willthefirst

> Should “Cancel” be a link? No! Its job is to close the edit view. Not only does making this a link incorrectly communicate its purpose—visually and otherwise—but it saddles the form “control” with lots of features, like bookmarking and middle-clicking, that have incorrect behavior.

I don’t get this. Cancel takes you back to the read-only view of the form. So if /resource/edit is the form, cancel just takes you to /resource.

So is this “performing an action” or “navigating somewhere”? Hard to tell. I’m saying that if cancelling a form edit just means ditching the local state to go back to the normal view, that should be a navigation.

Someone straighten this out for me.

I mean…the site that broke should know what to do with arbitrary query strings. If your site breaks when someone puts in an invalid query string, that’s on you?

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I recommend turning up your speakers and playing any keynote address in another window (eg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmDYXaaT9sA). Chaos.

Working now! This is great. As somebody interviewing right now, something like this would be great for drilling React concepts.

Coming back programming now, but was working on this EP for the last 2 years:

https://www.gratistheband.com/givemethegratis

A giant permanent wall of text for and by the internet. Anyone can write on it.

https://wordsoftheweb.web.app

Definitely. But it's the healthy kind of pain, "ripping off the bandaid".

I know right?! The language is simple and entertaining.

There's also a hilarious passage about a wealthy guy who gets carried everywhere, and becomes so numbed by luxury that he can't tell whether he's sitting down or not.

For some age-tested wisdom on this topic, read Seneca's On The Shortness Of Life:

https://www.globalgreyebooks.com/ebooks/seneca/on-the-shortn...

"But one man is possessed by an avarice that is insatiable, another by a toilsome devotion to tasks that are useless; one man is besotted with wine, another is paralyzed by sloth; one man is exhausted by an ambition that always hangs upon the decision of others, another, driven on by the greed of the trader, is led over all lands and all seas by the hope of gain; some are tormented by a passion for war and are always either bent upon inflicting danger upon others or concerned about their own; some there are who are worn out by voluntary servitude in a thankless attendance upon the great; many are kept busy either in the pursuit of other men's fortune or in complaining of their own; many, following no fixed aim, shifting and inconstant and dissatisfied, are plunged by their fickleness into plans that are ever new; some have no fixed principle by which to direct their course, but Fate takes them unawares while they loll and yawn—so surely does it happen that I cannot doubt the truth of that utterance which the greatest of poets delivered with all the seeming of an oracle: 'The part of life we really live is small.'"

thanks!

agreed. but do see a doctor if you are tasting sweaters, it might be due to a stroke.

.mourning { border-top: 5px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); }

i thought this was a joke, it is not.

irony has reached the front end.

really great. so simple but immediately entertaining.

Thanks, just subscribed.

Just saw you on front page, very timely, thanks.

AWESOME. exactly what I'm looking for.

Hey everybody, we're going to do a hangout tonight:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4911943

Thanks for your interest guys and gals. Would you be interested in talk ing tomorrow (Sunday) at 3pm PST on Google Hangout and discussing a possible project?

All these things. Let's talk, but wait for more people to get back.

I think my question comes from the fact that FED's need to engage less than backenders with strict compsci concepts, unless we're writing JS. I think I meant to ask whether HTML/CSS and all the variants and elaborations count as "programming".

Cool! PM me at willthefirst@gmail.com, and I can explain what it's gonna be. We would need to get it done relatively soon, but I think it could be up and running by the end of the week.

The burn-in/ghosting issue only affects the earliest batch of screens. I just took my retina into the Apple store, and they will decapitate it and add a new screen for free. Annoying, but it doesn't affect all whole line.

Pintereasy.

You can send me a cake of your choosing.

interesting about the trackpad, my assumption was that the mouse was the best, but I've been using the trackpad recently and not using the actual click feature helps a bunch (click drags are a killer!) Thanks for the complete response.

So basically a Mac mini, but Android.

Why? I would imagine that better and better autocorrect will make us want it more and more, not less and less. I'm just interested in why you would drop it.

Is something like this out? If it is, take my money now.