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by chmln 9y ago
Not to excuse or condone the president's behavior in any way, but it is not at all obvious how the word "shithole" is racist. I take issue with this because this word is so overused that it is losing any meaning. There are ma
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by chmln 9y ago
> just the ergonimcs aren't quite there yet You're correct, but "Rust isn't easy to use for purpose X just yet" is substantially different from "Rust is inherently unfit for X"
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by chmln 9y ago
> Neither I think Rust is fit for that purpose, any GC language is a better fit in terms of productivity There is nothing in Rust that makes it inherently unfit for APIs or the web. To dismiss the entire language is simply lazy. Having G
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by chmln 9y ago
You can actually pad your strings now https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
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by chmln 9y ago
Yeah, but factual reporting isn't necessarily fair reporting. Professional media also had an agenda, and the same set of facts can be presented in many different ways. Facts can be simply omitted, emphasized or underplayed, interpreted
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by chmln 9y ago
I think there's definitely something in your comment. Similarly, I wonder whether there would be so much activism directed towards fake news, had the "right" candidate won.
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by chmln 9y ago
> I think jQuery still has a place in web app development, especially when you need something done fast I never got this argument and am curious - what exactly does jQuery do faster? I've left it behind for CSS animations and native
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by chmln 9y ago
> racism, bigotry or hate speech The problem is that these words have become nearly meaningless from vast overuse.
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by chmln 9y ago
Unrelated: the font chosen for the article body is way too thin to read comfortably. I've noticed this trend over the past few years and it makes for appalling UX.
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by chmln 9y ago
Yeah but discord is no hackernews. If they start arbitrarily moderating views that don't align with flavor-of-the-month ideology or even nsfw content a lot of people will be pissed too. What people talk about in Discord's independ
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by chmln 9y ago
Why do they have so many employees? Seems excessive and totally unnecessary.
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by chmln 9y ago
It shines by being extremely opinionated, but imo the tradeoffs are not worth it. I was initially very curious about Angular2, but our relationship ended very quickly with the discovery of modules and dependency injection. It feels like som
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by chmln 9y ago
Your ideas come from a great heart, but I think they're a bit idealistic. I have a very hard time imagining children voluntarily attending classes on "how to deal with their emotions and things like conflict resolution". You&
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by chmln 9y ago
Thanks for all the work you do, Alex! Will we also ever see quantum-based waterfox?
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by chmln 9y ago
This isn't just a problem with the address bar, it also applies to HTML inputs and textareas. From my understanding it stems from how Firefox renders and synchronizes frames. I've filed a bug two months ago, but really unsure when
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by chmln 9y ago
I've found typescript an invaluable tool. Having worked on large backend codebases in both TS and JS, the difference is stark. The TS API in my case had something like 90% less errors, and those were all subtle bugs in business logic.
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by chmln 9y ago
I don't get this. No one forces you to upgrade your perfectly functional es5 code to es2015, es2017, or typescript. Yes, node moves fast and new features are introduced, but everything is largely backwards-compatible. You don't ha
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by chmln 9y ago
You have a good point, but don't kid yourself with "overtly biased, conservative talking points". There is little to no truly balanced and fact-oriented media. Obviously, except for those perceived as such by their respective
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by chmln 9y ago
> In what way is that a demonstration of flexibility? By accommodating developers with various preferences. You can have typechecked classes with TSX like React, or self-contained components leveraging traditional HTML/CSS, which i
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by chmln 9y ago
Vue is more flexible primarily via its single-file components and the ability to easily leverage existing HTML/Pug/CSS/SCSS/etc, making it an easier target to migrate to. I've personally preferred React+Redux+Typesc
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by chmln 9y ago
> Windows has gotten a lot better, but the rules regarding new computers hasn't changed in the past 30 years, you still need to wipe the hard drive and install it yourself from scratch, and then spend a little time disabling the ads
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by chmln 9y ago
We've used React and the ecosystem quite extensively at a company I worked at, and the main gripe we had were forms. Yes, there is redux-form but the fact that it exists seems like a drawback for React and Redux. Its APIs can be very c
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by chmln 9y ago
You can write TSX/JSX vue components in a similar way to React components. I love vue for its flexibility. https://github.com/vuejs/vue-class-component https://github.com/wonderful-panda/vue-t
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by chmln 9y ago
FYI, Putin has great approval ratings. http://www.pewglobal.org/2015/06/10/2-russian-public-opinion...
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by chmln 9y ago
Its all about the perception. I've been running Arch on testing repos and with the linux-mainline kernel for years now and haven't experienced any major breakage at all. I believe its down to the reputation of Arch Linux - people
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by chmln 9y ago
On Linux, its still night and day difference in favor of Chrome. I wish FF performance was as good as it is on Windows. As much as I want to like Mozilla, even with Quantum, there's pretty much no hardware acceleration at all, missing
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by chmln 9y ago
The typing lag put me off immediately. I've measured the input latency and its ~3x slower than chrome. Filed a bug around a month ago https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1408699
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by chmln 9y ago
Keep in mind that these microbenchmarks are run with N=10000, which mostly renders the 600ms total latency difference insignificant. Its also highly likely that the gap will become minimal over time. If that's still a non-negligible di
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by chmln 9y ago
Go devs who want generics are obviously a minority. Those who care about generics enough probably just avoid Go and use another language.
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by chmln 9y ago
It was a React codebase, which is why we were swayed towards Flow initially.

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