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by benaiah 12y ago
I don't really understand your point. The thing about timing channels is absurd - we have the code right in front of us. Right there. It either calls third-party servers or it doesn't, and we can see that. Very easily. The idea th
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by benaiah 12y ago
If somebody who doesn't know what they're doing is writing a CC form, you've already lost. Making app development easier isn't "dangerous" because it allows less experienced people develop applications. You wil
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by benaiah 12y ago
If you don't know JS really well, I wouldn't recommend Coffeescript. It's hard to tell what will work correctly and what won't unless you're quite familiar with the actual code the Coffeescript is compiling down to.
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by benaiah 12y ago
Ok, that makes sense. Thanks for the well-thought-out response. The moderation has always made me a bit uncomfortable, but its results are pretty plain to see, so I guess I'll shut up and put up. You're probably right that my unea
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by benaiah 12y ago
Dang, you've been doing some great work, and I really appreciate it, but won't you just let us talk about what we want to talk about without berating us about it all the time? You've been making some pretty heavy-handed imper
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by benaiah 12y ago
Well, of course untrusted code dealing with CC info is insecure. That's why this is open source, and you host it yourself. It's just a library. Whose source you can see. Whose source you can compile. With a third-party compiler. Y
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by benaiah 12y ago
Do not confuse nostalgia for reveration. The old programming systems are indeed quaint, and should be preserved, but not used. There's a reason we've moved on.
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by benaiah 12y ago
This would be considered part of the view, not the controller, and would thus be organized as such. It's also a very small example - a real application would have a number of differences with this.
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by benaiah 12y ago
I'd buy a LOT more from Amazon if I didn't live in Alaska and have to wait at least a week and a half for shipping. I hate shopping - if I could reliably get something in a couple days, I'd almost never even need to leave the
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by benaiah 12y ago
Yeah, I suppose my description of Java as compiler-enforced Hungarian notation isn't entirely fair. I often wonder if Java's problems in terms of bearability are as much syntactic as they are semantic.
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by benaiah 12y ago
It was the #1 story on HN when you posted this. Still is.
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by benaiah 12y ago
Like you said: "this particular thing" isn't selling a product. "This particular thing" didn't ask for this feedback, doesn't need it, and may very well never see it. The fact that there are a few rare ex
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by benaiah 12y ago
Indeed. Responding to the fetishization of web technologies by fetishizing Unix utilities is missing the point. They're both tremendously important and tremendously useful, but trying to ignore their shortcomings doesn't help anyt
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by benaiah 12y ago
It is a non-ad-hoc specification of your build, and it allows you to integrate things like LiveReload more easily.
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by benaiah 12y ago
The example given in this post doesn't show this, but what using types allows us to do is understand what a specific value is throughout its whole lifetime through all sorts of functions. We know that this vector is a velocity, and ou
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by benaiah 12y ago
Yeah - this is exactly the kind of distinction I was trying to make. Reminds me of Abelson's famous quote, "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." That's an idea that
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by benaiah 12y ago
The following is based on conjecture, as I'm not old or well-read enough to be sure of this, but it seems to me that the original purpose of type systems got muddled up by the tremendous popularity, mostly in Windows systems, of "
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by benaiah 12y ago
Can we stop with the nitpicking meta bullshit on every freaking article, please? I don't care about the things you dislike about a random webpage. It wasn't submitted because of a header. In order to read the article that we'
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by benaiah 12y ago
No, but dang's a mod, so he has access to the source code.
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by benaiah 12y ago
To be fair, this link is on a site called "Discover Meteor", whose entire purpose is to elucidate the Meteor framework. It's not unreasonable for the site to assume that you got there from somewhere that already explained wha
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by benaiah 13y ago
> Native apps are silos, full stop. Except that they're sometimes not, and certainly don't have to be. There's no reason why HTML has to be the One True Form of hypertext - inter-app deep linking and app-to-HTML linking do
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by benaiah 13y ago
I think one of the large problems with the web app space is display. There is no way for a good web app to be put front and center and displayed to users; all the web app marketplaces (I say all, but Chrome Web Store seems to be the only on
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by benaiah 13y ago
I agree wholeheartedly. I do personally prefer the web for application delivery from a developer's standpoint, and I find it quite simple to create sites that function well on a mobile form factor. It's curious, then, that more do
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by benaiah 13y ago
"How could messaging apps like WhatsApp and Line even exist in a browser-only world?" ... what? The same way they have for ages, I suppose. These are messaging-over-IP apps with basic UIs and little to no difficult problems with r
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by benaiah 13y ago
From the article: > It’s possible that the word “web” is too tightly associated with HTML/CSS/JavaScript content rendered in web browsers — that if I want to make a semantic argument, I should be saying it’s the internet that m
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by benaiah 13y ago
Like I said, artistic license taken with the caricature. Hyperbole is the soul of wit, etc. The benefit of HN over other similar sites that shall remain nameless is a very high signal-to-noise ratio - the community tends to have interesting
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by benaiah 13y ago
I immediately stopped reading this post about a fucking medical charity serving poor people in Africa to nitpick on a tiny stylistic choice that mildly confused me for about a quarter of a second while sitting in my air conditioned SF offic
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by benaiah 13y ago
And I would argue that that is why Reddit sucks so much (personal opinion - I can understand why someone might enjoy the community there, but I do not in the slightest). Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the news aggregation feature, but the
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by benaiah 13y ago
Presumably it just means that the engine constructs the levels from an exported image (such as a png, not a psd), instead of creating the levels from a more complicated data system. Because he knows the exact sizes of things, and "spri
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by benaiah 13y ago
This isn't a 3d effect. RTFA

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