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Dealing with Platform Inconsistencies as a North Korean Front-End Developer

Raicuparta on August 23, 2019

You're a North Korean engineer who's been selected to develop a new government project. It's an HTML form, which North Korean political leaders wil...
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José Coelho

👏 Very original! 👏 I'm more into backend development but your story telling made me read the full article 😅

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MN Mark

Very Excellent!
Can you confirm for me that while iOS only allows changing focus in response to a user event, it doesn't mind you changing input to a different element than that which received the event?? These doesn't seem logical.

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Raicuparta

That is correct.

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Maximilian Burszley

Delightful read. I think it lost some story element in the middle as it got more technical 😂

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Lawrence

Funny article with good info, but title is misleading. I thought I'd get an actual NK perspective but just got a tutorial on something completely different. :/

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Raicuparta

I can see where you're coming from, but that was not my intention. I just assumed the title would register as a joke right away. You're already the third person to call me out on the "click bait", so I guess it wasn't very clear.

What I was aiming for was still a little click-baity, but something more "look at this silly title, come read the silly article", and less "come read about actual North Korean developers, sike!".

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🇨🇵️ Nathan Graule

I have to agree with @lawrence here. If the title was something like "Designing around Platform inconsistencies for our Great Leader" would both remove specificity on North Korea, and (at least to me) would register more clearly as a joke.

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Raicuparta

That's fair.

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Andi Arpo • Edited

Ahh, the joys of front-end web development.

Should have seen what it was like not so many years ago, with M$ internet explorer having huge market share, 3-4 versions to support and nothing they did was ever according to standard.

Nowadays it feels like a walk in the park, with browsers auto-updating and lightning fast smartphones.

Anyway, thanks for the great article!

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Gregor Gonzalez • Edited

It's reminds me

"Dear Lisa - As I write this, I am very sad. Our president has been overthrown...AND REPLACED BY THE BENEVOLENT GENERAL KRULL. ALL HAIL KRULL AND HIS GLORIOUS NEW REGIME!! Sincerely, LITTLE GIRL

But seriously, this article resumes all my struggles with UI js webpages in general. Since I started to use plugins, I don't want to write those functions from scratch anymore 🤣

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Beatriz S

This is Brilliant, Leader! 😅

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Paweł Kowalski

How is it different than Dealing with Platform Inconsistencies as a South Korean Front-End Developer?

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Dennis, Kim

Same as other normal countries.

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Sam

I don't trust this guy, how is he even using internet in North Korea?

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Raicuparta

Probably one of these guys from the Steam traffic map
Steam traffic map

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Michael

Delightful

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Waleed Barakat • Edited

Ok! But I think that Kim doesn't care much about programming, he barely understand how things goes on.

He born to eat, drink, and sleep only like his father and successors.

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Eugene Vedensky

This is the genre of technical I never knew I desperately needed more of till I read this one today.

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Deepak Naidu

Excellent!!!
It's scary to see how deep thought had to be given just for one stupid select tag.