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by nawgz 5y ago
I understand this is a reoccurring theme throughout history that lead to most of the endemic coronaviruses today. Omicron is truly fantastic; for example look at Ontario’s case count vs ICU count. Omicron has completely decoupled those grap
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by nawgz 5y ago
Ah, <details> and <summary>. The most glorious HTML5 elements of them all. Use and abuse these for all sorts of custom yet native capabilities, like <select>s with custom styles and proper keyboard/native controls.
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by nawgz 5y ago
Insanity. I feel truly lucky to have bought a car in Oct 2020. I dream of selling it for that sweet above-what-I-paid price point... but these stories help sober me up
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by nawgz 5y ago
> backend only Lol, not even close pal > tsc cold starts in terminal ??? Why would it be only possible to cold start in the terminal and hot start in the IDE? > you update the code, the IDE tells you the error Well, we’re making ri
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by nawgz 5y ago
> not negligible enough for hot reload How trivial does a change have to be that a subsecond compile time is offensive? The IDE takes longer than the terminal and is much less consistent. Anyhow, if this crowd truly exists then this is t
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by nawgz 5y ago
> For this reason most large typescript code based I’ve seen run their build and type checking steps separately How big are we talking here? I have a mid-6-figures LOC codebase and the TypeScript compiler time is essentially negligible.
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by nawgz 5y ago
Simply put, compiling code that does not pass the type checking is a waste of cycles, and I have seen footguns in this way. I don’t really see the value in weakening your type safety and compiler guarantees in exchange for 100ms compile tim
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by nawgz 5y ago
Why wouldn't we just get SonarQube to do this kind of stuff? I see no reason to pay a human to be fallible and context-free.
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by nawgz 5y ago
Yes, that I think is the source of my confusion - labelling oneself as a TypeScript compiler while actually not doing any type checking is slightly misleading, and the resultant builds being legal even while the TS is not is a strange parad
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by nawgz 5y ago
Yes, it was what I feared, this to me is terrible news. I have experience with libraries running fake TS clones and then requiring an endless pile of type refactoring if you need to extend it in some way. That said, I can understand one wou
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by nawgz 5y ago
I have found it a bit difficult to understand how TypeScript is involved here. Are they using the actual `tsc` library, or have they rolled their own? It is not very clear from the docs, overall I feel TypeScript support seems a bit of an a
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by nawgz 5y ago
Yes, I understand ICU beds are a lagging indicator, but search "Ontario Covid Cases" and observe the exponential graph in case count without any movement in ICU count to understand that I already claim the 1:40 ratio is reduced Fu
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by nawgz 5y ago
But these are case numbers and not hospitalization numbers… which is the parent’s point, Ontario ICU numbers are stable since nov 20 even with all this omicron news and increased case count
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by nawgz 5y ago
Sure, but this is clearly better than the situation for other existing technologies which are cheaper and can be used to the same ends. I don’t deny that this behavior is bad, but the anti-Apple sentiment here is a bit strange given they pr
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by nawgz 5y ago
There's engineers like this, but at small companies your colleagues dislike you and lose respect for you each day. There was a guy like this at my last company, and then when they tried to fire him he threw accusations against colleagu
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by nawgz 5y ago
Conversely, aren't all the 'good news' articles just... that more money was poured into the ecosystem and its "value" went up? I don't really see anything else coming out of this space besides speculative valua
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by nawgz 5y ago
I’d be far likelier to believe you if it wasn’t so obvious and you didn’t protest so much.
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by nawgz 5y ago
> frequently in the form of effusive praise I somehow doubt it's in the form of 5:1 ratio of effusive praise to questioning/criticism outside of the true top books there, and then to see this on a random ad where the OP swears
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by nawgz 5y ago
> Imposing population limits in the developed world It is hard to read this and mention of "Al Gore" as anything other than arguing in bad faith. No one would propose to introduce population control in a place where that is not
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by nawgz 5y ago
Sure, and Capitalism devolves into late-stage regulatory-capture wealth-inequality race-to-the-bottom massive globally scaled abuses of both people and the planet. To propose that we just simply have to let "capitalists" fix the s
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by nawgz 5y ago
If by "we" you mean "the first world as it devolves into wealth inequality", sure, but it's clear there's nearly 8 billion people, so a 2.4 fertility rate not projected to turn til the end of the century probab
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by nawgz 5y ago
Yes, Capitalism will surely solve the problem that Capitalism wrought, and using tools like Regulation and Policy is sure to hamper Capitalism and not help consumers or the environment at all! How sad it is that the comment suggesting we tr
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by nawgz 5y ago
> It's not really pedantic I mean, if not pedantic, then perhaps grinding an axe - he said 'there is a lot of Javascript that is getting "downloaded and installed"' as if that has anything to do with the user exp
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by nawgz 5y ago
Show HN has a major problem with that these days. The comments that are just like "perfect timing! I have never seen a resource for this and I'm just learning it now" are really facile, no one actually interacts with people s
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by nawgz 5y ago
I would argue that using less of someone's time is strictly "more humane" than using more of someone's time, because an individual's reaction to a situation is... individual
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by nawgz 5y ago
> if you used the native widgets and set tab-indexes you'd be all set for changing sizes, blind users, OS re-theming, etc > Imho, the real reason we don't see stuff like this for the Web Where are you looking on the web? tab
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by nawgz 5y ago
Please, you must not be pedantic in this way, it's clear that I mean there's no install wizard and OS-native interactions the user must go thru, they just provide a string URL and immediately begin application-style interactions a
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by nawgz 5y ago
I think forced aspect ratio was very common in the era of these oldschool UI toolkits. Additionally, handling multiple classes of pixel density and input (touch vs mouse) was unheard of.
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by nawgz 5y ago
> Fast forward to today and we are in this clusterfuck, where everyone keeps reinventing the wheel and complexities just keep growing Yes, it is quite funny to see how no toolkit exists to simply produce Web UIs in a meaningful way. Howe
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by nawgz 5y ago
Building things that have no real-world constraints does often result in great beauty. Unfortunately, the web and all its ugliness became the dominant platform because it enabled no-download no-install information & application interact

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