dangoor

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by dangoor 9y ago
Yeah, totally agree about the danger there. Flags should have a defined lifetime. I've been in that multi tenant hell, and concur that it sucks.
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by dangoor 9y ago
Here are a couple of ways in which feature flags can be better than branches: QA can try in-development features out together easily. Some flags can be used operationally to turn off non-essential features during periods of high load (for a
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by dangoor 9y ago
How would this be meaningfully different from Java Web Start? Or Adobe AIR? Why would this succeed where those failed? Why should we expect this platform to be better than Android? So many choices we make when designing systems are tradeoff
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by dangoor 9y ago
This was definitely a first class design goal for Flow and TypeScript and, I'm certain, a non-trivial part of their success.
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by dangoor 9y ago
TypeScript and Flow are both designed to work with the way people write JavaScript. The DefinitelyTyped project adds TypeScript types for existing JavaScript code without touching the existing code . You don't rewrite your code to use
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by dangoor 9y ago
FWIW, Flow allows you to put the annotations in comments, but the syntax for the type annotations is generally more pleasant to work with. I have found the types to be useful in a large (for JS) codebase with more than a handful of develope
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by dangoor 9y ago
That would be a lot of work and take more than a small amount of time compared to switching from React to Preact or some other JS library.
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by dangoor 9y ago
That's honestly not how I read this blog post at all. He came right out and said that they didn't see the patent clause being an issue, but they want Facebook to make that argument and not them.
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by dangoor 9y ago
This is plausible because there are quite a few libraries that have adopted React's model and some have even adopted React's API (Preact). Of course, they could still get sued for patent infringement if Facebook has patents coveri
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by dangoor 9y ago
To all of those saying "why not just use the webapp directly?", a global hotkey to add new items is probably the main thing that caused me to not take Trello seriously as a personal task manager. Being able to instantly collect a
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by dangoor 9y ago
Aside from her books, "Dog Train" is one of the more listenable kids albums (book+CD for about $12 on Amazon). She has definitely done young children's book marketing well!
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by dangoor 9y ago
I agree about the need for successful cross-functional teams. But what happens when you have multiple cross-functional teams? Sometimes they have interactions. Sometimes you have management that needs some visibility into how things are goi
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by dangoor 9y ago
How many startups can take advantage of improvements to the web platform to ship to more devices or ship faster? How many more "uber for cats" startups do we need? (That's purposefully not a fair characterization… A lot of st
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by dangoor 9y ago
Does any of that Chrome code include Chrome OS stuff? Google has been putting a fair bit of work into that. The web platform has been growing (progressive web apps, more features in JavaScript include WebAssembly), and yes I'm sure the
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by dangoor 9y ago
and then can't keep up with the TV series that is started years after the book series began?
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by dangoor 9y ago
Scrivener is actually getting a facelift. Check out their blog with some screenshots of their in-progress Scrivener 3: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/
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by dangoor 9y ago
What kind of electric car costs $8500? Used Leaf?
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by dangoor 9y ago
Fair enough, though I wouldn't say it's obsoleted. I can still run the latest WatchOS and that's true of the forthcoming WatchOS as well. I didn't feel compelled to get a Series 2 watch and unless there's something
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by dangoor 9y ago
The processor in the first gen Apple Watch is so slow that the Series 1 actually included a faster processor :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Watch#Second_generation The good news is that Apple Watch appears to h
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by dangoor 9y ago
As a counter point, I'm still using my first gen (not even Series 1!) Apple Watch after 2 years and it runs well enough for my uses. I would likely use Siri more if it was more responsive, but I use the notifications, Now Playing view,
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by dangoor 9y ago
Isn't this true of 1Password and similar as well? My master key for 1Password isn't stored. That's what I need to enter to unlock my vault.
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by dangoor 9y ago
To some extent there is, in that the javascript VMs can treat certain sorts of scopes (like Modules) differently because they know that those did not exist at an earlier time when certain bad behaviors were common. They debated quite a bit
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by dangoor 9y ago
How is that she was a whistleblower? The US government wasn't breaking any laws and, for all we know, the evidence she had may be part of the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the election.
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by dangoor 9y ago
It seems like the trouble with this approach is that you have to not only build up adequate Electron compatibility but you also need to build up Node compatibility, which seems to me to be a bigger deal. One of the huge benefits to Electron
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by dangoor 9y ago
I've been looking at plugin hybrids recently and the Prius Prime looks to me like an interesting competitor to the Volt (and it's a very different beast from the old Prius plugin). It has half the electric range of the Volt, but i
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by dangoor 10y ago
Great comment! Also to add to the "folks that lived down the street" aspect of the House of Representatives: when we started out, we had 1 rep for something like 35,000 people. Now it's more like 1 rep per 750,000 people. Tha
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by dangoor 10y ago
Java Swing wasn't native, though. SWT is more comparable. React Native isn't "native" (in quotes), it's native... it uses the actual widgets provided by the host OS. You use similar techniques to create your UI for
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by dangoor 10y ago
There was some effort in the past to allow browsers to provide desktop app-like experiences for webapps. Progressive Web Apps are doing similar, though the target is very strongly toward mobile. It would be more efficient for disk space, th
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by dangoor 10y ago
It may be less an issue for games, but I'd have to wonder about stuff like accessibility. While I agree that the web platform has many things that can likely be removed in a pure app platform, I have to think that there are also many p
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by dangoor 10y ago
The linked article asserts that we're nowhere near that sort of general AI. Do you disagree? I agree with the premise of the article that a huge job loss is much more likely than general AI difficulties and think that many societies ar

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