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Yeah it's odd we needed a whole article for this. "You can't out exercise a bad diet" has always been true outside of the most extreme cases (competitive athletes).

Fair enough, I guess this just seems like a bold assumption to make since an explicit handler function is a cornerstone of lambda, rather than being able to run module level code a…

It may just be such a basic tenant of the platform that no one thought to. You stop getting billed after lambda returns a response so why would you expect computation to continue? …

For brochure / static content sites this is definitely the beginnings of a web crawler but it can be a lot trickier for web apps. For example, clicking a link which loads some data…

If you are using Cludfront with an S3 origin you can turn on static website hosting and specify a 404 fallback page[0] - which would then just be your index file. It will render yo…

I don’t know what my use case for this would be. I don’t tend to do anything regularly through a browser that I’d want to automate. Would be kind of handy to have a “pull all my re…

On an iPhone, can they actually access mic input without the indicator being on?

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It just seems odd in this context given they are willfully compiling these screenshots together, displaying them prominently, and saying they pay attention to details. What details…

Am I the only one who gets an uncanny feeling visiting this site? If someone told me this was software satire I would believe them. This cyberpunk-ish theme with juvenile sprite sp…

"Learn to Code like a Developer" is a funny tag line to me. Isn't the point to become a developer? Or are you saying: "you're going to learn with modern tools, just like how a may …

A concrete example would be a users shopping cart, as they build it. You don’t need the niceties of a fully ACID compliant DB, you need write performance, and extremely high availa…

C++ for when you need to be very close to the metal. Java (and C#) are still legitimate options for server side code when you want speed and type safety but managed memory.

I duplicated a repo to test this out on and signed up, only to find that all I could try out was Authentication. That's probably one of the features most dependent on which library…

I think certain fads are a little dreadful in terms of unoriginality - those humaaans illustrations, for example. But I think most of the web really should look similar. I think of…

Yeah I'm always surprised by the downright hate. I use the console for 95% of things and it's alright. My gripe is that the thing just gives off this BLOATED impression. Safari rou…

I don't think the knight should be allowed to move in a full circle. It should be disjointed - four arches. Allowing a knight to move two squares orthogonally kind of makes it a co…

>> “ A mission critical user check needs to run (eg: does this user have enough money in their account to complete the transaction?)” That info wouldn’t be in the session db row ei…

I find the debugging and testing process pretty slow with AWS SAM so I may have to try this out when you have a Node runtime.

From what I gather, it seems like this would be a good choice if a portion of clients are on low end devices and it is more of a MPA/SPA hybrid - not a full blown web app. A lot of…

Going to third the "need more information on this." Are they job hopping, in which case wouldn't that also be a revenue stream for 70MR? Did they find that it was such a sellers' m…

Fundamentally, if you want to support multiple, unlinked accounts per person you'll still need some sort of "account designator." If you don't then the biometric marker can just re…

That's pretty much what happened here. Obviously it's going to look a bit different afterwards because you have to mathematically tangle the time, key, and domain together. You can…

There's many unit testing libraries like mocha and jest but there do not seem to be many for integration testing. To be clear, I mean integrating disparate backend modules together…

I'm surprised how many people are just nitpicking the examples like they are supposed to be rigorous analogies. The point that I walked away with is that oftentimes experts use the…