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Wally
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Building stuff. Ex-@SpaceX, @AWS, @Twitch. Founder. Poker nerd. Fanatic Dune fan. An astrophysicist and Overwatch pro, once upon a time.
Los Angeles, USA, Earth Katılım Nisan 2019
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no usb c ports burnt yet, but we are getting close
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Let me be clear: Lines of code written and number of PRs shipped is a terrible way to judge performance. If you think its even remotely okay, you've exposed yourself as having no idea how to evaluate engineers. This is more true in the age of AI than ever before.
Some of the most critical and challenging changes I've seen have been done in a few lines with 1 PR, but took an exceptional amount of effort and time to get there.
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"You can write apps in just typescript and run it on one EC2 instance in production. That's enough for the apps of THIS era"
- Frieren if she was a dev, probably.
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I start looking forward to coffee the night before.
Have we maxed out coffee, or are we just stuck in a local optimum? With a few hundred million and a clean sheet on extraction physics, I bet someone could do better. Surely there is a bored SpaceX propulsion alum waiting to get nerd sniped out there.
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It's even more impressive when you see the quantum computer in action in the test chamber:
Sundar Pichai@sundarpichai
New breakthrough quantum algorithm published in @Nature today: Our Willow chip has achieved the first-ever verifiable quantum advantage. Willow ran the algorithm - which we’ve named Quantum Echoes - 13,000x faster than the best classical algorithm on one of the world's fastest supercomputers. This new algorithm can explain interactions between atoms in a molecule using nuclear magnetic resonance, paving a path towards potential future uses in drug discovery and materials science. And the result is verifiable, meaning its outcome can be repeated by other quantum computers or confirmed by experiments. This breakthrough is a significant step toward the first real-world application of quantum computing, and we're excited to see where it leads.
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She’s switching to a strictly typed programming language.
Pop Base@PopBase
Taylor Swift will make an announcement on GMA (Good Morning America) tomorrow, October 13th.
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I remember my Mom and Dad taking me to Circuit City and surprising me with my first computer when I was 11. Haven't stopped programming since and I'm eternally grateful to them.
Derrick Evans@DerrickEvans4WV
Which one?
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I have a new-found appreciation for anyone who has built a good search bar. Spent the last few days really fine tuning one and quality of life features like:
- When should you auto focus the input field?
- On mobile, there are many ways to lose focus of the input field beyond tapping outside of it. Example is iOS users hiding their keyboard. That event can be annoying to listen for.
- If there is long text that has been truncated in the input field, it's probably best to have the cursor jump to the end of the string upon focusing instead of starting from the beginning or the tap position. Less jarring for users, especially when backspacing.
- I had the input field expand in width upon focus with a little animation. Handling the "expanded" state (which is directly tied to the input focus) was a challenge.
- If your search bar also has options for sort/filter, elegantly handling those states in a way that doesn't confuse users requires some thought.
- When do you reset the results of the search? When the user backspaces all the way to the beginning? Should you require input for that like pressing enter? A 'clear search' button?
- And then there's the actual search/query part of it all, backend API, caching results when appropriate, deduping calls, etc.
- I used @fusejs to perform fuzzy search and tuning the "fuzziness" to be most useful and pleasing for users was an art form.
Anyway, a seemingly simple component like an input field with autocomplete requires a lot of thought to produce a delightful experience for your users. Some of these experiences were non-trivial to implement and I give major props to those who build these things regularly.
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@yacineMTB Crazy how you can tap keys in a certain order and end up with a pizza or a startup.
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