AnkhMorporkian

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   by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago

   It was in the GIF of the Gatsby 3 implementation in the embedded tweet. Here's a direct link to the tweet to save you some time: https://twitter.com/nystudio107/status/920673966091534338?re... Edit: Maybe the
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   by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago

   I didn't mean to refer to blurred images, but the unblurred outline SVGs in this article. I think the blurred ones are somewhat pointless too. The unblurred versions give you actual information as to what the image is. For instance, th
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   by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago

   I disagree. If you have a user on a very slow connection on an image heavy site, the user experience will be enhanced significantly. Depending on how you implement it, you might even save them bandwidth. No interesting content for them in t
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   by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago

   When the new Pixi version is dropped into place (I finished coding that recently) it performs much better on Firefox. I agree that with the current version it's definitely not great. Edit: Just to be clear, when I say much better, I do
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   by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago

   Apologies, I'm a few glasses of wine in, and your elucidation made it much clearer. Thank you for your response!
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   by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago

   > at least he did something. I mean no offense, because I do sorta appreciate what you're going for, but this is almost the most philosophically, semantically, and most sillily empty sentence that exists. Everyone does something. Pe
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   by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago

   Plenty of us dorks complain about Stallman's worldview and philosophy. I won't complain about the contributions he's made to computing, or even the world in general, but striking it lucky doesn't make you philosophically
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   by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago

   > It's so rare to see people brag about being reckless, irresonsible, and wasteful of resources they cannot afford to waste. I hate being sardonic, but we are on hacker news.
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   by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago

   That's a fascinating fact as an Irish descendant in America of emigrants who left because of the famine, but I have to wonder if it's cherry picked. Is the same true of any number smaller than 100? If I don't get an answer, I
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    by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago

    I mean, I've worked for several companies and left months before they actually launched. Any contractor who works with startups have been through similar situations. Can't speak for OP's situation though.
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    by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago

    I think #1 is the most realistic. Intel does some very significant work with Numpy as it is with MKL. #2 seems like dark voodoo magic that'd be neat, but pretty much impossible.
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    by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago

    I honestly can't tell if you mean Trump or Torvalds.
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    by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago

    I'm not sure how familiar with it you are, but that's kinda a result of flux/redux architecture. There's a global state that things are passed props to. If there is some change triggered as the result of a component bei
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    by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago

    I mildly disagree. componentWillMount() is slightly superior to the constructor, though only for very specific situations[0]. I would agree that for the vast majority of people who use ES6, the difference basically doesn't exist, but t
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    by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago

    I believe the OP was saying that JSX is transformed into pure javascript, not that it's literally javascript.
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    by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago

    I hate saying it, but that actually seems fair in a way. If I was interviewing for a company at 66, I could see why they wouldn't want to hire me. There's a solid chance I'd leave the next year when I get social security. Tha
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    by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago

    I think ageism (in software) is largely a problem in startup culture. I've never seen a trace of it, but a few of my older friends with beaucoup experience have tried to join startups and told they weren't a "fit for the cult
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    by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago

    I like Pantry, but I live in a small town where Fresh isn't available. Thanks for the warning though.
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    by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago

    Wait, 550 to one house? That's... amazing. I had 43 this year and I thought I was a hopeless case.
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    by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago

    I'm curious, why wouldn't sqlite cut it? Granted, I'm not a blockchain afficiando, but I have several sqlite DBs that run a couple hundred gigabytes a piece that work quite well.
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    by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago

    I don't mean to be a naysayer, but if you want to program a real game, Elm really isn't the language to do it in. Perhaps at some point in the future it'll be a language to watch, but there are far better options available ri
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    by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago

    I cannot confirm this in any way, but one of my Russian friends told me he had Cirrhosis and was being treated for it.
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    by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago

    I... well, I kinda expected it. Facebook wanted their products to be used, but it was obviously their legal department that made them put the patent clause in. The more people who develop using their libraries, the more contributions they g
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    by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago

    I think you probably are fairly special. Most people I know have had some pretty intense infections that could have been fatal, though only two of them would have certainly been fatal. As for myself, I've had a jaw infection that actua
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    by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago

    I'm having a hard time finding much about the visual language, but does it happen to convert into a proper text-based scripting language? I love the idea of my designer being able to piece some stuff together with next to no programmin
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    by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago

    For someone with no real interest in cryptography, do elliptic curves have any other interesting applications in computer science?
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    by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago

    Interesting, I truly had no idea women produced any amount of testosterone. Maybe it would be possible to ramp that up, and that would be a big development! Re: Males producing estrogen, that's why I focused on the FtM in my previous r
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    by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago

    I will take you word for it. As I said, IANAB, but I thought testosterone production in XX individuals was near 0.
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    by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago

    IANAB = I am not a biologist. I know there's SRY, and that does kick things off, but I also know there's a disorder where SRY translocates to the X chromosome. It causes otherwise XX individuals to develop as a male, but they don&
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    by AnkhMorporkian 9y ago

    I'm not sure if that's a realistic hope. IANAB, but FtM individuals don't have a Y chromosome to work with, so I don't see how they could get the genetic coding to make testes work. You could use a biological male's