jpochtar

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   by jpochtar 7y ago

   Spaces on Leopard (pre-Mission Control) fit my brain like a glove. I'd love to get them back. I have 9 "spaces" in a horizontal row in Mission Control, but in the original Spaces they were in a 2D grid. The 2D gave me a se
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   by jpochtar 7y ago

   Why not just auto-update the OS?????????? Non-auto-updating software is the problem
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   by jpochtar 7y ago

   This is a good take. Standards were a weapon to fight Microsoft's closed source IE— emphasis on closed source. Why? Competing browsers needed to be IE-compatible to matter, and without standards spec-ing out what IE's doing, it
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   by jpochtar 7y ago

   Fantastic work you've done here!
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   by jpochtar 7y ago

   fmr founder of Pagedraw here... this looks amazing. I wish we'd built it! :)
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   by jpochtar 7y ago

   I think I'm out of the loop... can someone fill me in on relevant NPM drama? Are they monetizing successfully? Unsuccessfully? Unethically?
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   by jpochtar 7y ago

   reduce() is how you get imperative programming in a functional setting. JS is a perfectly good imperative language; for all these examples, you may as well use a for loop. Personally I prefer a functional style, but if you're going to
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   by jpochtar 7y ago

   New York. Having lived in both NY and SF, New York is so much better re: the homeless. Also Tokyo seems pretty great, but I haven't lived there.
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   by jpochtar 7y ago

   I mean, React is essentially a hack to get an immediate mode API on top of a retain mode platform (DOM), because the immediate mode API scales better to handle complex state. I'd push that yes, you do have to maintain your state extern
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    by jpochtar 8y ago

    I hear LISP has a pretty good macro system...
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    by jpochtar 8y ago

    http://paulgraham.com/avg.html
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    by jpochtar 8y ago

    Yeah we didn't do it for the hipster cred— we did it because I agree with PG that some languages are better than others, and Coffeescript is just better than Javascript.
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    by jpochtar 8y ago

    Do you... live in New York? I don't mean to be rude but you say "our" culture can't handle 25,000 high earning employees. 25,000 new high earners would be utterly unnoticed in the sea of Wall St.-ers. Honestly I think
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    by jpochtar 8y ago

    Yeah it's not super clear, but that list isn't of independent points: it's the steps we used to ensure a new feature is good code. "ignore performance" is explicitly step 3 of 5, where step 5 is "then you opti
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    by jpochtar 8y ago

    Ironically, Knuth's full argument is exactly what we're saying, and what @abraae's taking out of context to criticize. See https://medium.com/@jaredpochtar/on-performance-and-software... and the full sec
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    by jpochtar 8y ago

    We pretty explicitly said "hey, the web is a regression from the 90s... let's just make a company that fixes that"
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    On Pagedraw's Performance Engineering(medium.com)

    4 points by jpochtar 8y ago|0 comments
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    by jpochtar 8y ago

    lol no, I wrote that and it's a typo :P
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    by jpochtar 8y ago

    x-posted to medium: https://medium.com/@jaredpochtar/on-performance-and-software...
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    by jpochtar 8y ago

    Hi— Jared from Pagedraw here. (Stunned that this is the top comment on HN.) I stand by what we wrote 100%, but to add some color: I don't want you to think we didn't care about performance. We did— a lot. We just think most peop
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    by jpochtar 8y ago

    Thank you! I'm one of the cofounders— keeping LoC low was one of our primary measures of code quality. > we were too focused on the technical side Yes. Oh boy we were. > should probably pick the most boring stack Agreed. I&#x2
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    by jpochtar 8y ago

    http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html is how we felt about Coffeescript + JSX
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    by jpochtar 8y ago

    This is correct. We wanted to preserve the pre-shutdown homepage, but there is no future development planned.
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    by jpochtar 8y ago

    Yes, it's the final app from Pagedraw... but we encourage forks! There's some good stuff in there :)
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    by jpochtar 8y ago

    We thought so too. The key idea in Pagedraw is you could design in the positon:absolute world designers think in, and we'd translate it into the Flexbox world apps need. Ultimately we didn't get all the way there, which is part o
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    by jpochtar 8y ago

    It was both of those two things— we wanted to do right by our users who trusted us with a dependency, but also because we think we did some things differently than your average WYSIWYG builder, and wanted those ideas to help move the standa
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    by jpochtar 8y ago

    Thank you! I was worried this would be too subtle :D :D
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    by jpochtar 8y ago

    Take it one step further, and move the switched-over value to the top: ((o) => o[expr_to_switch_over()])({ opt1: () => { stmts(); }, opt2: () => { stmts(); }, opt3: () => { stmts();
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    by jpochtar 8y ago

    In 5 years, we’re going to have another post like FooLang is 3x better than Kotlin. And in another 5 after that, BarLang is 4x better than FooLang. And so on. In 30 years, we’ll finally just be at LISP. Jump ahead 30 years and just use LIS
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    by jpochtar 8y ago

    Thought experiment: imagine doing React development with all inline styles. Someone invents CSS. Would you use it? Of course not: CSS is a bad idea in 2019. In 2004 it solved some of the problems we have React to solve today, but much, much