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Re: Show HN: Whosfiring

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Post by codedokode »

Sorry, but I am going to comment on a technical implementation rather than the content of a site.

The site shows blank page without JS enabled. I did not understand why one would need one megabyte of minified Javascript to display a list of 10 items. Probably it is because the developers were too busy learning trendy JS frameworks and do not know about HTML and server side page generation (in PHP this could be done much easier without JS frameworks and API).

And to make page load even slower after loading a megabyte of Javascript they make an additional API request to load a list of links. Hey, you could just send this list as a HTML file from the start.

Also it looks like they do not know about HTML tags and encode configuration as a value of a tag.

The page has small white padding below footer.

Re: Show HN: Whosfiring

#43

Post by iodbh »

jbpetersen wrote: post #28
iodbh wrote: post #6

Please pardon my negativity but i'm tired of this trend of taking something that span discussion on HN and making it into an app as soon as possible, then posting it on HN. It's getting out of control since the old geek jobs article on Indiehackers. There's now at least one of these posts per week and they're less and less interesting. It's not showing cool tech or a cool idea, it's just trying to capitalize on the i…

Make an app called "As Seen On HN", post about it, then the cycle will be complete and we can go back to the regular smorgasbord of things that get posted here. Taken a step further, a webapp that tracks businesses that emerge from different online communities would be super useful for improving commercial targeting of social media, and with a delay on content updates baked in for free users could probably find a goo…

I love the way you turned this around : from frustration to an action course. Making me consider doing what i was criticizing moments ago. kudos.

Re: Show HN: Whosfiring

#44

Post by SFJulie »

It would be fun to add the possibility to know who hire while they fire.

As coders we have intrinsically an asymmetry of information that is weakening us in our capacity to negotiate our wedges.

Every piece of small data (hence information) that can help us is good news.

Re: Show HN: Whosfiring

#45

Post by mamadrood »

codedokode wrote: post #41

Sorry, but I am going to comment on a technical implementation rather than the content of a site. The site shows blank page without JS enabled. I did not understand why one would need one megabyte of minified Javascript to display a list of 10 items. Probably it is because the developers were too busy learning trendy JS frameworks and do not know about HTML and server side page generation (in PHP this could be done m…

That meta configuration looks like ember.js

Re: Show HN: Whosfiring

#46

Post by static_noise »

codedokode wrote: post #41

Sorry, but I am going to comment on a technical implementation rather than the content of a site. The site shows blank page without JS enabled. I did not understand why one would need one megabyte of minified Javascript to display a list of 10 items. Probably it is because the developers were too busy learning trendy JS frameworks and do not know about HTML and server side page generation (in PHP this could be done m…

The page should at least display a message like

    "This page requires JavaScript."
and contact details when JavaScript is disabled.

Re: Show HN: Whosfiring

#48

Post by teekert »

codedokode wrote: post #41

Sorry, but I am going to comment on a technical implementation rather than the content of a site. The site shows blank page without JS enabled. I did not understand why one would need one megabyte of minified Javascript to display a list of 10 items. Probably it is because the developers were too busy learning trendy JS frameworks and do not know about HTML and server side page generation (in PHP this could be done m…

That footer also does not move in Firefox and stays on top of one of the list items when you scroll down.

Re: Show HN: Whosfiring

#49

Post by MattBearman »

codedokode wrote: post #41

Sorry, but I am going to comment on a technical implementation rather than the content of a site. The site shows blank page without JS enabled. I did not understand why one would need one megabyte of minified Javascript to display a list of 10 items. Probably it is because the developers were too busy learning trendy JS frameworks and do not know about HTML and server side page generation (in PHP this could be done m…

Fair comment that this site doesn't look like it needs a JS framework, but I think it's a little unfair to assume the dev doesn't know about HTML or server side languages.

It's more likely that the OP uses this JS framework a lot and knows it well, so it was quicker for them to build it this way.

Re: Show HN: Whosfiring

#50

Post by michaelt »

pibefision wrote: post #31

One of the reason of firing people is to align the company with a new goal. Most of this companies are firing because they want and they need new roles in the organization, and are going to contract new people soon. It should not be a negative thing.

Unfortunately a company has no way to signal this, because failing companies usually send the same signals.
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