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I remember listening to Charity Majors[1] talk about this on a podcast -- in the case of Honeycomb they have a "dogfood" cluster than monitors production, and a "kibble" cluster th…

I'll also plug https://www.protocols.io/ and https://codeocean.com/ here --- might be interesting platforms for folks concerned about reproducibility to have on their radar.

Way I see it is it's more than OK to not know things -- it's a necessary optimization. Engineering is all about tradeoffs, and skills development is no exception. Follow one path, …

What's your favored language? Because odds are good that it can compile to JS: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu...

Surely there must already exist some legal protections? I seem to recall certain professional (football? basketball?) players successfully suing EA Games over unauthorized use of t…

Most webdevs that I know do. JS stack for sure appears to favor it.

Nope, our legal dept gave us the OK on the original license.

I would also hope for and expect this to be communicated ASAP from the NPM org to its users. @seldo, I understand that you don't want to disseminate misleading info, but an abundan…

Haha, this has been a well-trod rant of mine for years. Don't forget scorpions, vampire bats, great white sharks, and the world's top 4 deadliest jellyfish!

Are you speaking purely with regard to the swatting, and not to the scores of bomb threats? Regardless of the issues around policing, surely we can agree that this individual has c…

No other way to say this: that's not racism. Nobody's saying it's okay to make white people uncomfortable because they are white; they're saying it's okay because some conversation…

Why on Earth should people of conscience not be concerned with a self-perpetuating inheritance of power? That seems to be exactly what affirmative action programs are designed to c…

It would be, wouldn't it. Silly I didn't realize that right off the bat. Can't imagine putting forward a proposal that wouldn't in essence be what you're doing, i.e. wrapping in JS…

I'm guessing it's because JSX is XML-like and so parsers may require a single root element for each JSX "document". It's a good question though, hopefully someone from the React te…

Yeah, it seems like the decision to make the fragment a first-class JSX concept has a lot to do with portability between renderers. The post makes it clear you all have given this …

As others have noted, you're assuming a natural optimization in labor markets that is unproven. It seems like you're arguing that the value proposition of paying 0.9x wages for an …

Skipping the third beer is easy. Just jump straight into number four.

Yeah, what I can't fathom is what they even stand to gain by such a brazen move. They want to be a services company, not hardware. So why are they discriminating between $30 dongle…

I see a few problems with this argument. 1. Market share matters, for what should be obvious reasons. Amazon is, in that regard, a far cry from your sole proprietorship fruit stand…

The React and Redux devs engage in more self-critique, and are more honest and open in the shortcomings of their approaches, than just about anyone I know of in web development. Fr…

Many of those patterns that you list aren't actually trends resulting from received wisdom -- they're dark patterns, known to be actively hostile to the user. Common wisdom regardi…

Good timing on this post! I just got a new card and was baffled by how Netflix was able to update my account details before I was. Maybe I should be creeped out? But damn if it isn…