JDDunn9

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by JDDunn9 11y ago
Finance hasn't contributed nearly as much to global GDP as your post suggests. Innovation (specifically the industrial revolution) has been the key driver of improved productivity. Everything of value has to be based on something real.
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A few notes about the shift from manufacturing to a service based economy: - Services take a larger share of GDP by staying flat while prices of goods fall. You pay less for most manufactured goods than you did 20 years ago, while your hair
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by JDDunn9 11y ago
I wish someone would give PRT a chance. Something like skyTran could be built for 1/5th the cost and would be significantly faster for commuters (since most time is spent at stops before yours).
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The Next Step Artificial Intelligence Has Been Waiting For(lucid.ai)
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Robotic Cooks, Servers and Noodle-Cutting Devices(therobotreport.com)
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Based on the down-votes I'm assuming most React users don't actually know what the virtual DOM is...
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by JDDunn9 11y ago
> 1. Vue uses the actual DOM not virtual DOM like react Facebook really should have named the Virtual DOM something different to avoid this confusion. The "Virtual DOM" is not an alternative to the DOM (which would be impossibl
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by JDDunn9 11y ago
Using Polymer(...) instead of document.registerElement(...) means that for anyone to re-use a component I build, they will need Polymer as a dependency. There will likely be more web component based libraries popping up, so then I'm go
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I am currently building a large SPA in pure javascript (custom elements mostly) and it's wonderful. It's great to work with real components instead of React's hacked kinda-sorta-components.
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The custom element polyfill is 2KB gzipped. All browsers are on board with supporting it. No, polyfills are not akin to frameworks, and yes, I am building a large SPA using just custom elements (no framework) and it's amazing.
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Absolutely. React creates a dependency at the worst possible place, the view/component level. That's the one part of your code that should be the most re-useable. How many times do we have to re-write the same image galleries? The
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I think this depends on the language. In languages where there is a de-facto standard framework, like Python & Django or Ruby & Rails, frameworks are very useful. Then slightly less useful in languages where there are many competing
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Goodyear Made Spherical MagLev Tires That Are Totally Nuts(popularmechanics.com)
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February 2015: The Position Gap(media.dice.com)
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No. Google and Bing can index JS apps just fine, however many social sites still don't pull the title/descriptions from dynamically generated pages when you click the sharing button.
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by JDDunn9 11y ago
I just switched from RethinkDB to Postgres as well, although my issues were more with NoSQL than RethinkDB specifically. With JSON support in PG, and the ability to let Amazon RDS handle DB admin/scalability, I don't see any reaso
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> My bigger problem has been relying on 3rd party components that hold me back due to some incompatibility they don't address for months. Welcome to dependency hell :) It happens with all frameworks. The only solution is to use vani
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What gotchas are you referring to? I thought Delaware was the shell corp state of choice because of no taxes and laws that favor businesses.
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This Is the Most Amazing Biomimetic Anthropomorphic Robot Hand We've Ever Seen(spectrum.ieee.org)
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A Practical Collection of Everyday Web Components(bosonic.github.io)
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by JDDunn9 11y ago
Related: Performance of ES6 features relative to the ES5 baseline operations per second. - http://kpdecker.github.io/six-speed/
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Unmanned Systems Capital Markets Transactions – 2nd Quarter 2015(westburygroup.com)
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Rambo II re-iterated the fiction that massive POWs were still in Vietnam. Watch the History Channel and you'll see almost no mention of agent orange, and none (that I've seen) would ever use the phrase "chemical warfare&quot
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A 3rd option would be to simply apply good programming standards like a function doing one thing and only one thing.
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New Construction Robot Lays Bricks 3 Times as Fast as Human Workers(archdaily.com)
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"Full" auto-pilot. Soon, battery tech will allow us to fly light aircraft on all electric. If people could go to a mini-airport only for short takeoff and landing aircraft (STOL), and get in a 4-seater that will fly to their desti
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Yeah, riding a tricycle in the sky (no resistance)
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I kinda feel like the VR bike simulation would be the most boring experience. Put something like Mario Kart up there.
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No VC has "a few" $200+ billion investments. The $1+ billion are suppose to be the successes that make up for the $1+ million failures.
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I think React won the HN front page, where anyone who criticizes it or promotes another technology gets down-voted. However outside this bubble, ReactJS has a very long way to go before adoption rates make it a contender for top library ( h

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