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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
In the above discussion I focused on the technologies, programming languages, and the core of the technical issue. You seem to focus on personalities, feelings, and emotions. To each his own, I guess. And about me knowing Deno did want to
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
> Except, apparently, for the topic of this article. Well, Deno devs did try to use TypeScript, and just ran into some challenges, and decided to throw the baby out with the bath water. I've seen this a lot in my 30yrs exp.: some
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
Every developer, regardless of skill level, makes mistakes and typos. The beauty of type-safety in TypeScript is that the compiler catches it instantly, in a way that is simply humanly impossible. If I misspell something, or provide the wro
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
And if you converted your code to TypeScript you'd immediately find the 100 or 1000 bugs you have that you're just unaware of until they bite. People who have done such a conversion before know this, and unanimously will agree. Th
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
Here's a pretty sizable project I wrote in pure TypeScript: https://github.com/Clay-Ferguson/quantizr I have 5 years experience in TS and 20 in JS. Trust me, if you don't yet understand the value of type-safe
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by WClayFerguson 6y ago
Using JS instead of TypeScript is very short-sighted and they will regret it, eventually. Sounds like they got frustrated and gave up. Their arguments remind me of someone saying they want to use Assembly Language instead of C++, because as
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by WClayFerguson 7y ago
It really seems like there should be some kind of "SyncGUI" app built into Linux that does this sync with a nice GUI, and maybe there is one, I've never looked that up... because all it needs to do is prompt for source and de
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by WClayFerguson 7y ago
Use rsync to make one folder structure match another by copying only the changed parts of files. You can sync many gigabytes VERY quickly this way. You'll want to have an external USB3.0 drive to get from one machine to another IMO, be
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by WClayFerguson 7y ago
I've worked mostly on massive apps with 400K to 1 or 2 million lines of code, in many projects, so the concept of linearly reading thru the code is something that just never happens. But with a "keep it simple" philosophy the
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by WClayFerguson 7y ago
"Expedited" haha. yep. I mean there are times when something is going to cause just totally complex code to be required, but in those cases there should almost always be a full paragraph of "explanation" (documentation
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by WClayFerguson 7y ago
This is so true for beginning developers. They tend to have a mindset that once they run something and it appears to work, then that means they likely got it right. In reality the code might be right for 90% of use cases, but once you multi
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by WClayFerguson 7y ago
Amen! Developers spend their first decade learning how to write complex code, and be clever, and compress everything into the fewest and hardest-to-read smallest amount of code possible. Their second decade they learn that simplicity and re
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by WClayFerguson 7y ago
Lucene is the best search technology, in my humble opinion, and is amazingly fast. MongoDB has it built in (full-text search, based on Lucene) and I'm using it in the project I'm working on.
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by WClayFerguson 7y ago
1) Regarding the gov't taking down servers publishing hashes it doesn't like, yes that's exactly what I said they'd have to do, if you go back and re-read my prior post. Glad you agree. But like BitTorrent or Bitcoin, th
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by WClayFerguson 7y ago
In my opinion 99.99999% of the content on the web are created not with some revenue goal in mind (to sell access to it) but in order to share some information openly like a blog, or collaborate and participate in some social network, etc. I
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by WClayFerguson 7y ago
You're claiming that if a piece of information has an identity that makes it reachable, then that makes it censorable too, but you left out what would be required to make that censorship happen. The gov't would have to require the
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by WClayFerguson 7y ago
That's right, no single person or organization is going to voluntarily pay for all the storage for all the rest of humanity. No one would suggest that would or should happen, and I'm sure you weren't either. The question is:
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by WClayFerguson 7y ago
IPFS + FileCoin is currently the 'best attempt' at this and is so far succeeding. It's like a blockchain.
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by WClayFerguson 7y ago
IPFS and blockchains are the technological solution here. Many applications are already being developed to create this new Web3.0 document-centric world (I'm creating one of them!) which will provide a "way" to have the origi
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by WClayFerguson 7y ago
I think Daniel's ideas are very similar to the sentiments of pretty much everyone fed up with Social Media and their censorship and the fact that a few monopoly tech companies control the flow of information nowadays (FANG+Twitter), ra
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by WClayFerguson 7y ago
I agreed with and enjoyed this 'document'! I think the new Web3.0, and blockchains, and IPFS are going to lead to a new web that is more like it was in the old days where people were sharing actual documents. I'm the creator