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by dmitriid 4y ago
They keep doing it: https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/1625756307297914883
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> None of them actually solve this problem because they can’t generate the actual code. That is a crucial part. Because there are a million ways to generate that code (if we're talking about the browser), and they will all break whe
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Anyone who wants to support IE and Outlook astonish me. Welcome to large companies (who may still get more people browsing from IE than populations of entire countries) and government agencies (good government agencies cannot afford no
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by dmitriid 4y ago
See also "Software Below Poverty Line" from 2019: https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html
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Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money? (2021)(babeljs.io)
89 points by dmitriid 4y ago|125 comments
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> The thing that makes Erlang and its actor framework great is pre-emption. That's one side of the coin. The other side is that the VM all but guarantees that a crash in a process will not bring the VM down and that you can get a no
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> frelling heck dmitiriid, nearly everytime you show up in my replies it's full of huge long dissembling. Says the person who goes on a rambling rant with cussing, personal attacks, and little to no substance. Every time you show
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> This doesn’t sound like failure to me, it sounds like the normal consequences of your life becoming busier. Reminds me of Marie Condo, who eased up on tidying, and it's no longer her top priority, after having kids: https:/&
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> When I delete an app on an iPhone, all its data is also deleted. Gone. Why can't it be the same for the Mac? Because on iPhone the app is completely sandboxed. Think Docker, with virtualised OS paths, but on OS level. When Apple t
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> This is not Google's fault. It quite literally is. In there desire to push web components they also pushed quite a few (often questionable) solutions. See 17:59 here: https://youtu.be/y-8Lmg5Gobw > But I'm
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> was the loss of auto-binding, not that its an inherent part of prototypes It is, because classes are a thin wrapper over prototypes, but the whole "classic C++-like" class shenanigans translate very poorly to Javascript. And
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> I don't think you need prototypes to understand this, though it is maybe a consequence of them. You do indeed need to understand prototypes to explain this behavior. "Free functions" doesn't really make sense, becau
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by dmitriid 4y ago
The thing is, you can't really avoid them. It's an important part of the language, and not understanding my bring you pain. In mid-late-2000s when the first idea of adding classes to the syntax came up, even Microsoft eventually
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Compatible with the language seems like a dead obvious concept to me: something you can do with the current TC39 EcmaScript language. Most JS frameworks are written in JS. You can run React, Svelte, Vue etc. directly from the browser w
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by dmitriid 4y ago
"Universal" in USB really only refers to the physical connector. The amount of things that are optional on the protocol level is... basically everything. If your USB-C plug only provides charging, it's USB-C compliant, and
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by dmitriid 4y ago
While their accessories are quite overpriced, it's not just "in the name of". It's in reality, too: there are quite a few teardowns comparing the insides of e.g. Apple chargers vs. generic chargers. Whatever issues you m
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Define "compatible with the language". Anything you shove into a string and then parse yourself is "compatible with the language". Doesn't make it better or significantly different from systems that do this step ear
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by dmitriid 4y ago
The big limousine disappears...
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Yes this is a significant hammer blow against native apps on iOS Funny how this significant blow never happened on the world's most dominant OS where all the restrictions that HN loves to whine about don't exist.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Twitter is (or was) one of those examples. It took months until I realize that I was using a PWA than a native app. I can't believe people keep saying this with a straight face. It's as if they've never seen an proper na
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> What you mention is pretty much every single AR/VR product out there. Of course it's not. The "lightweight ones" have a cord connecting them to the actual device. The others are bulky and work for a few hours at mos
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> With all the attention Bing has been receiving, I assume an increasing proportion of paid search budgets are shifting to Bing Ads. Of course they are not. The media attention is a short-lived one, and Bung is yet to prove it won't
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Clearly you weren't around when cellphones came out. Dude. I'm 42 > And that powers quite a bit of compute On a tiny screen, mostly idle, with most complex things driven by phone. You want a continuous compute with a large
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by dmitriid 4y ago
It wasn't as big of an issue. And there's a limit on how small you can go, especially with batteries. It's not "just a matter of time".
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Regardless, it surprises me that there are very few vendors aiming at delivering such a straightforward feature. A "straightforward" feature that requires packing cpu, gpu, ram, battery and screen into form factor of glasses.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
First you have to figure out how to break laws of physics it seems: battery, cpu, gpu, ram all need to go somewhere
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by dmitriid 4y ago
For some random definition of "full PWA support" which inevitably includes Chrome-only non-standards. Meanwhile Android is 70% market share worldwide with that desired "full PWA support". Where are these amazing PWAs?
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> No, I don’t wanna see a Hyundai next to me at a supercharger station. Ma, look, a segregationist.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> The ecosystem won't move on from React to more performant and standards-based alternatives until those alternatives provide a competitive developer experience. Meanwhile frameworks and libs (even those who originally were very sup
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by dmitriid 4y ago
It's not even ancient history. React is only 10 years old.

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