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by aikah 8y ago
> How was Angular 2 a disaster? Because these were basically 2 different projects that have absolutely nothing in common. They should have called it something else. I'll be hyperbolic but imagine jQuery then jQuery2 is React, to giv
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> real honest news just don’t get as many clicks. Both the number clicks and their "velocity" are an important metrics, though velocity is even more important. You don't want a lot of clicks spread out within 2 weeks, you
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> What is the lowest ceremony way to start building a TypeScript SPA? I would love to avoid Webpack if I can :) The only thing you need to build a SPA is Javascript, the DOM and history API. You literally do not need anything else. You c
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> that are all related to its weak and dynamic type system It doesn't make JS strongly typed though. It's still possible to compare different types, it still allows type coercion,truthiness and what not. It add type definitions
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> Is TypeScript worth learning? It's worth using. like flow it can validate plain js files and even supports a subset of JS doc (on that aspect I wish it didn't, I wish Microsoft established a more powerful format for type comm
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by aikah 8y ago
> I'm using almost daily Android studio on Celeron J3455 with 4GB ram on Ubuntu 16.04 64bit and it's usable. I mostly do WebView apps, it is also on some cheap SSD. I don't think it's possible to run the emulator with
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> is one of the most inclusive projects there is There is absolutely no proof a CoC drives "inclusiveness", whatever it means, however there are multiple examples where codes of conducts were used to exclude contributors becau
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> As a matter of fact, they require rendering libraries from graphics card companies. in order to render graphics. The DOM already gives you all that for free. > For example google docs, office 365, Facebook, Amazon, and many cloud s
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> We are no longer just trying to toggle a modal or show a popup. > The requirement for frontend has changed dramatically and now we need to handle entire UI flow, interactivity, data synchronization, and even some business logic like
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by aikah 8y ago
> Gosh,there is so much half assed redundancy in js world that no wonder that so many beginners feel lost. Beginners feel lost because the JavaScript world has learned nothing from Java's ant. These insane build/asset pipelines
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> holding Google to a standard not applied to others When Microsoft was deemed "evil" under Balmer, Google acted like it was a "cool startup which didn't do evil" and used that positive PR to grow as they were se
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> disenfranchised people It doesn't have anything to do with "disfranchised people". It imposes a single consistent rule across all french schools. Pupils are free to do whatever they want outside school. This isn't a
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> Should we really be incentivizing making music as a career? Instrument practice, sound engineering are a crazy amount of work in order to get to a professional level. It's so bizarre to hear people say things like that, they have
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by aikah 8y ago
> I think the problem is with the employer, not the platform No, the platform gives the tools to specifically filter by sex. Facebook is enabling sexual discrimination. > every local custom euphemism You mean the law, the very thing t
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by aikah 8y ago
Or you know use, your phone on data plan instead of corporate network for anything private.
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> Anything that stops people from making it about people rather than code is also good IMO. No, it doesn't, this Drupal story demonstrates that COC are useful to get rid of people one doesn't like because they somehow "hur
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by aikah 8y ago
> That post uses "SJW" as a slur for activists. No, it's fitting, "SJW" are slacktivists, not activists. When James Kyles throws a tantrum and insults people working for Palantir or Microsoft on Github issue page
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by aikah 8y ago
> The state of news sites is well known to everyone on HN. It's not nice to have this same comment pop up every time instead of discussing the article. This is a technology website, I find UX discussion pretty relevant since all th
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by aikah 8y ago
> at a price point that is not particularly amazing This is a fitting description for most Amazon products today. It's a good deal at all. It's conveniant because they have a good delivery platform but Amazon prices are seldom
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by aikah 8y ago
> That is not what first class means. That's not what first class means to you. You can't just make up the definition you want just because it's convenient for your. First class means it runs on the platform without any fo
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by aikah 8y ago
Well first Duktape is only a Javascript engine. it is not a browser engine so there is no DOM, furthermore Duktape is not ES2015 compliant so you'd need to transpile your code to ES5. It's also debatable whether Duktape is more pe
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by aikah 8y ago
First class because there is no need to deploy your own JS engine on both these platforms, you can argue all you want, both have a webview/js engine API that are part of their respective SDK.
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> I wouldn't call manually exporting Java methods to the WebWidget "no effort whatsover", plus the performance hit of doing cross-language, inter-process calls, in a dynamic language while the platform languages are static
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> JavaScript is also an impedance mismatch. Yet both Android and iOS allow embedding a Javascript engine in an native application with no effort whatsoever.
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The difference is that Kotlin has first class support on Android. Aside from that I agree, Kotlin is obviously second class on iOS. IMHO for simple multi-platform projects I'd use either plain webtechs or react-native. The impedance mi
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by aikah 8y ago
Saas can get a product out fast. But yes, unless one has some kind of special contract with a Saas company ensuring the continuity of the service as long as one needs it, never rely on Saas for too long, unless the solution is open source.
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by aikah 8y ago
> I’m talking about hardware acceleration, antialias, no dropped frame and in sync with the monitor’s refresh rate. All supported by flash, I just told you about the possibility of coding your own shaders with a C like language where do
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by aikah 8y ago
> Flash has never been this smooth. Yes it has. You could even create your own shaders/filters with a specialized language. Frankly it's great that things like that can be done with js/html but people did way more impressi
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They are targeting Google and likes. And also making sure that Google and likes have no serious competition due to the financial burden these laws impose on new comers. Websites that distribute pirated content are already illegal.
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Status code 451. And frankly I understand the foreign start ups that end up just doing this.

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