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by 0xDEEPFAC 6y ago
It seems like these new Macs might as well be phone with a keyboard in the way they treat their software and "pro" consumers. Wake me up when they use less glue to hold their computers together...
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by 0xDEEPFAC 6y ago
I see your point, personally if I go to a conference, stadium, or concert I am not there to look at my phone or answer email though xD
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by 0xDEEPFAC 6y ago
Isn't that how research is done? If a tobacco company publishes research explaining how tobacco promotes lung health and people start reporting their "research" as fact wouldn't that be a problem? There is opposing resea
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by 0xDEEPFAC 6y ago
Ignoring the potential health concerns. 5G antennas need to be placed on every single city block low and close to people to be effective - so it is hopeless for a majority of the US not directly in a city unless we litter the entire subur
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by 0xDEEPFAC 6y ago
No mention of Ada or their methods of writing the important software. I wonder what they use. "Avionics Test team ...The main objective is to write very comprehensive and robust software to be able to automate finding issues with the h
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by 0xDEEPFAC 6y ago
Its the abstraction on abstraction culture which seems to be the norm these days, because, hey "ECMA script is portable and accessible"! So lets "browserify" all the things... Just wait until your BBQ has its own browser
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by 0xDEEPFAC 6y ago
You mean our modern super-computer level machines with gigabytes of RAM and GHz level processors can actually show basic animations at 60 FPS!? Wow! RIP native development, long live non-native native development?
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by 0xDEEPFAC 6y ago
> "Unpaid concept testing" is the next simplest. Shutup and eat your dogfood like a good consumer ; )
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by 0xDEEPFAC 6y ago
I think he addresses the irony that their products are no good, but still they will continue to do good business: "Apple isn’t going to lose because something better came along; it is going to lose because it shat the bed repeatedly fo
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by 0xDEEPFAC 6y ago
He is going to, as he says at the bottom of the article, and he has bought 2015 refurbished models to avoid the headaches.... lol?
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by 0xDEEPFAC 6y ago
Some good replies: "Comes with a built in firewall" "*Default Braiser?" "Still better than Internet Explorer!"
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by 0xDEEPFAC 6y ago
My prediction - the third age of Javascript will be the same as the second with tooling headaches, "transpiling", and fractured dialects. Except in this age we are all forced to use it as major companies sandbox away powerful APIs
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by 0xDEEPFAC 6y ago
I second you and raise you Ada and C++. C is the furthest thing from a high-level programming languages there is... Comparing scripting languages to compiled languages is apples and oranges. The advantage of scripting is supposed to be the
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by 0xDEEPFAC 6y ago
I would be very surprised if they didn't use any pieces used by Edge (how else would they render css?). A quick search of their code though and I couldn't find it. Perhaps I assumed too much
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by 0xDEEPFAC 6y ago
This is electron by another name, Microsoft is forcing us into a web sandbox. If electron is Chrome and Edge is Chrome and Microsoft uses Edge for this - then its all chrome in all directions. Native is much faster and more powerful - WE MU
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by 0xDEEPFAC 6y ago
The thing is I am not sure a large percentage of advertisers are aware of such things and adjust their expectations. Facebook and their ilk encourage you to believe their numbers even though they are mostly phony - I mean how many people do
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by 0xDEEPFAC 6y ago
Spongebob was right - everything in the future will be a chromium-based web app: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p6tvs-qjpA
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by 0xDEEPFAC 6y ago
Maybe we should consider a higher level? For example, with our interconnected highly computerized trading systems and with every megacorp these days heavily invested in financials (think stock buy-backs) who knows? Definitely not the FED Re
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by 0xDEEPFAC 6y ago
Perhaps its time to go back to basics. A focus on health, store-able foods, alternative investments which might survive bond/stock market issues, and family would be imperative in such a "new normal." Vaccination certificates
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by 0xDEEPFAC 6y ago
I would like to think about it another way. Suppose you are a "Youtuber" and you have tens of thousands of subs and use it as an income. You agree to their guidelines and they, in turn, become hugely popular due to your content an
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by 0xDEEPFAC 6y ago
Reminds me of Ada++
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by 0xDEEPFAC 6y ago
> We already have that in the form of TypeScript While an improvement Typescript is a far cry from the likes of Ada and doesn't really compare. > There's not much than can be done when the sole core maintainer of a popular l
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by 0xDEEPFAC 6y ago
Yea, the idea that "modern web programming" is beautiful at all franky makes me cringe. Web programming and the web has separated developers too far from the hardware that actually runs the stuff and, as a result, we have built co
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by 0xDEEPFAC 6y ago
Looks like what he really wants is to use Ada which has had much better support for low-level programming than C. Example: Word : constant := 4; -- storage element is byte, 4 bytes per word type State is (A,M,W,P); type Mode
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by 0xDEEPFAC 7y ago
I disagree with your view of standardization - as restricting changes to be additions to the runtime seems pointless as users could easily use other (often more optimized) libraries. But, I do see the benefit of having a language "froz
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by 0xDEEPFAC 7y ago
Besides the fact that its unintuitive and could lead to low-level or hard-to-find bugs? It seems to me that C would benefit greatly to iron over its many inconsistencies and exactly the kind of thing people expect in new revisions of the la
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by 0xDEEPFAC 7y ago
I disagree that this would be a "breaking" change as many people have already resorted to using extra () and such a change might actually may "fix" broken code which makes the reasonable assumption that things like == ha
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by 0xDEEPFAC 7y ago
Dear god, is the precedence of the "&" operator ever going to be fixed?
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by 0xDEEPFAC 7y ago
In my experience, this line of thinking tends to lead to inefficient and hard-to-manage large projects based on languages which are convenient on a small scale. Cough Electron Cough https://medium.com/commitlog/elec
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by 0xDEEPFAC 7y ago
Relevant comedy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ

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