BigJono

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by BigJono 8y ago
To be fair, it's a blind sight better than what passes for "news" in any mainstream print newspaper I've seen in my country lately.
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by BigJono 8y ago
"Time to time" is reductive even. Large Javascript projects succeed all the time, and have done for decades. This whole thread needs a bit of perspective, no matter what you think of Typescript, the web wasn't invented in 201
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by BigJono 8y ago
You're conflating a trivial function with a trivial API. The whole reason I jumped into this thread is because classnames is a great example of a trivial function with a non-trivial API. Yes, you do need to look up either the docs or
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by BigJono 8y ago
> Yeah, and in CR you should be told not to use the object form when you have "true" as the value, as it's pointless. That's what string form is for. The "docs" are literally 5 lines where you learn you can
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by BigJono 8y ago
I never said anything about writing the dependency. I'm talking about reading and writing code that uses it. Of course it's easier to read a trivial function than the docs for a trivial function. That's what makes it trivial,
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by BigJono 8y ago
I've walked past tons of stuff lying around in display cases at Monash Caulfield without knowing anything about it. Wouldn't mind finding out more now...
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by BigJono 8y ago
Yeah and if you've analysed 100 sets of docs for 100 dependencies you've done a ton more work than writing 100 trivial functions. Why does everyone in JS land treat dependencies like they're just some free magic, as if an int
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by BigJono 8y ago
Yeah this argument falls flat in the case of classnames where we're comparing reading a two liner function with reading a page of docs for a library. It's like everyone in JS land is allergic to writing a piece of code that isn&#x
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by BigJono 8y ago
Yeah, agree. I've worked on both very simple and intuitive Javascript codebases, and absolutely heinous ones that should honestly just be abandoned. I do think JS has a lot more variation in complexity than other ecosystems though.
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by BigJono 8y ago
> Or in the web dev world, a framework might abstract away the underlying standards and add complexity on top to seem simple, but actually make the domain more complex with more to learn and push for developer lock in to the framework ov
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by BigJono 8y ago
Well, they've had some success, but Dawn of War 3 was an absolute train wreck. Relic aren't exactly in the best form as of late.
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by BigJono 8y ago
Here's a novel idea. Most founders work long hours. Their work is their life (for the most part). I wasn't aware you had to take a vow of celibacy to start a company... Also 'inappropriate incidents' is completely undefi
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by BigJono 8y ago
Isn't that what a real estate agent is for? Half the places I've rented the past 5 years have been owned by some random bloke in China...
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by BigJono 8y ago
Any ruling other than "tough titties" would be fucking insane here. Unsecured API endpoints are public. I was going to say it's like leaving a folder of sensitive info on the train and complaining when someone accesses it, bu
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by BigJono 8y ago
PT has hands down one of the worst UIs I've ever seen in a tool. It's an absolute clusterfuck next to something like Trello.
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by BigJono 8y ago
I've only ever seen them in Melbourne's inner east. There might be a few around the Brighton or Waverley areas, but I doubt anyone owns one anywhere else.
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by BigJono 8y ago
If you don't feel the need to add another dependency, why would you do so?
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by BigJono 8y ago
> You have to look at really successful indie games, such as Terraria, Factorio, Mini Metro, Stardew Valley, Darkest Dungeon, Papers Please.. and there are many more. If you look at these games do you really think there is an alternative
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by BigJono 8y ago
Factorio also has some of the most compelling gameplay that almost perfectly fills a niche I've ever seen. OP's game is a Metroidvania in 2018...
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by BigJono 8y ago
The easiest way to find an underserved niche is to find a beloved series that died, or has been on life support for 10+ years with devs that just continuously drop the ball and can't recreate the magic. See: Stardew Valley, Cities Skyl
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by BigJono 8y ago
Pretty hard to learn vanilla JavaScript when you're stuck in the mud 8 abstractions above it, trying to keep up.
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by BigJono 8y ago
The laws of mathematics don't apply in Australia.
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by BigJono 8y ago
Because the price of rent in major city centres is ludicrous, I assume.
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by BigJono 8y ago
The infuriating thing about React is that, by itself, it has a very high power to complexity ratio. By far the best out of any of the big front-end tools. But for some reason the community absolutely insists on piling 10 tonnes of crap on t
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by BigJono 8y ago
Progressive Web Apps aren't universally a good idea. I'm sharing a 6Mb/s down link with 5 other people. The absolute last thing I want is every website to pre-cache 40 pages for every page I browse.
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by BigJono 8y ago
Certainly sounds like it. I find this bit pretty funny though: > entire enterprise cloud stack written in only the newest of the new JS frameworks and containers I'm of the opinion that the JS ecosystem is one of the few spaces wher
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by BigJono 8y ago
Welcome to the wonderful world of code re-use. Hey, at least we're not re-inventing the wheel.
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by BigJono 8y ago
I definitely agree with this. I think there's obviously a point where the complexity savings from using a macro outweigh the inherent disadvantages. But I'd also guess that a large percentage of the programmers using them wouldn&#
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by BigJono 8y ago
It seems quite intuitive that the complexity of code scales with the amount of build time logic it contains, whether that be C macros, JS transpilation, or whatever else. I think if a lot of developers programmed with this mindset we'd
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by BigJono 8y ago
"Truly stunning incompetence" is generous. Everything that has happened to the NBN from 2013 onwards has been pure malice. There's no "incompetence" about it.

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