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by fergie 6y ago
"This article was last edited on 2/20/2019" A lot has happened in this space in the last 2 years.
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by fergie 6y ago
The biggest practical benefits of plain JS over TS are that: * code is terser * the JS standard is more stable/standardised * code can be distributed uncompiled * code has broader tooling support * code can be reasoned about and debugg
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by fergie 6y ago
I was using TypeScript all through 2019. Went back to plain old JavaScript at the beginning of 2020. Still using plain old JavaScript by default, and break out React when I _really_ have to. No regrets, many benefits.
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by fergie 6y ago
Overrated. When you are running a business you have to consider income, labour and employee retention. Businesses generally spend "extra" money in order to save labour or generate income. That skiing trip to the Alps that you orga
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by fergie 6y ago
Haven't used jQuery in years. This page is encouraging me to give it a whirl again.
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by fergie 6y ago
Yeah- that part of the article was not that good. Its clear in 2021 that the companies that win at compensation are the companies that win full stop. Its also telling that California, which has exceptionally robust legal protections around
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by fergie 6y ago
Are we talking about _customers_ or _users_? They are two different things, often with competing agendas. Its great that some American Google workers have decided to unionise (in practice, a significant proportion of their EU staff will alr
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by fergie 6y ago
Hyper is a "genuine" open source project that has been set in motion by volunteers and enthusiasts who, for the most part, have nothing to do with Big Tech. IPFS on the other hand is developed by a well-funded VC-backed company th
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by fergie 6y ago
Spontaneous shattering of safety glass is more common that you might think: https://www.google.com/search?q=shower+door+spontaneously+sh...
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by fergie 6y ago
"Synergy is my attempt to create the thinnest possible layer of abstraction over the browsers built-in APIs in order to build UIs with Custom Elements." A noble goal. I like that you are avoiding compilation and tooling.
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by fergie 6y ago
This is the tale of how an expatriate Briton in Copenhagen made a fortune in Imperial India and then, unusually, chose to retire to Sweden rather than the UK. Its _not_ a shocking new discovery of Scandinavian collusion in colonisation and
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by fergie 6y ago
The number one biggest risk to a product startup is that it turns into a consultancy/Studio since every half-decent software engineer, designer or project manager can be _fairly_ easily rented out for ~$300K a year. Therefore a relativ
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by fergie 6y ago
I think that the site is trying to visually demonstrate different framings
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by fergie 6y ago
"I was also slightly worried that I had inadvertently made myself a target of Big Pasta." This could be the hottest Netflix drama of 2021.
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by fergie 6y ago
Never understood why React hooks are such a big deal- I mean you’re just setting state. Or am I missing something?
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by fergie 6y ago
Gentlemen, we have come full circle.
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by fergie 6y ago
No. The definition of "creativity" is to have the desire and ability to create new stuff. Many people express their creativity by creating computer programs.
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by fergie 6y ago
I would strongly recommend building something that you yourself think is cool, and not feeling that you have to conform to what other people tell you to do.
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by fergie 6y ago
It was a shame that he overstepped the mark that one time, because he had a lot of sensible and deeply insightful things to say. He is literally one of the best essayists in tech.
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by fergie 6y ago
Its worth noting that Norway has an extremely low traffic fatality rate, which is especially remarkable considering the adverse winter driving conditions and remoteness of many roads. ( https://norwaytoday.info/news/norw
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by fergie 6y ago
"as I understand it, persons living in Scotland can drive back home drunk in rural areas as the only person they are ever likely to hurt its themselves." As a person who grew up in the Scottish countryside I can assure you that is
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by fergie 6y ago
Its nice to uncover a hidden gem, and my tastes have always skewed towards the obscure. In Spotify's defence- they are actually really good at digging up old, unknown stuff that I really like. (I say all this as an ex-professional musi
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by fergie 6y ago
Seems to depend on Cairo, which is AKAIK only available in X11 environments. Does anybody know how to get this working on OSX?
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by fergie 6y ago
Yes, but 80% of music on streaming services is not that good.
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by fergie 6y ago
Right? Its pretty crazy. And extrapolating further, you can show that the concept of private property is what necessitates tax, since the modern state is in large part an apparatus for enforcing the concept of private property. Therefore li
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by fergie 6y ago
I have a good friend who is a Law Professor and we had a pub conversation about the concept of "property ownership" a few years ago. It was really mind blowing- I had never really thought about how abstract the notion of property
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by fergie 6y ago
> British TV and radio is always full of Irish people (like herself). Celtic accents are outside England’s class system of resentment, distrust and competitive disadvantage, and so put people at ease. Realistically, every tenth person yo
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by fergie 6y ago
> the more of an accent a person has, the harder I need to work to understand them. Implicit in this statement is the (incorrect) assumption that you yourself don't have an accent. It makes no sense to complain about people having &
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by fergie 6y ago
This is a fair comment, but its a bit out of context. The article is addressing the increasing power that software (tech) companies have in the manufacture and control of hardware.
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by fergie 6y ago
Would love to hear the opinions of some actual mechanical engineers. Can these springs really passively get you +30% efficiency? What about weight? Cyclists are obsessive about reducing rotating mass, and these wheels seem to be seriously c

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