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Although you could omit the closing tags, I don't see the benefit of doing so. If you know HTML, nesting is fundamental and not explicitly closing dom nodes would lead to confusion. You would also need to concern yourself with the "certain conditions" that must be met for it to work. Consistency and clarity over brevity!

cwackerfusson Flanderization

The Umbrella Academy's music budget must have been massive. Binged it a few months back and there were tons of high profile songs.

cwackerfusson Ruby on Rails: Still the Best Web App Framework for Most Teams

You must be a masochist.. I'd rather spend 1/10th the time finding out if I have a hit on my hands and address scaling problems later than battling with kubernetes and kafka. Build product not infrastructure.

cwackerfusson Recovering Lost Roam Notes

Isn't it impossible for the 16kb partial to be valid json? Json starts in either a curly or square brace -- valid json more than 16kb would never close the outermost brace in the first 16kb of data, otherwise it would be invalid

cwackerfusson Top 10 Most Popular JavaScript Libraries to Use in 2021

The authors of Moment also actively recommend switching off Moment onto a different date library like Luxon or Date-fns. Shouldn't be on this list.

cwackerfusson Recoil – A state management library for React

Check out easy-peasy. Ive used plain ol redux, mobx, and xstate, but easy-peasy is the fricken best. It's basically a redux wrapper that combines redux, thunks, reselect, redux logger, immer, and more into a super intuitive interface. The typescript support is super good and interacting with the API feels very modern and hook-driven.

https://github.com/ctrlplusb/easy-peasy

cwackerfusson I could do that in a weekend (2016)

A little line-height and content max-width could go a long way

cwackerfusson Ask HN: Has anyone ever got contacted from the “Who Wants to be Hired?” posts?

Not sure what type of sites you're building on the web, but building nontrivial feature-rich web applications does not scale well with vanilla JS. Frameworks like React and Angular give you the power to manage state, respond to state updates with performant and predictable UI rerendering, and share components and logic in an opinionated way that buys engineering teams consistency and speed of development. Maybe the 10% of companies that aren't deterred by this opinion simply don't have websites that necessitate a "web application," but having an applicant say this would personally have me looking the other way 100% of the time.

cwackerfusson Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second

After a few cocktails, once or twice, I've wondered with friends whether some "fuzzy" information rate constant might be a reference by which our brain understands the passage of time. In other words: if there is a fundamental processing rate of x/time, then theoretically, wouldn't our brains subconsciously use that for all kinds of neat reasons?

And the rate wouldn't have to be the exact same value for each individual, so long as the brain can attune its specific value to other reference points to time in nature.

cwackerfusson Neural networks in JavaScript – free 19-part course

But none of that is going to affect our ability to do machine learning work with JavaScript

cwackerfusson Push for Gender Equality in Tech? Some Men Say It’s Gone Too Far

I'm actually saying basically same thing in the middle part of my response. But meritocracies sometimes need to take a hard look in the mirror and admit cognitive biases and tweak the dials accordingly.

cwackerfusson Push for Gender Equality in Tech? Some Men Say It’s Gone Too Far

It's sad to see men regressing at the idea of diversity in tech. It can't just be a boys club. The value in employment diversity is that we give people of all backgrounds a fair shot at opportunities. IMO it's actually a very complex issue strategically leveling the playing field.

At Google, something like only 1 in 5 tech workers are female, and their diversity practices are fairly extreme compared to the norm. It's logically more difficult to find qualified female coders because there are less of them applying for positions. REQUIRING a certain benchmark of females to be hired each month or year, when HR is picking from a much smaller candidate pool, is going to result in hiring potentially less qualified individuals. That could actually cause a greater gender bias if women are being hired to hit a metric but potentially performing at a lower quality than their male counterparts. I say "potentially" because obviously there are a ton of great female coders, but there are a lot of shoddy ones too. Same with men.

As an example: You have ten applicants for one position. 2 are female, 8 are male. Just for fun, lets say "33% of all programmers, male and female, produce good code and have a qualifying resume". The chances that you will have a qualified male candidate are going to be greater based on those two facts alone. If you need to hit a 50% men/50% women hiring metric, you're taking a gamble on the work quality of women hired.

~BUT~: WE HAVE TO OFFER STRONGER INCENTIVES FOR WOMEN IN TECH IN ORDER FOR THE PLAYING FIELD TO BE LEVELED. Future female coders aren't going to feel inspired or motivated to enter a workforce that's dominated by men. The solution sometimes looks faulty when viewed on a case-by-case basis, but we need to offer an olive branch in the form of better job placement opportunities until women are inspired to pursue tech and have equal rights and job prospects.

cwackerfusson Bootstrap 4 Beta

https://blog.templatetoaster.com/bootstrap-4/

The thing I'm most excited about is the flexbox grid.