ClayFerguson

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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
I actually don't like RESTful stuff. I used the term to point out that the conversation between client and server is pure JSON which is the technique REST popularized. meta64 has a 'functional' interface to the server, and ye
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
I bragged specifically about the state-of-the-art architecture. Architecture can be perfected months or even years before a codebase itself is production-ready, and free of all unimportant band-aids/short-cuts. I'm not going thru
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
The 140ch thing was a gimmic that made twitter go viral. That's all it was. It wasn't even an innovation. Limiting text is certainly no innovation. Twitter is afraid to change it, because it's the very thing that made them di
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
Twitter is useful as a type of news source, and way to be notified about certain important events in noteworthy people's lives, and organizations, but for any kind of actual human-to-human interaction it's correct that twitter is
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
Those are not global variables. They're TypeScript namespaces. Everything is in a namespace. I'm using namespaces to accomplish the "singleton pattern" in TypeScript, and to avoid globals. Most modern Java-Spring Server-
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
F1 race car analogy still works: I show you an engine on the test stand, saying it's a good design, and you proceed to point out all the loose wires, duct taped electrical connections, and all the stuff that's there temporarily be
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
The "framework" is Google Polymer. The only thing I use JQuery for is trivial stuff like selecting elements, cookie support, and DOM manipulations, which is exactly what the rest of the industry uses JQuery for, but i bet you didn
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
I showed you an F1 race car up on cinder blocks being worked on so you could see the engine design. You climb in, try to drive it away, and can't so you conclude the engine design is all wrong? Genius. It's not ready to drive yet
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
My site is not finished, so you can't judge it by the experience. However, it is most definitely vastly superior to Wikipedia. meta64 is hierarchical like a directory tree, and can go to any depth. I haven't written the whitepaper
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
I think we agree and are misunderstanding each other. Yes if you have an SPA there is no refresh, no throwing things out, and it's good.
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
lmfao. Maybe Microsoft Word hasn't figured out yet how much more usable Word would be if it scrolled you to the top every time you opened a dialog and closed it. That's hilarious.
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
In my site, the back button takes you to the app you were at BEFORE you went to meta64. If you want to call that a problem fine. Most SPAs abhor the back button, don't want it, don't need it, etc. There is a reason native apps don
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
There's nothing interesting on the site itself. It's a tool, i'm building. Like I said in the post the architecture is what I'm bragging about, not the app. The app is not tested, and all the things you mention don'
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
I tried to reply to your post replying to this about using BACK button, but that is also a disaster for apps. Back button is NEVER used in SPAs. Anyway HN is not showing me a reply button so I can't reply to your actual post to the chi
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
Here's one of a million scenarios i can think of: Say someone is browsing nodes on the meta64 tree, then decides to edit one. I popup an editor and let them edit, they can then cancel out and go back EXACTLY where they were, without a
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
Once your browser has loaded the page, it's always (and I mean 100% of the time) more efficient to get whatever data you need from your server in the form of JSON, and then use that json to update ONLY the part of the page that is chan
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
A page refresh is what I call "throwing things out". Once you load your page, you don't need to load it again. Just make ajax calls to server from then on, and use the JSON response from the server to update the DOM. A page-r
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
lol. I forgot to say look at the github code, not the site, because I have minification turned off right now, and I do have all modules loaded into a single file (so, big initial download right now). The app is not ready for users, it'
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
https://github.com/Clay-Ferguson/meta64 --> is still a work in progress, but if you want to see a great example of modern architecture in a web app, check it out. Yes it's mine. It's running Google Polymer
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
Your bad experiences are not because SPA is a bad idea, but because you did it wrong. Once an app is loaded there's simply no reason to every throw it out and start over. Do native apps have to throw any data away every time they open
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
Right, Emergence is a general term like Entropy, and I chose that on purpose because Emergence is more like the negative of or inverse of Entropy. Emergence is when you get order, complexity, and non-randomness out of pure randomness plus t
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
We have verified (experimentally) that individual particles, whose quantum properties can be individually measured, do obey the rules of SR/GR. That is, space is curved for them in the presence of mass, and time slows down based on vel
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
Emergence is a broad term for when things with definable, reproducable, novel, and predictable behaviors, which can be studied, quantified, and have math rules written about them, arise spontaneously from the lower rule-sets they are built
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
The best way to explain emergence, is with an example, imo. The classic example is to look at Conways' Game of Life, and ask yourself what God must have 'designed' the 'lifeforms' that appear in it. Where is their b
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
There are currently no good theories about why SR and GR hold true. They appear to be as fundamental as QM, but are totally independent of QM. QM always obeys SR/GR in terms of how spacetime behaves, and how mass affects things, etc, b
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
"Emergence": Most everything in science (from Chemistry to Consciousness) is an emergent phenomenon and most people are plain ignorant of the concept and meaning of that word, although I did see it appear a lot in 2016, in scienti
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
I predict that when (not if, but when) the Federal Gov finally does make Marijuana fully legal, they will do whatever is required to make it retroactive. Even if it takes an amendment to the constitution specifically for this purpose it wil
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
I think where you lack is in the common sense to realize I wasn't comparing magnitudes or duration of the episodes but was merely pointing out how mass-delusions and brainwashing makes people basically irrational.
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
I would dare say that there have been millions of people whose lives have been affected very badly by the Marijuana laws, however I didn't look up the incarceration statistics, so if you feel the need to correct that number, no problem
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by ClayFerguson 10y ago
If we ever decriminalize Marijuana at the Federal level, that seems to me like it would mean millions of prisoners held for offenses involving only that drug would need to be set free. In my mind it is a horrible injustice to jail people f

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