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by mrcwinn 11y ago
Nope, completely wrong. I have a 32GB i7-4790K at around 4Ghz or so, and Atom is a complete dog. The painful truth is that a webview is never going to beat a native app at this kind of task. It's not a vocal minority. Atom is painful t
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by mrcwinn 11y ago
Really cool. What kinds of things are you using to make something like this? A particular game engine, language, etc?
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by mrcwinn 11y ago
It wouldn't be my first choice (or second, or third), but I would say that Rust could be well-suited for APIs. So, if your web app is a single page app that is simply communicating with an API, it starts to make a little more sense, if
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by mrcwinn 11y ago
Really fantastic post and work. Love it.
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by mrcwinn 11y ago
Every (large, meant for production at scale) application needs a framework. That doesn't mean it should be someone else's framework. And while there are certainly "giants" on whose shoulders a developer can stand, in the
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by mrcwinn 11y ago
It's good to realize the mistake here, so good job. Never jump on the new thing. Always lean toward the simple thing. Always prefer tools closer to your core competencies. Meteor is really fun to play with and the community is very g
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by mrcwinn 11y ago
It's a nice thought, but in practice I doubt it matters all that much. I remember when I was a kid, for most of the class computers were meant for one thing and one thing only: Playing Oregon Trail. But there are always one or two kids
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by mrcwinn 11y ago
I wouldn't call myself part of the Go community in any real way. There are people doing much more than I am. I personally like Go. We use Go at Creative Market (and do so increasingly). I will say the my impression of Rob Pike and so
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by mrcwinn 11y ago
Having no citation or inside knowledge, I can say for certain they did not spend $45 billion to develop, market, and grow Bing.
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by mrcwinn 11y ago
I have an iPhone 6s Plus, which I love, and almost never use landscape mode to reach UI controls. I am quite sure Tim Cook is a fanatical user of Apple products.
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by mrcwinn 11y ago
SQL support has always been "coming." It's been on their Trello roadmap for more than a year. The specific messaging in this post is that the new version of Meteor is coming late this summer, will not include SQL support, but
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by mrcwinn 11y ago
Slow on mine too, even scrolling. Sublime, on the other hand, is super fast. However great the community might be, this is a flawed concept. Native apps are better for certain things today. This is one of them.
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by mrcwinn 11y ago
Completely agree. Looking at his eventual realization of these ideas, Cycle.js, it's just a complete mess in terms of declarative, easy to understand components. The beauty of React, beyond its simple lifecycle API and virtual DOM, is
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by mrcwinn 11y ago
I tried Soylent 1.4 for four days (one meal per day - eased into it). I had incredibly bad headaches. I felt weird , like my vision was impacted. It felt like I was getting a fever, even, although I wasn't. I've never had a &quot
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by mrcwinn 11y ago
It is true that it is failed, and that video looks silly in retrospect. But it's also true that Apple has always had an entirely different business model than, say, Google. This isn't a new "marketing feature." Apple has
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by mrcwinn 11y ago
Let's please not look to Rails to determine the way forward for web development.
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by mrcwinn 11y ago
Fair enough, but I would argue JSX is just as "HTML-centric" as anything Ember has implemented, so long as we agree "HTML-centric" means, practically speaking, "not HTML."
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
Go is not a perfect language, but I've been hard-pressed to find one and so I've stopped looking. Here's what I like about Go. Go is crazy boring. You type things. You hit return. You type the next thing. Error not nil? Type
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
There's nothing objective about that statement, since it depends on what you value. If you value having a language that is supported natively by every browser, I would argue JavaScript is - subjectively - quite fantastic!
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
Is Soylent on SemVer? Does anyone know if 1.4 is another breaking (wind) change? I would like to apologize to the entire HN community.
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
The Apple videos are shot beautifully. They are quite a piece of work form a film-making perspective, and offer a glimpse at how much work goes into constituent pieces. I really enjoyed this article. Thank you to the author for putting toge
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
I don't have a report to link to, but experience certainly says so. I'll make another broad statement: I don't think most experienced engineers would argue with me that the more quickly changes are made to software (which imp
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
A versioning system does not ensure stability. Moving quickly in software generally means less stability over time, semantic versioning or not.
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
Sometimes products are dead on arrival because they "surprise" the user with a fundamentally different implementation than the one they expected. In this case, the "phone-shaped" object isn't a phone at all. In fact
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
Go, unlike Rails, is not a web/MVC framework. It's a systems language, which is even still separate and unique from Ruby, a dynamic language. I agree you'll certainly learn more from Go than you would from Rails, but it'
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
Sure it's a true statement. Even if you have to compile to different targets (and you do), that's much simpler than implementing shared dependencies on those different targets. When you deploy a binary with no external dependencie
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
I think that's impossible to answer, since the U.S. lacks the infrastructure, workers, regulations to make that possible today. Hopefully over time we can improve that situation. In other words, it's more complicated than a simple
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
I'm disappointed to see this prioritized over, say, a focus on reduced library size or simply getting to a stable 1.0 release. I'm not sure how this moves React forward, though I'm sure it's a "nice to have" fo
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
Great link. Then I'm even more confused that it makes the point to say it doesn't have "componentDidMount," [but it just has something else instead]. To me, the mixed markup shown on that page is a bizarre way to express
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
"Riot is React + Polymer + models + routing without the bloat." It is not + React. It's - React. It lists as one of its features, for example, a lack of a component lifecycle API (componentDidMount, componentWillMount, etc)

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