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by epmatsw 11y ago
I think that's a misleading question. I don't think anyone is arguing that all innovation would go away if the patent system was removed. However, it seems possible that innovations that require high initial investment and low ong
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by epmatsw 11y ago
We've had good luck embedding React components inside of Backbone views. The downside is that you can't really go the opposite way (embed a small pre-existing Backbone view inside of a React component), at least without risking so
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by epmatsw 11y ago
General distrust of authority leading to rumors about the "true purpose" of the shots. As a specific example, he meets a mother who hid her male infant from the authorities because of a rumor that the shots were designed by Hindus
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by epmatsw 11y ago
Looks like they've just added first-class support for that pattern, so you get propTypes, defaultProps, etc.
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by epmatsw 11y ago
What you've described is pretty similar to Flux or one of its variants. The main difference would be that instead of managing state inside of the root component via setState, you have an external state ("store"), which would
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by epmatsw 11y ago
We're migrating from Backbone to React, and it's been lovely. Our main argument is essentially what the grandparent said: based on the policies React has been following, it basically behaves like a 1.0 release. There's clear
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by epmatsw 11y ago
While it seems obvious that this probably didn't help, Atul Gawande's Better (which came out before the CIA business had been exposed) has a really interesting chapter about polio vaccinations in Pakistan which includes stories ab
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by epmatsw 11y ago
Wouldn't that be an argument for using an immutability library then? If you can implement a shallow equality that takes shared structures into account, what about non-immutable structures makes them a more efficient option for such a t
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by epmatsw 11y ago
I don't see how that is related to immutability. Immutability gives you the ability to verify that it's unchanged in O(1), but it doesn't change your ability to do optimizations like that...
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by epmatsw 11y ago
How would you implement a fast diff that didn't involve looking at each text value anyways? Would there be a separate store in the structure that tracks changes, or something along those lines?
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by epmatsw 11y ago
Seems like the real issue is that Oklahoma is not giving the guy a fair trial. While the finality of the death penalty makes it (or at least makes it seem) worse, it would/could be just as unfair to throw the guy in jail for life witho
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by epmatsw 11y ago
If he's innocent, he chose to not go to jail for life for a crime he didn't commit. People shouldn't have to accept unjust punishment to avoid other people's ignorance/laziness/incompetence/half-assedness.
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by epmatsw 11y ago
Yep, we have a channel for developers that integrate with our product instead of having them email us. It's pretty efficient, but the fragmentation risk is there.
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by epmatsw 11y ago
Wow, that's really interesting then. Pretty neat strategy.
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by epmatsw 11y ago
Interesting that one of the most affected apps is a blatant copy of Angry Birds 2: Angry Bird 2 - Yifeng Li’s Favorite*. It looks like they're even using the actual icon.
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by epmatsw 11y ago
There's an option for app store + signed apps, which is fairly lenient. Bowtie I think is dead though, so it's possibly still unsigned at this point.
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by epmatsw 11y ago
If you've had it disabled for a while, you should give it another go. Just about every app is signed now. I think the only one on my machine that isn't at this point is PopcornTime (for obvious reasons).
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by epmatsw 11y ago
How often do you install new software that's unsigned? I've only done it a couple of times, and once you override Gatekeeper for a specific app it never asks you for that one again.
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by epmatsw 11y ago
I think that he was trying to be pedantic about the use of the word "engineer" in the context of software development.
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by epmatsw 11y ago
Yep, it was a pdf parsing exploit I believe.
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by epmatsw 11y ago
I wonder if they changed it since this comment. It's about the same as HN for me now.
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by epmatsw 11y ago
Public transport in iOS 9 has seemed decent, at least in my limited usage. So that's trending upward at least.
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by epmatsw 11y ago
True. But that means that the old AppleTV is now the only hardware that Apple is selling which has no software support. Pretty unusual, considering they're still supporting the 4S.
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by epmatsw 11y ago
"No wifi, less space than a Nomad. Lame."
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by epmatsw 11y ago
Disappointing it won't run on the old AppleTV, considering they're still selling it.
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by epmatsw 11y ago
Bummer. Doesn't compile with iojs.
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by epmatsw 11y ago
If you use vim keybindings, it's certainly nice to be able to move between lines without your cursor jumping around.
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by epmatsw 11y ago
I think you strongly overestimate how helpful having a human being in the car would be in any of those scenarios. If my mother is the driver and the power steering goes out, she might as well not be there. And we already have well establish
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by epmatsw 11y ago
>But as a scientist and as a programmer, I will never understand why people enjoy such childish things. This is why we end up with software that is painful to use.
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by epmatsw 11y ago
Huh, I joined the day MegaUpload went down. I don't remember, but I expect that those are probably related.

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