muglug

53 ms·

1. 661.▲
   by muglug 6y ago

   I think a lot! For example, the new https://www.whitehouse.gov uses jQuery. When you just want to add a small bit of interaction to a mostly-static site, jQuery can help. There's a current trend to complicate things with a
2. 662.▲
   by muglug 6y ago

   Amusing to see "even PHP" in there, as the author of the static analysis tool that makes that possible.
3. 663.▲
   by muglug 6y ago

   Basic summary: "a modern IDE should be optimised for my particular use-case". The author then proceeds to describe a very atypical use-case. One example: "The IDE should ask for the Github org eg, github.com/astradot and
4. 664.▲
   by muglug 6y ago

   I wish there was a more universal format for parsers, but I just don't think there enough people who know their stuff. Take PHP, a language that a lot of people use: the tree-sitter-php extension doesn't support features added in
5. 665.▲
   by muglug 6y ago

   I know this is not what the article is talking about, but there have been some success stories of companies incubating startups. An obvious example is Tinder, incubated at IAC.
6. 666.▲
   by muglug 6y ago

   I think it’s an important difference: TypeScript is a language that has a typechecker bundled with it. The language and the typechecker are clearly connected, and TypeScript users are very very strongly encouraged to use the typechecker on
7. 667.▲
   by muglug 6y ago

   This is an interesting approach: this device will free you from constantly checking all those other devices. To me this is the selling point of the Apple Watch, and it's hard to see what this does that a watch does not.
8. 668.▲
   by muglug 6y ago

   Speaking just from my own experience, maintaining open-source software can be unhealthily engrossing. The combination of wanting to please random internet strangers and everyone being in different time zones has, at times, overcome the flim
9. 669.▲
   Minesweeper automates root cause analysis as a first-line defense against bugs(engineering.fb.com)

   98 points by muglug 6y ago|24 comments
10. 670.▲
    Avoiding type inference false-positives with flow-sensitive conditional analysis(psalm.dev)

    2 points by muglug 6y ago|0 comments
11. 671.▲
    Vimeo Engineering: Faster application tests with MySQL simulation(medium.com)

    1 points by muglug 6y ago|0 comments
12. 672.▲
    by muglug 6y ago

    Having written a language server for PHP, I can tell you it's damn hard – I don't begrudge Microsoft's behaviour here at all.
13. 673.▲
    by muglug 6y ago

    Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25707959
14. 674.▲
    by muglug 6y ago

    Is it still available today? If it has since been removed, that's due to moderation!
15. 675.▲
    by muglug 6y ago

    > what if they unilaterally decide one day that our business is politically unacceptable because a bad person says nice things about us? That's not a great analogy. It's more like a banquet hall agreeing to host a far-right ral
16. 676.▲
    Amazon Is Booting Parler Off AWS(buzzfeednews.com)

    484 points by muglug 6y ago|10 comments
17. 677.▲
    by muglug 6y ago

    Watch this footage: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2021/01/08/ash... It shows men with baseball bats feet from members of congress.
18. 678.▲
    by muglug 6y ago

    > I honestly wonder whether it's ... just standard HNers who are in some sort of woke-led state of denial. I don't think there's any evidence for that. Every woke tech person I know would rather quit their job than do work
19. 679.▲
    by muglug 6y ago

    Thanks for putting this into words. People want a reason to log on, a reason to show up to work. I wrote a blog post on Monday about a relatively old and not-hot language. The post nevertheless trended on Medium and received 50k views. A lo
20. 680.▲
    by muglug 6y ago

    > Why? They see tech as a direct competitor and want as much smearing as they can. That's absolute nonsense. How in the world does the NY Times compete directly with Facebook, Google, Spotify etc? There's a bit of indirect comp
21. 681.▲
    by muglug 6y ago

    Tim Pool is a fringe right-wing media figure who has little interest in seeking out the truth.
22. 682.▲
    by muglug 6y ago

    One reporter's mistakes don't invalidate a whole newsroom. 99.9% of the time the NYT's scoops are subsequently verified by other news organisations in short order.
23. 683.▲
    by muglug 6y ago

    I'm a big fan of the open web, but I also think Google is on the right track with AMP. Whenever I'm on an AMP website I make an effort to use the "real" version instead by following the link in the top right corner. Nine
24. 684.▲
    Vimeo Engineering: It’s not legacy code – it’s PHP(medium.com)

    12 points by muglug 6y ago|1 comments
25. 685.▲
    by muglug 6y ago

    "Key people" is maybe taking poetic license. A small number of data scientists discovering a sense of morality (after cashing a few very large paychecks) doesn't feel like the tidal wave of employee dissent that many people a
26. 686.▲
    by muglug 6y ago

    Sort of amazing to see this guy give TypeScript two stars and ReasonML 4.5. He somehow believes the latter is easier to learn. That’s hard to square with their relative popularity in the front-end world.
27. 687.▲
    by muglug 6y ago

    Whether or not I agree with the conclusions, that’s exactly the sort of paper one might expect to be written by someone whose job title includes the words “ethics” and “AI”. I’m not sure what Google expected.
28. 688.▲
    by muglug 6y ago

    Some Christian groups oppose IVF for the same reason they oppose birth control.
29. 689.▲
    by muglug 6y ago

    That would be appropriate (in this analogy) if the website was advising employees on how to jump over border walls.
30. 690.▲
    by muglug 6y ago

    Here's a longer article about the resolver: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2020/03/new-pip-resolver-to-rol...