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swoongoonz | 7 years ago | on: Comcast rejected by small town, residents vote for municipal fiber instead

This user has 0 comments, 0 submissions except related to this issue. I call bullshit. You're not a real person, you're a corporate insider.

swoongoonz | 7 years ago | on: The Insect Apocalypse Is Here

what the hell, how is it legal for anybody to tell you what to do with your land?

swoongoonz | 7 years ago | on: $100M Was Once Big Money for a Startup. Now, It’s Common

I think the problem is that funds like SoftBank have a very "winner take all" attitude about startups. They threatened my startup by basically saying that if you don't take the XXX millions of dollars, we'll be happy to give it your competitor who will out-fund you. These vcs want to pump a company so full of cash that they essentially take market domination of a vertical.

swoongoonz | 7 years ago | on: iTerm2 has a new drawing engine that uses Metal 2

It's crazy to now see open source projects on Gitlab after the whole Microsoft purchase of Github.

swoongoonz | 7 years ago | on: Roadmap to becoming a React developer in 2018

I'm torn. I don't think the aim should be "become a ${framework} developer" but just become a solid programmer with specialization in front-end technologies. If I needed to bounce out of front-end and into another tech role, I wouldn't have too hard of a time because I'm familiar with more than Javascript (I started learning programming with Ruby and Rails, but got my first professional gig doing analytics/seo).

I feel like this is a more compelling tech tree (not mine): https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap

swoongoonz | 7 years ago | on: Vue.js: the good, the meh, and the ugly

110% agree

swoongoonz | 7 years ago

I talk a lot about this with my wife. She's half mexican-american, I'm a quarter so we compare notes. Not everyone has what it takes to code. I played the hell out of video games for hours and hours on end as a kid. I'm kind of a natural fit for sitting in front of a computer for hours, trouble shooting until I succeed. My parents, my siblings, my friends I grew up with... not so much. Not scientific, but I kind of think we won the lottery for brains and the personality to do the kind of work we do for long stretches of time.

swoongoonz | 7 years ago | on: The “Boring Software” manifesto

I think more than "latest and greatest", devs should be looking for simplicity. I really like Dan Abramov's approach to Javascript in React/Redux and he does a great job of proving simplicity in some of his Redux tutorial videos by recreating Redux from scratch via test assertions.

swoongoonz | 7 years ago | on: People are recycling too much garbage, and it's threatening the industry

Placer County in California pays for one bin recycling. Don't make people think, just allocate resources to cover recycling as a part of the waste stream.

swoongoonz | 7 years ago | on: Researchers find IQ scores dropping since the 1970s

I distinctly remember a professor in college saying that he felt like the caliber of students enrolling every year declines. I was kind of offended, but hey maybe we was right.

swoongoonz | 7 years ago | on: Redux – Not Dead Yet

What I like about Redux is the conventions in place to update the store from a number of places. I currently work on a complicated CRM with state needing to change from a number of places. Having a convention and having the ability to update state and manage side effects with sagas has been game changing.

If you're making a todo app, yeah sure, no redux. Creating an app without conventions to manage state? good luck making all of those decisions.

swoongoonz | 8 years ago | on: U.S. Said to Investigate AT&T and Verizon Over Wireless Collusion Claim

>lock a device to their network even if it had eSIM technology.

Why not just buy a new sim card?

swoongoonz | 8 years ago | on: A million people cut the cord in the last 3 months, cable companies are worried

And then the FCC will cut Net Neutrality so we have to pay to use the Internet like a cable package.

swoongoonz | 8 years ago | on: How to write a JavaScript-free todo app using just HTML and CSS

css is styling, it's not a programming language

swoongoonz | 8 years ago | on: Front-End Checklist

>Pixel perfect: High Pages are close to pixel perfect. Depending on the quality of the creatives, you may not be 100% accurate, but your page needs to be close to your template.

What is this 2004?