to reduce our DOM and CSS Bloat

• Upgrade our codebase to take advantage of features of modern JavaScript not available in ES5 and reduce third party dependencies when possible

• Work in a team environment, able to effectively communicate progress and difficulties with peers, and can break up tasks to releasable chunks.

• Tune our CDN, Fastly.com (based on Varnish) to ensure we are doing everything we can to ensure quick load times.

• Be an advocate for keeping the site fast

Your Experience:

• You have a thorough understanding of the Javscript Language from ES5 to ES2020.

• You know how to profile for performance both NodeJS and Browser applications.

• Have familiarity with the modern JS ecosystem and have deep dived into a JS bundler like Parcel.JS, Browserify, or WebPack.

• Is familiar with and can explain the request life cycle for a modern JS Framework that does Server-Side Rendering and Client Hydration

• You have a thorough understanding of the Browser DOM and CSS

• Have worked with a CSS Preprocessor

• You understand CDNs, resource caching,

• You can write a service worker

Please send all resumes to seniorjsengineer@wine.com (candidates only, no recruiters)

I'll take three hours over 12 hours which is how long it can take to get to Tahoe from SF on a Friday when it's snowing.

To be honest, I found that book all over the place. It was interesting, but its message could be condensed to half its length. There was a lot of musing and scattered anecdotes but not much direction. I hope a higher quality book can come out about Octopuses. It was a bit of a let down for me.