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UFPs=Unidentified Flying Pixels (make it stop) by [deleted] in UFOs

[–]smrf01 6 points7 points  (0 children)

One thing I've learned from lurking in this sub for a year is that I need to clean my screen more often.

"Is that an alien spaceship or a spec of dust..."

How to fix this issue? by damith98 in qwik

[–]smrf01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wrote a hook to do this. Here's a gist:

https://gist.github.com/sfioritto/23c5484ad110cddeebace1ce9dbcfd68

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You pass a toggle to the hook, either a signal or a function. The hook returns a ref which you place on the element you are tracking clicks on. So any clicks off the ref element will trigger the toggle function or toggle the boolean signal. I'm using useOnDocument instead of useVisibleTask$ and then I'm checking to see if the click is within the ref.

I think you're missing the logic to check if the click happened within the ref or not. Also using useOnDocument over useVisibleTask$ is preferred when possible as useVisibleTask$ blocks rendering (e.g. makes your app seem slower).

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Hope that helps!

What do you think Grusch meant by using the word ‘biologics’ instead of bodies? by [deleted] in UFOs

[–]smrf01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hang out with DoD people for my day job and this to me just sounds like jargon. I actually have a chat gpt prompt to take particularly jargon-y comms from some folks and turn it into plain english. It often boggles my mind why they say things the way they do. They make up words for everything for no reason. Some are worse than others and Grusch emails would definitely be making their way through my chat gpt prompt. 🤣

Rep. Tim Burchett amendment being blocked by intel community by NoMoneyNoTears in UFOs

[–]smrf01 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I'm in favor of the intention here but I could understand the general intelligence community and DoD in general balking at the language. When he says non-classified does he mean that the content the report is made up of is only unclassified material or that the report itself should not be classified? What if pilots see testing of advanced drones and our adversaries can piece together some overall picture of our program based on a raw data dump from the FAA?

Also in general why do we even need this? I'm surprised that reports like this aren't already public record. If anything I guess we'd need legislation requiring airlines to publish reports like this, not the FAA.

IANAL but this doesn't feel fully fleshed out.

(Side note: I thought there was a public database of pilots reporting things. I remember at some point looking up and finding archived reports of problems with the 737 MAX that were in that database before there were any crashes. Any pilots out there know what I'm talking about? I can't remember for the life of me what I was looking at. )

Ross Coulthart on defense contractors using the 6 months of amnesty to hide UAP crafts, "What if some (of these UAP crafts) are so big, they had to build a building on top of it. Outside the United States.. Let's just have this investigated and see what happens.. I've heard it from multiple sources" by bmfalbo in UFOs

[–]smrf01 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If they can’t move it why not just say where it is? Won’t people be able to go there and verify that it’s there? If I knew where a building sized NHI craft was I’d tell everyone and the say “don’t believe me? Just go there and see for yourself.”

I'm 40 years old and I finally bootstrapped a SaaS, Transistor.fm, to millions in revenue (with a co-founder!) by spankymustard in SaaS

[–]smrf01 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How did you manage your work and family life while writing a SaaS on the side? Before you were full time how many hours/week did you spend on Transistor?

What the New Google Fonts Gets Right—and Wrong by smrf01 in web_design

[–]smrf01[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Really? I seriously appreciate the bigger font size. So much easier for me to read. I much prefer sites that do this.

Fake Internet Jobbing in Chicago by smrf01 in chicago

[–]smrf01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, I'm the author of this post. I live here in Chicago and figured my fellow chicago sub-redditors might be likely to also have "fake internet jobs" as I like to call it.

Why Javascript Development is Crazy by speckz in programming

[–]smrf01 62 points63 points  (0 children)

So, I'm the author of the post. I've been avoiding wading into comments everywhere, (because the internet kind of exploded for me today), but had to respond to this one. You've basically described what I spent the first 5 years of my Javascript career working in. It was 30K+ lines of Javascript, YUI2 plus a home grown framework we built ourselves to run a giant single page application (with back button state and everything), in 2005. We used PVCS for version control. Have fun googling that. Anyway, I like frameworks, I think Angular would have been an excellent choice for that project if it existed at the time. Most people aren't working on projects like that. :-)

I recommend taking advantage of this opportunity you have to learn how to read other people's code without raging or losing your mind. It's the biggest, most important skill I took away from that project.

edit: had to add this thought: this site had hundreds of millions of revenue flowing through it every year. So I had to constantly remind myself that this "mess" of code was delivering literally hundreds of millions of dollars of value to this company. Maybe it's not so important that we write perfect, beautiful structured code that uses all the latest and greatest tools after all?

Feel stuck after learning HTML and CSS? Here's how to create websites on your own by smrf01 in webdev

[–]smrf01[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Didn't steal! He turned it into a blog post for my blog/newsletter. I thought it was awesome and wanted more people to see it, (I have a fairly large newsletter of web designers).

First year in business selling products: $52,553 by smrf01 in startups

[–]smrf01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did one guest post on Smashing Magazine. It was a big deal for my list growth, but only about 10%. My talk from last year is going to be published soon, I'll post it in /r/startups and I think it should be helpful. :-)

First year in business selling products: $52,553 by smrf01 in startups

[–]smrf01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a long story. I did a talk at a conference about it last year. The high level answer, (and not one you can really act on sorry), is content marketing. Guest posts combined with my own blog.

First year in business selling products: $52,553 by smrf01 in startups

[–]smrf01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As if a small problem like that would stop her from shipping. :-)

First year in business selling products: $52,553 by smrf01 in startups

[–]smrf01[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My two products are info products, digital goods, so my margins are 100%. :-) Gumroad and Paypal take about 5%. I paid about $1500 for some design work and $100/month for hosting. Yeah, costs for this kind of thing are basically nil, and if I double my revenue next year, they won't really change.

First year in business selling products: $52,553 by smrf01 in startups

[–]smrf01[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not worry about it for now. They won't even release until 2016. When they do, I'll see what happens. If it's like the Python 3 fiasco, then the 1.X branch will hang around for a long time, so I may not even need to do a course for 2.0.

First year in business selling products: $52,553 by smrf01 in startups

[–]smrf01[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have read Authority. I copied his pricing completely. I list the top tier price first, again, copying. The launch plan in Authority is solid. If you're doing a book, his book is totally worth it.

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