barryhoodlum

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by barryhoodlum 5y ago
I think it's just an information hoarding mentality. Like people you see on hoarding TV shows with stacks upon stacks of old newspapers just in case they "need" to refer to them one day.
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by barryhoodlum 6y ago
The world doesn't work in this "bottom up" way. It's top down.
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by barryhoodlum 6y ago
You could say the same about a "nothing bad will ever happen" opinion like yours, except a different group benefits from it.
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by barryhoodlum 6y ago
Doesn't it? You can google "how to make iphone app" (or whatever) and get a wealth of videos, blog posts, guides, tutorials, github repositories. You can join online communities to learn and ask questions. You can download al
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by barryhoodlum 6y ago
Hacker News does not like JavaScript.
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by barryhoodlum 6y ago
You sound very emotional, maybe take a break?
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by barryhoodlum 6y ago
Neither React or Redux use proxies or setters at all. Are you thinking of a different framework?
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by barryhoodlum 7y ago
Ocaml does this too.
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by barryhoodlum 7y ago
There's one footnote that ends up being a punchline, about five words long. The few seconds spent flipping from the page to the footnote lent it a certain comedic timing that would usually be impossible to portray in a book. That reall
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by barryhoodlum 7y ago
I think it's just because that style isn't widespread in JS in general? I don't think it's anything to do with hooks or React particularly.
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by barryhoodlum 7y ago
Trying to make improvements for who, and why? That's the important part, and why politics gets so heated. You sound like you're talking about choosing between slightly different flavours of ice cream.
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by barryhoodlum 7y ago
The "left-wing" media? Who is that exactly?
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by barryhoodlum 7y ago
What bubble are you referring to there?
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by barryhoodlum 7y ago
I always associate The Smashing Pumpkins with Doom because of this. By coincidence, one of their songs actually has a Doom sound effect in it.
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by barryhoodlum 7y ago
Hit a bit close to home?
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by barryhoodlum 7y ago
I'm not saying he's not successful. He's implying you either have shoddy graphics, or spend big money on AAA graphics. But they're not the only two choices, and that's proven - there are successful games without AAA
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by barryhoodlum 7y ago
But his games don't sit where he thinks they sit. It's baffling as there's a huge market for "retro" looking indie games, and has been for a decade or so. Plenty of successful and influential indie games made by a s
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by barryhoodlum 7y ago
Having it out in the open also attracts the users in the first place.
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by barryhoodlum 7y ago
From the article: "A woman psychoanalyst wrote me a very intelligent letter in which she said that “in the last analysis, desires always go far beyond the object of desire.” The fact is that I’ve had everything I desired, but the “far
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by barryhoodlum 7y ago
I wonder how much of this is about the author's ego. They can't or don't want to delve into the (admittedly labyrinthine) world of JS, so there must be a matching lack of ability on "the other side".
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by barryhoodlum 7y ago
Yes, functional CSS goes against current best practices, so people write it off without giving it a try. It's a shame as I think it's the best way of doing CSS at this point. For web apps at least.
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by barryhoodlum 7y ago
I disagree. I'd argue React is most useful when doing something highly interactive. There's nothing stopping you from writing imperative, side-effect heavy code. But it's something you deliberately opt into, usually on the ed
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by barryhoodlum 7y ago
I do the exact same, down to the "notes" alias. I find the downside to this approach is it doesn't work well on mobile - the Dropbox app can edit files but there's no search and it all feels a bit clunky.
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by barryhoodlum 7y ago
Hope you guys manage to convince your wives to watch some sci fi!
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by barryhoodlum 7y ago
In the context of the article, it is shallow.
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by barryhoodlum 8y ago
But having the concept of per-note pitchbend built into MIDI itself would be a much easier way of achieving this. Their point wasn't "sliding notes in a chord is 100% impossible, prove me wrong!", their point was that the onl
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by barryhoodlum 8y ago
https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/audio/scheduling/ is a deeper dive into how it works.
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by barryhoodlum 8y ago
For what it's worth, I had the same experience. Vaped for a year - the first few months I switched between vaping and real cigarettes, then vaping only. Went down a few levels until I got to 3mg liquid. Found 0mg unsatisfying, so I too
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by barryhoodlum 8y ago
React is not reactive, despite the name. Puts your comment in a different light.
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by barryhoodlum 8y ago
I said nothing about loving, or even liking, hooks or React itself. That's not the point. It's weighing in with a completely useless opinion based on a second's thought, over and over again. There are trade offs and it's

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