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There's a really fine line there between humour and cringe, though. This article manages it well.
EXTREMELY FINE! Unlike the article, most copy-cat lol-writing styles do not fall on the good side of that line.
> If you reload the page you’ll see approximately fifty-bajillion network requests go off as Facebook desperately tries to load all the junk that it needs to display facebook.com. I like this part. As a developer I've often looked at the network usage of large websites / web applications and it's always surprising to me just how...unoptimized it is as far as network connections go. I mean Facebook loads decently enou…
> If you reload the page you’ll see approximately fifty-bajillion network requests go off as Facebook desperately tries to load all the junk that it needs to display facebook.com. I like this part. As a developer I've often looked at the network usage of large websites / web applications and it's always surprising to me just how...unoptimized it is as far as network connections go. I mean Facebook loads decently enou…
Yet somehow it's ridiculously fast... like, when I'm waiting for some other site to load, I almost automatically open facebook or hn in another tab, because I know those two sites will load instantly while pretty much everything else on the internet will take a few seconds.
> If you reload the page you’ll see approximately fifty-bajillion network requests go off as Facebook desperately tries to load all the junk that it needs to display facebook.com. I like this part. As a developer I've often looked at the network usage of large websites / web applications and it's always surprising to me just how...unoptimized it is as far as network connections go. I mean Facebook loads decently enou…
This horror out of time and space was beaten, shot and stabbed, and the developer responsible for its invention was promoted to CTO and King of the universe.
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Yet somehow it's ridiculously fast... like, when I'm waiting for some other site to load, I almost automatically open facebook or hn in another tab, because I know those two sites will load instantly while pretty much everything else on the internet will take a few seconds.
Really? The notifications and the first story show up fairly quickly for me, but everything else usually takes a few seconds. Certainly not terrible, but I wouldn't call it "ridiculously fast" either.
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"too much medium, not enough message" The writing style works because those jokes, asides, and little mannerisms that are normally excluded from "serious" writing are part of how we think . When we refine our writing (or speaking) to - supposedly to make it less jumbled and easier to read - we usually end up removing a lot of the little details that made up the original thought. The writing may have much better gramm…
>>The best way to write will always depend on what the goals are, but in general the further away from the original thought you get, the more writing and other creative ideas tend to degrade. So very true... Open a vein...share yourself...reveal yourself...share what you've learned and let the excitement you felt while discovering it flow... For most writers, the majority of the time, your true audience will "get" bo…
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Yep, I searched on Github but couldn't found. Using Gitlab makes sense considering Github is strict about legal issues.
Just so you know, at GitLab we will not hesitate to take down content that we think is illegal or has other issues. At this point I think that WhatsSpy is acceptable but we reserve the right to change our mind.
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Just so you know, at GitLab we will not hesitate to take down content that we think is illegal or has other issues. At this point I think that WhatsSpy is acceptable but we reserve the right to change our mind.
Since it's on a custom domain, I thought that he's using open-source version of Gitlab hosted on his personal server. Do you have control over projects in open-source version of Gitlab?
I missed that when reviewing, I assumed WhatsSpy was hosted on GitLab.com. Thanks for enlightening me.
Some people might take issue with it, but the writing for this had me in stitches. I very much agree with the author on graphing libraries - there are a few good simple ones, but as soon as you want anything unusual you have to jump to these big, hard to configure monstrosities. More than once I've just given up and written my own server-side generator.
What's striking about this writing style is that (as a junior dev) it's a lot easier to understand what he's doing. By sticking to jokes and a simple style, I never felt confused or lost in lingo.
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> I guess if you're a serious company like Apple, you can't really have that kind of tutorial for iOS dev. The fact that this is true is, to me, a slightly sad reflection on our culture. I understand that too much silliness can get in the way of conveying information, but as you point out, so can too much seriousness. It's obviously a fine balance, and unfortunately it seems safer to err on the side of seriousness wh…
I put jokes in my resume. You have to have a bit of restraint, but it can be fun and effective. An oatmeal cookie wouldn't be very good if the whole thing was raisins.