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by azangru 4y ago
He probably means this (bottom of the page): https://andregarzia.com/2022/05/On-rants-about-laptops-for-d...
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by azangru 4y ago
> I think the big difference between react-query and its competitors like SWR is typescript support. Redux-toolkit-query has a fantastic typescript support.
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by azangru 4y ago
Were they streaming real-time? I could only find that they are hosting their videos on https://media.emacsconf.org (would be interested to know who the host is and how much it costs to host videos in this way).
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by azangru 4y ago
> Does React use a shadow DOM? Yes No. You must be confusing it with virtual DOM. As for React, what we are currently observing is that 1) it's a fairly large library in itself (~50kB of minified gzipped javascript); 2) it has a rel
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by azangru 4y ago
> React's been around for a long time now and it's got a lot of momentum and people who know it. That was true for jQuery as well; and yet, it is clearly no longer the right thing (tm) to choose for a project. Not because it&#x
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by azangru 4y ago
> convincing people into doing the right thing (tm). How do you deal with the burden of knowing/predicting what the right thing (tm) is / will turn out to be? I am constantly agonising over choices I'm about to make, and a
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by azangru 4y ago
This passage from the abstract: > Moreover, they can be viewed as the 21st century expression of a culture-bound stress reaction of our post-modern society emphasizing the uniqueness of individuals and valuing their alleged exceptionalit
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by azangru 4y ago
> No stable and productive framework will ever be able to compete in hype and good PR than alpha-quality software. Huh? Stable and productive tools will let developers ship features while hyped frameworks come and go. Whatever survives a
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by azangru 4y ago
> why you put SSR and web components in the same sentence Web components are a browser standard; so anyone thinking about the long haul for their web product would be well advised to think about web components as well. > web component
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by azangru 4y ago
> a bunch divs positioned arbitrarily via css is much less intuitive than <tables> where you can move blocks of markup to redesign geometrically <...> Using tables is still much more pleasant, but modern browsers dislike tabl
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by azangru 4y ago
100% of what? If you start by applying it to the topmost element, and then through the tree of the children, then it will work.
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> (cough, grid) What's wrong with grid?
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> Kind of amazing that this is literally the unit meant to solve such problems, and yet it doesn't. I thought the problem this was literally meant to solve was the ambiguity about what a viewport is on mobile browsers with various b
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by azangru 4y ago
Triz is included in the list of "liberating structures" [0] - facilitation techniques that have become fairly popular in the agile community (scrum.org trainers definitely talk about them). So yeah, it's being looked into :-)
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by azangru 4y ago
> Your classes in your project are not part of the CSS standard either, by your definition Yes, but my classes, by definition, are defined by me. The behavior of classes of a css framework is defined by someone else, who exposes an api f
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by azangru 4y ago
Reading your Tailwind example, I must confess that I have no idea what "p-4" or "pb-1" are; or what the border-radius will be for the "rounded" class, or what color the "white" will be in bg-white. &g
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by azangru 4y ago
> Tailwind CSS is just CSS This is simply not the case. In order to use Tailwind, you need to know names of Tailwind classes, which are not part of the CSS standard. To say that Tailwind is just CSS is like saying that Ramda is just java
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by azangru 4y ago
> But it's great knowing that the next dev we hire can pick it up and go from day one. Presumably the next dev you will hire will be a frontend engineer? CSS is a core competency for a frontend engineer, whereas Tailwind is an add-o
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by azangru 4y ago
> This is the problem Could you state the problem more concretely? Javascript is a cross between Java and Lisp, having a Java-esque C-like syntax, and lisp-like function-as-a-first-class-citizen behavior. Typescript brings it all the way
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by azangru 4y ago
> What’s awesome about Ruby? > Dynamically typed As someone who has experienced the joy and at least some feeling of safety from moving to typescript from javascript, I would seriously question that dynamic typing is awesome.
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One could argue that Firefox OS does not exist at all.
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Taylor Hunt, who says he has ADHD, has written a series of very in-depth posts about website performance, and how, after a lot of research, he created a super fast site demo while working at Kroger [0]. His example demonstrates that ADHD is
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by azangru 4y ago
`let` and `const` expand and replace `var`; and make variable declarations more intuitive by removing var's hoisting and adding block-level scoping (which the programmer doesn't need to care about if he doesn't wish to). What
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by azangru 4y ago
> Perl is a great language I don't write Perl often, which probably explains why every time I go back to it (we have a legacy Perl app), I get tripped up, over and over again, by the sigils, and the rest of the visual noise — and I
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by azangru 4y ago
> so people with guns should take other made up numbers and give them to people with guns, and tell the people with guns to make sure the bad people don’t do bad things to the stupid people I think people who are doing the telling actual
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by azangru 4y ago
> When that happened he shuttered the website and kept everyone's bitcoins. > I knew of bitcoin early on due to this guy, but even then I had no interest and considered it bullshit. Then when I saw what this guy did it just solid
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by azangru 4y ago
> I'm not sure how a word processor uses peer-to-peer trustless money The parent (and the commenter on the site) weren't saying that an office suite has no use for blockchains; they were making a far broader claim that there ar
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by azangru 4y ago
That's not the argument the parent is making. They say, no use cases.
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> Because there are no use cases for blockchains. Someone in the comments on LibreOffice blog expressed the same opinion. Which surprised me. Has the consensus been reached among the serious non-grifting public that blockchains are usele
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by azangru 4y ago
I just wanted to say, among all the negativity in the comments, that I love RxJS, and fell in love with it after Jafar's workshop. As Ben Lesh often says, there are sadly a lot of misconceptions around Rxjs and the Observable type. The

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