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water42 | 6 years ago | on: Creating a Slack Writing Etiquette Guide for Your Workplace

The example on using emojis is very strange:

> It'd be nice to get that report by this afternoon.

This phrasing is inherently passive aggressive since it's not a direct ask, regardless of how many emojis are included.

Why not:

> Hi <name>, will you be able to have the report on X ready by <time>?

water42 | 6 years ago | on: Don’t try to sanitize input – escape output

Don't filter input. Instead, prevent certain characters from being input in text elements. This is a user experience problem, not a software problem. The software can validate that a "name" is rejected if it does not follow the front end validations, but it doesn't need to do any more than that.

Of course, this argument does not extend beyond a "name" field to more complex fields. But more complex fields are less susceptible to introducing UX problems if certain characters are sanitized.

water42 | 6 years ago | on: Launch HN: SannTek (YC S19) – Breathalyzer for Cannabis

There's nothing wrong with having a prescription for marijuana, even if the "prescription" is really just a state medical license provided by a sketchy doctor that you slip 200 USD once a year.

But please stay off the roads while you're under "psychoactive" effects (read: high) . There are LEGAL drugs that are illegal to use while operating a motor vehicle.

water42 | 8 years ago | on: React is the new Dojo

> used by hipster startups to Facebook

Well, yeah, it's developed by and for Facebook...that was a weird line.

water42 | 8 years ago | on: React 16

I think you're overcomplicating how transferrable framework knowledge is. An expert React developer could switch to Vue no problem if there was demand for it. Similarly an expert Vue developer could switch to React no problem.

water42 | 8 years ago | on: Front-End Walkthrough: Building a Single Page Application from Scratch

yet another web framework medium article with a misleading angular vs react comparison.

it isn't angular 2 anymore. it's just angular. it's been out for over a year and if people were having problems running it in production, we would hear about it. there are many sites running angular 2-4 in production, google it and see for yourself. just because google didn't rewrite gmail in angular doesn't mean you shouldn't use it.

I wonder if there is some highly ranked google search result that spreads this misinformation, months after some of these points were valid.

water42 | 8 years ago | on: ECMAScript 2017 Language Specification

the trend of style over readability. google recommends avoiding list comprehensions in python yet 99% of stackoverflow python questions have some convoluted list comprehension answer

water42 | 8 years ago | on: Angular 2/4 Is Too Little Too Late

How to get upvotes on hackernews: write yet another clickbait medium article on how bad angular is.

I don't think the OP has ever used Angular CLI or followed Angular development. If he had then he would have not written this article since a majority of his claims about Angular are wrong.

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