BigJono

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by BigJono 9y ago
I like this answer a lot more than the other ones that are just dismissive. I think there's at least some value in these "toy tools". Would being able to tinker with WASM not help development of compilers? I place a very hi
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by BigJono 9y ago
Is there anything inherently bad about a site using your data to serve you more relevant ads, as long as your data is not passed on to a 3rd party?
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by BigJono 9y ago
For sure! Doesn't mean we shouldn't strive to give them a helping hand though. I know I fell victim to the exact same problem when I was learning front-end dev. I'm sure everyone in that space has had a "why on earth hav
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by BigJono 9y ago
The purpose is to un -convince people from using it. Way too often people have already made up their mind by the time they reach the docs, based purely on how popular the tool is, how flashy the front page is, or whatever bad advice they&#
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by BigJono 9y ago
Don't get me started on the framework buzzword bullshit. I'm so sick of developers that launch into 50 tool stacks just to tick the boxes. Whether it's resume driven development or just plain ignorance, it seems to be pervasi
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by BigJono 9y ago
Maybe documentation for everything should contain use cases, first, before anything. Every Javascript tool has documentation the wrong way round. Quick start guides and installation instructions are useless if you don't even have a goo
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by BigJono 9y ago
> Plus, being a superset means that if you want to 'drop into' JS to take advantage of some quirk or whatever at any time, you can just disable your linter and do the deed. This is an exact example of what GP was talking about
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by BigJono 9y ago
Nobody wants to be a cashier for 8 hours a day though. The only reason we see losing your job to automation as a negative is because our welfare and education systems are broken. All you're really doing is creating more pointless wor
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by BigJono 9y ago
Why? If you're an average citizen in the US, Europe, Australia etc, then why wouldn't you care more about attacks in other western countries than you would about attacks in Africa? The majority of people in western countries aren&
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by BigJono 9y ago
I love prototypical inheritence. I find it much tidier and easier to understand than the class based inheritence in other C family languages. I really wish that class syntax did not become a thing in Javascript. IMO that was the biggest mis
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by BigJono 9y ago
How is that opposite? The ideas aren't mutually exclusive
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by BigJono 9y ago
My last 4 properties have been 4Mb/s, the aforementioned 1.5Mb/s, a place that had 30Mb/s cable, and now 6Mb/s. All south-eastern suburbs. I'd say inner suburbs like Fitzroy are probably batting above average. You&#
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by BigJono 9y ago
The median connection in Melbourne, Australia is around 6/1. I'd count your blessings. Last year my house was only serviced by one ISP and the only connection available was 1.5/0.2 ADSL. Half the modern webpages we go to don&
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by BigJono 9y ago
That's all well and good in countries where you don't pay $10/GB for mobile data...
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by BigJono 9y ago
Only the inner suburb markets though. Once you're >10km out of the city center it's all Menulog and UberEats, with a smattering of people using EatNow.
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by BigJono 9y ago
And god help you if you find yourself in the media crosshairs at any point. Which is even more likely if you go to trial since "paedophile gets community service/fine" is an absolute slam dunk of a headline and nobody other t
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by BigJono 9y ago
> The balancing between protection of the abused and individual freedom is easy to make: on one hand, you have children being raped, on the other hand, you have young lovers that may have to wait a few years before fucking. I would say t
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by BigJono 9y ago
So? What does that have to do with Soylent? Their success could be a product of a better logo, better marketing team, pure dumb luck, or a million other things. To insinuate that they're only seen as revolutionary because a man invente
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by BigJono 9y ago
Yes though I'd probably recommend exploiting this in games that are slightly less regulated if you enjoy being free from prison...
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by BigJono 9y ago
That's a symptom of people not understanding the concept of complexity and falling victim to the law of leaky abstractions. People don't work towards reducing complexity in large applications (which involves trimming dependencies,
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by BigJono 9y ago
On my side projects at home, I can't even remember the last time I had to slow down or got stuck on maintenance/integration type stuff (as opposed to new functionality or algorithms, which don't rely on existing code). And I
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by BigJono 9y ago
Any danger of a paragraph or two explaining what makes this worthy of being on the top of HN? Or are we all just upvoting dime a dozen React boilerplates now because we just love React so much? For the sake of some discussion, I think these
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by BigJono 9y ago
I feel like this is a problem everywhere. I notice it every day in front-end development. Library/tools documentation almost always open with a "quick start guide", completely skipping over the question of "why". It
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by BigJono 9y ago
> The main issue getting definitions for some less common libraries. That's one problem. The other is discipline. It's just way too easy to opt out of the type system. It shouldn't be a problem, but in the world of deadlin
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by BigJono 9y ago
> I've found that deeply nested structures make it more cumbersome to write reducers for. Well, that's kind of his point isn't it? It's no more difficult to update a deeply nested regular Javascript object. But it is
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by BigJono 9y ago
Yep. I've been working with React for years now, over several large projects. I still feel like I'm not used to it, and I still hate it. That's not normal. We need to either figure out how to do this shit with mutable data st
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by BigJono 9y ago
I'm not so sure that's the analogy you're after. You'd have a much, much better chance of winning with the guns, unless you're fighting on a perfectly flat field (in which case you're toast either way). I don&#
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by BigJono 9y ago
That seems like an extraordinary claim. If the bears were eating moths for 10 hours straight, they'd have to catch and consume more than one moth every second to hit that number... I must be vastly underestimating the amount of moths i
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by BigJono 9y ago
I'm not sure I follow. It sounds like you're blaming blogs and online media for the decline in credibility of newspapers. Newspapers aren't credible anymore because they continuously make the conscious decision to run bullshi
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by BigJono 9y ago
Yep, I read the Guardian's Australian edition every now and then and some of their stuff is absolute rubbish. I'd love to know what the go-to center-left news source is over here. So far I haven't found it...

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