AriaMinaei

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by AriaMinaei 11y ago
This is very interesting. My question is, could this be implemented on top of an existing editor, like Sublime or Atom? I'm guessing that that would lower the barrier of entry for most people, including me. (I for example, found the de
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by AriaMinaei 11y ago
>> Define success clearly and don’t flip-flop on the definition without new information. Does anyone have an example for this?
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by AriaMinaei 11y ago
I see. But I think this "system that lets you see how what you do affects other people" should be applied to everything we do, not just charity. It should be mainly about your job and what you do that pays you. I wanna say why I t
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by AriaMinaei 11y ago
Well, I have an unbaked thought that says assigning numbers to people's contribution to the world is going to create the wrong kind of incentives. The problem is that it's (probably) impossible to summarize someone's effects
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by AriaMinaei 11y ago
I'm going to assume that people getting laid off is the fault of software makers and software makers only, for the sake of argument of course. Even then, it's good to know how your work affects people, whether positive or negative
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by AriaMinaei 11y ago
This could work not just for donating blood, but for pretty much any kind of service. Imagine if you could see, in real time, how your job affects other people's lives, even in the most mundane way. It would let you see the value of wh
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by AriaMinaei 11y ago
> If we shrink that other 90%, so that the formerly 10% is now 80%, renaming becomes more attractive. Convinced :)
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by AriaMinaei 11y ago
Well, the bitcode is apparently an encoding of LLVM IR, which doesn't translate back to the original source code http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5180914/llvm-ir-back-to-h...
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by AriaMinaei 11y ago
Well, I didn't really say I wish WebAssembly didn't exist (although the title of my comment somehow implied that). I've written a more complete discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9743859
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Well, gzip is general purpose. A binary format would be aware of JS' semantics and possibly yield much higher compression rates. In fact, WASM's binary format is intended to be that way and apparently is yields more compression th
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by AriaMinaei 11y ago
I agree that renaming symbols would still save a few more bytes, but I still think that with the right file format, symbol renaming and mangling would become an insignificant, unnecessary micro-optimization. But that should only be tested i
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by AriaMinaei 11y ago
I agree that giving authors more freedom is a good thing, but as I argued, it also has serious downsides. But I think there are ways to keep the best of both worlds. I wrote a comment here with more detail: https://news.ycombinat
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Because the source-map may not be available. And they might not know Rust. Or perhaps having to setup a Rust dev env to play with this code is too much work and it's just not worth it. Anyway, I think I should explain my thoughts bette
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by AriaMinaei 11y ago
There is an interesting discussion going on here, and I'd like to share a few more thoughts for clarification. There is a TL/DR at the bottom. --- My main point is that we should see openness as a primary goal in the design of the
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by AriaMinaei 11y ago
Very interesting. Are there any books/studies/examples of commercial companies doing something like this?
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by AriaMinaei 11y ago
The question of "How open?" should be answered in a design process where "As open as possible" is kept as a goal, along other goals such as "As fast as possible" and "As safe as possible", etc. They s
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by AriaMinaei 11y ago
A cultural solution, to me, sounds like the ultimate goal. But I observe that culture usually arises from the constraints that a society lives with. I think many people would gladly opt-in to adopt the standard you proposed, but perhaps com
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by AriaMinaei 11y ago
I think the only way the web could remain mostly-JS apps, is if the benefits of writing mostly-JS apps would outweigh the benefits of writing, well, not-mostly-JS apps. And I'm not sure if that's gonna be true. For example, I&#x27
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by AriaMinaei 11y ago
Agreed, but the idea is still beneficial. If 1:1 binary representation for the data from the lexer doesn't yield much benefit, then a representation for the AST might. And reading from that data could be much faster. And with a suppose
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by AriaMinaei 11y ago
We should try to make the web faster. But it seems to me as though that in this process, there is no discussion about keeping the web readable. (Sourcemap's can be turned off.) I don't think these two features, fast+readable, op
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by AriaMinaei 11y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9735042 I think this feature is instrumental, or rather should be instrumental. We are talking about the platform that will soon define the main medium of human expression. It's no
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by AriaMinaei 11y ago
The binary format that I mentioned/proposed would map one-to-one with a text format. They would be interchangeable. That means if you open a file in that binary format in a text editor (with the right plugin), you'd see almost exa
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by AriaMinaei 11y ago
The web is hard to read because people have an incentive to use alternative languages/tooling to produce web content. These alternatives wouldn't exist (or be so widely used) if the web provided the benefits that these tools give.
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by AriaMinaei 11y ago
AFAIK, WebAssembly code will come from places like LLVM IR. The compiler pipeline can simply choose to omit references to the original source code. Without the source, the WA code (whether in binary or text) will be just IR data. I haven&#x
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by AriaMinaei 11y ago
I agree that the web is far from the full ideal of "open-by-design", but it's still the most significant platform providing it to some extent. The problem of uglify can be mitigated if someone invented a binary format for JS
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by AriaMinaei 11y ago
Does everyone think this is good news? I'm all for making the web faster/safer/better and all that. But I am worried about losing the web's "open by design" nature. Much of what I've learned and am learnin
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by AriaMinaei 11y ago
People sometimes mistake Iranian hospitality with taarof. I guess that happens when they learn about taarof but don't understand it well enough to tell it apart from genuine hospitality. Fake taarof is usually given with words well kno
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A video tutorial running natively in a browser with JS/HTML/CSS and no tags(gelobi.org)
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