No we don't.
Pretty positive that was a joke/bait…
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nophunphil commented on I Want You to Understand Chicago aphyr.com/posts/397-i-wan... · Posted by u/tonyg
I don't care what you believe about reputation.
Got it. Trolling.
nophunphil commented on I Want You to Understand Chicago aphyr.com/posts/397-i-wan... · Posted by u/tonyg
Care to cite a reputable source?
With an account created just before this comment, I’d assume this is just low-effort trolling.
nophunphil commented on Do you know that there is an HTML tables API? christianheilmann.com/202... · Posted by u/begoon
Tables died (thankfully) to make room for flex and grid. I can't see any use case for them at all anymore.
I agree with many other replies here, specifically about accessibility. Once I learned how to use a screen reader, it was eye-opening. So many web applications are utterly broken for users with assistive technologies.
Tables built with flex and grid absolutely can be made accessible with WAI-ARIA, but native table elements are harder to mess up.
Nobody uses plain reactjs anymore.
Sure they do. I’ve used it multiple times for new (but small) projects in the last year. It’s straightforward with Vite and works fine.
I’ve also used Next for new projects in the last year - it just depends on the infra requirements.
Vercel’s position in the ecosystem is one we should question. Maybe it’s not good for innovation to use Next for every new project. The recent controversy with their CEO isn’t helping the situation either.
nophunphil commented on Electronic Arts Leadership Are Out of Their Goddamned Minds aftermath.site/ea-dice-ba... · Posted by u/dotmanish
There is nothing wrong with setting high goals and trying to reach them. That they are failing is a different issue. This article is trying to farm outrage but there isn't any.
It’s important to set attainable goals. My guess is that this will put incredible, undue stress on the staff.
Business idiots, as Ed Zitron would say.
This theme has been repeated a bunch over the last 10 years or so. Google has been in a constant state of decline since the employment surge in the back half of 2010s culminating with a hiring fervor in 2020 that diluted out all of the extremely talented employees.
This severe decline of the median engineer means comp gets cut back, perks get cut back, and most importantly, autonomy gets cut back. Oppressive process and political gamesmanship reign supreme.
Even when I left nearly a decade ago, the idea that something like Gmail could be made in 20% time was a joke. 20% time itself was being snuffed out and dipshit PMs in turf wars would kill anything that did manage to emerge because it wasn’t “polished enough”.
At this point Google is far beyond recovery because it is inundated with B, C and now D players. It’s following the same trajectory of Intel, Cisco, and IBM.
Pockets of brilliance drowning in mediocrity
Aren’t we talking about what appears to be a management decision/performance review?
What do the other engineers have to do with this? Why are they mediocre?
nophunphil commented on Observations from people-watching skincontact.substack.com/... · Posted by u/jger15
The author is projecting a lot into the hearts and minds of strangers, based on limited or indeed no interaction with them. These are not scientific observations in any sense. What does the author do to confirm or refute her psychological theories about others? She's very good at telling stories, but these stories feel like fiction, not hard fact.
Why does it have to be scientific? Lots of people write their thoughts on the world and the people in it. Why would a blog called “skin contact” need hard facts?
nophunphil commented on I use zip bombs to protect my server idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-... · Posted by u/foxfired
By the sound of your question I will guess you want to make a website for a small or medium sized organization? jQuery is probably the only "framework" you should need.
If they are selling anything on their website, it's probably going to be through a cloud hosted third party service and then it's just an embedded iframe on their website.
If you're making an entire web shop for a very large enterprise or something of similar magnitude, then you have to ask somebody else than me.
jQuery hasn’t been necessary for many years. Vanilla JS equivalents of jQuery code are well-supported.
Slightly absurdist non-sensical humour I’ll admit, but none the less, a joke :-)