machine_ghost

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by machine_ghost 2y ago
What I don't understand is why, after twenty years, we still haven't versioned Javascript. A simple: 'v2'; At the top of every file could let us eliminate all this 20-year old cruft (like document.all hacks to support I
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by machine_ghost 2y ago
I read the website, but I still don't get what value it's offering over Chrome? Better viewport sizing?
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by machine_ghost 2y ago
You have a (very common) mistaken view of what the W3C is and how it works. It is NOT an independent standards body that tells browser makers what to do! In fact, it's the exact opposite: the browser makers (and Google is a big one
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by machine_ghost 2y ago
Kent Beck is just as bad as Uncle Bob! He drank his own proverbial Kool-Aid and went all in on the crazy XP programming fad he started (... which contains brilliance like requiring pair programming for every line of code written). Look, bo
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by machine_ghost 2y ago
So, this is anecdotal, and it's not true at the moment (because the end of the Santa Cruz wharf just fell into the ocean, and now the clam chowder restaurants are closed), but ... ... I had an ex who was a huge clam chowder fan, so she
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by machine_ghost 2y ago
"We also looked at different types of psychedelics and didn’t see any systematic differences there." This was the most fascinating finding to me. I really wouldn't have expected Salvia, Acid, Shrooms, etc. to all produce the
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by machine_ghost 2y ago
I know it's dumb, but when a library requires me to install Yarn to install it, I think so much less of it. I just hate the idea that I have to install an entire package manager simply to use some Node.js code, when NPM almost certainl
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by machine_ghost 2y ago
It may not be dead, but it does seem a bit stagnant. Based on Google Trends at least ( https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge... ), Elm has the same general interest level as it did five years
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by machine_ghost 2y ago
>Smartphones didn't come from a VC-backed startup. This isn't entirely correct: both Palm and Apple (the creators of the smart phone) were originally venture-backed.
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by machine_ghost 2y ago
The fact that the very foundation of our legal system is fundamentally undemocratic (in the sense that no regular citizen can be reasonably expected to understand it) is starting to bubble up into societal awareness. With everything Trump i
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by machine_ghost 2y ago
This same is also known by another name when it's used to teach new programmers: pseudo code. Sadly, because it's associated with learners/juniors, pseudo code gets a bad rap. But really, all engineering is translating Eng
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by machine_ghost 2y ago
In the long run, yes, but if programming were so rote and simple, we all wouldn't have jobs in the first place. Look, technology has always replaced jobs, throughout history (how many of you know professional lamp lighters, elevator do
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by machine_ghost 2y ago
I don't know Cursor, but VS Code is a very full-featured editor with many years behind it; I rather doubt an upstart editor could achieve full feature parity with it so quickly. But that's almost beside the point: even if it had p