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by dgreensp 13y ago
This is very primitive advice. We should meditate on why surfing Facebook is "bad mood repair" but forgiving yourself is "good mood repair." If it's bad to feel good, maybe forgiving yourself is just another way to
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by dgreensp 13y ago
Rather, models of reality are reductionistic when they say a chair (or a human) can be explained as "just" a bunch of atoms. It's worth reflecting once in a while on whether this is true, or even meaningful. For example, wh
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by dgreensp 13y ago
David from Meteor here. We're moving away from DOM diffing for essentially the reasons you describe. If you assume that views are written in a template language, which is the norm, then diffing is usually unnecessary. I'd never
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by dgreensp 13y ago
Incredible! This is great.
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by dgreensp 13y ago
That's true, on all counts. Meteor could use Miro inside minimongo on the client, for example, and turn objects into vanilla JS before passing them to the app, if that implementation offered significant performance benefits (or equal o
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by dgreensp 13y ago
I've been watching Clojure for a while, and I love the spirit of this work. However, as a framework author, I feel obliged to point out that of course you can create a more expressive and performant UI framework in a language with S-
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by dgreensp 13y ago
Aha, yes. This is pretty damning.
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by dgreensp 13y ago
You can't explain the comeback of the Mac if you cling to the assumption that Microsoft products are cheaper and better for getting "real work" done. (rendered here as "tool for a specific task" vs. "leisure&q
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by dgreensp 13y ago
No news here, just buzzwords and "trends." Platforms, services, and APIs are not operating systems. "Battlefield" makes things sound a lot more exciting than they are. It'll be a while before "cognition servic
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by dgreensp 13y ago
I encourage you to test this hypothesis. I think you'll find it's incorrect. You can actually fail daily, in the ways you're most deathly afraid of (typically, looking foolish in front of others, facing a setback, or otherw
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by dgreensp 13y ago
Wow, it's like a little piece of postmodern art. I give you mine, Untitled 7 (solidus on web page): /
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by dgreensp 13y ago
The author objectifies and distorts FOSS quite a bit in order to shape it into a target for a critique of capitalism. You can criticizes anything as being soulless if you remove the soul! FOSS runs on human values. As an analogy, if your
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by dgreensp 13y ago
I just came across a variant in the wild -- a Quora comment -- which puts the noun as the thing to be explained rather than the explanation: That was the point if the question, though. "If God does not exist, then how come physics?&qu
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by dgreensp 13y ago
I'd call it a grammatical construction. Your brain already knows how to "typecast" a noun to a reason ("Why didn't the bill pass?" "I don't know. Politics."), it's just not usually gramma
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by dgreensp 13y ago
Wealth can certainly be created; that's HN 101 if there is such a thing. See http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html , especially "Money is Not Wealth."
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by dgreensp 13y ago
Great, I have an expert here! So how does Kotlin bridge the differences between Java and JS? Can I write portable code that manipulates arrays? Does Kotlin use JavaScript's number semantics when it targets JavaScript, or does it emu
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by dgreensp 13y ago
Does anyone know how Kotlin bridges the differences between the JVM and JS? For example, the demo video that prints an ArrayList of Integers raises more questions than it answers, given that JavaScript doesn't have Integers or ArrayLis
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by dgreensp 13y ago
The author has his own negative emotional agenda. If you got accepted to Stanford, great, go to Stanford. It's just a school, a place where people go to learn, and it's a rather expensive one. So learn, and focus on bigger thing
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by dgreensp 13y ago
The complaint is actually about a design pattern for configuring a framework, popular in Java.
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by dgreensp 13y ago
Oh, Chesterton. He wants to argue that seeking "worldly Success" per se is impossible (and impossible by definition, if he can), but ends up arguing mainly that it's immoral. I hope no one takes his word that the only instin
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by dgreensp 13y ago
Joe, your criticisms are spot-on (I work at Meteor), though I feel you are not comparing Meteor to any existing framework, but rather to Meteor in a couple years. Most web developers are quite used to getting by without reactive templates,
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by dgreensp 13y ago
This reads like a blithe, poorly-written high-school essay on the problem with "view source": With the advent of HTML5, the web apps become popular, especially the mobile web apps. Web apps can be classified as either Hosted App
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by dgreensp 13y ago
Yeah, ditto. The attempts to "go social" and monetize felt sleazy. Guess what, when I'm googling for some PDF or I find some guy's slides, I don't want to tell my friends, and I don't want to "buy the art
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by dgreensp 13y ago
First they invented DRM for HTML5. Now they've figured out who to sell it to.
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by dgreensp 13y ago
So when does solar power become cheap and efficient enough that it's a real game changer? It seems like the numbers have gotten a lot better in recent years, at least in terms of efficiency.
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by dgreensp 13y ago
I'm not sure it's realistic to say someone could make a career in a programming language without being able to look at a function and deduce the static type of a value without asking the computer. As I wrote elsewhere in the comme
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by dgreensp 13y ago
I sense a fallacy lurking here. Sure, a type system like Haskell's or even Scala's is magic (and can be used without understanding it) as long as it can "Do What You Mean," but when it can't, you have to understand
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by dgreensp 13y ago
A good preschool will teach everything you mention, while letting kids play pretty much 100% of the time, with just enough adult interaction to provide structure and guidance. It exists and no one campaigns for it to be longer or stricter.
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by dgreensp 13y ago
This level of fear and worry about what an insurance company might try to argue seems too high, and not because insurance companies don't deny people for silly reasons, but because it literally isn't worth the years of fear and wo
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by dgreensp 13y ago
In hindsight, I think Apple did an impressive job with the App Store, in their usual style of building a brand-new kind of thing and actually doing a bang-up job of it. It took a few years to really get into shape, and I don't like ev

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