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orange8

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    Comment #35837244

    What do you mean zero prestige in that? Do you know the difference in salary, importance and status in managing a team of 50 vs one of only two?

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    Comment #35837103

    What is a "mapping" structure?

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    Comment #35454840

    > Imagine having a discourse in good faith. haha. Seriously though, do you honestly believe that is what you are doing here? You think you are acting in good faith? > Anyway. I bid…

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    Comment #35452000

    Imagine going 2000 years back with a book and showing it to some caveman. To you they are words, with meaning and purpose. To him, they're just random gibberish scrawled on some le…

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    Comment #35451820

    The original baby was only designed to live inside and come out of it's mothers womb. It was only supposed to drink milk and cry. How dare it learn how to talk, walk eat solid food…

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    Comment #35451607

    > That is literally not what I wrote, Yes. Not all discourse has to be literal. It's called a a metaphor. And your "trillion dollar company throwing thousands of man-years" is call…

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    Comment #35451450

    > Because of this you will always have people scream "Apple is killing PWAs" because they don't support a yet another random API. I like the "yet another random API" phrase. It cre…

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    Comment #35450416

    > Sublime Text is implemented natively (C++) and uses a fraction of the resources to accomplish similar functionality. If VS Code is slower than sublime with the same level of func…

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    Comment #35450382

    > At what cost? It is free! Free as in free beer. So all those trillions are going to very good use, considering it is the most used editor. And its open source too!! What a web te…

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    Comment #35450251

    So what exactly are you asking for here? A list of PWA api's that must be used all the time in every single PWA app? What's the benefit of that? Which application development API h…

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    Comment #35450149

    > “This time we can make an app based on web technologies for real!” > - it failed when Microsoft tried it VS Code is one of the most successful open source cross platform GUI apps…

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    Comment #35450048

    > ask three people, and they will give you five answers on what exactly PWA support means Or maybe just refer to the definitive docs [1] instead of relying on what 3 random people …

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    Comment #35300004

    I feel you are putting yourself, and others in a box. We all can gain more clarity from an idea by talking, writing or drawing about it. You don't have to be good at it, it will st…

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    Comment #35193896

    You drink your glass of water, then continue burning forever and ever.

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    Comment #35192768

    This kind of reminded me of the module pattern [1] popular with ye olde jQuery plugins. Just realized that hooks try to emulate what JS does natively, which is keeping track of all…

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    Comment #35192677

    > React famously asserts "it's just javascript". I think that specifically deals with when using JSX, compared to other templating systems.

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    Comment #35188561

    > and why, for example, you can't use a hook inside an if branch Within the component functions's body, you may have many calls to the same hook, lets take useState() as an example…

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    Comment #35124836

    > It's simple enough: before the rise of front-end frameworks in the 2010s, web developers were indeed more of a single group ("full stack"). They did not call themselves "full-sta…

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    Comment #35124710

    > It literally produces the website that the user is looking at. Your definition is meaningless because EVERYTHING in the pipeline literally produces everything "you are looking at…

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    Comment #35119172

    > I'm not sure how long you've been in the industry. But you sound like it is less than maybe 10 years. Okay. No offence, but so do you. > Before react and such, you were considere…

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    Comment #35119073

    > Okay, let me explain something to you, as a person who has been in this biz for 23 years. Since you've brought up your experience, what exactly does "in this biz" mean exactly? W…

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    Comment #35118631

    LOL! Looks like some people are silently getting butt-hurt over a simple challenge asking them to differentiate between front-end and back-end dev. If front-end dev is not your cup…

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    Comment #35118594

    Okay. I'll explain it to you. It basically comes down to a server-client architecture. The server (db, server side code) is the backend, that the user never gets to see. The client…

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    Comment #35118002

    In your own words, please define what "front-end development" means to you when it comes to web development.

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    Comment #35117904

    It is not magic, it is back-end development. Calling it magic is like calling server-less architecture magic. Sit down and carefully consider what is the difference between front-e…