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Ask HN: What is happening to JavaScript with ES6 and friends?
9 points by nevi-me 10y ago|10 comments
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by nevi-me 10y ago
Our website is movinggauteng.co.za, I'll blog about progress on our blog over the weeks
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by nevi-me 10y ago
I got excited too soon, seems very limited. I thought that they would at least start with Android seeing as that's where most users would be. Imagine as a developer spending 20 hours building Actions only for there to be no audience.
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by nevi-me 10y ago
I was looking at the page earlier today, wondering when it's being launched. Great timing as my days at work are over for the rest of the year. I'm working on a public-transport chatbot in South Africa, planning on making it avail
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by nevi-me 10y ago
I could access it from US VPN, so I don't know what the real trouble is. I can't think of anything in my country that would prevent Google from offering this service. From a billing perspective, Google already makes some money fr
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by nevi-me 10y ago
Tried using it yesterday, but says it's not available in my country (South Africa). I'm tired of silly restrictions like this, it immediately turned me off Data Studio. I have a Tableau licence at work, which we feel are expensive
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by nevi-me 10y ago
This looks cool! The GRPC support's what caught my attention, especially as I've found trying to pass GeoJSON objects around GRPC to be a pain. One of the irritating things with Protobufs is the lack of support for nested JSON-sty
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by nevi-me 10y ago
I thought you would have reported the issue before/at the same time as the blog post. My opinion's that it sometimes works out better if I get in touch with software developers first, in case there is a known issue and/or wor
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by nevi-me 10y ago
It eventually becomes a reputation and perception problem. For example, I've been happily using MongoDB for years now. The problems I've had with it are either: 1. Problems that I can solve by doing enough research up-front (how t
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by nevi-me 10y ago
Interesting read, although other users have pointed out that some of the problems are solvable. I started using Firebase in May after the integration with Google Play. I run a public transit app/website (movinggauteng.co.za), and I hav
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by nevi-me 10y ago
I suppose this is off topic, but I checked one of my email addresses on https://haveibeenpwned.com/ and found a LinkedIn hack from May 2016. Thing is I've deleted my LinkedIn account thrice in 2013. They have no right
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by nevi-me 10y ago
I'm fairly new to date manipulation in Java, between LocalDateTime, Instants, TemporalAdjusters etc. I get confused, but I'll catch up. The comment I replied to mentions Moment for JavaScript, which I would add to your list. It&#x
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by nevi-me 10y ago
To go on a tangent, Java8 dates are "awesome" if you've used Joda-Time before, for the rest of us it's a pain in the backside. I found myself spewing lots of code to just do Moment one-liners. That made me appreciate Mo
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Proxying GRPC with nghttp2(movinggauteng.co.za)
3 points by nevi-me 10y ago|0 comments
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by nevi-me 10y ago
I think most if not all Mainframes run Java, so I think saner would be to learn so I can port to Java. There are still younger guys in our banks who COBOL, but the domain expertise sits with the much older guys. It's lately common for
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by nevi-me 10y ago
Interesting article! I've sometimes wondered if I should learn more COBOL. I'm 26, one of my gigs was to reverse-engineer loads of COBOL code whose functionality was being migrated to something modern. There was a few of these ver
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by nevi-me 10y ago
Banks already do some of that locally and internationally. In South Africa we have BankServ, which is a local interchange and clearing house. Transactions are still in batches, but the settlement between banks happens nett between the local
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by nevi-me 10y ago
Not sarcasm, I'm thinking MS purchases the company knowing what its issues (or perceived) are. I see MS as the lesser of 2 evils, a company I can generally trust with my data. The 'Dark Patterns' that LNKD employs would hurt
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by nevi-me 10y ago
I hope this will usher in an era of less unethical behaviour from the company under new leadership. Congratulations to shareholders. Anyone know why they'd negotiate an all cash settlement?
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by nevi-me 10y ago
Fair enough, but what happens if I open a page, send an Ajax call to say "add 1 user", then promptly close that page? I don't know what OP is doing to detect that a user is no longer on the site. The reasons why I used WebSoc
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by nevi-me 10y ago
I commented separately, I use sockets for this. I don't know about libraries for PHP as I haven't used it in a while, but most socket libraries make it easy to implement something. My implementation is in-memory, and the nice thin
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by nevi-me 10y ago
Why not just use websockets? I use socket.io on my site. I keep track of socket IDs in memory, if a connection is lost, I get a disconnect event, and vice versa. Socket events are sent to users when the number changes. I manage the frequenc
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by nevi-me 10y ago
It's not, go ahead and use it, learn and gain experience. It's not a replacement for SQL databases. It doesn't have joins and the biggest issue academics and as sysadmins have is it's not fully ACID compliant, so no tran
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by nevi-me 10y ago
Well, I have used one and had that assertion. Ease of use means making something that works. It seems we're condoning lack of knowledge or experience with programming. If you've never used databases in your life, whether you'
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by nevi-me 10y ago
I've just commented with pretty much the same as you're saying. Some people sound like they haven't even tried Mongo. It's great that PG has JSON support now, but a few years ago people were having together stuff on hsto
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by nevi-me 10y ago
Mongo has its weaknesses, yes its main strength is cited as its simplicity, or that its quick to get something out the door. I agree with your last comment. I can't help but to laugh at people who think they would get away with designi
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by nevi-me 10y ago
Google Chrome, WhatsApp have implemented it. It still exists on S5, not sure about S6 and S7. There's also the awesome touch sensitivity feature which when enabled allows you to use the touchscreen with gloves.
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by nevi-me 10y ago
Been on Node and Mongo for 4 years now. Both have worked well for me. JS has evolved a lot in the past few years, and with it came all the new shiny tools that left us confused. I think a year was too short for the author. Sounds like they
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by nevi-me 11y ago
Forget the voting rights, last time I checked Zuckerberg's net worth it was about $10B. I remember being a critic of $FB when it was reaching the $19.00 mark after listing. This is impressive! Hopefully he cedes control (majority votin
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by nevi-me 11y ago
Congratulations on 2.0! I tried out LXD a few months ago after hitting a few walls with Vagrant, and I've been happy since. Mark Shuttleworth's normally responsive on Google+, and he helped point me in the right direction with ini

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