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by meredydd 10y ago
As someone with two siblings he loves dearly, never has the phrase "brotherhood of nations" seemed so apt as UK/France.
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by meredydd 10y ago
If you found this interesting, you might like the (much longer) account written by the ghostwriter of an autobiography Assange backed out of: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n05/andrew-ohagan/ghosting
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by meredydd 10y ago
You probably could, but the likely outcome of a magnesium fire burning right underneath a LiPo battery pack might get messy.
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Python widgets in HTML layouts(anvil.works)
5 points by meredydd 10y ago|0 comments
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by meredydd 10y ago
> Fifty Years will invest at the seed stage, based on a built product, and ideally some market validation. Right now, Fifty Years is into synthetic biology... I'm inclined to blame a confused journalist, but otherwise: What are th
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by meredydd 10y ago
Man, I'm late posting this, but this is exactly what we're building with Anvil - https://anvil.works > Superior scripting language We use Python - on the client and on the server (with rich RPC between the two).
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by meredydd 10y ago
This is fundamentally because every Javascript tool is an incredibly leaky abstraction. The problem isn't so much that "raw" Javascript has a lot of problems; it's that every solution requires you to fully understand the
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by meredydd 10y ago
Yes and yes, respectively. They openly correlate your physical presence in retail shops with your web browsing, so as to count web-to-physical conversions for that shop's advertising. The latter two (piercing the Incognito veil) are te
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by meredydd 10y ago
> If you're going to call HTML a programming language [...] CSS is simply properties [...] Whatever they are, they're complicated . They've each got syntax, enormous sets of tags/keywords to learn, and quirks coming
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by meredydd 10y ago
I assume you're talking about https://anvil.works here. That tension ("hiding facts") is there in every abstraction, but there are some luxuries to the way we do it. By putting a whole, consistent layer over the t
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by meredydd 10y ago
I still count three frameworks :) (React, Node, sequelize, I'm not counting webpack but I probably would if it's anything like as much of a pain as Grunt or Gulp or... And as you say, this is the lightweight version.)
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by meredydd 10y ago
I think you may be misunderstanding my point. If you have to invoke a brand new JS framework with limited uptake and many competitors, and "one of a million" CSS frameworks, in order to declare this problem solved, you are perpet
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by meredydd 10y ago
If anything, this understates the problem. A modal web application today takes an absolute minimum of five programming languages and three frameworks: * HTML * CSS * JS * A server-side language (eg Python) * SQL
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Show HN: Anvil, Visual Basic reimagined for the web(anvil.works)
7 points by meredydd 10y ago|1 comments
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by meredydd 10y ago
We know, and that is most definitely on its way. While we considered the half-way houses you suggest, it's sufficiently important that we don't want to half-ass it. Sublime Text-style autocomplete from other words in the document
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by meredydd 10y ago
More features...where do I start? Certainly more service integrations (there is already ready-to-use integration with several APIs, including Stripe, Google auth/drive/sheets, Active Directory for corporate users, etc, but there&#
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by meredydd 10y ago
> I would be impressed with a tool to quickly design a web application in the same way Visual Basic did 25 years ago Me too! So we built one - https://anvil.works The "Hello World" app takes 45 seconds (there's
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by meredydd 10y ago
Neat - offering everyone a little bit of AWS quota is a nice starter. (We use Google Sheets, which has...different tradeoffs.) Is there a repository of such things that I've missed? I also really like the way you've implemented th
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by meredydd 10y ago
First, this is awesome! I assume the reference to HyperCard is deliberate? (Aesthetically very similar too!) Disclaimer: We're doing something similar at https://anvil.works (live web-app builder, though ours is drag'n
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by meredydd 11y ago
We use the Skulpt Python-to-Javascript transpiler (www.skulpt.org). For extra ease-of-use, we contributed a continuation-ish transformation that lets people write simple, synchronous Python despite running on Javascript.
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by meredydd 11y ago
Hi, founder here. My question, I guess, is "why is that a bad thing?" Visual Studio (and particularly, Visual Basic that preceded it) succeeded in opening up the ability to make useful programs to a huge population. As an industry
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Anvil: A Drag-and-drop web app builder with Python(anvil.works)
6 points by meredydd 11y ago|4 comments
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by meredydd 11y ago
There's an engaging account of this incident in an American Airlines training seminar that's now on Youtube - it's even more dramatic than your summary suggests: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfNBmZy1Yuc&amp
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by meredydd 14y ago
I almost wish the author had included this trope too: "If I begin a conversation about sexism I am experiencing, that means that sexism against men must immediately become part of the focus of the conversation". It's not that those issues a
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by meredydd 15y ago
This is not a new phenomenon. When I first found HN, I conducted an experiment: Along with ordinary attempt-to-contribute comments, I made a couple of content-free remarks whose only attractiveness was the shared premise that "startups are
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How I Want to Disrupt the Mobile Market(scribblings.senatehouse.org)
1 points by meredydd 17y ago|0 comments
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by meredydd 17y ago
one step removed from porn Okay, I have to ask - what do you mean by this? Are you talking about supposedly general-purpose products whose main revenue-generating usage is in fact pornographic? Or products that operate elsewhere in some
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by meredydd 18y ago
I feel the need to pull up a quote from the comments, attributed to a Pixar executive (in a social setting): "Gee," he said, "that's something we wrestle with all the time. We're very aware of it and we're trying to change. But sometimes i
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by meredydd 18y ago
And yet. And yet Harry Potter says that Voldemort isn't the only evil, that the Ministry... I almost put this point into my original comment, because I anticipated this response: Go back and read the first two books. They contain no hin
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by meredydd 18y ago
And yet J.K. Rowling became one of the richest women in England by writing a book. More specifically, a children's book. Written engagingly, but with little by way of moral ambiguity or challenge to the reader. And yet this book became

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