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I'm Josh.

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Remove TypeScript 3 years ago

I think dropping Typescript the way they did was silly, but you are absolutely correct that they should be able to do so, even if it’s unpopular.

Remove TypeScript 3 years ago

Do you have multiple people collaborating with you? If I’m writing code that only I need to understand then yes, typescript may be overkill (though I prefer types even then), but working on any meaningful codebase without types is… challenging. Types aren’t that hard are they?

Remove TypeScript 3 years ago

Well that’s certainly a hot take. I’d say TypeScript is the best thing to happen to JS, but that’s just my opinion. It’s not perfect, but it makes working on a large codebase tolerable. To each their own.

Swift Regrets 5 years ago

Honestly, I can't get my head around how anyone could prefer Objc over Swift. I suppose it's just years of writing Objc and not wanting the change?

Like Swift is not a perfect language and Apple's developer docs lack useful examples a lot of times, but Objective-C has to be the least approachable language in all of app development.

While your first statement is correct, you may want to acknowledge that "faith" in ideas can be seen as a continuum from completely subjective to mostly objective. For instance: believing in QAnon conspiracies isn't the same as believing in, say, climate change. Yes, both require your definition of "faith", but the former requires you to suspend your belief in reality while the latter is congruent with your observations of reality.

I agree with you, but I also don't know what else these companies should do. What happened on Jan 6th was coordinated on a lot of these platforms (including Parler).

It seems like the answer to all these types of issues comes down to education at some point. Not that we all need to learn the same point of view, but that we should learn how to think critically. The people who took part in the insurrection on the capital honestly believe a lot of falsehoods propagated on networks like Parlor, FB, Twitter. They aren't all acting in bad faith.

Seems like these networks/platforms have been forced to take the actions they did because people – all of us to some degree or another – choose what we want to believe, wether there's any evidence or not.

I agree with both points. The only gotcha with liking the photo before drilling into it, has to do with the fact the their API returns a truncated result of all the likes on the media when using any endpoint other than /media/{id)/likes.

The reason that's a problem, is that there's no way for me to know for sure if you already liked something or not. I could A) Assume most people are only clicking on the heart to like something and not to unlike something they already liked, or B) Make a request to /media/{id}/likes for every image on the page. Given the two, I think it'd be safe to assume they just want to like something.

Leaving a comment should be pretty simple ;)

Unfortunately, Instagram hasn't released an API for accessing the news feed. Apparently they're making quite a bit of changes to it before they release it. I agree, though. That would be awesome!

I'd like to gather some feedback for http://instagram.joshink.com. It was built for the fun of it, but it's been gaining quite a bit of traction and I'd like to hear from the people using it:

what do you like, hate or want to see added?

I'm planning on rolling it out its own domain and I would like to add the top features requested here.