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This was my argument at the time: build long-term trust with your users (including in your UI) is more important than short-term gains.

most camera buyers will in fact never buy a second lens [...] you've just wasted your money on a body that doesn't perform as well as an iPhone because of the cheap kit lens Probab…

Scores are ambiguous ("where exactly did the ball land?"), controversial and contentious, resulting in endless video replays and accusations of biased refs. Where do the sports wit…

I fought (and lost) against this payflow at a job because Marketing guessed that the sunk cost of time spent filling out the CC info form made users more likely to just click "buy"…

A jump from, say, 23mm wide to 28mm on a standard road bike won't affect comfort much. Spend the money on getting the bike fit (or a beach cruiser).

Relevant Sheldon Brown article of course: "they are welded, not brazed. [...] There are necked-down parts that fit into the top tube and down tube, like internal lugs." https://www…

For worse, it seems general comments like yours on very specific posts attract the most votes. HN makes downvoted posts so low-contrast they're nearly illegible for me

A specific example? Genuinely asking (codebase is Typescript/ES6 modules).

presumably the "programming language(s)" part of the stack never changes between front and back end (it's typescript)?

1. Rails retired Webpacker [that] compiled and bundled JS. Import maps, Turbo and Stimulus [are now the] default options, replacing Webpacker, Turbolinks and UJS . How do these new…

> 1. Remove 14 on the font scale entirely (which used 14px on large screens and 12px on small screens) HN please take a note and get rid of the tiny `font-size`s on this site pleas…

Why not components from a React library like Material UI? jQuery UI is "in a maintenance state" and "older long-standing bugs may not get fixed" I'm afraid https://blog.jqueryui.co…

Setting the `content` of a pseudo-element (like :before) to a variable with a text value (--sale-text: '50% off!'). I update the value of `--sale-text` to change all elements with …

CSS variable values are trimmed of whitespace [according to spec]? > Return undefined for whitespace-only CSS variable values I've gotten in the bad habit using of CSS vars for dyn…

and Tulip Mainia! (did we cover all the tired crypto takes?)

Maybe helps explains why a lot of plotlines nowadays are just watching two people send each other text messages