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by aylmao 6y ago
In general I think all these are positives, but these two worry me: > "using a consistent design language across platforms" Apple famously refrained from doing this at first, because for platforms with fundamentally different f
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by aylmao 6y ago
IMO this sentence resonates: > He enjoys what he has as a tenant, without any feeling of ownership or thought of possible improvement. I read this sentence and I think it carries a lot of truth. I think it's not hard to believe that
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by aylmao 6y ago
I do wonder if drone delivery will take off (heh). A lot has been said about the disadvantages, but one also has to also wonder about the advantages. There's a point at which things are "good enough", and small improvements a
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Reactjs.org changes website in support of BLM, Equal Justice Initiative(twitter.com)
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by aylmao 6y ago
To follow up on my last two paragraphs, I think this is why visual programming has proven successful in some fields. In computer graphics, a collection of nodes with visual controls is perhaps a faster way to "think out loud" then
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by aylmao 6y ago
I've thought about this, and I think I have a general sense as to why. First, let's look at the size of the keyboard in relation to the screen: it's huge. In most laptops, it is about half the size of the screen. Keys easy to
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by aylmao 6y ago
+1. Also worth noting, the implementation would be fundamentally different. On the Quest it's running on-device on specific chips, whereas on the Rift S this processing would be done on the user's PC. It's doable, but you pro
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by aylmao 6y ago
Oh true, good idea!
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by aylmao 6y ago
> Recently flutter overtook react native on Google trends. How did you query this? I want to have a look, but the fact "flutter" shows data since 2004 means the terms I'm using are inflated [1]. Flutter is a dictionary wor
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by aylmao 6y ago
They are proposing the syntax: button{id: 'baz' class: ['foo' 'bar'] data: '1' onclick: f 'Hello ' em{'there'} } which is of course not possible to use
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by aylmao 6y ago
> What possibly changes that often that you have anything to tell them about on a call that frequent? When the cadence is so high I don't think it's so much about getting updated information as much as just seeking their compan
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by aylmao 6y ago
> it's possible to both think that websites and web applications are worthy uses of the web, but also that many web applications would have been best engineered using 'classical' techniques from early websites. I agree wit
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by aylmao 6y ago
A big point of contention in the comments here lies around the concept of what a website should be. A school of thought in web development believes the web to be the next frontier in application development. For them it makes sense that web
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by aylmao 7y ago
Sorry if my comment sounded insulting, I didn't mean it to. I use open-minded as a term to refer to the type of user the original comment was alluding to, for the sake of consistent terminology. I didn't call anyone ignorant, and
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by aylmao 7y ago
> Is it that the open minded consumer is dying? I'd bet the number of open-minded consumers, if anything, is growing and is bigger than it ever was. The problem is the number of not open-minded consumers is perhaps growing faster. T
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by aylmao 7y ago
You don't. The closure ends, the stack is popped, `a` is disposed, and then, in another closure, you have this line: const a = 1; `a` was never re-assigned, but the value of the variable we call `a` changed. I think the key he
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by aylmao 7y ago
> Would vanilla js be faster than using react and when just using functions that handle hiding & showing divs by changing the css visibility value? Yes. > I always assumed optimized react was somehow significantly reducing the bro
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by aylmao 7y ago
You should try to use it too! If you discover you don't like anything about it, all the better, you can say you've experienced it and not just read about it. If you happen to like at least parts of it, you've just expanded yo
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by aylmao 7y ago
I understand this is an opinionated comment, but I thought I'd reply because IMO there's some conflation here regarding what "React" is. > As author points out, what in the world does a <Query> tag even do? This
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by aylmao 7y ago
I see a lot of criticism to one-line packages, but IMO in the end what matters is the abstraction. Thinking of the package as a black box, if the implementation for left-pad or is-promise was 200 lines would it suddenly be ok for so many ot
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by aylmao 7y ago
> Deno appears to be trying to become the Linux of Javascript Deno always sounded more "like the Plan 9 of Javascript" personally to be honest. It seems to be better (yay for built-in TypeScript support! Though I have my reserv
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by aylmao 7y ago
Books and cars are not ideal examples to pick in my opinion, in the case of books because they're easily substituted by electronic media. In the case of cars because all car manufacturing in the US involves imported parts [1][2], so th
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by aylmao 7y ago
This interesting to think about, but truth is a lot of at-risk people still need to be out there. Take all the workers for critical infrastructure, businesses, hospitals, etc. They need "the outside" to be as clean as possible too
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by aylmao 7y ago
All those need the supply lines and critical infrastructure to stay functioning, which they can be even if the rest of the "economy" isn't. What's needed is money for households to pay for them, which is the biggest conc
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by aylmao 7y ago
There's plenty of services and industries that used to be private and are now either fully or controlled by the government, or have good competition by the government. Some examples in the USA: - Firefighting [1] - Education - Broadban
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by aylmao 7y ago
As far as I know minifiers don't do this since it changes semantics. Take this for example: // 1 doSomething(); console.log(Math.sin(2)); // 2 var s = Math.sin; doSomething(); console.
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by aylmao 7y ago
In the final, minified code there's a lot of calls to Math methods (sin, cos, tan). I wonder if there's potential to shrink this even more with some assignments: M=Math,s=M.sin,c=M.cos,p=M.PI,a=M.abs; // etc.
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by aylmao 7y ago
I see where the sentiment is coming from, but I don't agree with the premise of "doing something to survive" being what people need. I think it's the relationship of the person to its community through labour that could
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by aylmao 7y ago
There could be other factors involved too, like the short-termness of the study. One year isn't a lot of time, and it's definitely enough to coast on savings and take a break from a job you hated until you get bored and/or ne
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by aylmao 7y ago
I thought this comment was making the opposite point, that it was impressive that Messenger was now only 360K LoC. I honestly think it is. Compliers, DBMS, a library such as NumPy— they're all complex, but Messenger, even considering t

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