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by _bxg1 6y ago
> The VM implementation is under 4,000 semicolons. > Lightweight fibers are core to the execution model and let you organize your program into a flock of communicating coroutines. > Wren is intended for embedding in applications. I
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by _bxg1 6y ago
This came out a couple years ago and it got bad reviews: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/6/18212311/palm-phone-review...
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I've used a reactive model on the front-end for several years now (MobX at one job and then RxJS at another) and haven't encountered anything I would call "Observable Hell". I will admit that cascading side-effects can b
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by _bxg1 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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Really interesting ideas, though I think the content is hampered a bit by the use of what I think is Haskell in the examples. It hinders accessibility when you're having to learn two unrelated things in parallel, and I don't think
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by _bxg1 6y ago
> which requires a reboot This is crazy. The hybrid graphics approach has been around for a decade, and I had one of the very early ones in 2010, running Windows 7, and even that one didn't require a reboot to switch. It switched
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Each of us has to decide individually where to draw the line. The important thing is to keep your actions aligned with those words, and to not warp your moral system to accommodate a cushy job. Personally I would never work for Facebook, bu
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by _bxg1 6y ago
My strategy is to mentally amplify my decisions to the space of all the other people who might be in my same situation, facing the same decision. I ask myself if it would make the world better for all of those people make a given choice,
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by _bxg1 6y ago
iOS remembers that stuff too. It just stores it device-side and doesn't use it for advertising. Edit: Turns out it doesn't actually provide a location history visualization like GMaps does - it only shows "significant locatio
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by _bxg1 6y ago
There's some truth to that, although there's still something to be said for a lack of recursive structure. Regular expressions can only match a flat pattern. Working with a JSON expression, even if you already have a JSON parser o
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Masks give you a significant portion of the benefit of quarantining, with virtually none of the economic cost. And yet we have protests happening against wearing masks all across the south. That's the hill people have (literally) d
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I don't use any Google apps so I don't know, but even if I did, it's such a minuscule amount of effort that's being saved by having a custom prompt when the generic path is so easy.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
> There are apps that have different behavior whether or not there is text in the clipboard (e.g. enabling a "paste" button) People keep saying this but I've never seen one of these app-specific paste widgets. And even i
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Your user files for one program are never "private" from any other program running on your computer. This is the security model of the desktop OS. It's not specific to Windows. It may be presumptuous - offensive, even - for M
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by _bxg1 6y ago
You misunderstood; I'm saying Apple couldn't coerce a website into offering Sign in with Apple as an option, like they can with an app on the App Store.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
> Let’s all write parsers And yet, at least for the Unix tools I've used, nobody did write an elaborate parser. Instead, they all ended up using newlines to represent a sequence. There were never really nested structures at all. T
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Apple has a policy that any app developer who offers "Sign in with ___" for any company, has to also include "Sign in with Apple". That's not something they could do on the web.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Sign in with Apple and Apple Pay already exist on the web. Though I guess, Apple can't force companies to offer it on the web.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Yeah, that is part of the problem too. Any for-profit corp would love to lock people in, and software megacorps no longer need to interoperate for their own survival. So we see increased lock-in across most of the (commercial) software wo
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by _bxg1 6y ago
> slow and stale nature of web standards organisations If there's one thing I've never heard the web platform accused of being, it's "slow and stale". The web platform has plenty of features for doing this kind o
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by _bxg1 6y ago
OT, but your company looks really interesting. It's similar to a project idea I had recently but hadn't explored yet. A few questions: are you a nonprofit? And if not, who do you sell to? Do you sell to local governments to help t
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by _bxg1 6y ago
They also, cleverly, give you an easy way to convert the Clip into the full App right from your home screen. I think certain segments of dev companies will love this as an avenue for onboarding.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I agree, though I think there's also a more cynical side to it. I see it as a land-grab by Apple to bring use-cases that currently belong to the web, under the umbrella of their app ecosystem. I'm still excited because I think the
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I would argue that it thrives in those most basic cases, and isn't really suited to building truly complex systems. But I also don't think there's anything wrong with that. There's a use-case for simple pieces that are e
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by _bxg1 6y ago
This makes me realize: the one example I can think of where software has been "Lego-like" is Unix piping. I'm not a Unix purist or anything, but they really hit on something special when it came to "code talking to other
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by _bxg1 6y ago
They make it much easier to do certain kinds of things as expressions (as opposed to, say, an if/else chain which in many languages is a statement and not an expression, or a switch statement which I don't think is ever an express
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by _bxg1 6y ago
> the conclusion that they are cartoonishly evil > The moral framework where Facebook "isn't a negative for society" is the one that says that a free society should be able to openly express itself I wasn't making
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Facebook and the like have directly driven a huge increase in worldwide division and polarization. And faced with that fact they've continued their course full-steam-ahead. I don't know of any moral framework where that isn't
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I've been reading lots of reports like this from young people. One person in their 20s ended up with lasting asthma when they'd never had it before. A couple have needed lung transplants. This category of outcomes is honestly much
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With iOS 14, Apple Is Finally Letting the iPhone Home Screen Get Complicated(theverge.com)
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