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Enshittification. https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/

Okay, I'll take a little time to brag. The word count challenge here got my interest at the time, so I whipped up an assembly language version of it and iterated several times, try…

> If CSS was designed the way it is just to satisfy the constraints of 1996, then maybe that gives us permission 20 years later to do things a little differently. Yeah, just like w…

This has a lot of really serious implications. I built a form for a charity that allowed users to buy a subscription but include an additional donation amount. Chrome was sometimes…

AMP is just a set of conventions and limitations that, when followed, make for a fast site. Anyone can make a fast site if they follow similar rules. Most sites don't do that becau…

Yes, things are changing rapidly everywhere on the stack, but it seems that with front-end dev the same two things are left behind with each generation: performance and accessibili…

I wasn't able to find any working examples from the homepage, even with the updated link. Can you link directly to a demo page or two that uses the library, rather than a Github re…

I don't think they want control over the browser market, just the browser users on Windows. People are less likely to ditch Edge if it is more compatible with the way Chrome and Sa…

It's important to express the underlying reasoning for the policy: things with similar size and speed can be together, dissimilar things should be separated. Cars and bikes/scooter…

The Microsoft Edge browser has had this feature for two or three years, by the same name. Chrome has something similar. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/devtools-gui…

Quite often you have to manually do the task at least once to determine how to automate it. That tells you your upper bound on how much time can be saved. If for example it only to…

Why did you hire a psychologist from the company that inappropriately disclosed data to Cambridge Analytica? https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/18/facebook-cambri...

I completely agree that you can do a lot with jQuery or even plain DOM and JS. It's often the right way to go when there's already back-end structure like Wordpress, Drupal, or ASP…

Here's the 990: http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/463/4634857... See the bottom of PDF page 8 under Independent Contractors and the bottom of page 27. Note that p27 …

That would cost Apple a lot if those people had Apple Care. Better for Apple if the minority people who perceive a problem come in and ask for a replacement/

I agree with your premise but the example problem already has many established companies including Engaging Networks, EveryAction, Salsa, and Luminate. As a startup your job will e…

This is from a year ago. As someone who wants to contribute to a project for the first time, there would be nothing more frustrating than spending time creating what I think is a g…

He might think otherwise because it climbed to the top of HN but doesn't have any explanation (here or on the actual page) of what it does or who/what it might be useful for.

Corrosion from leaking electrolyte would eventually short the battery terminals to the protective shield around the battery cells. At that point the battery would catch fire. It ju…

It's quite a burden to maintain two different sets of APIs.

jQuery 3.0 lets you do for..of for a jQuery collection even.

Right, that is the advantage of having an API layer that the developer (not the web platform) controls. The more we dump into the web platform the bigger it gets because it's nearl…

Got the original Coin, it was defective and I was sent another one. I used it on a transaction and it charged a card different than the one showing on the display. By then most of …

I sympathize with the libertarian "I should be able to decide what I put in my body" but the fact is that right now anyone using e-cigs has no idea what's in that juice they fill t…

The only time I have heard of that is when sponsors buy a slot to pitch their product or service. Was that your situation? In most conferences that are not marketing-oriented, the …