I don't know if it's just me (checked in Firefox and Chrome), but the black text on the red buttons is really hard to read. I'd suggest using white, unless you had some reason to use black.
Readit Newspyrelight commented on My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback armaansahni.com/game/... · Posted by u/veesahni
It's time to stop. Too much mental overhead in front-end dev right now.
A sad day. My buddy and I were the original developers of anandtech when it went live running on cold fusion and oracle as the backend. I started a hosting company and hosted anadtrch for a few years. Lots of memories there.
I don't care what anybody says, ColdFusion was a beautiful mess and fun to write.
As a young dev, interested in your point about 1996. Mind elaborating?
During that time, the web was mostly brochure websites. No revenue was generated from these sites as they were purely informational.
"Web 2.0" was born during this time (maybe a little later) and introduced a paradigm shift where the Internet was becoming more commercial. It took some time for things like merchant accounts to run credit cards to become available for Internet usage, which was huge since fraud was a major consideration with Internet shopping. There was also none, or very few, SaaS eCommerce platforms like Shopify, so eCommerce was mostly a roll-your-own or use a new open source eCommerce platform that was in its infancy. It wasn't until the mid 2000s that popular self hosted platforms like OpenCart, Magento, PrestaShop, WooCommerc, etc, were available and mostly feature complete for most customers needs back then.
pyrelight commented on micro – A Modern Alternative to nano micro-editor.github.io/... · Posted by u/theycallhermax
The top intuitive to use TUI editors in my heart will always be:
- MS Dos Edit
- Turbo Pascal 6
Edit felt like a windows application: select with shift+arrows, move fast with ctrl+home/end.
Turbo Pascal's keybindings were a bit influenced by WordStar's, I think, so a bit old style already at the time. But, my friend, the TUI Toolkit, TurboVision! What did they do there! Multiple windows that could be dragged and resized, blazingly fast. All of this on a 486 with megabytes of ram.
I never found any TUI editors like those two.
Turbo Pascal's UI was magical and perfect.
pyrelight commented on Jujutsu: A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful github.com/martinvonz/jj... · Posted by u/lemper
Why/how did Git's UX become so bad?
Apologies if I’ve misunderstood you (edit: I have) but assuming you are saying that 1ms to transfer funds between banks is ridiculously slow, why do you say that?
Light travels about 300km in one millisecond in a vacuum, about 200km in optical fiber. The best achievable theoretical fiber optic RTT for NYC-LA is about 35-40ms. In practice 65ms+ is more realistic due to routing overhead and the fact that cables aren’t always laid in a great circle. This being a financial API with three parties involved in most transactions (the two banks and the fed clearinghouse) there is sure to be more than one round trip involved for TLS establishment, authentication, verification of funds and account availability etc, many of which involve traversing many inevitably complicated systems on each side. It would shock me if such a system could realistically target anything less than 500ms P50.
This is the most hacker news conversation ever.
Motorola does a pretty good job. Their "bloatware" is mostly the Moto app, which provides really handy and reliable gestures like a double "chop" to toggle flashlight, twisting the phone a few times to enable the camera, three-finger screenshot trigger, etc.
Their phones are really solid but they do lag on OS updates, and their cameras are never good.
pyrelight commented on From SVG to Canvas – A new way of building interactions felt.com/blog/svg-to-canv... · Posted by u/kretaceous
ctrl+f "accessibility" in part 2: zero results
ctrl+f "accessibility" in part 1: zero results
Does anyone care about digital access to content for disabled people ? Or about the ADA ?
Svg to canvas without any answer for accessibility is backwardness, plain and simple.
You are letting down anyone who's deaf, blind or has trouble hearing or seeing, anyone who does not know how to read, has motor impairments, temporary or not and the older folks. Also screen translaters will not work on canvas.
Please follow the WCAG guidelines.
It's Flash Player all over again! Remember when SEO became important and everyone who had a Flash website had to make "low bandwidth HTML" sites for indexing? :)
Honest question from someone who has never worked at a Bay Area startup:
What do all these developers at these tech companies do all day? As a freelance developer who has to meet ridiculous timelines all the time, I don't really get how a company can have hundreds of developers and yet the product seems to languish and/or get worse or slower or both.
I suppose there's a lot more overhead with internal QA, code review, meetings, etc, but with the amount of developers these companies have as full-time staff, what are they doing all day? Is it mostly internal systems, tooling, etc?
I just find it hard to believe that there can be hundreds of developers at a company like Twitch and yet the product is largely the same as it was 5 years ago. I would think features could be cranked out so much faster than they appear to be.