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by bryik 5y ago
> There is nothing functional about React. There is literally an example React component in that article that the author calls "pure and referentially transparent". How can this be if there is "nothing functional about R
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by bryik 5y ago
> We’re on a long, slow path to deprecate and remove window.alert/confirm/prompt and beforeunload handlers due to their role in user-hostile event loop pausing, as well as phishing and other abuse mechanisms. We’ve been success
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by bryik 5y ago
It's great how naturally the charts and data are integrated into Evidence reports. I spent today trying to accomplish a similar style in a Metabase dashboard and was largely unsuccessful due to the limited text controls and layout opti
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by bryik 5y ago
Not really. The JSLint license is funny because objecting to the "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil." requirement looks like an admission of malintent. Doubly funny that it compelled IBM to ask for explicit permission
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by bryik 5y ago
> UI design isn't really art Who are you to say what is and is not art?
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by bryik 5y ago
Tesla's standard range Model 3 warranty is not just "similar", it is equivalent to Ford's: "8 years or 100,000 miles, whichever comes first, with minimum 70% retention of Battery capacity over the warranty period.&q
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by bryik 5y ago
Previously, I bought Pixel devices with confidence in Google's stewardship and taste. Now that Google has injected ads into a $200 device I bought a year ago, I can only assume that all Google products will eventually have ads. Why wou
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by bryik 5y ago
Oh cool! "JavaScript: The first 20 years" looks like pretty deep internet lore; perhaps I'll finally find out what happened to ES4. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3386327
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by bryik 5y ago
"hacker" isn't gendered. > 1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary. http:/&
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by bryik 5y ago
The UML specification is 796 pages[0]. It is amazing how humanity can take simple concepts like flow charts and inflate them into insane, hyper detailed legalistic rule books that almost no one understands or uses. 0 - https://ww
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by bryik 6y ago
"Why are manhole covers round" is an infamous Microsoft interview question. https://wiki.c2.com/?MicrosoftsManholeCoverQuestion
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by bryik 6y ago
> ...with these internet companies, they usually do not turn a profit or if they do, their PE ratios usually lingers in from ~100 to 1000 What "internet" company has a P/E ratio above 100? Facebook: 25 Apple: 31 Ne
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by bryik 6y ago
> Before you scream that this is stupid, please mind that this is actually used out there That is stupid though. It's like saying changing a private field in Java is a breaking change because someone might have used reflection to
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by bryik 6y ago
FWIW, Wikipedia's defines "callback" as "any executable code that is passed as an argument to other code; that other code is expected to call back (execute) the argument at a given time" and synchronous callbacks ar
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by bryik 6y ago
This is a good point. I once worked on a system that checked projects met various legal standards and rules before allowing changes to be saved. This system was complex because the rules were complex, the only way to make it simpler would h
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by bryik 6y ago
So the choice would be: build an Android app and an iOS app, or build a web app? Eh, I'd rather build a web app.
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by bryik 6y ago
Uber: https://eng.uber.com/uber-tech-stack-part-two/
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by bryik 6y ago
> With class components, my state/props are clearly defined within the constructor and/or PropTypes. What do you mean? PropTypes work just as well with functional components as they do with class components.
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by bryik 7y ago
Well, there is //prettier-ignore https://prettier.io/docs/en/ignore.html#javascript
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by bryik 7y ago
u-blox's ZED-F9P chip is capable of 10 mm (0.39 inch) accuracy [0]. AFAIK, high accuracy requires being relatively close to a terrestrial correction station. Some states, such as Iowa, run a network of these stations and provide free a
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by bryik 7y ago
Trimble GPS receivers go for around $10k (USD) [0], so I'm not surprised farmers try to build their own devices. Here's one who built an RTK GPS system out of a Raspberry Pi (and various other parts) for £250: https://w
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by bryik 7y ago
> I have set up the same blog maybe 3 times and I always stop posting because I need to be in my coding environment to do so I had a similar problem and solved it with Forestry[0] and Netlify. Forestry has a nice web interface for writin
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by bryik 7y ago
Darch[0]? >Think Dockerfiles, but for bootable, immutable, stateless, graphical (or not) environments for your everyday usage. [0] - https://godarch.com/
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by bryik 7y ago
It's not about the monthly fee, it's about the fee to cancel the subscription. Automatically transitioning someone from a free trial to a yearly membership with a penalty for early termination is insane. I mean, why stop at 1 year
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by bryik 7y ago
Adobe hit me with an unintended annual renewal out of a trial . I just wanted to try Adobe Premiere Pro on a school project...well, final exams happened and I forgot to cancel the subscription. Then I moved to a different country, started
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by bryik 8y ago
Write documentation. I know that sounds the same as "keep working on it", but it's surprising how often going through updating/fixing docs gets me unstuck. And if it doesn't, at least I've done something produc
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by bryik 8y ago
Cool project! A year or two ago, I used A-Frame to visualize some of NASA's Martian terrain data[1]. The hardest part was processing it. QGIS could not understand the projection, so slicing out a parcel of land and lining it up with a
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by bryik 9y ago
If they put the CPU in the keyboard, it wouldn't be able to detach.
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by bryik 9y ago
> Price has never been correlated with quality, for any product, ever. That is an incredible assertion. I am willing to bet $10,000 that I can find a product where price is correlated with quality (assuming we can agree on a definition o
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by bryik 9y ago
I'm not sure I understand. The problem with symmetric/antisymmetric is that the names make students think they are related and this can lead to misunderstanding (e.g. "since this relation is antisymmetric, it cannot be symmet

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