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by asark 8y ago
> All useEffect and useState does is turn pure functions into mud that reads like a class but drops all the syntactic sugar that makes it readible. You've nailed it. Their solution to the issues with certain JS OO features was to re
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by asark 8y ago
My favorite job ever, as far as the job itself, was working peon-tier helping to run a campground for a Summer. Only non-tech job I've ever had, had worked for years in tech before and years more after. Location was even pretty awful b
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by asark 8y ago
It'd be remarkable if it wasn't used for spying, given the history of features added to web Javascript. When has an API that gives JS access to more data or device capabilities not been used in this way? Often spying's amon
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by asark 8y ago
No, I'm arguing that including a manpage doesn't mean your program is now dynamically linked to the man command, or that receiving a .doc attachment in my email client doesn't mean my email client is now dynamically linked to
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by asark 8y ago
Yeah, I figured that'd be a response, but if you're gonna call mime type handlers dynamic linking we may as well give up on using the term at all. I just don't think "I need to let the user open an HTML document, though
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by asark 8y ago
Reads like a case for passing that off to whichever program responds to a request to open some help HTML.
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by asark 8y ago
I dunno about the poster you were responding to, but any time the massive worldwide spying platform I can't not use gains more capabilities I'm not really thrilled about it. Even if the security against exploits is somehow perfect
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by asark 8y ago
Their must-have time demands and wrecking-your-house tendencies don't seem to start to trend significantly downward until age 5 or so. Believe it or not they get much worse before they get better on those fronts, after the infant stage
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by asark 8y ago
Yeah kids and commuting eat at least half that. Take another hour off, minimum, for basic chores to make sure you have food and your house doesn't turn into such a disgusting mess that makes the nightly news. Also all hours aren't
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by asark 8y ago
I used it ~1.5 years ago and would consider using it again even if it only worked on Android , just to avoid having to implement designers' various flights of fancy in native Android. Styling, at least back then (I really doubt it&#x
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by asark 8y ago
N4J's a lot slower at tons of common tasks. If you look into its underlying data model, it's clear why. It achieves the speed it does at certain graph-traversal operations by storing its data in such a way that it's highly sp
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by asark 8y ago
At least one major (like, major ) management consulting firm turns basically all their communication into a PowerPoint, sooner or later (usually sooner). I gather they've found they can't consistently get C-level folks to pay att
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by asark 8y ago
You know, to this day, if someone came to me and said "we want to run a site for five years on an LTS Linux distro release on a fairly weak machine, with auto-updates to system packages but no other maintenance intended. We're not
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by asark 8y ago
Plus, spy-vertising and creepily recording users' mouse movements is 100% not required for Web advertising to be A Thing that Pays For Lots of Stuff. The notion that if we kill the moats that Google and friends have with their vast tro
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by asark 8y ago
Eh, it happened pretty quickly and in the middle of a bunch of "we're making our search experience better!" stuff around the same time. I only gave a range because I'm fuzzy on the exact year it went to hell. Notably, th
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by asark 8y ago
Look at it this way: Say tracking is perceived to add some value over content-based ad selection (doesn't matter if it actually does). Say it also provides a bunch of important looking metrics for middle managers and execs to play with
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by asark 8y ago
> You admitted you don't have a longitudinal view. Results really are less accurate, less relevant; we're not hating on G. Yeah, whatever their intentions, sometime in the '07-'09 time frame they very obviously chan
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by asark 8y ago
IIRC you're right, and bussing's one of the only actually-effective tools we've found for solving this problem—but it's also an incredibly-unpopular policy among a pretty large set of the population. Like, get-people-out
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by asark 8y ago
I think part of it's because they almost exclusively hire people who will soon leave if they're told to do too much "boring" work and aren't allowed to half-ass it to get it done fast and move on to something more f
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by asark 8y ago
In my mid-sized Midwestern city, the worst schools pay their teachers the best by a long shot. The best schools pay at or under average. They still have trouble finding teachers. Probably due to all the lock-downs due to credible threats of
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by asark 8y ago
I'm pretty sure you can take the GED before you're 18. You can likely enroll at a community college if you've done that. It's what I considered doing when I was 16, and now, a good long while later, wish I had. All the l
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by asark 8y ago
Even without the definitely-evil incidents that have occurred, simply greedily collecting and then hoarding that much information about people is so grossly and willfully negligent as to qualify. The very basis of everything they do is hope
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by asark 8y ago
It is as soon as several must-have apps (say, the ones all your friends and family use to communicate) are side-load only. If they allow other channels to install apps and make them easy enough that non-nerds can do it, network effects will
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by asark 8y ago
Not just Facebook. Any site without attention paid to on-site SEO is basically impossible to find since Google gave up fighting the spammers and (effectively) stopped trying to provide access to a bunch of the web. That was back in, like, &
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by asark 8y ago
It's weird that the version of Windows that finally added tools that might make it possible, if not pleasant, for me to do real work on it without truly doing all my work in a VM, also went so far into crazy-town that I don't ev
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by asark 8y ago
> This is the person behind PulseAudio, Avahi, and systemd. Huh, I didn't know he was behind Avahi. That... explains some things. Thanks.
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by asark 8y ago
> Yeah, this can be a pain. In situations like this, I've defined types like `type RequestWithAuthField = Request & {auth: AuthField};` and then in handlers that I knew came after the auth middleware, I'd immediately cast t
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by asark 8y ago
No, I read it. It's nonsense and your numbers are bad beyond any excuse of napkin-math. They're plain ol' down-home gibberish. [edit] let me demonstrate: the most basic problem is that your numbers in various categories do no
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by asark 8y ago
I just don't like having to look things up, or remember them, or tell someone else about them, or make sure the things I told them or that they told me are still true six months later, or check manually that I haven't typo'd
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by asark 8y ago
> Consequently, in his point-based model, he assigned that particular feature of the language +0.1 points. That's because his stupid chart is comparing a bunch of different things to TS instead of just comparing it to JS. In that ca

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