jmisavage

Unless you’re an Angular developer I wouldn’t bother even looking at Nest. It carries over a ton of the same paradigms for better or worse. The biggest problem I have with it is the use of decorators. Microsoft jumped the gun adding support for them into TypeScript and the current proposal is very different.

His best work was done when Jobs was there to challenge him or reign him in.

It really depends on the CSS rule you are using. The majority of the older/simpler properties are traditionally tied to the CPU, but things like transform, filters, or any 3D effect will push you over into the GPU.

The list of shitty things they do is too long for here, but their new HQ was suppose to be 2 buildings. They decided against the other build during covid and work from home. Now there is just an empty lot downtown which no one can build on until the rights revert back to the city.

Another gem of a company called CoStar is look to build a huge building downtown too.

Don't forget Dart. They tried to push that as a replacement to JavaScript for a while. Just like what Microsoft tried with VBScript years ago.

Then Flutter came out of nowhere and reintroduced everyone to Dart again.

I decided to do a little bit of research. Up until 1933 the War Department maintained that cemetery after which responsibility was transferred to the National Park Service. It looks like NPS was the ones that decided to cut the headstones based on the dates.

The real sad thing about this is that those are only the positively identified remains. There are twice as many unmarked graves. And a nearby Confederate cemetery has 30,000 buried and only 2,000 identified.

https://www.nps.gov/pete/learn/historyculture/poplar-grove-n...

I'm in the same boat. Part of the problem for me is that it seems we're solving the same problems year after year, but with a slightly different software stack each time. Or we've built a Rube Goldberg machine of SaaS tools that would of been a single script 10 years ago.

It has me thinking of a career change to a related field like UX or going back to school to become an architect or urban planner.

All of those things existed before his current Twitter shenanigans though.

They swap out parts so much when one supplier can't deliver I wonder if they could even have a reasonable amount of replacement parts at all their service centers. It's part of the reason why you see big auto makers reuse parts between models and for several years. It can make recalls costly if the part in question is garbage, but at least you know everything is the same.

I wouldn’t say its bonkers at all. That’s a good blog post not trying to lay a ton of blame on any one person. But having worked with Macromedia/Adobe and Mozilla engineers at the time who already successfully implemented a majority of the spec they were quite frustrated with everyone else looking for ways to slow things down or stop it wholesale.

We can’t change the past. Unfortunately we are reinventing a lot of what was done in that early work, but now with some strange syntax because of compatibility with dead features or 3rd party libraries that picked up the slack. At least we finally have a standard for importing packages…again.

We almost had it with JavaScript 2/ECMAScript 4, but Microsoft and Google killed it. One because they didn’t want to update their JS engine and the other had just released v8. Adobe implemented it as ActionScript 3 and Firefox had most of it done too. Everything since then has been about incrementally add similar features into the existing code base without fixing the foundation.

It’s extremely popular with C# and .Net developers. They’re more likely to work at those places.

Apple shot themselves in the foot with pricing. The 13 mini is $699. While the old iPhone 11 which is still sold is $499. The mini is better in every way, but that’s a big price difference. Even the new SE is roughly the same size just with a inferior screen and it’s only $429.

The iPad mini is in the same boat now too. It used to be the most popular iPad for a while because it was also the cheapest. But then they started updating it and moving it up the pricing ladder. It’s basically a smaller version of the Air except that just got updated to a M1.

You're out of date as of 2020. Reckless driving is 20 mph over the speed limit or over 85 mph now. It's a class 1 misdemeanor.

Most of Virginia has 65 mph as the stated speed limit which usually drops to 55 mph around cities. There are stretches of I-95 and I-81 were the speed limit is 70 mph.

But anyone who drives here knows that the speed limit is generally considered the slowest you should go on the road. Speeding around here is common. And for anyone who lives in Richmond people run red lights all the time even in front of cops. We're all just practicing for the next Mad Max movie.

Kicking them out of SWIFT would hurt but China built an alternative system called CIPS. It’s nowhere near as big but it out there. But if China and Russia both used CIPS more then that would threaten the US dollar’s power as the global reserve currency.

I saw that and I’ll admit that I’m more on Martin’s side on this issue, but without seeing the slides in question its hard to say who is more in the right. Knowing the amount of lawyers Martin and their parent company IPG has I’m sure they had some say in this public squabble. The weird thing is that Accenture made the ad and did get credit from Coinbase. Accenture has been trying to eat away traditional agency business for a long time. I wonder what their side of the story is. It also sounds like Martin didn’t produce much or any work for them. They were named agency of record before their new CMO started. Normally, a CMO picks their own agency.

Just speaking from experience I always take agency talk with a grain of salt. So many big names outsource their work to freelancers, boutique shops, or directors that they’ve used in the past because agency folk don’t want to fully think things through. I would be interested in hearing what Danny Robinson has to say. He’s the CCO at Martin, but I doubt he would take to twitter for this.

The Martin Agency has been named agency of the year 2 years in a row. They’re pretty popular, at least for the moment. The biggest thing to remember is that ideas are the currency that creative people use to get promoted and recognition within the industry. So for a client to steal the idea and not give credit is pretty insulting.

That being said I worked at Martin for 11 years. They pitch a ton of ideas to clients all the time and gradually dump most of them. I can easily see the QR code being pitched fairly early by a team and it getting cut.

This brings back some fond memories of playing Dune and Dune II in my childhood.

Yii seems to have its fans in that space. I know CraftCMS loves it.

I’ve gotten a ticket before for a rolling stop. It happens.

It's using a Thunderbolt 3 connector I wouldn't call that proprietary. There are quite a few TB3 monitors out there.

I've had the same toaster for the better part of 15 years now I don't think its any weirder than owning a dedicated sandwich press. It's usually a set it and forget it kinda of item that doesn't take long to do its job.

Why can’t you buy a smart TV and not connect it to the Internet?

I distinctly remember getting fingerprinted for my clearance paperwork. And those that get TS/SCI have to get polygraph test every couple years.

Yet the Model 3 and Y don't even have gauges. So are gauges important to see or not?

You're entering a pretty crowded market. Have you taken a look at Fellow? https://fellow.app/

Just trying to figure out what makes this product better than the hundreds out there.

I miss my bike commute too, but a couple months before COVID hit my satellite office was closed and the main office is a 30+ min drive. Now that I've been working at home I try to get a ride in after work or if I'm having a particular hard day I take a long lunch and ride to clear my head. It's probably help keep me sane during all of this.

That does seem far fetch considering how slow they move, but I wonder how many agencies have something like that already. Back when I worked as a government contractor I had to get a CAC card and use that with a card reader to sign into a computer when I had to visit a military base. That was about 2 decades ago (man that makes me feel old).

Have you tried `about:debugging`? Pretty sure both chrome and firefox support a remote debugging protocol. I only know about it because there is a way to hook up VSCode so all the debugging stats end up in the editor instead of the browser.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/about:debuggi... [2] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=firefox-...

Yeah unless you disable it, all browsers should be sending a language header to a site say I want content in X language. The developer still has to handle that, but it’s generally the safest way to guess what language a user is looking for. But you still should price a way to change it in the interface.