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by mhd 7y ago
> Dart Server is not going to see a major uptick until Google commits to a major project initiative like they're doing with Flutter & Angular Dart. That's one of the important points for me. Google's commitment to Dart
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by mhd 7y ago
So you list Dart as being well supported on the server side? Did I miss some killer app/framework recently?
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by mhd 7y ago
Sure, I really do hope that engineers do their best to fix things, but in the sad world of contemporary web frontends, I'm a bit pessimistic (then again, if one has to err on the side of build system over-engineering, you're rarey
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by mhd 7y ago
The neat thing about modern SPAs backed with your average feature-flagged CI/CD setup is that you're getting a new 30 mb download each time .
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by mhd 7y ago
I was just mentioning those layers as something Apple was able to do if they wanted to keep being compatible. They could, but they don't want. How sinister that purpose is, is up to the reader...
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by mhd 7y ago
The interesting thing is that alternatives to PowerPoint are actually easier than before. Does anyone know where the trend towards simpler presentations started? In the '90s, everyone went crazy with transitions, but even beyond that y
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by mhd 7y ago
Killing it in the way they did? Not a dire technical one. In the past they managed to keep compatibility while switching operating systems ("Classic") and CPU architectures (68k -> PPC, PPC -> Intel). And that while being a
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by mhd 7y ago
Huh? I doubt that anyone is turning their backs on the UK after a Tory win for business reasons. If you're for lax regulations and live in the UK, you might already be drunk earlier than usual.
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by mhd 7y ago
This seems common in the Go culture, but I don't see at all why the language points in that direction (apart from Go having plenty of that in a barebones form in the std lib, of course). What language can't compose libs? The main
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by mhd 7y ago
Unless we're getting somewhat kinky, I don't think that counts as the biggest deprecation of mattress values. I'd rate sweaty obese salesman higher than a short spout of bonking. Unless we're talking about "impure&q
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by mhd 7y ago
Vaadin is a bit higher level, if I remember correctly. It seems to pivot to work with Web Components these days, some of which might be written in Web Assembly anyway... I don't even think that bytecode->WASM and Java->JavaScrip
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by mhd 7y ago
Reminds me a bit of how we thought about Vaadin or GWT...
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by mhd 7y ago
That's a pretty good selling point. I always was quite disappointed that after years and years of finding more writable alternatives to the verbosity of HTML, we picked up the worst version of it (from a writing-as-a-human perspective)
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by mhd 7y ago
I wouldn't say "spectacularly", as I don't remember that many attempts at true end-user apps. Enterprise is ripe with Swing. Nowadays of course the web has blunted our pain receptors for memory bloat and non-native UIs,
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by mhd 7y ago
Who doesn't? Sure, not everyone runs the same software on different premises or shards by customers, but even just staging/production does benefit from it. And these days, each dev having their own db is quite common.
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by mhd 7y ago
I wouldn't describe anything with a JSON kitchen sink field as "normalized".
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by mhd 7y ago
For a short time, my nickname (not just internet pseudonym, but real-life monicker) was "ndos" as someone in my circle of nerdy friends liked to call me that (I actually used 4dos, not its licensed variant, but let's not be t
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by mhd 7y ago
> Calling anything from Arthur "vaporware" is really laughable. kOS?
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by mhd 7y ago
Can you get hardcover Print-outs of the Linux man pages, syscalls or other sections? Huge printed manual sections on shelves appears to be a thing of the past...
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by mhd 7y ago
I found that quite interesting: After the boomboxes went away, "outdoors" music got more personal, less communal. You had your CD/MD/MP3 players and listened with headphones. Now common/cheap BT speakers made public
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by mhd 7y ago
Does NJ still do civil asset forfeiture? That's another weird thing about US policing for my German mindset, and as opposed to cash bails it doesn't even have a cool Lee Majors TV series attached to it. I do remember that the muni
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by mhd 7y ago
I tend to have a rule/aspiration that I could frame as "80 || 24": don't force me to read too much in two axes. So a longer routine that does maths, maybe even with nested loops, but using short variables and few functio
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by mhd 7y ago
As long as it's not just building a world to use their language with… Although both Cityspeak and the Creole seem more in line with Burgess' Nadsat than Tolkien's Quenya/Sindarin/Khuzdul. More cant than conlang.
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by mhd 7y ago
This is from the Perl11 guys, right? So, not exactly the Perl mainstream, if such a thing exists these days. (Not saying that they're entirely wrong)
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by mhd 7y ago
When you want to sell "reporting" to managers, cf. "data munging"/"ETL". "Two words combined that won't make sense" etc.
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by mhd 7y ago
This also shows one of the things that Perl was great at in the past: Personalities. Despite "Just Another Perl Hacker" being a common meme, there were some people who just stood out. Wall, Schwartz, Christiansen, Conway. I think
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by mhd 7y ago
Human-readable as in "not binary". Other than that, it doesn't offer a lot that helps in that regard.
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by mhd 7y ago
Interesting to read about the NS32k. The only thing I ever heard it used was the Ceres workstation of the ETH Zurich, the native platform of Wirth's Oberon OS.
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by mhd 7y ago
Yes, I remember when people suddenly started writing win32 programs in assembly, as a backlash against the bloat of MFC etc. (and maybe because there was a bunch of non-PC assembly programmers switching?) One interestin aspect of this is th
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by mhd 7y ago
Are there any games like that? As far as I know nothing ever became of that Minecraft-sequel/Elite-Clone that featured a fictional CPU and most programming games are rather educational and/or feature programming combat AIs... Alth

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