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Does "turn down volume" work when you're playing loud music or have the windows down driving on a windy/noisy road?

Maybe I'm not understanding this, but wouldn't network issues take priority naturally? For example, if there's a problem with a database connection, you'd return 500. How would you…

And whoever has the biggest network wins? I guess it's no surprise, but it's gotten to the point where the top products are solving the most shallow problems. Even among the apps t…

For me, it was that I thought that being a good programmer was that I write clean code with enough abstraction and indirection to make it future proof. Boy I was wrong. Unless you’…

I'm only speaking from my experience, but we shipped things quicker and were better received, and I'm curious if part of that reason is that, for the first time in my career, produ…

Something tells me we're seeing more of this partly because of graphql and its first class spec to infinite scrolling. So no - I don't think the decision came from none other than …

I've always fancied japanese style pixel art. I still remember playing megaman x and it hasn't aged a bit. Or even simpler ones like super mario world or the last few pixel based p…

I’d be surprised to hear successful startups with all these regulations

This has been my experience as well. I’ve worked at several companies and this is far more common than I had hoped when I started my career. Also most people simply cannot write go…

I applaud the Firefox team to make it possible to customize the UI at such level and I hope that it spawns a lot of beautiful plugins. My biggest gripe is that the default UI doesn…

That’s pretty neat, but it doesn’t justify their UX decisions. Why change something that seemed to work well? Do they have constant feedback on their previous design? I’m still con…

This. It’s kind of like putting together your own PC vs buying a prebuilt. Not everyone is motivated enough to build it themselves if they have the means to buy a prebuilt. Having …

It could be that I got lucky. First time car purchase. My local dealership is actually a high volume dealership so they probably have the entire process as streamlined as possible.…

I got a car during the pandemic and the only difference is that I had to talk to a salesperson for a few minutes. I actually prefer to talk to a person for big purchases. You’re ex…

I’ve always been curious about this. If they sell it, could they just cash out everything and walk away and start a new project? It can’t be as simple as that right?

I’m curious what are some products that successfully do this? I honestly can’t think of any at the top of my head. To me, more features and ease of usability can’t coexist. There m…

DRY seems to be one of those principles too many people take literally. Especially among junior devs from my observation (and experience). Just because there is a block of code tha…

If you have to rely on restrictively typed languages to produce maintainable code, I think that’s a different topic. Typescript isn’t perfect by any means but it does a good job ke…

This is neat but newcomers beware. This is the easy part. Setting up your config and plugins is why most people go back to ides

Sure. If you’re targeting a similar audience as Apple or other high end brands. My point is that there’s a different kind of audience for comic sans or its variants.

And I’m sure those ramen sell well. Fact is, not many people care. If you have a product that doesn’t target designers or the like, does it really matter?

Wow that number 3 hit me hard. I’ve always known myself to procrastinate, but I only think about 1 and 2. In retrospect, I have done 3 in a lot of cases. I just never really though…

Please. No animations. Just provide a tooltip suggests it can be dragged and clear it on drag. Or something subtle like that.

For a second I thought you were going to mention vine.

I’ve done it as a new grad because I didn’t have much to put on there. I think it definitely adds value. It shows them you’re intrinsically motivated to improve your skills.