Is this why when I'm on Etsy, some obscure, niche item that I'm looking at will always say "13 people have this in their carts right now"? Etsy doesn't seem like the type to me, or maybe that code is just flawed
Wait, how does this work? Google bots this complex, or Etsy especially made it possible for Google bot? Also Etsy shows price directly on page, so whats the reason?
My curmudgeonly self would prefer if the stories were off by default. It's not a feature I'm even remotely interested in, and feature creep really isn't a positive thing.
I've tried snapchat and Instagram stories, and I hate that the messages disappear with time. It seems counter-intuitive for an asynchronous communication method, and that doesn't even count how it always feels like another FOMO marketing gag to keep you engaged with the app.
Just let people delete posts (and really delete them to boot).
I think you don’t quite have the right mindset for the purpose of stories. The point is “this is not important enough to interrupt my friends; but here’s what I’m up to if you’re interested”. It doesn’t matter that it expires, because it’s only relevant to what is happening now.
Of course it still has all the usual social media failings where it is used to make the senders life seem more exciting and fun than it really is but I see the point of having the option.
I especially like signal’s groups implementation. I have a couple of large group chats where I am happy to share my day with people but it’s not important enough to notify everyone’s phone and it doesn’t matter if they miss it.
See - that's the part I don't get. Photos, to me, are not ephemeral. They are valuable, even if you don't think they are at the time. I've lost too many photos because I considered them to be ephemeral, and I regret that loss because I now only have vague memories of the events they captured. My only remaining memories of some of my oldest friends who are no longer with me are captured in those "irrelevant" photos.
Future you will thank you for keeping photos of your friends.
I mean the person who took the photo still has it and you can still ask for it if you like it? If anything stories make you likely to see more photos of your friends, not less.
When the company I worked for was in the process of being acquired, our codebase was frozen as well. I'm pretty sure this is just standard practice, no?
1. No user facing feature releases for the time being the deal being agreed and becoming effective (plenty of backend systems, performance optimisations, etc. still got released)
2. Don't touch anything on the day of the deal, in fact, take a free day off.
3. No major feature removals for 3 months after the deal.
> It seems like many of the variables are given names that are not descriptive at all to make it a bit more difficult to read.
The code is just minimized for prod..
The article as written makes it sound like the developer(s) intentionally wrote their code cryptically, whereas minimization for deployment is fairly standard practice
I just popped open DevTools on an SPA I made using create-react-app with default settings. Sure enough the minified production JavaScript uses shortened variable names. This is default configuration for Webpack, which is pretty widely used throughout (and outside) the React ecosystem.
Interestingly you can still view the unminified source, since create-react-app generates source maps by default.
It is pretty common. The goal of the minifier is to reduce the size of the file, so taking the function names, variable names, etc and making them as short as possible works towardd that goal
Closure Compiler (for JavaScript) does it. With the SIMPLE_OPTIMIZATIONS [0] flag, it will rename parameters for—and variables local to—functions to save space.
I've seen some minifiers that can restructure your code... replace if{} with a ternary ?: operator or use boolean shortcutting to replace the whole conditional with a ||, and so on. It's supposed to never do anything that actually affects the logic, but that sort of stuff scares me.
For some context, it didn't used to be terribly common. There's a fair amount of minifying that you can do without touching symbol names, though obviously it doesn't help as much as shortening them. The old jsmin cited about 50% reduction, and it didn't touch any variable or class names.
If you don't mind my asking, what could be improved? I work in engineering but would like to send the feedback over to our customer support team.
Unfortunately, a large portion of HelloSign's customer support team was affected by a reduction in force earlier this year, because Dropbox didn't want to pay salaries for support staff in high cost of labor areas, like San Francisco.
I'd be THRILLED to tell you. Shoot me an emal at grey@hodge.be and I'll tell you everything. I love the product, been a fan of Dropbox for ages, and if I can help you help someone else improve the experience, maybe Docusign can get real competition.
I’m pretty sure Twitter is still (mostly) working from home like all the other tech companies in the area, so a physical proximity requirement is out. A VPN requirement could work; in theory there’s no reason a VPN login is any more inherently secure than the login to whatever admin panel they’re using, but in practice VPNs can help centralize security policies across many applications. (I have no idea what Twitter’s systems look like, though.)
People are generally far less likely to give out credentials to their VPN or personal accounts than they are to give out passwords to a random application. Additionally requiring a VPN increases the barrier to entry to accessing the application as you could have additional requirements to a VPN (such as a 2FA and device certificate).
You're not wrong, and maybe "hostile architecture" like this is cruel, but damn if I owned a business and I had homeless people setting up tents or loitering outside my door every night I'd probably find a way to stop it too. Spikes are a cheap and easy-to-deploy deterrent.
In a similar vein, I volunteer with a pigeon and dove rescue organization, and it's no secret that businesses install spikes on eaves and ledges to deter birds too. Although it always makes me sad to see them, I can understand and appreciate why they do it.
