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by increment_i 10y ago
As a curious and perhaps naive aside, I've been wondering why the programmer should need to care about asynchronous execution of code at all. Can't it all be abstracted under a procedural layer and let the OS worry about not block
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by increment_i 10y ago
I've found I really enjoy using webflow (a YC alumnus I believe) for responsive front end design. I literally design all my templates and components in their app now, export the raw HTML/CSS, and add any templating or client logic
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by increment_i 10y ago
I use Node a lot, and I find myself reaching for the async library any time the project reaches a non-trivial size and there's a lot of communication going on between services. I don't find it all that hard to read (the async.wate
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by increment_i 10y ago
For me the hardest part was slamming into that wall where you've been working at a very high level of abstraction (HTML, CSS, a web framework of some sort, an IDE) and you realize you have very little idea how computers work or how the
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by increment_i 10y ago
I was thinking consumer VR could possibly do a decent job of the capturing the memories thing. This can happen quite frictionlessly once we all have 360 VR cameras on our phones as a standard feature.
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by increment_i 10y ago
I was a little confused to see an iOS release only - wasn't the thing built in Unity?
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by increment_i 10y ago
The true nightmares come once you give a picture of yourself - this was incredibly fun.
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by increment_i 10y ago
I've had similar thoughts on the subject. Once the hype around consumer VR became palpable, I was amazed at how quickly it segmented and fragmented. Should be interesting to watch the market mature though..
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by increment_i 10y ago
In my anecdotal experience, Facebook is really only good for the very top of the funnel. And even then it's sketchy. Creating awareness or piquing interest with your one sentence value prop (e.g "Never manage servers again!",
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by increment_i 10y ago
A central figure of the 20th century - it would've been remarkable to be a fly on the wall for some of this man's life experiences.
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by increment_i 10y ago
I'd be interested to hear your take on what these economic facts are. Just curious.
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by increment_i 10y ago
This is very unrealistic - those military bases, weapons, and nuclear warheads are property of the US military (whose commander in chief is the President of the United States), not some kind of Californian military outfit that the US is cur
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by increment_i 10y ago
Ok so taken literally, that was a bad example. But instead of giving me a textbook of problems where I solve y = mx + b, can I use mathematical concepts in a creative capacity? To do things I care about as a high schooler? Can I see those c
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by increment_i 10y ago
Could not agree with you more. Another thing I've noticed anecdotally is that many of the math teachers in the secondary system in North America do not have a broad understanding of math themselves. Math is given the most rote treatmen
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by increment_i 10y ago
Interesting they gave it the legacy 'NextStep' prefix. Although I suppose it makes sense given its a Mac-specific feature.
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by increment_i 10y ago
I'm inclined to agree. I was very bearish on Snapchat around the time they rejected the Facebook offer. But more than any other app right now, Snapchat is killing it with users. This is a what a product users love looks like. On top of
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by increment_i 10y ago
At this point, I would have no problem arguing with a straight face that your choice of technology stack might be the least important factor in whether your business succeeds or fails. I don't mind if I get torched for this, it's
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by increment_i 10y ago
You have a logical point for sure. I think it might be an apples to oranges comparison in this case though. I just don't know that building cars is the same as building websites and apps. I know Php and JavaScript can respond to an HTT
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by increment_i 10y ago
It would be an outlier company indeed who held an 'all hands on deck' meeting and said, "We're succeeding in spite of PHP everyone!" Only engineers care about programming languages. Seriously. That's it. No one
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by increment_i 10y ago
Like I said before, I imagine the large platform companies want to see how much a revenue generator it can become if it reaches mass appeal. This can only really happen on mobile.
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by increment_i 10y ago
In my mind, there's no other way for VR to go mainstream except for mobile. Average people will not buy a multi thousand dollar gaming rig, and the big software companies want to see how big of a whale this thing really is. If VR is go
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by increment_i 10y ago
What I mean is that its syntax is classical. Its constructs will be very familiar to those who have taken basic education in modern programming. As far as your 'different core' argument I'm not too sure what you mean. If you&
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by increment_i 10y ago
For me, the beauty of JS was in its simplicity - there were wacky edge cases for sure, but here was a C-like language that you could use to build a project that almost anyone could understand. When Node first came out I was over the moon -
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by increment_i 10y ago
Hmm. I could swear since upgrading recently that I've been asked whether an app can send me notifications. Could be wrong , I have a large mishmash of Android and iOS devices lying around the house.
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by increment_i 10y ago
Yep, using Android 6 now and I think the app has to ask for notification permissions on first app launch if I'm not mistaken.
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by increment_i 10y ago
As a solo developer, it's hard for me to gauge exactly where we are on the 'app' technology trajectory. My enthusiasm for any native mobile endeavour is pretty much shot by now. So, so much work for such little payoff. Most f
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by increment_i 10y ago
I think there's a huge potential for developers on chat platforms due to the fact that the app is already installed, and the user is already "logged in", and the UI paradigm is more or less standardized across OSes. I worry t
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by increment_i 10y ago
I guess this makes sense. I was pretty miffed at first but what you've said here is logical. UC Berkeley is bound by the ADA to make any and all of its services compliant, and in 2016 I'd imagine the DOJ isn't going to accept
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by increment_i 10y ago
He suspects China or Russia as the likely culprit. What exactly rules out an American agent? Is it because American economic and social activity rely disproportionately on internet backbones more so than other state actors? If so, that woul
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by increment_i 10y ago
I'd be interested to hear what you would expect as bare minimums for a "basic entry level technical role." I've heard of recruiters being dumbfounded at CS grads not being able to code FizzBuzz and to be honest I can&#x2

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