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by mhd 8y ago
To me a "holy grail" wouldn't just be about being superior, but about being complete. Even within the web space, with its simplistic UIs, React doesn't do a lot (intentionally). Whether it's a shining diamond of mat
932.
by mhd 8y ago
The enterprise sector is full of this. And why wouldn't it? It's basically never-ending circle of highly-paid consultants, in-house employees with very specific skillsets, never mind corporate kickbacks for devs and their manage
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by mhd 8y ago
Shared suffering is also a good conversation starter for the elderly. Some waiting rooms turn into a kind of Four Yorkshiremen sketch quickly. And yes, that's not good. The whole world hasn't quite come to terms yet with situation
934.
by mhd 8y ago
Kernel size and 64 bit code, and it's not like the rescue floppies didn't use some tricks, either. It never got on the level of the famous QNX demo disk.
935.
by mhd 8y ago
I think it would be interesting to have some kind of linter/formatter built in the editor that restricts JS to its basic imperative subset.
936.
by mhd 8y ago
I thought it's a good illustration of how fractured and fragile the JS "library" situation is. It's a bit like the previous PHP standard library, combined with the worst of Perl's Tim Toady.
937.
by mhd 8y ago
Yes, pretty much. I don’t want to bikeshed elementary parts of the developer experience, never mind vetting all the teeny components or find replacements if dependency hell strikes, quality regresses or maintainers disappear. Given all the
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by mhd 8y ago
I'd prefer Eiffel or Oberon, but almost anything is better than ES6. I just wish there was some kind of standard library movement to coincide with it, but even MS seems okay with left-pad.
939.
by mhd 8y ago
Given the dreadful Sencha acquisition, this doesn't sound too good for the employees. Hope you'll find good replacement positions.
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by mhd 8y ago
He wrote letters, and she's posing as her clients, so this seems roughly equivalent. Which to me personally is a step to far. If you're getting tips or even literal phrases, you still have the option of not using or changing them.
941.
by mhd 8y ago
Or the various interfaces of the home computers. The BeBox was an interesting twist on this with its "GeekPort".
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by mhd 8y ago
Cyrano As A Service? Totally outsourcing it seems a bit skeevy to me, but some on-demand-coaching would be nice. "Don't tell her about your D&D group yet!" would've been some good advice in the past. For a friend of
943.
by mhd 8y ago
Back then even some audio CDs had copy protect. A certain Céline Dion CD was infamous for wrecking CDROMs.
944.
by mhd 8y ago
A long time ago on some German computer show, they showed a flight sim hacker who basically made his own immersive cockpit. He had a camera rigged to his screen, right where the attitude indicator was, and this controlled servo motors who e
945.
by mhd 8y ago
Neat. I wanted to play around with old OS interfaces a bit this year and this might just be what I need for the NT/ReactOS part.
946.
by mhd 8y ago
My vote would be for Javascript, but that's only because I'm optimistic and think Facebook might still be torn apart.
947.
by mhd 8y ago
A few years back Pharo's predecessor/sibling Squeak was garnering some interest due to its "Seaside" web framework, which used continuations and so made some interactions easier to program. But after the rise of JavaScri
948.
by mhd 8y ago
There were some attempts at that kind of development experience, most famously ExtJS. So you could just use JavaScript once the authors took care of the HTML/CSS in their component library. And one step farther some attempts at using a
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by mhd 8y ago
Which is why I'm amazed it's actually used now outside academia. It lingered so long there, it's surprising that it made the jump. Probably due to some alums of INRIA using their particular implementation for their own proj
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by mhd 8y ago
Reminds me a bit of Objective-J. What ever happened to that (it had a pretty nifty extjs-ish/Cocoa-like framework whose name my brain can't access right now)?
951.
by mhd 8y ago
Didn't we just call it "slashdotting"?
952.
by mhd 8y ago
The important metric here would be package activity. If you don't have the package or its out of date, all other benefits don't really matter. Granted, in the Windowsing world, package count is a lot lower, as it's all about
953.
by mhd 8y ago
I don't agree with the author, but I have to say that I don't get a big advantage from "retina"-grade displays for coding. For web browsing, reading PDFs etc, the increased density is useful (kinda), but for code itself,
954.
by mhd 8y ago
It’s a bit like the 8 bit computer age: You can get by in a high level view, but the performance might not be enough or you’re missing out on some features where you need direct access. Given the immense speed of today’s computers, brute fo
955.
by mhd 8y ago
I don't see many MacOS-specific developer tools in general. Command line tools are portable, at least between Unices, and often even beyond that. Going back to the MPW... Nowadays even IDEs aren't platform-specific anymore, more o
956.
by mhd 8y ago
A chat application is to node.js what a blog was to Ruby on Rails or PHP -- it's basically the default example of every framework and library. Low complexity, high throughput. So you'd have no trouble finding good examples and lib
957.
by mhd 8y ago
TortoiseGIT always required me to check way too many boxes for each individual operation. Took me way longer than on the command line, where you just define one alias and you're good. My biggest issues with git were when you were worki
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by mhd 8y ago
And if I recall correctly, you can't just repair them as all the parts are in a solid block of epoxy.
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by mhd 8y ago
In the beginning, there was also a good deal of people coming from NeXt and finally finding a target audience. Some of those applications fared even better, as they were basically Cocoa already, whereas some of the older Mac apps were more
960.
by mhd 8y ago
There's always been some leeway in that. Both the original Mac OS and Windows had a variety of languages targeting it, but they tended to strive towards emulating the core SDK experience (if they weren't a wrapper around it). Unix

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