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If u really wanna have "worst of all worlds" though, i can only recommend Austria.

Basically it's the German-grade paper bureaucracy described here, but spiced up with a truckload of what i would describe as "negative global southern stereotypes":

- Everything has to be strictly processed by the book, but ... - "the book" closes Friday at noon, no wait, today it was 10:00, come by next month, we only process such requests on the first friday of the month. Oh wait, Mrs Soandso is on vacation next month, would June suit you? - the one managing "the book" doesn't like your face/surname/tone/something? You might wanna try another city ...

In short: it's all strict and utterly beaucratic like you'd expect in Germany, but at the same time ripe with small time corruption, incompetence, and petty xenophobia

(Small anecdote: I actually once had to get a lawyer to register a company, since the person responsible for my file at the business court thought my surname was sounding a bit too "foreign" and demanding I present a valid staying permit -- which I do not need (and therefore couldn't even get) in Austria. Straight up refused to process my filing until my lawyer requested a legal statement in writing)

the somewhat lost term "boilerplate" comes to mind

definitely - could use outline property, transforms/thickened borders or border radius animations if it's Imperative to keep things black and white

this could be a rare but very practical usecase for strike-through text

As a graphics designer of almost 20 years i have to heavily agree. Firefly is nice for drafting and dabbling with stuff that once would've been served by stock sites, but aside picking a few demo images or making some abstract pattern backgrounds here and there, this has close to zero overlap with the UI/UX into development & design system management process Figma serves. It's almost like saying the Bing bot eats away at Laravels user base.

As a personal aside: I'd like to commend the initial push you guys did with XD. While Figma was still out of my scope back then, and XD played a major role for me in transitioning away from oldschool Photoshop or Indesign mockup processes into a modern workflow that integrates with my dev team and focuses on component & design token centric thinking.

Figma may have left XD thoroughly in the dust by now, and i honestly couldn't be happier that the merger won't happen, seeing how Adobe has been committed to absolutely dismantling the UX of Photoshop to the point of it only remaining installed on my workstation because Affinity Designer still lacks some core feature parity - but in its earlier days XD has been absolutely crucial to the development and modernization of my whole thinking and workflows!

Rationally seen, you'd at least have to assume to get caught at some point, and you'd have to assume the company will do anything to hold you alone accountable for damages, therefore making any possible upside a terrible risk reward scenario for you - so far true.

Also if it was your own code, stealing it to "kickstart" your position at your new employer also feels like a rather bad deal: just bringing your knowledge and spend a good part of your time recreating something you already know how to do sounds like low effort for big money, a much better deal for you if your aim was to get better comp and job security.

The one thing that might skew this equation, and can only be theorized about with the knowledge we have here would be if your new employer DID collude with you and proposed tremendous returns for giving them access - eg a kind of off-the-record deal where you'll engage in corporate espionage & theft of ip for big cash following through some hidden compensation construct.

Assuming the latter would border on conspiracy theories and i don't want to suggest this would have been the case here. Just a play of thoughts to add to the reasoning that YOU doing it on your own for ill-guided hypothetical benefits might not be the sole factor leading to such theft at all.

I'll never understand the Apple effect. Neglecting core components of their hardware that would not hurt their margin to spec acceptably from the start, ripping off their customers to upgrade to bare minimum ... and their customers keep defending them for that?

That tweet honestly reads like a pars pro toto of the whole NFT world ...

"visionary revolution, it's the future, it will change everything, also it absolutely ruined me!"

Brilliant and truly innovative stage design, mounting the "do not ever look into those" scan lasers vertically, at head height ... ...

Don't forget that md5 is comparatively slow & there are way options for hashing nowadays:

https://jolynch.github.io/posts/use_fast_data_algorithms/

I'll shamelessly claim to be an intelligent being, and I'm pretty convinced people telling me "don't do this" actually only incentives me to do "this" for that very reason ...

tbh I'm glad, not sure about patching in an extra magic keyword with it's own set of new properties to achieve one specific layout pattern popularized by a jQuery lib in css grid module.

It would have been much cleaner to add "auto-span" utility to grid-column and grid-row that allow to define "overflow snapping" if items are larger than template definitions, with an option for grid-auto-flow to affect packing logic

This draft feels like it's solving a single use case by stacking presets over the grid api instead of exposing tools to achieve that use case

The 1% are difficult to learn, because you only need them in 1% of the cases ;)

its multiple directions at play, since the "cardinal directions" of the parent aren't defined by flex-direction alone. If the writing-mode of a parent block formatting context is set to a vertical mode, then flexbox' "row" will run vertically - which is why flexbox directions are "row" and "column", and can only thought of as "vertical/horizontal" in "horizontal-tb" writing mode.

Further, there's no "bottom to top" mode for horizontal scripts, but vertical modes can have a block axis running either ltr or rtl, affecting the direction of the flex cross axis. Which likely leads to the necessity to also abstract "row-reverse" and "column-reverse" directions for the ordering of items.

now as for distribution of items on either axis (whichever direction it may have), referring rows/columns when might become misleading, and also having to address individual rows (align-content) complicates things. Finding another set of terms for flexbox alone might start to become messy, since display:grid and multicolumn layouts will also require these settings.

I don't know the actual origin of align & justify either, but I have the feeling coming up with better terms might not be that easy

A product having once been ubiquitous, and it's maintenance therefore common knowledge that you'd pick up by habit, does not mean it's stupid to have to pay attention to this knowledge many decades later.

Some misconceptions do exist, for example dish soap not usually being a detergent that damages the patina nowadays. While other practices are a development, like our general food hygiene standards having changed significantly, and keeping a patina on cookware therefore requiring more deliberate attention.

What's making the "apple dimension texts" kinda creepy is not directly the language or lack of typos.

It's the overly formalized way everyone seems to interact regarding anything, the formulation of every little remark showing signs of a communication environment where the participants take care to conform to certain social norms and expectations, like normal people _would_ in spaces with such unspoken constraints (like the list of their block for example) -- but they seem to do that with close friends and family!

If anything, that might actually be a damn interesting challenge to implement :D

I think that comparison is way off.

Smart contracts are much more comparable to "a webshop", than actual logic describing rules of arbitrage or other concepts at play in "law".

Mind that you are advocating "eye for an eye" and vigilantes/self justice by violence here (ironically on the basis of moral or ethical superiority)

I'd even bend that quote to say "Given a problem that maximizes their profit if solved, it's an acceptable compromise for companies to resort to solutions they don't control, if they don't have the ressources to create competing solutions they'd do control."

Highly recommended, his essays about history in fantasy and pop culture are as hilarious as they are informative, and his historical deep dives are just as well written

I find it much more odd that whenever noteworthy scientific or technical news are heavily discussed on this news platform that is pretty much for such content, some users are very quick to be needlessly dismissive of everybody's interest, citing the currently higher frequency of threads/links concerning said newsworthy topic.

Quite ironically though, individually policing & complaining about the relevance of specific subtopics indeed feels quite "Reddit", while one of the things that make HN so pleasant is exactly that it's user base usually abstains from arguing about such meta & leave moderating actual offtopic to the moderators.

it could be good for humanity IF the societal and economic model for basic survival would evolve in tandem.

If we were moving towards UBI and made employment an optional thing then a world in which machines do most of the human work would be utopic indeed

But reality has evolved differently, and after the need for manual labour and craftsmanship got decimated in the last century, now software is pushing into the fields where all the people needing jobs who aren't needed in production ended up.

If we follow this train of thought, that we'd like to diminish the need for individual labour, without removing the individuals need to work as well, we'll just be enlarging the divide between affluence and utter poverty.

jjokki could be from German "Jacke"

(afaik here are also many German loanwords in japanese, specially in engineering & medical fields)

ppang sounds like it came from french "pain"

mang-toh also french "manteau"

Better search would serve the same purpose i think

I'm getting a bit of deja vu from this recebt rediscovery of ajax but i really like it. Back when js was obscure and jQuery became ubiquitous, that practice was a go to and sites started to feel, albeit sluggish, like more and more like todays spa centric ecosystem.

Seeing projects spawn that the default that ssr was and making those early, simple optimisation tools much more streamlined, understandable, accessible and purely functional is great!

AirPods where and are loathed by some, but ultimately they present a well designed product that made the underlying product category more seamless and consumer friendly and accessible.

Their winning traits may seem banal, but in everyday carry objects small utility improvements play a huge role. Not having to deal with cables and increased range of movement are enough - what elevated AirPods though is that a visible, wearable product is an implicit fashion statement. Apples product designers succeeded in making st thing that is clearly recognisable and stands out against similar products already on the market, but is subtle enough not to disturb anything or polarise by totally overthrowing stylistic and societal convention. Perfect mix of identity and brand that is easy to integrate with your personal image.

Apple silicon is another kind of thing: it's just the same thing as before but cheaper and more powerful, without compromising any trait that made the predecessor products appealing.

Apple "reality" or whatever - I don't see carrying any of those same traits. It's much too visually disruptive to become an AirPod, it's much too close to similar products to be an M1, and on top of this it's success fully depends on expensive-to-produce software content within a technically complicated ecosystem, while Apple has long lost it's profile as a developer centric and welcoming brand and rather capitalized on it's ubiquity and alienated many developers who only still contribute to the platform it because they have too by sheer numbers.

Apple might be able to not totally fail spinning up the platform, because of buying power, image and again numbers.

But those just slightly more practical, still bulky and odd looking VR glasses are nowhere near replicating the seamless product fit of iPods, IPhones, AirPods or CPUs.

It's Metaverse all over again.

just to point it out, laws like GDPR do not mention "cookies" anywhere. It's regulating how you may or may not retrieve and store ANY data that makes an individual identifyable.

The whole "cookie" topic is a dark pattern mostly pushed by ad providers as a friendly word to bypass having to say "may we track everything you do?".

So if it tracks data points that can be used to clearly identify a visitor, or marks the visitor in a way that can be used to personally identify them later, it will need the users consent, regardless of where and how this is stored.

That's a really interesting consideration to me, I'll say the same about a phone - but feel like I'd seldomly plug my high end headphones into a tablet?

You're missing a crucial point here imho: the possibility to seek assistance from someone in a much better situation to research and reflect on the issue may not end the war, but it does make a HUGE moral difference and might provide actual help and solutions for the problem at hand.

Without the internet, the author of the question might well be left to try it out and possibly getting harmed, or with no support at all.