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We do plan to do some tests, to the extent that we're able. We can A/B test much of the UI but we can't A/B test the insurance terms that we give people because that would require …

(Goodcover dev here) It could be, along with say family size. But the UX cost of asking such questions is real, especially on an insurance application form. People get worried why …

Scala.js too! Been a great experience overall. (I work at Goodcover)

What I'm saying is outside of the virtual DOM paradigm you might not need to diff any elements at all, real or virtual, and so you wouldn't care about the performance of DOM reads,…

Well... faster than what exactly? You have to do the virtual DOM pattern (generating new DOM state and then diffing with old state) with virtual elements. You can't compare proper …

> Oh wow. You just described the existing imperative DOM APIs, haven't you? Inflexible implementation wasting everyone's time. Existing DOM APIs are very simple, low level and unop…

> Why waste time implementing and “reducing it even further” and not just implement it in the browser? Because the browser should not offer inflexible implementations of complex, h…

There is enough differentiation in virtual DOM designs[1] that I don't think implementing a lowest common denominator that is flexible enough to support competing strategies would …

Because virtual DOM is not the only way to achieve efficient DOM updates, and even within the concept of virtual DOM there could be many different ways to achieve efficient diffing…

ScalaTags is indeed not relevant here, but Scala.js has its fair share of reactive UI libraries such as my own Laminar https://github.com/raquo/Laminar

Yup, I've seen more than one friend leave Vancouver for Ontario and Quebec. But hey if you work remotely, you're in the same timezone as SF!

Directly. One of my friends is holed up in Yukon working via a website similar to upwork. Seems to work for him although these kind of sites generally get bad rep on HN.

Yes, I worked remotely for both US and Canadian clients. Dealing with Quebec clients is a pain (need to file their sales tax, _in french_), otherwise it's been a smooth sailing. Ju…

Spoiler alert: the best setup is to hole up in a nice town in Canada working remotely for a client in the US. Vancouver numbers I know from friends, mostly from a couple years ago,…

> What are the 12 most common shortcut keys? FWIW the WhatPulse app can tell you that (for your own typing) e.g. https://i.imgur.com/SuPLw9h.png I used its data to drive my custom …

You don't have to change from the qwerty layout for general typing. For example, you can program the keyboard in such a way that pressing X+A sends Ctrl+C keys to the OS, where X i…

Keyboards like Diverge and Ergodox are fully programmable so nothing's stopping you from doing that today! Also, I found that putting a small touchpad^ in a thumb-accessible area (…

I tried Dvorak for a month a few years ago. For me it was just useless agony, not only with key positions but also with app/OS shortcuts that are very much designed for qwerty layo…

It would be great if you had a public preview of the content there. I've seen it done before, so there must be some kind of a slack app that lets you do that. As a remote contracto…

I was told they would send me a replacement if they determine it to be a hardware problem. Return wouldn't be an option (I'm past the first 30 days). I'll try to negotiate with the…

> Dell isn't doing anything special to the version they distribute. From what I've read on their website, they actually do bundle it with custom software like drivers. But really m…

I don't think so. A lot of my issues are with BIOS and various linux apps or the window manager, not technically the distribution flavour itself. Also, I'm done spending time on th…

Earlier this year I bought a Developer Edition (Ubuntu) of Dell Precision 5520, which is the business version of XPS 15 9560. Same chassis and hardware, better factory QA and diffe…

Thanks! You know, if it comes to that, Scala.js community is a passionate bunch, we could probably crowdfund it :)

Scala.js has been an amazing tool for my personal projects. I literally hit euphoria sometimes writing stuff in it. I am yet to truly grasp the benefits of full stack Scala (shared…