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by _greim_ 10y ago
Mastering is like buying good wine. There's a lot return for your buck at the low and medium end. The returns begin diminishing steeply in the high end. Above some point, it becomes purely a game of audio engineers impressing other aud
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by _greim_ 10y ago
Arguably the "central gripe" of the article is one level higher, in which Rails has no competition in Ruby-land, and if you don't agree the architectural preferences of a few thought leaders, your only choice is to abandon no
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by _greim_ 10y ago
What you describe is essentially a hardware-based source of randomness. These devices sample various kinds of random physical processes to produce random streams of data. None of them are perfect but some are really good. For example, perha
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by _greim_ 10y ago
Like a lot of things a decade and a half ago, the W3C was pushing a good idea to the point of it being an unrealistic ideal, in an environment where most people were doing the exact wrong/opposite thing. Now the situation is different,
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by _greim_ 10y ago
Can't remember where I first read it but back when "canonical URLs" were finally starting to get traction the saying went that: > The more expensive the CMS, the crappier the URLs.
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> Their fears stem from a similar change that Facebook, Instagram's parent company, did a few years ago, which significantly reduced the organic reach that brands and influencers get on the platform. I'm sorry but "brand
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by _greim_ 10y ago
It isn't that this new syntax is slow, so much as V8 has a shit-ton of internal machinery dedicated to optimizing specific execution paths, and it is those things which get a massive efficiency boost. In that sense, becoming syntax c
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by _greim_ 11y ago
If a tool encourages bad habits, it is in some sense the tool's fault. On the other hand, overuse of JavaScript isn't encouraged by JavaScript-the-language so much as by how it fits into the overall web platform. It was an interes
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by _greim_ 11y ago
Bluebird made a name for itself by really, really focusing on V8-specific optimizations. Also it has added a lot of features that go beyond the promise spec, thus becoming one of those bandwagony swiss army knife sort of libraries. I person
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What definition of "social engineering" are you using?
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Thanks! I'll be bookmarking this and coming back periodically. FWIW, I used chrome dev tools to add some page styles, in order to make the stories easier for me to read. body { font-family: georgia; font-size: 17px;
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Interesting, I've never heard this before. Any sources?
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> `now` doesn't seem to be using shrinkwrap They aren't? I haven't tried a deployment, but was hoping/assuming they'd upload a shrinkwrap along with everything else and that it would drive the install as per usua
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I think it's "reproducible" in the sense that it starts from scratch every time, rather than sometimes starting from scratch, and other times starting with a pre-populated node_modules. If you want actual versioning reproduci
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by _greim_ 11y ago
The world is neck deep in dearly-held beliefs that would quickly die out if people en-masse embraced the kind of systematic, relentless skepticism required to combat this. Society protects these beliefs by stigmatizing skepticism, but in do
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by _greim_ 11y ago
It seems like memetics wants to be for sociology what genetics is for evolution and biology, but as far as I know they haven't been able to trace "memes" back to their neurological roots. It's an interesting idea but won
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by _greim_ 11y ago
Yes. String-processing tweets (linkify and emoji-insert) and crunching numbers for time series line charts were two areas where we saw some lag. It was React so these bottlenecks were happening during virtual DOM rendering. And realizing GP
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by _greim_ 11y ago
Modern frameworks have worked hard to mitigate DOM bottlenecks, thus pure JS bottlenecks are now a thing. Especially data-rich applications. Reflow and paint performance is still an issue but the focus on JS is worthwhile.
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by _greim_ 11y ago
Definitely could have been handled better on both sides. Kik should have just bluntly offered $N (where $N was however much it was worth to avoid bringing in lawyers) and bluntly offered it up front. Hinting around like "is there somet
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by _greim_ 11y ago
> Why do online ad buyers need to know more? Because they can, so whoever doesn't, won't be competitive. With paper magazines, they can't in the first place.
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by _greim_ 11y ago
A computer is a physical structure, is it not?
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by _greim_ 11y ago
Spot on. The constant in the equation isn't the number of cars on the road, but the tolerance people have for time spent in traffic.
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If I read the situation right, this is just a way to drive adoption and stress test WebAssembly, which itself is a multi-vendor initiative; much bigger than Mozilla.
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This is awesome and I hope it ushers in an era of the web being a platform for high-performance apps in general.
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> Do you block the request or do you allow it? Filtering out the non-accessible parts of the GraphQL seems like overkill. In Falcor (which is conceptually similar to GraphQL) you'd simply fulfill whichever parts of the request you c
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by _greim_ 11y ago
Nice insight. Seems like there's a pattern here, in which high public visibility creates expectations which push a company out of its optimal mode of operation.
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Observation: JavaScript runtime errors don't crash my browser tab, just halt the current call stack. I wonder if that's a consequence of bad/adhoc architecture, or if browsers represent a class of apps where silently swallowi
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by _greim_ 11y ago
I assumed the "es6" row header refers to the engine's native implementation of the feature. In which case it should grey out "destructuring" under Node 4.2.6. But they don't, it's listed as "10x slowe
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> Where, in any of my day-to-day job duties, am I going to need to find the kth permutation of a set of numbers? People who don't know algorithms and data structures tend not to see them where they exist, so it becomes a subjectivel
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by _greim_ 11y ago
> But when boring suddenly turns to not boring? The current state of AI is very very bad at this. "Boring" versus "not boring" is too vague for this statement to really be meaningful. Examples could be drummed up on b

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