jastanton

Couple of nits & questions:

1) I'm surprised CSS preprocessors made it as a must, and CSS in JS as only recommended. I figured that would be switched, isn't the current golden path CSS in JS?

2) Is webpack a must these days? Can we not just throw everything in typescript? Maybe that's only personal preferences!

3) No one ever needs to know jQuery anymore ;)

Glad to see lodash made it though

I was nodding along until this:

> They posted my entire medical record, including notes about my mental health, my bills, my insurance info, my driver’s license, birth date and home address,” she said.

wow. That violates HIPAA law. The counter-sue is going to be huge.

Also, I had a related issue where a doctor threatened to sue based on my yelp review. I cut the review back to verifiable facts instead of opinion and asked if that compromise was ok, he said it wasn't and started claiming it was defamation. I cut off contact and that was that. I wondered if it was possible to be dragged into court by something like this, apparently I may have dodged a bullet. Scary stuff.

This is great! About 6 years ago I created a worms destructible terrain using canvas. Still up on my website all these years later, no promises on code quality though :)

http://jastanton.com/experiments/Destructible-Terrain/

What you're describing is a driving test that every human needs to go through before they're allowed to drive on public roads. Something that can be revoked temporarily or permanently.

I would be very interested in a 3rd party (government or private) create a rigorous test (obstacles, weather conditions, etc...) for self driving vehicles. Becoming "XXX safety Certified with a Y Score" for all major updates to the AI could help restore confidence in the system and eliminate bad actors.

I once plugged my usb cable in on the first try. Goes to show you anything is possible!!

Edit: upon further inspection it turns out it was USB-C. Nevermind, all is right with the world :)

I think it's because there is no apparent user facing feature that uses this data. In the future they may get parking related features, or deeper ride share integrations. But because they're not upfront with how they are using the data, and their are currently 0 user facing features it seems unwarranted.

Yes, all up until you need to check in for the movie. You have to be physically located within a set distance of the theater in order to load up funds on the credit card.

What are some good examples of that? Specifically something that has malicious intent or an abuse of some TOS. I can think of a number of examples from companies like Uber. But maybe I missed something from Facebook.

As an app developer, I don't want to say this is impossible, loading and abusing private libraries has been done in the past. It just seems so unlikely. And it seems like if proved (decrypting network traffic from mobile device?) would destroy Facebook's image w/ customers.

I think more than likely the talking about a certain subject makes the ads stand out more than they would have. It's like, researching to buy a new car, all of a sudden you see that car everywhere on the road. It was there before but you just didn't notice it.

That's my take on it. Again, it's not be impossible. I just think it would be highly likely for facebook of all companies to directly snoop. (Maybe by proxy of other apps?) </TinFoilHat>

One nit: I like listening to tutorials at more than 1x playback speed, and I was overjoyed that you added the feature but it’s not persisted between videos which is a bit annoying. But other than that This product is amazing!

So I was a Sonos owner and I loved them, when I sold them to buy Google Home's I was greatly saddened by decrease in audio quality. It looks like this is the Sonos replacement? Seems weird that they wouldn't just re-brand this as Google Home+ or something similar.

I am getting a very similar vibe similar to Apple iPad's where you can buy an iPad at pretty much every dimension you want. Same now with Google Home, you can get a small, medium and large Google Home... but with confusing branding.

Convoy | Software Engineer | Seattle | Full-time, onsite, https://convoy.com

We're optimizing trucking and logistics, an $800B industry that still runs on fax machines and phone calls. We're changing the way over 3.5 million truck drivers work and the way everything you use gets to you.

We are backed by very top tier investors. Read about us:

http://www.mosaicventures.com/mosaicblog/2017/7/25/our-inves...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/freight-booking-startup-convoy-...

I'm employee #3 at this company and I am incredibly honored to have watched this company grow from MVP to impacting the daily lives of hundreds of thousands of people. As well as exploring interesting avenues of tech such as machine learning, service architecture, mobile, desktop and web user experiences and in many other areas.

We would love more engineers, up and down the stack, and anywhere on the generalist <-> specialist spectrum. We use pretty cutting-edge tech (React, React-Native for mobile, TypeScript + Node for backend), but we're a lot more interested in engineering chops than any particular tech skills.

If you're interested in hearing more, reach out and grab coffee with me or one of our other developers. Help us grow an amazing tech team from a very early point in our company's history!

Some, but not necessarily all, of our open jobs: http://jobs.convoy.com

Serious question: who is mining bitcoin still, and how are we seeing such growth lately?

Last I read up on it there were some data farms crunching away barely covering their expenses, and it’s only getting harder. How can we even see see such growth?

General reminder to be courteous, especially when people learn something new: https://xkcd.com/1053/

> it's been over a decade since I've seen this

Apple does this every year in order to stream WWDC. It’s the one time a year I open up safari :)

Maybe I missed something, but it seems like measuring the winner based on average time of the first couple of samples is significantly flawed. This is equivalent to me putting you in front of a keyboard with a normal layout, and then a layout where the keys are scrambled and asking me to type a sentence, and then measuring success by average WPM on all attempts. ... ofCOURSE i'm going to be slower on the different layouts regardless on my first, second, third, maybe even hundredth use. But 2 months down the road the benefits may start rolling in.

It seems to be that a better way to measure results would be to create an Android only app (iOS doesn't support swapping primary dialer). and getting participants to use your dialer for a couple months, once you notice a new baseline per user compare results between the various treatments.

Tl;dr unless I missed something! these results aren't going to prove anything, other than familiarity rules.

All that aside -- I LOVE this! In the spirit of experimenting and trying to improve on a very old concept, and creating an app to whip up some quick results, very, very cool!

I've been tossing around the idea of what a bookmarking solution would look like that would save a cache of the current page and possibly surrounding pages. Maybe even have the ability to highlight or make notes on the page directly. The use case would be bookmarking a page that is later updated and I was never really sure why I bookmarked it in the first place. Or possibly bookmarking pages behind a login screen.

I'm excited to give this a try, as it's downloading, is there support for:

- Approving / rejecting on the PR as a whole?

- @ mentioning

- Assigning team members to a PR

- Viewing a subset of the diff (i.e. all changes since my last review, or even better all changes between these two commits)

I'm surprised health care isn't on the list.

Why is this the scariest one? I've never heard of app.com, any real new or fake news (in the literal sense) coming from that site wouldn't register as legitimate one way or the other.

However apple.com with a CC reset form could be a mighty easy way to scam a lot of people into giving up the personal details which could easily lead to full blown identify theft.

Thankfully FF/Chrome are patching this

Wait what? So I switch from Sublime Text to Azure? Where is the missing node here... How do you go from using VS Code to using Azure?

Did I miss auto imports feature announcement? I saw that typescript got this support and it was pending a VS code release, I figured this would be the release

One thing I discovered about Wix the other day. They are active on their public GitHub repos and they are have very high quality React Native packages!

This looks great! How are the integrations with slack?

Fun feature you should add: the ability to crop around faces. I.e say you have a long and tall image and you need it to be square, you could pick the center, top, or bottom to zoom in on, which do you choose? It would be nice to set a flag and say "find the subject(s) of this photo and crop around the subject(s)".

I would love to order a poster but I just cannot get over the whole -- exposing my teams private code to a 3rd party thing. Any chance you have a hosted version of this?

Yeah I think it's a sense of accomplishment. You worked on something really hard and seeing data to reflect that is fun.

That said posting it on a wall to say "Hey look what I've done" its a bit much for me. But I would defintely buy a poster for my engineering team, that would fantastic!

Is he demanding a review of government systems or of private systems as well? Like is the homeland security going to bring an army of security experts and start banging on Google's doors demanding access to their servers to see if they are above board?

How does a project like this get started / maintained? It's incredibly well done, looks like a ton of work went into it. Is it a side project or apart of some bigger org?

A trick I commonly use is:

    cd -

Which goes back to the previous directly I was just on. They have the same thing for git as well:

    git checkout -

it's quite handy for switching back and forth between branches or directories!