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by dgb23 3y ago
My guess is that many marketing based sites bloat their staff and expenses to a self perpetuating and useless degree.
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by dgb23 3y ago
I don’t mind context targeted ads, they are even useful sometimes. User targeted ads are invasive and I avoid them.
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by dgb23 3y ago
This is the type of achievement I find incredibly awesome and inspiring. It’s overcoming oppressive challenges and build up not just from nothing, but in a way from a negative, draining state.
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by dgb23 3y ago
Interesting thoughts and concerns. I wonder if AI trained on other AI content inevitably leads to a garbage in garbage out scenario that gets worse over time or whether it actually improves, maybe even at a non linear rate? I believe the fo
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by dgb23 3y ago
Can you share more? I'm interested in both success stories and failed attempts.
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by dgb23 3y ago
> no one is interested in putting in the effort required, if they even know about it There is a sizeable web subculture with a focus on an accessible, sustainable, semantic, open standards etc. web with different flavors. When you browse
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by dgb23 3y ago
> Both seem to focus on expressing relationships between objects and having compiler/runtime infer the computation, instead of explicitly specifying the computation. That's true of every declarative approach. Functional, reacti
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by dgb23 3y ago
Probably the latter. Slightly differing UIs are not interesting enough for your brain to activate problem solving and learning. But they are different enough for you to get slightly confused in minor ways. I think that’s why some people str
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by dgb23 3y ago
PHP streams by default. It’s not entirely clear to me why you buffered the output and flushed it manually (in every iteration?) from the article.
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by dgb23 3y ago
Part of my job is web performance “optimization”[0]: Cookie popups and third party JS are two of the biggest culprits for slow sites next to large images/videos and general bloat. Some of these tracking scripts and cookie popups requir
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by dgb23 3y ago
Streaming HTML documents is basically the default for the majority of sites, because most sites run on PHP.
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by dgb23 3y ago
It's a shit show and plenty of people are not OK with it, including prominent content creators (for both DnD and MTG) that have a huge draw.
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by dgb23 3y ago
IMO the three most important reasons we use computers are: - correctness - performance - automation (We basically still suck at all three.) As I understood it, the talk mainly addresses the third point. We write inflexible concretions that
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by dgb23 3y ago
I never used a library for this kind of thing. But simple Mealy Machines come up somewhat regularly in my UI code.
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by dgb23 3y ago
While that's true, there are also limitations and gotchas of Web based UIs that make state management very complex and messy. There are layouts that you _cannot_ express (with HTML/CSS/JS) without intermediate rendering steps
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by dgb23 3y ago
I think the sweet spot are state machines that don't take "context" as inputs but have richer effects in their transitions (if we're talking about Mealy Machines). This way, the internal behavior of the machine is still
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by dgb23 3y ago
Going back not only means starting from scratch but also adopting anything that the code to be changed touches. It's often a lot of work with uncertainty and thanklessness attached to it.
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by dgb23 3y ago
In a broader sense, any type system can only guarantee internal consistency.
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by dgb23 3y ago
Very good example of how even a small scale piece of logic can have very messy effects down the line. Both insufficient and wrong abstractions are viral. They infect everything they touch, which can snowball into large parts being more comp
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by dgb23 3y ago
I don’t turn up my nose though. I don’t judge anyone for choosing tech, especially if they have good reasons. I’m also very loyal and pragmatic. I really tried. I don’t want to start a language war here either. What I said above was a count
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by dgb23 3y ago
I agree with you. But, and this is a big but, it's a tradeoff. You also get benefits. This is why I said "buy-in". If you are comfortable with doing things in their way, you get a ton of leverage: easily consistent code, a fa
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by dgb23 3y ago
The type system isn’t expressive enough for these tools to catch anything but the most basic errors. In PHP, typing is for function signature documentation.
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by dgb23 3y ago
> If someone's still hating on PHP in 2023 it makes me wonder if they've been focused on more exotic technology because they were looking to pad their resume with more expensive skills, build science projects for their own amus
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by dgb23 3y ago
Don’t be afraid to really relax and do stuff that has no meaning or goal.
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by dgb23 3y ago
Burnout is just a form of depression packed into a term that seems more acceptable.
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by dgb23 4y ago
Temporality in general becomes super handy if you have something like reports that need to be consistent across time. Or if you want to ask questions about the past. Or questions about the future without affecting the present.
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by dgb23 4y ago
That's not easy to answer. It's a question of: - mutable data vs immutable data - tables, row based vs tripple store, attribute based (EAV/RDF) - table schemas vs attribute schemas - relational connections vs graph connection
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by dgb23 4y ago
https://www.datomic.com/get-datomic.html still seems to show licensing fees at the time of this comment.
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by dgb23 4y ago
This response is a bit late sorry. I fully agree. Most programming languages already give you enough tools to write very simple and powerful state machines. This works best with languages that have first class support for data literals and
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by dgb23 4y ago
This stood out to me too, and makes me scratch my head a bit, because it is not in line with the otherwise pragmatic advice. For projects that have a design made by a designer (with something like Figma/Sketch/XD) it is definitely

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