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by evmar 7y ago
They mention (in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Architecture#J... ) that even with the cache, they can't afford a stronger minifier. Don't get me wrong, I really like the "just ship l
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by evmar 7y ago
I am surprised to discover that wikipedia appears to not use a standard minifier on their JS, but rather they have a custom one (written in PHP) that appears to just do whitespace-style removal, which they appear to run in part of the criti
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by evmar 7y ago
It also looks to me like something made by a beginner. But from that impression I have the opposite take: why write this comment at all? Your comment only will serve to discourage this person, who is just getting started and not sure if t
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by evmar 7y ago
You might try out https://github.com/theseanl/tscc , which aims to do this.
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by evmar 7y ago
Angular has been working on type-checking the templates: https://blog.angularindepth.com/type-checking-templates-in-a... Disclaimer: I have heard about the above enough to dig up a random blog post about it but I don't
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by evmar 7y ago
This is the point under discussion though -- humans think they're reasoning the same way as the inferencer but can't get it right in the limit, so they're not really equipped to know where they ought to have added type annota
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by evmar 7y ago
Thanks for highlighting this bit, I also find it very interesting to think about! Here's a related property I've also discovered of 'advanced' type systems. In my understanding of how unification happens in systems like
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by evmar 7y ago
We (Google TS team) maintain a tool[1] that transforms TS types into jsdoc types for the purpose of feeding them into 'advanced' mode. We also (to answer the grandparent question) maintain a tool[2] that converts Closure-annotate
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Google Feedback on TypeScript 3.5(github.com)
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by evmar 7y ago
In case anyone else was curious how you create nonblocking file I/O, it appears to use threads. I am curious if the number of threads is unbounded, or if they have a bounded set but accept deadlocks, or if there is a third option other
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by evmar 7y ago
I think what you're saying is that morality exists outside of the rule of law, which I agree with. But then you're saying that you think that companies like Google are morally equipped to be able to determine this law better than
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by evmar 7y ago
I find it interesting on HN how inevitably the commenters reach for "Google should disobey the law here" in stories like these. As if megacorps weren't terrifying enough, now we expect them to extrajudiciously decide which l
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by evmar 7y ago
That's a really great question! One other factor is that functional languages typically are theory first, implementation second, while non-functional languages tend to more often have the language features follow whatever the implement
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by evmar 7y ago
It's interesting that Apple is policing this. Wouldn't it make more sense for Apple to have some sort of "if you leak you are liable for $X" clause in their contract with the factories, so that the factories themselves
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by evmar 7y ago
I've noticed it too. It drives me mad.
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by evmar 7y ago
I work in this space so I am curious how your library is different from its similar competitors. I read the docs, but I didn't find anything about the actual model for how it works, like whether the whole UI rerenders on any observabl
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by evmar 7y ago
NYC's budget is roughly 10x SF's budget. So proportionally, SF could spend ~$320m to match, which is actually right around what it does spend. (NYC is also ~10x the population of SF, etc., so that also lines up pretty well.)
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by evmar 7y ago
When I last visited NYC (from SF) I remember walking by a guy who was older and clean but vaguely possibly homeless who as I recall was standing on the street corner minding his own business. And as I walked by, some police walked up to hi
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by evmar 7y ago
If I make a movie and include your copyrighted song for just three minutes of the intro, my whole movie violates the law. Or if I write a book and copy-paste just one chapter you wrote on your blog into it, the book also violated your copy
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by evmar 7y ago
Where in this page is the actual promise? Is it the "take less" bit? That is a surprisingly weak statement. I think almost all of the statements made here are worded vaguely enough that could be equally have been claimed by Goog
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by evmar 7y ago
I think Google has experimented in the past with releasing things under separate brands, but it leads to the problem where if you don't mention the host company prominently enough users feel tricked (like all the people who use Instagr
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by evmar 7y ago
I explained the Reader phenomenon here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20116287 (I loved it too.)
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by evmar 7y ago
I'm not sure Google has yet figured out how or why it wants to make such products. I don't understand how apps like Trips or Reader get launched given that they seemed destined for at most mild success, but one possibility is tha
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by evmar 7y ago
[google engineer, not a lot of insight into product decisions] Option one: every product Google makes it supports forever regardless of whether it succeeds or not, where "success" for Google is defined as "billions of users&q
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by evmar 7y ago
Android's build system now generates Ninja files, which are semantically very close to non-recursive Makefiles, so it's a real-world example you can examine and measure. Android's build files currently add up to 1.5gb of text
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by evmar 7y ago
I've been attempting to create a benchmark for comparing Closure against other options on more real-world code: https://evmar.github.io/js-min-bench/ What I've discovered that has changed recently is that the
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by evmar 7y ago
This is just a copy-paste of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19758373 (which is the original source and on a site that isn't down)
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JavaScript Minification(neugierig.org)
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I was thinking about this comment and I thought of the perfect analogy: accessibility. Everyone in the abstract would like to make accessible websites. Some people at Google are really passionate about accessibility and advocate for it, wh
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by evmar 8y ago
I believe you have been downvoted because your comment is irrelevant to the article. As far as I understand it, Rock 'n Play and similar are dangerous for infant death not because of their construction quality, but because the shape o

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