5cott0

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5cott0··on How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only?

Fine I'll use rollup instead.

5cott0··on How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only?

So now VSCode only writes TypeScript just like Webpack only bundles React?

5cott0··on How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only?

And yet people wonder why HN has a reputation as a community of pedantic dorks.

5cott0··on How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only?

So I guess using VSCode isn’t vanilla either cause it’s not part of the language spec?

5cott0··on How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only?

It’s not veneration it’s the idea that devs should understand the way things work underneath the over engineered abstractions FAANGs developed so they could onboard new grads to web development faster.

5cott0··on How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only?

I still don’t see how that’s not vanilla.js

5cott0··on How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only?

Why is using webpack not considered “vanilla”?

5cott0··on Bosses panic-buy spy software to keep tabs on remote workers

butts in seats equals results

5cott0··on Ask HN: Is HN a ‘healthy online community’? I’m doing a case study for a class

a healthy amount of groupthink

5cott0··on The New York Times Releases Its Dataset of U.S. Confirmed Coronavirus Cases

https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19

The NYT spent more effort patting themselves on the back than they did compiling the data.

5cott0··on Researchers say MS Edge's telemetry has worst privacy of any major browser

I'm starting to think Google PR's favorite channel is the editorial content advertisement.

5cott0··on Cultivate the Skill of Undivided Attention, or “Deep Work” (2019)

but what happens to those skills when you stop taking the pills?

5cott0··on Cultivate the Skill of Undivided Attention, or “Deep Work” (2019)

You misspelled Adderall.

I hear it helps with IF too.

5cott0··on To do better science, admit that you’re not objective

we've reached peak "well ackshually..."

5cott0··on Don't Touch Ya Face

Oh no, I meant I really felt the pain of people biting my style and that no one liked steeze biters in H.S.

5cott0··on Startups threatened by iOS 14’s new features

Happy Sherlocking!

5cott0··on Don't Touch Ya Face

> I looked up your code because you don't know how to hide it and have made my own cloned app for some reason. Nobody liked you in high school, I'm sorry you had to find out this way.

I really felt this.

5cott0··on Tips for the depressed

Probably a sentiment he borrowed from Schopenhauer.

“They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice; that only a madman could be guilty of it; and other insipidities of the same kind; or else they make the nonsensical remark that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.“

5cott0··on To do better science, admit that you’re not objective

>Shouldn't science always, without any exception, be viewed in isolation from the past and politics?

Try telling that to Galileo.

5cott0··on Websites have evolved back to static HTML/CSS/JS files

> it was still easier to read and pick up a few years later.

Compared to what?

5cott0··on Websites have evolved back to static HTML/CSS/JS files

If SPAs are the dark ages then what do you call the IE6/7 jQuery days?

5cott0··on True product-market fit is a minimum viable company

None of those things are success.

5cott0··on Study: Low Carb Diet May Prevent, Reverse Age-Related Effects Within the Brain

If it’s really that simple why are people who practice IF seemingly incapable of talking about anything else?

5cott0··on True product-market fit is a minimum viable company

I still don’t understand why VCs (or anyone else for that matter) consider unprofitable unicorns “success”.

5cott0··on Study: Low Carb Diet May Prevent, Reverse Age-Related Effects Within the Brain

What's the point of living forever if you're miserable and worn out all the time from managing oddly unnatural longevity diet regimes?

5cott0··on Study: Low Carb Diet May Prevent, Reverse Age-Related Effects Within the Brain

Intermittent Fasting is an eating disorder. Ketosis (unless you are an epileptic) is an eating disorder.

5cott0··on Study: Low Carb Diet May Prevent, Reverse Age-Related Effects Within the Brain

Current status quo is whatever quick fix is fashionable at the moment, i.e IF, Ketosis, Binge & Purge...

5cott0··on Study: Low Carb Diet May Prevent, Reverse Age-Related Effects Within the Brain

I still don't understand the tech bro fascination with disordered eating.

5cott0··on Pair Programming Economics

The economics of pair programming is twice the price for half the productivity.

5cott0··on Creating a Slack Writing Etiquette Guide for Your Workplace

slack abuse is definitely my favorite working in SV in the 2010s trend...

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