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by etler 3y ago
For a bit more context, the creator is doing a full rewrite. I think it would probably have been cleaner to release the rewrite first, then close all the old issues as deprecated. You could isolate the rewrite branch issues with a version t
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by etler 3y ago
>I took the thing down in fear of retaliation by the grocery chains. My plan: get a big NGO, news outlet or political party to host the thing and be a legal shield for the endevour. Imagine how much good could be done in the world if dev
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by etler 3y ago
That sounds like a really cool idea! Thanks for letting me know it exists
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by etler 3y ago
It depends on what you're doing. I find console statements helpful when testing out a new function that you don't necessarily expect to misbehave so I check the internal state is correct without having to stop the code. Debuggers
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by etler 3y ago
I don't think the dichotomy exists because the TS ecosystem is autonomous. You can use TS with any JS library through type declarations and the definitely typed repo. What the js community thinks about typescript honestly doesn't
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by etler 3y ago
Are you doing full stack or backend development? On the browser a build step is needed anyways as you need transpilation to be able to use new ecmascript features, and you need a bundler for module management. Node is kept more up to date s
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by etler 3y ago
I find that areas that are hard to type are a code smell indicating potentially unstable API design. It can be pretty tricky adding types to a JavaScript project as the lack of types can lead to some very side effecty apis that can be very
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by etler 3y ago
The benefits of typescript when refactoring is immense. I have a really hard time understanding how someone could not see the net productivity gain if they've experienced refactoring in typescript vs JavaScript.
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by etler 3y ago
I think typescript's type inference and structural typing is a big part of how it doesn't get in the way of writing code. I've always preferred the safety of static language, but understood the productivity benefits of dynami
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by etler 3y ago
But that's not email's use case at all. It's not being compared to email because they serve the same function otherwise there'd be no need for Lemmy. It's being compared as a distributed and open protocol, and where
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by etler 3y ago
I imagine most of the ui code is fully reusable. The fact it's even possible to port it so quickly I think practically confirms it. Most of the changes are probably just on the API side. The biggest impact of Reddit attacking the 3rd p
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by etler 3y ago
I view it like picking a forum in the old days. It does force you to slow down and be more considerate of what community you're joining and how you interact with that community, but personally I view that as a good thing. It's dif
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by etler 3y ago
To be fair to the Lemmy devs, they couldn't have predicted Reddit deciding to implode itself and haven't had a ton of time to respond to the new reality.
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by etler 3y ago
Lots of the Reddit apps are being ported for Lemmy as we speak so it's about to get even better and easy to use. At the end of this all, the biggest mistake that Reddit will have made may be sending all the most talented devs creating
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by etler 3y ago
The point is that it's distributed so no one instance can go power crazy and abuse a monopoly on the platform. If you want to keep using centralized services then the same cycle will happen again and again.
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by etler 3y ago
It being distributed is the whole point. I think the whole thing is intended to slow you down and be more considerate about being a part of a community. Many servers require you to fill out a form explaining why you want to join the server.
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by etler 9y ago
I'm not sure why you call it a dirty secret. It's not dirty or a secret.
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by etler 10y ago
For this kind of page it might be best for them to use a data URI image to remove as many external resources as possible.
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by etler 10y ago
Wouldn't you need to decap every individual chip you want to compromise?
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by etler 10y ago
I'm guessing they saw it through remote access logs? If they see he downloaded gigs of data he wasn't supposed to be using for his job then that's very suspicious. I wonder how they found out that he copied it to an external
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by etler 10y ago
Couldn't they do a chip and pin style hardware solution where a security chip generates a response using a unique secret algorithm?
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by etler 10y ago
Thanks for the response! I know the sample size question is hard to answer because of the number of variables involved, but the reason I ask is that the CoderWall blog post example mentioned 20,000 pages, which is more than we have so I was
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by etler 10y ago
Can you explain a bit more about the technical details of what the platform can do? Does it integrate with web master tools and google analytics? Does it help identify page populations that are stable and similar enough to be compared? How
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by etler 11y ago
My theory on the decline of Apple software is that they're starting to have the Windows legacy problem. Years ago Apple was able to wipe the slate clean and build a modern toolset exactly the way they wanted without having to worry abo
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by etler 11y ago
They used to be very common. There used to be football and baseball shared stadiums as well as basketball and hockey shared stadiums too. I don't know why exactly it changed, I think everyone just wanted their own special place.
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by etler 11y ago
Considering it was the only blurred page, I wonder if that made it stand out more...
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by etler 11y ago
Having near total control of the OS that totally dominates the market in poorer countries is kinda a nice position to be in though.
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by etler 11y ago
A simulated brain can be reverse engineered and improved. We're going to have to deal with some intense ethical and philosophical questions as a species though...
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This levitating Bluetooth speaker is the best we've seen(engadget.com)
3 points by etler 12y ago|0 comments
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by etler 12y ago
There's so much potential for this app, they could add a keyboard and allow you to send any message you want for instance...

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