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by dmitriid 4y ago
It wasn't an inefficiency. It was a way to give users nice scrollable lists with large tap targets on tiny mobile screens.
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Strava raises prices but can’t tell you how much it costs anymore(dcrainmaker.com)
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> At the end of the day all stock market returns come from one's of 3 things None of which really reflect reality, and rely on basically pure speculation. They also depend on the stock to go up up up up. > Over the long run the s
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> That's one of the beautiful things about share-based compensation (from a shareholder angle). The problem with shares is that they have become (or maybe have always been) a purely speculative asset. They rarely reflect the reality
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Personal anecdotes from any big company :) There's a second layer to the tragedy. Also applicable to any big company: - many teams are overstaffed for what they do/produce - many teams are understaffed for what they do/produc
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Where file handling is concerned, there are at least - File System Access API, https://wicg.github.io/file-system-access/ - File Handling, https://github.com/WICG/file-handling/blob/maste
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The tragedy of Twitter is that: - they were absolutely undoubtedly overstaffed - Musk's approach was absolutely undoubtedly insane shenanigans of a stupid rich cry-baby Both are true at the same time
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Hail science https://youtu.be/tl55gVXsBZE
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> As others have pointed out the standard is here: As others also pointed out, it's a different standard. File System: Mozilla isn't opposed File System Access API: considered harmful There are parts (of whichever spec) that
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Keyword: after they scaled up. First they became Facebook :)
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Most of the stuff we used is based on some very boring tech. It may get upgraded to something fancy when the product/service scales to a significant number of users, but Spring+Postgres (or RoR, or Django, or PHP...) will get you there
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That's why I wrote this: "in true Google fashion Chrome team implemented and released at least three different APIs all having something to do with files." :) I didn't want to dig through all of them on mobile when I was
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It's a good idea, or at least originally it was a good idea. In reality it devolved to, well, see the links I provided. Edit: Note: those three are the ones I remember because I was reading about them at the time, or participating in s
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Chromium is open source but is not community-developed.
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I literally provided just some of the examples. Those are easily verifiable. Web Transport is shipped by default. What was the input from other browsers? Here's the timeline for HID: https://github.com/mozilla/stan
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A great article on this, Breaking the Web Forward https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2021/08/breaking_th...
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That's a nice sentiment at the link. The reality is that Chrome ships hundreds of APIs with little to no input and only barely notifies other browser vendors that "yeah, we're shipping it". We're literally in the
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> I'm developing a system which uses webapp to interact with device over USB. It works in Chrome. It's sad for me to not support Firefox As a cautionary tale: the moment Firefox shipped support for a hardware API they immediate
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> If core functionality doesn't work Somehow "everything that Chrome ships" is core functionality now > broken or slow on Firefox but work fine on Chrome. Somehow you blame Firefox for this. Even though "only works
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> What happens is that one browser (usually Chrome) implements a useful new feature. What happens is Chrome releases a Chrome-only non-standard (at a rate of 400 APIs per year). It cobbles together a barely legible spec [1], and then use
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> Let's hope FireFox starts to support the File System Access API soon. File System Access considered harmful, will not be implemented: https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/ Note: in true Google fashio
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So now you'll download megabytes of wasm. Because the browser has very little of what you need, and you need to bring all your world with you, all the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34218520
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> I only see React framework authors ignoring Web Components. See how you ignore everything I write even though I wrote it in the very first reply: "there are multiple reasons why none of the major frameworks and very few of the new
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To keep beating the same tired old drum: despite literally hundreds of millions of dollars poured into development and promotion of Web Components... the results are at best meh. The two leading frameworks, Lit and Stencil, see very little
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To misquote the author of Solid.js as I remember it: --- start misquote --- There's no wonder react has been popular for all this time. We needed a time of relative stability and gradual evolution. We don't need revolutions every
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Yeah, because yelling against Web Components in every forum thread is so much more productive. I'm not yelling. I'm pointing out facts. > regardless if they are at their foundation or not. So why are they not used as a fou
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AngularJS doesn't use web components as their foundation. VueJS doesn't use web components as their foundation. So you're not asking why. You're ignoring the question and burying your head in the sand.
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Sweden has the rule of "at least 3 seconds". Because you keep ignoring the speed, and the braking distance as well. Edit: and assuming perfect conditions when the driver is perfectly alert and looking ahead. And is young and healt
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It takes humans up to 5 seconds to even start breaking in the presence of danger. Even at 40 miles per hour your speed is 58 feet per second (or, at 60kmh you speed is 16 meters per second). So it's either "the driver had suffic
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> I wouldn't say that you need to reinvent any framework. You do, when you need at least slightly more complex. > The main critique I can think of is that Web Components provide many ways to do things Nope. The main critique is t

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