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by mmcnl 5y ago
I really like the evolution of JS over the past two decades. I strongly believe the evolution of JS revolutionized the web in a positive way and significantly boosted innovation by lowering the costs for application development. For example
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by mmcnl 5y ago
I like this. Any advice other than "putting in effort for more than 2 seconds" has a lot of hidden assumptions about the context and organization around your code. Some days I only do a commit once at the end of the day as a backu
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by mmcnl 5y ago
I hate the thought behind this. Often I don't maximize to see more content, but to hide everything else. Why does Safari decide for me that the window can't be any wider? That doesn't make any sense at all.
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by mmcnl 5y ago
Window management in macOS is from the stone ages. Maximizing has unpredictable behavior. Windows sometime fill the screen, sometimes not. Window snapping is absent. It works so frictionless in both Windows and Gnome: just drag the window t
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by mmcnl 5y ago
True. But have you tried the latest Ubuntu for example? Everything works out of the box on my HP EliteBook. Touchpad works great as well. I didn't need to configure anything. Time hasn't stood still. Both Windows and Linux have im
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by mmcnl 5y ago
Regarding messaging, contrary to popular belief WhatsApp is great for privacy as well. It is now end-to-end encrypted since it recently adopted the Signal protocol [1]. It's cross-platform and more widely used on a global scale. [1] h
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by mmcnl 5y ago
This is an extreme overstatement. I have used Ubuntu LTS server editions for years without issues. It's widely without much issues. Sure, things could be better, but "completely unsuitable" is laughable. You're free to p
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by mmcnl 5y ago
Fair enough, but what I meant to say is that in practice Git is always used in combination with a centralized service such as GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket. There is no cryptographic consensus, that is true, but the model still works exceptio
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by mmcnl 5y ago
Money is just accounting. Making sure balances are in sync on sender and receiver's end. People don't have problems sending money from A to B. I fail to see the application here. I don't think money is going through a transfo
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by mmcnl 5y ago
The world wide web had caused a global economisch crash just right after its first decade. That's huge.
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by mmcnl 5y ago
Still the Git concept works using a different trust model (i.e. repository maintainer).
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by mmcnl 5y ago
I understand what you are saying, but you cannot say they provide trust advantages as a factual claim. The trust model is _different_, not better. There's value in centralized trust as well.
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by mmcnl 5y ago
Blockchain is a decentralized database. I think very little use cases actually require decentralization. Also, decentralization is not better per se than centralization or the other way around. It's different. Imo there are very little
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by mmcnl 5y ago
I actually enjoy the typing in Python. The only problem is lack of support from third-party libraries. I find myself fighting the typing errors so often by adding: # type: ignore. Especially pandas gives so many errors. Type hints are inclu
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by mmcnl 5y ago
I haven't read the article due to the paywall, but was it actually risky? Apple had already proven they could make high-performant chips ever since the A4 in the iPhone 4. It was a long effort, sure, but given the tight integration bet
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by mmcnl 5y ago
Perhaps afraid that backtracking would be seen as a confirmation of policy error?
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by mmcnl 5y ago
It is not like the stock market. Shares are a share of a company, that (hopefully) produces something of actual value. You can calculate earning per share. Companies pay dividend. It means you actually own something. What does it mean to ow
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by mmcnl 5y ago
Digital gold is about how far as it gets. I can understand that. But I don't see Matt Damon hyping up gold during the Super Bowl. The price is not based on the assumption that it is digital gold.
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by mmcnl 5y ago
You are so right. Also, almost literally everyone involved in crypto has a financial stake in one or more coins. How can they be a trusted advisor? It dawned me on a while ago, and every cryptocurrency is simply a big scam. The only way for
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by mmcnl 5y ago
I like to think there's no such thing as "basic" questions. What does that even mean? If a question is "basic", then the answer must not be complex either, so what's wrong with asking a basic question? All peop
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by mmcnl 5y ago
Then you are not a professional.
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by mmcnl 5y ago
Seems petty to me. Who cares if it's not first party? It's widely used and is the defacto standard package manager. Is that not enough?
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by mmcnl 5y ago
Why do you treat PHP and JS as similar languages? They're worlds apart, have different purposes and have almost nothing in common.
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by mmcnl 5y ago
I usually try to avoid this by adding a question mark as early as possible to the conversation. It happens way too often that people are trying to answer a question without even knowing what the question is or solving a problem without know
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by mmcnl 5y ago
What's the problem with making the words accessible? It's not a secret. It is most definitely an engineering achievement. The author actually had a clear vision of what he wanted to achieve and he achieved that goal in a very mini
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by mmcnl 5y ago
Every design decision is a compromise. "Inelegant" is simply another word for "I would've done in it a different way".
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by mmcnl 5y ago
You're dumping all the compute requirements onto the client. But that's not always a bad thing. When done good, it's pretty good. Prime example: Worldle. No need to hate frontend.
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by mmcnl 5y ago
What is iCare? As far as I know, Apple doesn't offer any products or services named iCare, nor are their stores named iCare.
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by mmcnl 5y ago
What does "SOL" mean? Please don't use abbreviations unless absolutely necessary. Letters are free on Hacker News.
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by mmcnl 5y ago
Agreed, I can get something up and running using Express or FastAPI (frontend + backend) easily in a few hours, whereas Firebase would be new to me. Use whatever you know/can to get something in front of the user.

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