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water42on Creating a Slack Writing Etiquette Guide for Your Workplace

The example on using emojis is very strange:

> It'd be nice to get that report by this afternoon.

This phrasing is inherently passive aggressive since it's not a direct ask, regardless of how many emojis are included.

Why not:

> Hi <name>, will you be able to have the report on X ready by <time>?

water42on Don’t try to sanitize input – escape output

Don't filter input. Instead, prevent certain characters from being input in text elements. This is a user experience problem, not a software problem. The software can validate that a "name" is rejected if it does not follow the front end validations, but it doesn't need to do any more than that.

Of course, this argument does not extend beyond a "name" field to more complex fields. But more complex fields are less susceptible to introducing UX problems if certain characters are sanitized.

water42on Launch HN: SannTek (YC S19) – Breathalyzer for Cannabis

There's nothing wrong with having a prescription for marijuana, even if the "prescription" is really just a state medical license provided by a sketchy doctor that you slip 200 USD once a year.

But please stay off the roads while you're under "psychoactive" effects (read: high) . There are LEGAL drugs that are illegal to use while operating a motor vehicle.

water42on The Difference Between Amateurs and Professionals (2017)

There's valid points here, but the impact is lost in the disjoint laundry list communication style.

water42on React is the new Dojo

> used by hipster startups to Facebook

Well, yeah, it's developed by and for Facebook...that was a weird line.

water42on React 16

I think you're overcomplicating how transferrable framework knowledge is. An expert React developer could switch to Vue no problem if there was demand for it. Similarly an expert Vue developer could switch to React no problem.

water42on Why we moved from Angular 2 to Vue.js and why we didn’t choose React

Clickbait. The author switched from Angular 2 beta 9 (not even a release candidate) because he was unable to migrate to Angular 2.0.0 since 'too many things broke to make the upgrade non trivial'. Yet somehow rewriting the entire app in Vue is easier?

water42on Malicious crossenv package on npm

https://skimdb.npmjs.com/registry/_design/scratch/_view/byFi...

looks like there is an api

water42on Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person

Drug lords

water42on How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source community

Not as long as ads/tracking make companies money

water42on Show HN: API Bootstrap – A better way to build your API

I'm assuming it's the Reddit effect. People read headlines, upvote, and move along without ever clicking the link.

water42on Front-End Walkthrough: Building a Single Page Application from Scratch

Every framework is going to have flaws, but if you perform a comparison I think there's a responsibility to accurately represent the frameworks being compared.

water42on Front-End Walkthrough: Building a Single Page Application from Scratch

yet another web framework medium article with a misleading angular vs react comparison.

it isn't angular 2 anymore. it's just angular. it's been out for over a year and if people were having problems running it in production, we would hear about it. there are many sites running angular 2-4 in production, google it and see for yourself. just because google didn't rewrite gmail in angular doesn't mean you shouldn't use it.

I wonder if there is some highly ranked google search result that spreads this misinformation, months after some of these points were valid.

water42on Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

There was a missed opportunity here to format HN posts using Facebook styles

water42on ECMAScript 2017 Language Specification

the trend of style over readability. google recommends avoiding list comprehensions in python yet 99% of stackoverflow python questions have some convoluted list comprehension answer

water42on Show HN: BotEngine – Easy tool for creating chatbots

>BotEngine allows you to create a chatbot for any service.

except for the ones that are not implemented. would be interested to try this out once it has telegram support.

water42on Learning to run 100-mile marathons thanks to the science of self-control

People die and people deal with it in different ways. I'm not sure what is unique about this. Lots of people learn to get in shape for marathons.

water42on Angular 2/4 Is Too Little Too Late

How to get upvotes on hackernews: write yet another clickbait medium article on how bad angular is.

I don't think the OP has ever used Angular CLI or followed Angular development. If he had then he would have not written this article since a majority of his claims about Angular are wrong.

water42on Is it possible to host Facebook on AWS?

>anyone

water42on Show HN: GreenPiThumb – A Raspberry Pi Gardening Bot

the codebase is really elegant. thanks for open sourcing everything!

water42on Moderate drinking associated with atrophy in brain related to memory, learning

this was posted earlier in the month and most of the top level comments have already been made

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14508201

water42on My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won

or I could use Lyft

water42on My biggest mistake as an F1 engineer

why does linkedin have articles

water42on My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won

before uber, I don't think I've ever rooted for a company to fail

water42on Wal-Mart is telling some vendors they can’t run applications on AWS

>"It shouldn't be a big surprise that there are cases in which we'd prefer our most sensitive data isn't sitting on a competitor's platform, " he said, adding that it's a "small number."

what is unreasonable about this? do you trust amazon?

water42on Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address

what kind of accounts do you use throwaway mail services for? the use case where NBox would be useful for me is sites I don't use often, i.e. a clothing site or online video game store. but i wouldn't trust those to a throwaway email

water42on Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address

how do i know i can trust the security and privacy of this?

water42on Introducing Highlights

they should make the search usable first

water42on Teacher spends two days as a student (2014)

This article is nothing more than low effort clickbait. People love hearing about "shocking" revelations.

water42on Early Nintendo programmer worked without a keyboard

Yeah the SEO for Angular is honestly a nightmare.

I can't search Angular since then I get AngularJS (Angular 1) results even though the current iteration of the framework is called Angular. I can't search Angular 4 to filter Angular 1 out since not many articles are labeled with Angular 4 yet. I can't search for Angular 2 since new articles for Angular 4 are not going to be labeled with Angular 2, and searching for Angular 2 includes tons of useless media about Angular at various stages of release candidate.

/rant but I guess most of the time I'm just reading the Angular docs anyways.