ablesearcher

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by ablesearcher 11y ago
Let's proceed in reverse order: 1. You don't get to define evidence-backed criticism to be only the criticism that you appreciate. 2. I didn't "attack" Richard. I pointed out an inconsistency with other recent st
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by ablesearcher 11y ago
When did evidence-backed criticism become synonymous with trolling? Also, which statement exactly was angry? (Let alone rubbish? Or, gasp, vomit?) It seems you want all Elm news to be positive Elm news. So does the language's author
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by ablesearcher 11y ago
I've seen Evan's talk. Evan confuses the presentation of features with the value of those features. (I suppose one could solve the difficulties people have in learning Mathematics by throwing out everything after Algebra I; anot
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by ablesearcher 11y ago
> "The DOM uses local state extensively, and sometimes you need to interact directly with its API. When you do, you can either do more work to translate it into your preferred architecture, or not." > "Local component s
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by ablesearcher 11y ago
Your solution redefines the word "local" to mean "global." Yes, you can store a component's intrinsically local state as field in your global model and then use a specialized update function that is reached by a sw
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by ablesearcher 11y ago
> "All three of those have very different goals and trade-offs from GHCJS." And therein lies the problem. In my view, the most important goal is to have at least one really good AltJS-Haskellish language with a fully-feature
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by ablesearcher 11y ago
That might solve the cursor issue, but it's a bigger issue than cursor state. The real issue is that Elm doesn't treat its programmers like grown-ups. That sounds harsh, so let me explain . . . I've drank enough of the Haske
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by ablesearcher 11y ago
Reflex is great (and its author is a genius) but it's not really useful yet for non-desktop apps. Because Reflex + GHCJS is impossibly slow on mobile. As an experiment, try using chrome (iOS) or android to load this: obsidian.systems&
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by ablesearcher 11y ago
@rtfeldman -- I think your response is a bit disingenuous since only yesterday you wrote, in response to a question about cursor state, this: "I wouldn't maintain cursor state in the model; I'd just implement the port like th