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Yes, this is common practice in many orgs for that reason, as well as that it makes resolving merge conflicts easier.

Make your own web site. It’s hard to take “developer” articles seriously if they’re published on a platform intended for non-developers.

Hear hear

For those who want to use a GUI, but don’t want to say they use a GUI.

Cute

meh

The JavaScript development ecosystem is completely insane. Why do people do this to themselves.

Mcmaster is what the web is supposed to be like.

These slides are profoundly uninteresting.

I don’t know what any of those words mean.

Clickbait.

Maybe twitter likes the spam. It gets people like Paul Graham to complain about it on twitter thereby generating more user engagement and ad revenue. Keep up the good work, Paul.

External factors that trigger blinking are generally irritants and perceived dangers. You might find something to trigger blinking, but it would probably be one of those things, which would make your computer insanely user un-friendly.

Burn it all down. Just stop using JavaScript.

You probably won’t ever fully come to peace with it. All you can do is make use of the time you have.

If you’re worried about wasting time on pointless things, keep in mind that worrying about stuff you can’t change may be the most pointless thing you can possibly do.

Because the Reddit UI is an unusable mess. At least HN interface makes sense.

Also, HN is crazy fast to load and doesn’t need JavaScript.

who cares… if you’re so worried about where your food comes from, don’t order it from the internet. go get it in person.

Do you drive your car at top speed every time you use it? Of course not. One would assume that, for both devices, the interface is as fast as it is designed to be for the task at hand, not necessarily as fast as the hardware can run it.

Why is this better than existing solutions? The feature list on the site is not convincing. (“View previous versions of your code with ease”… that is table stakes for version control, not a differentiator.)

Most version control systems are both free and, frankly, not that hard to use. This would need some pretty killer features to be compelling.

More like: the most terrifying clickbait headline of all time.

But then, it’s Slate, so what do you expect.

lul

There is no justification for existence. It just is.

“One interesting feature about the format, which not known to many, is the possiblity to make the loading of images progressive.”

It never ceases to bring me joy when young people ‘discover’ something that used to be common knowledge.

…or just use cash.

But still not even remotely profitable after 13 years. Incredible.

So it’s just “form” and “function,” which are types of quality the English-speaking world has also been concerned with for quite some time.

Urban sprawl is caused by bad city planning, not the inability to fly your car. If you add flying cars without fixing the planning, the city will just spread out even more, and you’ll end up with the same commute times. Exactly the same thing happened when automobiles became widespread.

To make a meaningful difference you’d have to add so much salt that swimming just wouldn’t be fun anymore. Never mind the utter infeasibility of it all in the first place:

Add salt to lakes, kill every living thing in and around the lake, deal with an enormous amount of rotting bio matter, and probably poison drinking water for an entire ecosystem.

Add it to pools, deal with salt deposits everywhere that ruin all the pool equipment, and make the water so saline that you can’t dump it anywhere.

lol

There isn’t any other motivation. It’s like asking if you should learn to how make pastry dough from scratch. Sure, if you want to, but unless you’re a baker, there’s no real need. You just go buy pastries someone else already made.