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by diegof79 7y ago
I used to be a Dropbox fan: it was the first program installed on a new machine, and I recommend it to friends and family. However, I never converted to a paying user. That seems to be contradictory and maybe another data point of how hard
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by diegof79 7y ago
The article makes OSGi look like the inventor of encapsulation and interfaces, but those concepts existed way before OSGi (from Smalltalk to frameworks like CORBA). What OSGi produced is a model to handle dependencies, service lifecycle, an
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by diegof79 7y ago
Feature-wise most of the dev tools are similar across browsers (in particular Firefox and Chome are similar), but the things that keep me coming back to Chrome DevTools are: - Console. Both Safari and Firefox put the input at the bottom so
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by diegof79 7y ago
Firefox is great, and since the Quantum release is getting better on each release. My 2 reasons to keep coming back to Chrome for Mac are the battery life and DevTools. Firefox is very power hungry in macOS, there are a few bugs reported ab
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by diegof79 7y ago
> The fact that it didn’t get caught during any of the numerous betas since Sierra, really, really implies that nobody ever thought to try this—users or developers. There is another explanation. The author says that he was able to reprod
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by diegof79 8y ago
When you say "I would recommend learning more code instead" it's aggressive since there are different areas of expertise that contribute to a product. But in general, anything that is not "code" is underrated by sof
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by diegof79 8y ago
Perhaps someone that knows more about hooks can help me to understand the trade-offs. After looking at the intro: https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-overview.html My understanding is that each time that you call useState t
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by diegof79 8y ago
I use the elements of programming from SICP[1] as a litmus test for this kind of frameworks. The main issue with these annotation hacks is that they fail in the area of “means of combination” and “means of abstraction”. For example if you h
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by diegof79 8y ago
I live in Argentina. Based on what I see from movies, news, and TV series from the US. It seems that in the US football (soccer) is considered a game usually played by girls. Here in Argentina, it's a different story. Until the last ye
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by diegof79 9y ago
I worked using VA-Smalltalk and Envy for 3 years. One interesting thing about Envy, is that all the versioning model was available as objects that you can manipulate, and versioning was not file based but per module/class/method.
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by diegof79 9y ago
There is a book from the 80s with the same name "Learning How to Learn" by Gowin & Novak. The book was very influential to the UX field. Concept Maps -the technique presented in the book- is used a lot to understand user menta
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by diegof79 9y ago
The Windows registry is a database. Introduced in Windows 3.1 to handle COM classes, and later extended as the preferred config mechanism over .ini files. If you are a Windows user you'll notice the problems that it introduces in terms
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by diegof79 9y ago
What the author wants is something like Squeak. The idea behind Smalltalk wasn't to do a programming language, but a realization of the DynaBook (google for the essay "History Behind Smalltalk"). While I agree with the author