TimJYoung

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by TimJYoung 8y ago
I was thinking something similar while reading the blog post: the UNIX philosophy is to do one thing, do it well, and stop there. As you say, none of those things lend themselves to monetization if the source code is available for free and
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
We have such an environment, called Elevate Web Builder: https://www.elevatesoft.com/products?category=ewb&type=web Pros: - Uses a statically-typed language (Object Pascal), compiled to JS, code compression is a simple
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
I think we're talking past each other here (I understand what CDA 230 is supposed to do, I'm referring to how its been used/interpreted). Here is, perhaps, a better version of what I'm trying to say: https:/&#x2F
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Yes, but is it being used that way ? Everything that I've seen has indicated that service providers use this law to play it both ways: they actively control what users see through algorithms, but then claim that they are (largely) n
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
I think the solution may lie with changes to, or removal of, Section 230 of the CDA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati... I suspect that forcing those that host 3rd party content/discuss
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
I'm not sure if we've seen this entirely play out yet. We're now seeing content companies (supply) starting to exert their power over the internet/media intermediaries (Disney is the recent example), so it may end up be
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Ahhh, yes, in that case it seems like you might possibly be better off (and happier ! :-) ) with just using a page-oriented architecture. It seems like the client-side state is just getting in your way, as opposed to being helpful in any w
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
"Why should I care about proprietary software competition?" Because without it we all pay much higher prices than we normally would, and we get sub-par quality/innovation. Unless you're somehow intimating that proprieta
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Thank you for verbalizing something that has been on my mind a lot lately. We seemed to have reached this dystopian state where people will do all sorts of horrible things to others, but they do so with a smile on their face and we excuse
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Most JSON/data APIs for SPAs are similar to SQL database servers: maintaining a persistent connection is useful for performance reasons, but there's nothing about the API that dictates that it's required. The only state that
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Legitimate question: if you have multiple pages, are you still actually creating an SPA ? That may be the problem that you're encountering, and I can sympathize. Nobody wants to transfer state across page loads, it's a mess...
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
My problem with the idea that SPAs, as an idea, are inherently more difficult to develop is that this doesn't translate to desktop/mobile applications, which are, conceptually, very similar in architecture (fat UI client, app se
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Actually, he's 100% correct. The way that open source is used by very large tech companies today is way, way worse than anything MS ever did. MS never got a stranglehold on the network in the way that companies like Google have been
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Yep, that makes sense, thanks.
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Yes, I understand how JS works. My company markets and sells a web development IDE that includes an Object Pascal->JS compiler. Re: your definition of "internal": I suspected that this was what you meant. I also disagree with
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
"Static typing is just for internal quality." Frankly, I don't even know what to do with such a statement. What is your definition of "internal" ? I just did a very large re-factor of a codebase a few days ago wh
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
All good points, but I'm having a hard time with this statement: "There is still value in a function declaring that its argument is of type User (and not defensively checking it) even if it is theoretically possible, in the presen
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
You cannot pursue "pure capitalism" to its logical end. Like "pure communism", it just ends in misery and suffering for everyone. "Productivity" cannot be re-defined so that those that do the actual labor are
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Better is a very subjective term here, which was my point. The lower-to-middle class person is still subject to all kinds of economic issues that are of zero concern to the wealthy person.
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
If you pursue "efficiency" to extremes like this, you're going to bump up against political and social realities that are going to ruin your efficiencies in ways that make giving pay increases seem like a no-brainer.
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but is he trying to say that if a lower-to-middle-class person now makes $10K more than his parents (who made $40k combined), that somehow that is better than the wealthy person that now makes $10K less than hi
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Beautiful, thanks for the links.
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Only if you assume that everything that a given person says is bad/unwelcome. But, people aren't like that, and hold all kinds of different views on different subjects, some of which they may have extensive background in, and o
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
We're talking about pretty significant improvements in network I/O performance (among other things) with a unikernel, correct ? My understanding is that there have been several projects that have revolved around putting Linux net
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
I'm not sure that this is such a bad thing, given that more and more people are working non-physical jobs and can continue to do so as they get older. Personally, I have no problem with anyone that worked physical labor their whole li
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Coming from a (primarily Windows) desktop development background, I can definitely tell you that JS/HTML/CSS and the DOM is some of the most complex, over-engineered stuff to ever see the light of day. It seems simple, but that
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Why the World is Running Out of Pilots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cognzTud3Wg Edit: I'm not a pilot, just a kid that never grew up and likes airplane stuff...
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Yes: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/fileapi...
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
You can watch the Joe Rogan episode on YouTube to see her side of the story in its entirety. But, regardless of what she gives as the reasons for this particular tweet: no, there is no way that someone should be judged entirely by the conte
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by TimJYoung 8y ago
Yes, that is a great quote - a lot of insight packed into a short sentence. I cannot seem to remember where I saw this said (it was a video, probably Sam Harris's podcast), but it was effectively the same idea: we're simply going

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