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Re: Netflix functions without client-side React, and it's a good thing

Tiago Rodrigues — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 07:41:09 -0000

> The story isn't that they're abandoning React, it's that they're able to defer it on the client until it's was needed. React folks should be championing this as a feature.

See, that was my issue with this whole story: is that what was being passed around wasn't the main advantage they took from all this, but that they "removed" something. We need more education around these issues, and less clickbaity tweets and article titles :(

Re: The Sad Ghost War Between Breath of the Wild And Horizon: Zero Dawn

Tiago Rodrigues — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 10:25:40 -0000

A good thing about Horizon is that it's not terribly long (I did about 50 hours with 86% completion), and the stuff that can eventually get more repetitive (like the hunting trials) can safely be ignored. It felt challenging and interesting throughout the main story line and sidequests. Yeah, if they had tried to make it longer by cramming in more sidequests without also adding more unique enemies, I'm fairly sure it would've started feeling boring. And I'm fairly happy that they didn't fill it in with a lot of that cookie cutter content. I felt like it respected my time.

Re: Handling Bad HTTP Requests With fetch()

Tiago Rodrigues — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 07:23:14 -0000

But you couldn't you get access to the response body? Angular's $http does this. It provides the response object both to the success and error callbacks of the promise, but semantically, you're handling the errors in the error callback.

Re: Handling Bad HTTP Requests With fetch()

Tiago Rodrigues — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 05:01:51 -0000

jaffathecake I'd still really like to understand the reasoning that led to this. So far I'm assuming it's because of the same reasons of the error event in XHR (https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org....

Anyway, I thought a common trend in defining new web standards in recent years would be to look at common usage patterns and try to standardize those if they make sense.

In the case of fetch, it seems similar to what was common on jquery, angular, or even axios (and perhaps others), but with this difference, which I think is a significant one, and will catch a lot of people by surprise.

Re: On the blindness of blind reviews

Tiago Rodrigues — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 11:06:25 -0000

"Whether you agree with it or not, it happens with every blind review."

Again, you're operating on the worst assumptions of people reviewing the talks being that biased. The fact you think like that doesn't mean everyone else does, and it doesn't mean that people might not codify that into the actual process. Yeah, bias will always still be there and it's hard to beat, but if people are pushing for an anonymized process they might have an extra motivation to try and remove other biases as well.

"When the topic is so difficult that there are very few speakers that could give a good talk on it, the assumption tends to be that the submitter is not among them."

Are you seriously implying that for a well known industry leading event the main persons involved in the field wouldn't submit a talk about it? I would love to see actual data on this but I honestly don't believe it. It might be so for a new, smaller, lesser known event, but for well known events I think there's a real possibility the more qualified people will be submitting talks.

And even then, you're still ignoring the point that Karolina made and I reiterated on the previous point: having a not so good speaker on a unique topic is probably better than having a really good speaker on a topic people have already heard lots about. Or even then, a less experienced speaker might have a unique point of view that the leading expert in the field doesn't.

If the purpose is to only have top notch speakers then why do an anonymized process anyway?

"it would sound like a public criticism against the selected speakers, which I would never do"

So instead you chose to essentially criticise a process you don't have the entire details of and without knowing about the other submitted talks.

Can't see how that's any better.

Re: On the blindness of blind reviews

Tiago Rodrigues — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 14:49:53 -0000

You make some good points but I can't agree with this:
"this talk could be great with the right presenter, but that’s rare"

If you do or say that, you're adding bias to the selection process. If the process is anonymized how can you know the speaker is not right? You're assuming the speaker can't deliver and not giving them a fair opportunity. If, after you select the talk and you see who the speaker is, tou think the speaker is not good enough you can provide some guidance on how they can present it better. If conferences want to ensure quality they should also do some follow up with speakers to ensure they are preparing themselves timely and accordingly. Specially for first time speakers.

As for writing abstracts being a different skill, that might as well be true, but if someone isn't capable of resuming their thoughts in an abstract, they probably wouldn't do such a good job in a talk anyway. Talks are all about presenting a certain amount of knowledge in a limited amount of time in a way people can understand it, which means choosing what to put in and how to make people understand it.

And as Karolina said on twitter, it might be that someone had some very important or unique knowledge to share that does not have good experience speaking or writing abstracts. And that's OK. Select them, if you realize after they are inexperienced, provide them with some guidance.

Anyhow this whole post doesn't address that which I think is a core problem with your criticism of this particular situation: you know about these two people that didn't get selected and their talks, but you don't know about the other talks that were proposed or got selected. If you were doing this post conference I could understand it, but essentially you're assuming the process failed without having the full story, and that is not fair both to the conference and to the process in itself.

Re: A culpa é do Murdoch

Tiago Rodrigues — Sun, 14 Jun 2015 16:15:27 -0000

Sim, eu percebi que não era o ponto. Não acho que isto vá causar uma grande revolução ou causar mossa nas subscrições de pacotes com TV (talvez nas subscrições extra daqueles canais premium de TV e séries), até porque como referes, muito do pessoal prefer a programação mainstream dos canais abertos, ou futebol.

Quando à proibição, sim, "diz-se". Também se diz que eles só têm isso nos TOS para calar os estúdios e que não fazem realmente um controlo apertado. Se o fizessem de certeza que já tinham cancelado a minha conta há muito.

Re: A culpa é do Murdoch

Tiago Rodrigues — Sun, 14 Jun 2015 15:23:56 -0000

Apenas um reminder de que tendo uma conta de Netflix (seja em que pais for, basta ter uma conta) e um serviço de VPN é possível aceder ao catálogo de outros países (por exemplo, US). Além disso é possível ter contas partilhadas com até 5 pessoas (para motivos familiares, mas não verificam IPs nem nada do género).

E sim, eu sei, o consumidor comum não percebe e não apanha estas coisas, blá, blá. Vi muito boa pessoa que não tem muitas noções básicas de como usar um computador mas que aprendeu como procurar filmes para download ou streams.

E o português gosta muito de coisas baratas (ou à borla) e quando o pessoal perceber estas coisas de certeza que vai aproveitar.

Re: Why I don't like open source: my thoughts

Tiago Rodrigues — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 08:10:00 -0000

I would also propose reading James Coglan's great post about this here: https://blog.jcoglan.com/20...

Re: The npm Blog — Funding

Tiago Rodrigues — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 08:21:54 -0000

For myself that was very clear at the time but the reactions from most people since npm, Inc was founded seem to indicate otherwise.

In any case, it's not exactly "their own" hosting of npm. The money they raised was for funding the hosting of the public registry, which they had been providing for free: http://blog.nodejitsu.com/s...

All of this information is available and documented. It annoys me that people keep drawing conclusions from comments and tweets without trying to get the full picture.

Re: The npm Blog — Funding

Tiago Rodrigues — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 05:37:42 -0000

This is erroneous information. That money didn't go to npm, Inc. See https://twitter.com/izs/sta... and https://news.ycombinator.co...

Re: AirPlane Mode Workflow

Tiago Rodrigues — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:33:51 -0000

Hi there. I've found a problem with the workflow, which I've solved, but thought you should know about.

The bluetooth functionality doesn't work because you haven't included the blueutil script with the workflow. I looked in the workflow folder and it's not there. Once I downloaded it and moved it there manually it worked fine.

Re: http://blog.celsopinto.com/post/29824647595

Tiago Rodrigues — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 15:07:14 -0000

uh...I think apple already said they were killing ping anyway

Re: PSA: DOM Local Storage considered harmful

Tiago Rodrigues — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:58:46 -0000

Well yes, either add asynchronous operation to existing localStorage or add promptless operation to IndexedDB. Having to choose between a sync component or a complex one is a bit silly when things could just be easier. And maybe getting async operation in localStorage would be quicker than expecting IndexedDB to be adopted more broadly?

@Zack site maintainers would still have to change something, as async API's are always different (as in, current methods would have to take callbacks). But the change would be minimal and much less painful than using something entirely different as IndexedDB.

Re: PSA: DOM Local Storage considered harmful

Tiago Rodrigues — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:58:46 -0000

Re: http://sketchday.tumblr.com/post/5037638205

Tiago Rodrigues — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:51:05 -0000

Totally. Bunnehs, zombies and sheep. Also, FAILWHALED!!!!

Re: http://frakshow.com/post/1406661329

Tiago Rodrigues — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 07:30:10 -0000

Bah. Ja há betas ou então usem browsers decentes :p

Re: http://frakshow.com/post/1406661329

Tiago Rodrigues — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 07:15:36 -0000

Fail. Não precisavam de fazer o encoding 3 vezes. Duas eram suficientes. MP4 e WebM cobria tudo.

Re: You’ll Learn It When You Need to Learn It

Tiago Rodrigues — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:47:57 -0000

I totally understand what you mean, specially because I've been going through a bit of a similar situation. I've also had trouble with my math courses and I admit I don't remember as much as I should from them. It's not that I'm not good at it, it's just that I can't put it in my head that I need to practice it and study it. However, as of late I've had the need of some of that knowledge and I've been looking at all that differently thinking I kinda need to relearn it, now that I have a real purpose for it.

That's a bit of an issue with most degrees I think. People are always told they need to learn the basics behind stuff but you're never given any real incentive on why you should learn it and how you're going to use it until very late on that degree or even only on your professional life, and that's depending on what you're really going to work on. Therefore, many people become disillusioned with the whole subject and probably drop out or change to something else.

Maybe some stuff should be taught more in the way of "Ok let's do something", let people come to some sort of barrier, and then show them what subjects they need to learn in order to move forward.

Re: You’ll Learn It When You Need to Learn It

Tiago Rodrigues — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:47:00 -0000

Maybe some stuff should be taught more in the way of "Ok let's do something", let people come to some sort of barrier, and then show them what subjects they need to learn in order to move forward.

Re: You’ll Learn It When You Need to Learn It

Tiago Rodrigues — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 05:47:57 -0000

Maybe some stuff should be taught more in the way of "Ok let's do something", let people come to some sort of barrier, and then show them what subjects they need to learn in order to move forward.

Re: JSConf 2010 Slides

Tiago Rodrigues — Fri, 07 May 2010 04:54:56 -0000

Here's a blog post about Crockford's presentation: http://mini.softwareas.com/...

Re: Found With The Wind - Tao of Mac

Tiago Rodrigues — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:51:37 -0000

I want to add more features in the future. So far it's mostly "get all" and "send all". My idea is to have an interface which allows me to choose which notes to sync to/from evernote, and use evernote as a sort of alternate wiki store (which allows me to access it on the awesome desktop app and on my phone).

Re: Found With The Wind - Tao of Mac

Tiago Rodrigues — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 06:14:49 -0000

I've been working on something similar but haven't had the time to follow up with my ideas lately, so it's a bit dead right now: http://github.com/trodrigue...

Re: A prenda de anos atrasada...

Tiago Rodrigues — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:00:25 -0000

Yup ! Eu tenho invaders: http://258f.sl.pt

Vieram daqui: http://www.vinylwalldesign....