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by ng12 6y ago
Well, we asked for this. We demanded Twitter and FB censor their content, we applauded Cloudflare* for deplatforming websites. Now those monopolies can use the precedent to control more of the web.
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by ng12 6y ago
I cannot wait until we discover a basic understand of the human microbiome. As a practice, gastroenterology is very good at diagnosing and dealing with cancer and very bad at dealing with anything else. IBS/IBD is basically a blanket d
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by ng12 6y ago
Do you think they built the MTA before they built Manhattan? Population growth creates the tax base, density, and demand required for a successful public transportation system. Demanding that the public transport comes first is simply backw
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by ng12 6y ago
I think the difference is that all those programs are run by the government using data the government owns. The LAPD is going to scan license plates and analyze the data whether Palantir helps them or not. Palantir does not by itself collec
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by ng12 6y ago
I was confused by that as well. Maybe that number includes the engineers contracted out to customers?
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by ng12 6y ago
Right, the apps we're actively working on are React+TypeScript+GraphQL. The Angular1 and older apps are the ones that require minimal investment.
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by ng12 6y ago
So Uber isn't allowed to delist drivers from their marketplace?
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by ng12 6y ago
I sure hope not. At my last gig we kept a suite of jQuery, Backbone, ko, and/or Angular1 apps happily chugging away with almost no extra support burden.
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by ng12 6y ago
Great, next time I take a consulting gig I'll be sure to turn down the jira tickets I don't want to do.
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by ng12 6y ago
> Let them decline rides without facing penalties by the platform The independent contractor model works both ways. Uber has the right to avoid working with contractors who continually refuse work. You can't be picky about your work
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by ng12 6y ago
It's not about passive investing, it's about TINA: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/tina-there-no-alternati...
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by ng12 6y ago
It's not that I have a problem with the idea, it's that I've spent most of the last decade building data visualization apps on the web and have never truly hit a wall with respect to JavaScript's performance characterist
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by ng12 6y ago
Both of these sound like side-effects of trying to render massive amounts of UI artifacts that the user doesn't actually need or want to see. Whether you use JS+React or Rust+Yew you're going to get yourself into trouble with fire
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by ng12 6y ago
That is exactly what I'm talking about. Everything you referenced is an architecture problem, not a JavaScript problem. You can write slow apps in JavaScript+React, you can write slow apps in Rust. Unless milliseconds matter (doubtful
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by ng12 6y ago
Switching from JS to Rust will not give you a noticeable improvement in runtime speed, especially since V8 is absurdly well-tuned. If your JS logic was the bottleneck it's a good sign that the code was poorly architected and Rust canno
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by ng12 6y ago
What ethics? We didn't get rid of sweatshops we just moved them overseas.
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by ng12 6y ago
> Should I not blame clothing companies for contracting out to sweat shops No, but you should also not expect a large company to run itself out of business for ethical reasons. If Nike uses sweatshops Reebok's only options are to fo
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by ng12 6y ago
> The existence of that medium of music doesn't make sense in the current year given how people actually go about consuming music. I'm not convinced. The standard 3-4 minute pop song came about because that's what could fi
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by ng12 6y ago
I've found looking at data from StackOverflow to be pretty useless. "Number of questions asked" could very easily be interpreted as a negative thing -- maybe there's some ideal ratio of questions asked to raw usage numbe
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by ng12 6y ago
If the dependency array lint rule is yelling at you there's a very, very good chance your component is broken. As an example I used to see class components like this all the time: class Foo extends React.Component { componen
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by ng12 6y ago
I would think the demand for "artificially occupied apartments" is a direct side effect of NIMBYism as well.
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by ng12 6y ago
The difficulty was not discovering it but implementing it. The DOM was not built for abstractions like components -- it's a fundamentally global, imperative API.
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by ng12 6y ago
I don't think the problem is with trolls and spammers necessarily, I think the problem is with scaling the community out. 4chan is the best example of this: the less populated, hobby-based boards are wonderfully useful resources and ge
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by ng12 6y ago
> You can increase supply but that still leads to more costs, you're just shifting them from housing to transport/shared services/groceries/etc. I'm not totally convinced. If you can afford rent in NYC everything
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by ng12 6y ago
Yeah but then your JavaScript spews out unholy tendrils that mutate the DOM and dynamically add/remove CSS classes and style attributes. Separating HTML/CSS/JS made a lot of sense for web sites but separating by component mak
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by ng12 6y ago
I don't really understand this trend. They're not the only firm I'm aware of that's invented their own font and/or standardized on some obscure one. I'm sure there's an already popular font that has these
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by ng12 6y ago
> most users just want to read relatively static content The most oft-complained about sites (news sites, "blogs") don't really care what you want. They care about engagement, monetizing, and/or conversions. That&#x27
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by ng12 6y ago
Well for one it makes every user individually responsible for identifying content that breaks the rules, and this is very hard given Reddit's history of arbitrarily enforcing the rules.
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by ng12 6y ago
"Change is good" is not what I'm trying to say. The point is that change is a fundamental attribute of cities. Trying to claim that a city should retain the characteristics it had when you moved there flies in the face of all
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by ng12 6y ago
A part of what it is, yes. But that's the beauty of it: cities are constantly changing and building upon what came before. It's what makes them cities and not forgotten backwaters.

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