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drk4··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2019)
Mostly a frontend web developer, but with some backend and mobile experience as well. Looking for an interesting development position where I can do some cool stuff.

    Location: Portugal/Europe
    Remote: Yes
    Willing to relocate: Yes (within EU)
    Technologies: Typescript, javascript, react, swift, iOS, python, django
    Resume: via email
    Email: plferreira4@gmail.com
    Website/portfolio: https://nbpt.eu/ | https://bitbucket.org/drk4/
drk4··on What's New in DevTools (Chrome 68)
Also adding new APIs quickly means people end up using the browser just to play with them.
drk4··on Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (1957) [video]
That looks like a lot of work to make a movie, all hand drawn.
drk4··on 61% of “Entry-Level” Jobs Require 3+ Years of Experience
This is the tragedy of it. They are trying so hard to only get the "best of the best" that the only way you can possibly be interested in that position and quality for it is by lying.
drk4··on Show HN: Simple Pascal interpreter written in Swift
It tells what type of commit it is (a bug fix, a test related change, etc). Its not automated.
drk4··on TypeScript 2.4
You mean because of using the same string for a key/value? I guess I see the potential problem. Anyway just think that it might be a bit confusing to have the enum work slightly different depending on whether its using numbers or strings. It can caught some people off guard.
drk4··on TypeScript 2.4
That seems like a much minor situation compared to not being able to reverse map.

You could have a situation where you have a string as a code, and then the display name for example, and you can't really do that as is now. This seems more useful than checking for the type (which in a numeric enum is either a number or string, so you would still need to do some work to properly validate it).

drk4··on TypeScript 2.4
The string enums don't seem to work the same way as the number enums, there's no 2 way access.

For example.

enum Test { a } let a = Test.a; let b = Test[ 0 ]; // isn't available on the string ones

I wonder why its like that.

drk4··on Swift Changes Considered Harmful
Its always a tough decision, either you make no changes but then have to live with a less than ideal situation, or make changes but forces everyone to update their code.

Personally I think its ok to make incompatible changes once and then, as long as its not too many changes in one go (like python3), its preferable than later on ending up with inconsistent or overly complex languages.