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by denisw 8y ago
To summarize, Flutter provides no automated or easy means to save/restore state when Android auto-kills the app (e.g. because of low memory). The main problem here is that the `onSaveInstanceState` and `onRestoreInstanceState` lifecycl
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Gatsby, the React-Based Static Site Generator, Gets Commercial Backing(thenewstack.io)
1 points by denisw 8y ago|0 comments
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TSDoc: A doc comment standard for TypeScript(github.com)
2 points by denisw 8y ago|0 comments
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Debugging Modern Web Application (new Firefox source maps engine)(hacks.mozilla.org)
2 points by denisw 8y ago|0 comments
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by denisw 8y ago
I wrote that the Google Chrome engine was forked, and that Electron is using (not forking) it.
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by denisw 8y ago
VS Code and Atom are based on Electron, which is a platform by GitHub using the Google Chrome browser engine, which was forked off Apple‘s WebKit engine, which was forked off KHTML from the KDE project.
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by denisw 8y ago
It‘s great to know that native .gitignore support is being considered! Definitely looking forward to that. :)
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by denisw 8y ago
Sublime Text is a really nice and performant text editor, but one thing I unfortunately just can't get past is how excluding files from fuzzy-finding (Cmd+P) is handled. Files like .gitignore are not respected, so I need to kinda-repli
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by denisw 8y ago
Try Framer [1]. You're still designing in code, but using a tool that "wireframe" designers can more easily understand and appreciate. Might help with the interviews. :) [1]: https://framer.com/
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Dojo 2.0 released(dojo.io)
9 points by denisw 8y ago|0 comments
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by denisw 8y ago
Code reviews. Let developers peer-review each other's code changes and share knowledge about the functional programming practices used in the codebase. This is not a technical problem and has nothing to do with Scala.
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by denisw 9y ago
> There's no really universally applicable way of just going "show me all the code that processes annotation X" to your IDE Isn't "Find References" literally that? All code that makes use of an annotation at
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by denisw 9y ago
They did for 1.x, retroactively. That line of versions is now referred to as AngularJS by the Angular team, while the name Angular is reserved for 2.x and up.
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From Windows to the Cloud(medium.com)
2 points by denisw 9y ago|0 comments
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by denisw 9y ago
> success typing puts the burden of proof on the compiler which will only reject a program if it can prove that the program is incorrect [1]. But as far as I know, that approach has not been included in any mainstream programming languag
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MobX 4: Better, simpler, faster, smaller(medium.com)
28 points by denisw 9y ago|2 comments
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JavaScript’s a mess – and that’s a good thing(2ality.com)
2 points by denisw 9y ago|0 comments
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by denisw 9y ago
Service Workers (which are one of the core technologies behind the Progressive Web Apps label) go further than manifest files because they can deal with any kind of HTTP request (including e.g. calls to your REST API). Also, because they ar
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by denisw 9y ago
They work offline, and can do background tasks such as showing notifications even while the app is not open (enabled by Service Workers). They are not _different_ from what iOS offers, they just take things to the next level.
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by denisw 9y ago
It's your problem if a third of your potential users gets put off by how sub-standard your PWA is on their platform and chooses a competitor with native mobile app instead.
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by denisw 9y ago
One important argument against this practice is that node_modules is usually not cross-platform. It's likely that somewhere within your dependency graph, there is a package that contains native code, which results in platform-specific
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by denisw 9y ago
You don't need VM support for tail self-calls (which is exactly what Clojure supports with `recur`), but you sure do for optimizing tail calls to other functions. There is no way in the JVM to say "replace my stack frame with a ne
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JEP 286: Local-Variable Type Inference(openjdk.java.net)
3 points by denisw 9y ago|0 comments
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by denisw 9y ago
Context for those who haven‘t played Skyrim: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-took-an-arrow-in-the-knee
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On Types and Intent(jawaninja.com)
1 points by denisw 9y ago|0 comments
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by denisw 9y ago
It seems as if the author is on the way to rediscovering the idea of Unobtrusive JavaScript, aka the RSJS pattern (Reasonable System for JavaScript): http://ricostacruz.com/rsjs/ The main difference is that Unobtrusive
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Nest.js Brings TypeScript to Node.js and Express(auth0.com)
1 points by denisw 9y ago|0 comments
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by denisw 9y ago
I think spankalee meant NPM packages being distributed as ES6 modules rather than ES5 source files that use require() or are pre-bundled with something like Webpack or Rollup (as is the case for many frontend packages). Node.js has support
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by denisw 9y ago
To expand on that, there is no “beta“ channel, just a channel per release. If you install 17.10 beta, you‘ll get 17.10 package updates until the day of release, at which point you have the set of package versions that are considered the „st
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by denisw 9y ago
Unfortunately, the VS Code Java plugin doesn't have support for this yet. Here is the corresponding GitHub issue, which however hasn't seen much activity: https://github.com/redhat-developer/vscode-java/i

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