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by _bxg1 6y ago
From what I can tell it's a wholesale replacement for Webpack + Babel + whichever other loaders you're using. If you're not from the JS ecosystem and that description doesn't make sense to you, I can see why it might be
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> designed for building reliable, scalable, high performance So tired of leading blurbs like this
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Well there are two kinds of public shareholders, right. There may be a small number who own large enough shares to bother attending board meetings and voting, and then there are the millions with pensions, 401ks, index funds, etc. I think y
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I'm not excusing it, I'm only being pragmatic. It's well and good to push people to be more ethical, but relying on that trait is a separate question. The human conscience doesn't do very well with abstractions. The fu
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It's not an outcome that public investors are incentivized to optimize for. That's the problem.
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I think it would be more accurate to say this is what happens when you let the shareholders who are too far removed from the business itself run the business. Those are the people who'd like a company to be a simple growing-asset in th
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Mint is well-liked and often used as an alternative to Ubuntu, and it's known for being reasonably lightweight. I haven't used it myself in several years.
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I know there's data to show this could work, and I'm not against it personally, but this has to be the worst possible moment to be trying to get people on board with a decrease in economic activity.
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It's ugly and the GUI performs like mud on my computer. But it's free and full-featured, so it's hard to complain too much.
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But there's a big difference: a press release is very up-front about being a curated message from the company. The scary thing here is that it's masquerading as independent coverage.
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But online there are legal requirements around marking ads as ads. Is there no such law for televised news?
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Twitter labels Trump tweets as ‘potentially misleading’ for the first time(theverge.com)
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Here's mine; I'm pretty proud of it. It's JavaScript but the only meaningful dependencies are Express (basic HTTP server) and a markdown parser. It's basically a hand-rolled static site generator + a static file server.
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Don't forget languages written in the form of a bitmap :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language#...
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I think this is good advice under one assumption: your intent is to create a practical language that other people will adopt for real products. Reasons you might make a language that isn't bound by the above questions: - For learning -
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Yeah, nothing is a bigger turn-off for me on the home page for a language or framework than starting off with "Helps you build [some combination of] simple , maintainable , fast , scalable software". No kidding! You and every
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That may apply in many cases, but I don't think an engineer or manager at Facebook can use that excuse. They'd have lots of other options.
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I think it's mostly denialism (which is cultivated by management). This is a great article about it: https://newrepublic.com/article/155212/worked-capital-one-fi...
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I think the idea with this kind of thing is that ML can make pretty-good guesses really quickly, and then a formalized process can verify them (usually much more quickly than it could derive them). This hybrid model fits lots of different k
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by _bxg1 6y ago
What an incredibly petty set of complaints. - "It takes ~3 seconds for WSL2 to start up the first time" - "Windows Terminal [gasp] has animations " - "The new spotlight search isn't already flawless " -
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For those like me who don't edit text from the terminal often enough to memorize any vim or emacs shortcuts, your system probably ships with nano, which is a dead-simple editor built for people like us: https://en.m.wikipedi
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Ah, yeah. Flow files do, unfortunately, stick with the .js extension by convention. However, it's still terrible practice to publish a node module that doesn't include a plain JS version of everything.
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I generally just kill the whole terminal
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The idea is that you accidentally opened vim and have no idea how to use it, including how to close it
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The main problem is the sudden influx of money, and all the people driven out (or homeless) by the increased cost of living. Dunno what can be done about that.
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I think we're going to see some divergence in the remote-work frenzy. I believe that when your product is still in an open-ended stage, and/or when your engineers are closer to the product side of things, there's still benefi
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by _bxg1 6y ago
The shortcomings of JS are rooted in its legacy baggage. Go had none of that. JS today is a good language emerging from the ashes of a bad one, but there are a lot of ashes, and some of them are impossible to completely shake off.
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The module syntax inconsistency situation is atrocious but we're gradually making the transition. Now that we have a clear destination, I suspect it will be a non-issue in a few years. Projects like Deno and Pika are accelerating/
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This is a great one: https://www.filfre.net He did an incredibly thorough nine-part series on the history of Windows from DOS through 3.1 and the antitrust cases. It was fascinating. There's tons of other stuff here too.
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It really doesn't have to though. TypeScript can look like C# or it can look like Haskell, or it can be one in some places and the other in other places. This is my favorite property of [JT]S. You can simply use the best tool for the t

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