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by dumbmatter 10y ago
In some ways it's limiting, but overall it's a good thing. Less complexity, less network transfer, works offline, etc. It's just more challenging to do in JS/HTML than in your choice of traditional desktop app dev tools.
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by dumbmatter 10y ago
It is a pure SPA, you just have the option of opening multiple instances at the same time. Like I can open gmail in two tabs, but it's still an SPA. And yeah tabs in JS are possible and I might go down that route, it'll just be a
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by dumbmatter 10y ago
I think I might actually try this lol
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by dumbmatter 10y ago
That might work, but it's much more complicated and given the issues I'm already facing, I wouldn't want to rely on that communication actually happening (maybe background tab won't be able to send a signal to the foregr
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by dumbmatter 10y ago
I don't think that replacing a traditional desktop app with a web app is an edge case. That's one of the main points of HTML5.
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by dumbmatter 10y ago
Problem is, there is no server. All client side. So the tab on which you click "run simulation" is effectively the "server", except it stops running when the user switches tabs.
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by dumbmatter 10y ago
It is. But then you open it in multiple tabs, because that's how people use websites. Unless I'm supposed to re-implement tabs within my single page application and then force it to only let one tab run, which I guess is possible
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by dumbmatter 10y ago
What are we supposed to do about stuff this? Like I wrote a video game https://play.basketball-gm.com/ that lets you open multiple tabs for viewing multiple screens even while simulation is occurring in another tab. But Chr
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by dumbmatter 10y ago
First time I've ever seen the IndexedDB API described as "delightful".
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by dumbmatter 10y ago
You missed the 2% on IE 7.
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by dumbmatter 10y ago
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-users-guide-to-fivethi... is a decent overview of the most popular forecast. There's plenty of other relevant content on that site, too.
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by dumbmatter 10y ago
Libertarians do make exactly that argument about immigration. And people who disagree make exactly the same counter-argument - that even if it is a net benefit globally, some people might not like the result locally.
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by dumbmatter 10y ago
Despite what some claim, Safari 10's IndexedDB is still quite broken, except possibly for some trivial cases (like if you only use one object store, or you don't use indexes): https://www.reddit.com/r/javascri
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by dumbmatter 10y ago
What happens if you access the database simultaneously from different browser tabs? It works fine. Transactions prevent conflicts. And you can even do schema upgrades because there is built-in versioning, and it provides events to let you
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by dumbmatter 10y ago
Here's the discussion on promises: https://github.com/inexorabletash/indexeddb-promises The 2.0 spec is just a bunch of minor changes. Promises will be a big change - although I would argue it's way more impo
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by dumbmatter 10y ago
That's actually not true in Chrome https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=457409 although it's not clear if that is a bug in Chrome or in other browsers. It would be nice to have more
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by dumbmatter 10y ago
This article actually does a decent job of explaining the limitations of retrospective analysis, unlike most articles about retrospective studies. See the "Retrospective complements prospective" section at the end.
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by dumbmatter 10y ago
IndexedDB is actually not fixed in Safari 10: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/545ylm/psa_inde... Hopefully they'll figure it out eventually!
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by dumbmatter 10y ago
The article does mention it: Brahe had theorised that all planets circled the Sun, while it circled Earth. Locher noted that Brahe might be right, but what was clear was that the telescope supported Ptolemy.
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by dumbmatter 10y ago
I would guess that they tested how many sites it would break and found that mostly it just broke ads. And even better, probably mostly non-Google ads. That's certainly the only document.write code I've deployed in recent years.
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by dumbmatter 10y ago
I don't own a Mac, but I'm curious if Safari 10 is finally good enough to run one of my hobby projects, and if not I'd like to debug it because it seems the feature support is finally here (specifically, IndexedDB). Are there
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by dumbmatter 10y ago
Several similar drugs have had similar early results and then failed in more comprehensive trials. Hopefully this time it'll be different, but I think if you polled people in the industry, most would wager that it won't be. There
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by dumbmatter 10y ago
I wonder if Guatemalan women were really shorter than African pygmies, or they just didn't have data on pygmies. Either way, seems strange to write a long article about extreme heights and not even mention pygmies.
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by dumbmatter 10y ago
How do people using Flow handle this problem?
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by dumbmatter 10y ago
Safari’s IndexedDB implementation now fully supports the recommended standard. It's been a long time coming, but this is pretty awesome! Although after their previous IndexedDB implementation, I'm still feeling a bit of "tr
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by dumbmatter 10y ago
Forgery - require a notarized document, a video, etc. Tons of documentation, why not. Duress - could apply equally to euthanasia today too, couldn't it? If not, then take whatever magical anti-duress method we use now and apply it to t
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by dumbmatter 10y ago
kneden is cool, but fairly buggy still. I wouldn't recommend it unless you just want to play around with it and possibly work on making it less buggy. I believe most people use Babel to compile async/await to generators.
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by dumbmatter 10y ago
Encourage people to plan ahead, in the same way that you should have a living will and other legal documents in place before you actually need them.
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by dumbmatter 11y ago
People with Alzheimer's would love it too, because the status quo is that your memory deteriorates and then you die, and there's basically nothing you can do about it.
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by dumbmatter 11y ago
Yes, except other drugs designed to clear the plaques have been tested and they've all shown no reduction in symptoms. So my flu analogy was not great :) But it's absolutely possible that the prior drugs were all tested wrong or d

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