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by franklyt 6y ago
My complaint about FF is the inclusion of pocket, a closed-source default with a political bias doesn’t seem appropriate for an open source privacy-focused browser.
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by franklyt 6y ago
Ghostery? Owned by Cliqz? Seems a bit questionable.
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by franklyt 6y ago
Stadia is a huge project, backed by google. I think it has “canary in the coal mine” features. It does want to be an enterprise service, eventually.
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by franklyt 6y ago
An advertisement?
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by franklyt 6y ago
This is probably thanks to schools.
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by franklyt 6y ago
Connect your phone to your PC, open some dev tools and let us know.
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by franklyt 6y ago
I worked on improving the performance of an extension that had to parse the DOM and any mutations. Performance was horrible in Firefox, not nearly as bad in Chromium browsers but improvements could be found. What worked: parsing the DOM wi
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by franklyt 6y ago
I don’t know if he is talented, but he is certainly a skilled developer.
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by franklyt 6y ago
VS Code can trivially become an IDE.
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by franklyt 6y ago
If you’re instructing people, having more options becomes a positive, not a negative. Incidentally, Ruby has a similar problem for self-learners.
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by franklyt 6y ago
The argument Python fans will give is the ecosystem: it has many mature libraries. Shell scripting, e.g. dev ops? Ruby for me, Perl for complex regular expressions. Web development? This depends. High performance environment? Golang, C. Bas
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by franklyt 6y ago
I think that people do indeed have a harder time perceiving the physical structure of the code, especially if they’re not spatially oriented as thinkers, e.g. myself, I’m a Linguistics person first and foremost, not very good at spatial rea
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by franklyt 6y ago
My “problems” with semantic white space are more along the lines of “oh, well, this is clearly unintuitive or is creating small errors”. It’s also one of the most persistent thing that learners will forget, even the good ones, when writing
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by franklyt 6y ago
Alright, I see. Another good candidate is golang. I’m going to think on that one a bit more.
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by franklyt 6y ago
Is that a crack about complexity? C doesn’t have very many features.
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by franklyt 6y ago
I’m not sure that statement is accurate, I could see an argument being made for C being a really good learning language.
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by franklyt 6y ago
I’m a bit taken aback by this message. My students have never copied and pasted a single line of code aside from their own... I also don’t give homework. If you want to learn on your own, you can, but homework is a massive crutch that I do
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by franklyt 6y ago
I teach Python to learners. It has substantial pain points, the most significant in my opinion being the semantic white space that never really ever stops being a problem. JavaScript runs in the browser, has relatively trivial syntax, no se
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by franklyt 6y ago
Can’t say I’m too much into internet arguments. It was a turn of phrase. The good money is a good bet, i.e. I think a tenable and wise position would be to believe what I do, but understand if you do not and recognize my own propensity to b
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by franklyt 6y ago
Alrighty. You’re entitled to a contrary opinion. Not much to add beyond that. All we can do is see how this shakes out.
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by franklyt 6y ago
The good money is on it being an exemplary vaccine. The Sputnik name and the glowing data we’ve heard about it. Besides, it’s not like you can trust big pharma only if has a Western brand slapped on it. Some of the worst drugs, possibly all
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by franklyt 6y ago
Very impressive for a traditional vaccine.
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by franklyt 6y ago
Your website looks like a run of the mill static website. A competent engineer should be able to scale that to the moon on a raspberry pi.
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by franklyt 6y ago
Really weird article, reads like a “this is why outsourcing should be illegal” post as the guy goes through a bunch of countries like toilet paper.
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by franklyt 6y ago
SQL is a solution to a problem in the vein of prematurely optimizing for many use cases where mongodb is called for.
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by franklyt 6y ago
Your calculations are pretty fast and loose and involve heavy-weight assumptions. I don’t look at the keyboard to type with two fingers (and my thumb, technically). I can probably sustain 120 effortlessly. 130-140 if I’m comfortable. I’ve b
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by franklyt 6y ago
You’re going to have to take my word for it, not much incentive for me to go through all of that to sate your doubts.
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by franklyt 6y ago
On the flip side of this, I type at 130-140WPM and never learned to type “properly”. I use my index fingers.
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by franklyt 6y ago
I don’t see how that term is applicable to a grassroots phenomenon when it purports to describe an explicit corporate strategy.
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by franklyt 6y ago
Coding. Not being smarmy.

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