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azimuth11··on Behind GitHub’s new authentication token formats
A lot of REST APIs are just as hard to grok as GraphQL is as a whole. Companies often lack schemas and documentation, which GraphQL helps with out of the box.
azimuth11··on Markets, Rent and WFH
There are caveats as mentioned in this thread, but in general, no you do not pay CA taxes if you live in another state and your company's HQ is in CA.
azimuth11··on The Cost of Not Getting Tested for Coronavirus: A $10K ER Bill
It is not always obvious (e.g. strep throat is similar, but one or the other sicknesses may or may not need medicine) and doing things on a hunch is not how scientific fields should do things when there are simple tests.

Testing also provides safety for doctors against medical malpractice lawsuits.

azimuth11··on Show HN: A front-end visual development tool for React applications
This is a good idea. It would also help sell people if the example was changing or adding something to a non-trivial layout.
azimuth11··on 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated
I guess you have some sort of "classic car" feelings towards it? How often does the perl script get updated?
azimuth11··on Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois – Hello where?
The tech job market in Dallas and Houston is pretty hot.
azimuth11··on Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible
I too do not care for the new text box.

Does anyone know why it only shows on one of my two Slack workspaces?

azimuth11··on MacBook Pro 16" 2019 Teardown
Yes. Everyone in my office complains about it.
azimuth11··on How is it like to be a dev in Iran
It is sad the sanctions have that side effect. Hopefully it’s enough to affect some change in a hostile country led by an oppressive elite.
azimuth11··on Browsers are pretty good at loading pages
We can’t blame junior devs using React and other frameworks to try to build more responsive applications. That’s where the demand is.

I wouldn’t say it’s easier to build in these SPA frameworks nor harder. Attention to detail is something people recognize or learn over time.

azimuth11··on Google Cloud Is Down
I think some Google engineers published a free Meap book on service relatability and uptime guarantees. Seemingly counterintuitive, scheduling downtime, without other teams’ prior knowledge, encourages teams to handle outages properly and reduce single points of failure, among other things.
azimuth11··on Angular v8.0
While you wouldn't want to leave "console.log" in your code in production, you can use them in function components just like a classes' render methods.

A better example (from the video "React Today and Tomorrow and 90% Cleaner React With Hooks" from October[1]) is something along the lines of updating document.title = `${some} Page` or possibly calling an API.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpw9EHDh2bM

azimuth11··on Angular v8.0
React has also been using classes for a long time (although the trend is to move away from them for performance and simplicity reasons). There is also a huge upward trend of people using TypeScript with React. Personally, after using TypeScript & Angular at work, I've preferred switching to TypeScript when using React in personal projects.

My main gripe with Angular (vs. React) has been the lack of first class support for patterns (higher order components) that have been a boon for React. It does look like Angular will have more 1st class support with Ivy[1], however, higher order components are so simple with React (and even better with TS/React).

[1]: https://blog.nrwl.io/metaprogramming-higher-order-components...

azimuth11··on Can we all stop using Medium now?
I use Chrome on iOS because I find Mobile Safari’s UI to be total poop.

There was some funky scrolling on this article I noticed on my phone which is not present on most websites/websites viewed through Safari backed mobile browsers.

azimuth11··on Can we all stop using Medium now?
That’s a good point. It was much harder to find interesting stuff to read back in the day. I had my Google Reader with a bunch of blogs, but that ended up being pretty noisy and they took it away. You had to do the searching yourself and be your own data curator, or have a network of other friends pitching in content to check out (eg. forums, Maybe digg?)

It’s locked in a somewhat growing, walled garden, yes, but Medium is now basically the Google Reader for a lot of people. Those people don’t care about logins if they can get a good read every now and then. And, when Medium goes to crap, some other platform will pop up with no ads (for a while :) ) and lure us all over there.

azimuth11··on Can we all stop using Medium now?
“Someone who isn’t me”, a term used when discussing something (usually illegal) the poster did or has experience with, but is using this term to hide that fact.
azimuth11··on Former student destroys 59 university computers using USB Killer device
Bad choice as an example of social engineering, not funny, and doesn’t make sense at all.
azimuth11··on Panic’s Next Editor
The post feels good because it is mostly just smoke and mirrors. They’re talking about a lot of problems and offering no products or solutions.
azimuth11··on Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent
There was a class action lawsuit against them (LinkedIn Lost it, iirc) for what they did. I believe they would try to connect you with any of your email contacts if you logged in with OAuth.
azimuth11··on Stonehenge: DNA Reveals Origin of Builders
Correct. I mistakenly said author, and was referring dalbasal’s comment.

My point was that people (on both sides of this issue) do mistake fact checking with agenda when it comes to religion because of the polarizing nature of the topic.

azimuth11··on Panic’s Next Editor
Competing solely on Mac seems strange. I’ve used vscode on multiple operating systems for a bunch of languages/deployments/use cases, and the speed and availability of plugins is great.

There is room for niche stuff, but this blog post is too vague to determine what niche they are now trying to fill.

As a previous coda user and someone whose spent a considerable amount of time with many IDEs/text editors, it looks like they forked vscode and are trying to see if people want them to develop a new app.

If they are actually using something internally that was good, then, as a development software selling company, they would be promoting the product’s actual benefits instead of writing this fluff about considering/reluctantly releasing their ‘awesome internal tool’. How many companies make their own internal editors anyway?

azimuth11··on Panic’s Next Editor
I don’t understand the question or its relevance to the post. What are you trying to do?
azimuth11··on Panic’s Next Editor
Care to elaborate?
azimuth11··on Stonehenge: DNA Reveals Origin of Builders
I can’t provide one, but maybe I can deduce what the author was trying to say.

Religion obviously causes biases, and those biases could inhibit scientific process.

In popular culture, most people think of scientists as atheists and that they try to disprove one side vs. comparing them in an unbiased fashion.

azimuth11··on Show HN: EdgeDB – Next generation database
Are there any plans regarding GIS?
azimuth11··on Ask HN: What is the best way to add authentication to REST API (for mobile)?
Auth0 is not a bad option.

For JWT to support revocation, you must store them in the database and delete them on logout or when they expire.

azimuth11··on ReactXP – A library for building cross-platform apps
reactxp on NPM was last published 5 days ago. It seems they stopped publishing releases to github.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/reactxp

azimuth11··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2016)
SEEKING WORK

Location: Houston, Texas

Remote: Yes (travel possible)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP/JavaScript/Ruby/Python

Resume: Please email me

Email: rwoody@gmail.com

Expert level frontend and applications engineer with operations experience. Production experience with wide range of tools (JavaScript SPAs, Ruby, PHP apps and WordPress, Python, and popular frameworks for most languages - React, Angular, Vue.js, etc.) and databases (SQL and NoSQL). I was the first engineer at an 80+ person thriving startup and helped to build most of the application's backend and UI. I like to solve problems and ship a great product for my clients.

azimuth11··on Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS
So when I signed up for FF sync last night that was a waste of my life? The only reason I was giving them a shot is Chrome's goofiness. It crashes my GFX card on Win10 (constantly) and always has threads open for hardly-ever-used extensions.
azimuth11··on Destroy Windows Spying tool
As a developer, I would buy a Mac. Everything "just works" on it. Apps are sometimes blocked from the App store (Famous example, Flux perhaps? https://justgetflux.com/), but that doesn't mean you can't/shouldn't use them.

That said, I'll be checking this out for my Windows 10 rig (for gaming).

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