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by nilliams 11y ago
Your latter paragraph seems a bit fuddy as people 'just dipping in and out' would never have to have contended with the iojs 'name' any more than Python/Ruby/PHP people have to switch to a different VM every ti
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by nilliams 11y ago
Pip is not fine. Pip doesn't resolve dependencies [0]. It also has no way to sensibly manage the 'semver during development, frozen versions in production' needs of modern development, that both Ruby's Bundler and Node&#
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by nilliams 11y ago
So would you rather pay a one-off fee for a JetBrains product and have no maintenance and support for it? And by that I mean not even access to their public forums and for their devs to stop posting on Stack Overflow. Because that's th
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by nilliams 11y ago
I really doubt that JetBrains will allow your IDE to just stop working without any advance warning.
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by nilliams 11y ago
Well that's a judgement call for the user choosing the service. If they think the value is there, they will pay. That's how capitalism works, and I daresay if Gitbook had it wrong, they'd have given up by now. What experience
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by nilliams 11y ago
To be fair, only very large text files trouble Atom. And when does any dev ever actually open massive text files in text editors. I'm a Vim guy and have only briefly tried Atom, but I still wouldn't dream of opening a huge text fi
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by nilliams 11y ago
By HTML5 manifest file, do you mean the Application Cache? Because that is apparently (I've never tried it) anything but an 'easy way' [0]. Whereas this script appears to wrap ServiceWorkers, which is the 'modern',
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by nilliams 11y ago
Actually, parent gets it and is neither arguing a strawman nor mistakenly labelling hashes as simple rather than easy. Rich absolutely argues that basic data structures like hashes are simple -- something that is generally agreed upon. They
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by nilliams 11y ago
Another way to look at it is that if your boss asks you to build a dashboard for a project at work, then $99 is a drop in the ocean for a quality dashboard theme built by the people that built bootstrap.
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by nilliams 11y ago
In all honesty, I think it'd be more more interesting to see cat pics than repeatedly seeing these your-work-is-less-deserving-than-the-hypothetical-post-I-just-thought-of-yet-haven't-put-any-work-into-nor-written comments posted
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by nilliams 11y ago
I guess the author/library is unable to detect users for which this would worsen things. For me, it does actually work as an improvement on my non-smooth-scroll mousewheel.
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by nilliams 11y ago
Examples? I gave a hat-tip to Lua and suggested why JS wins in this case (same argument for langs like Nim). Ruby and Python are too slow (currently). Go and Rust are fast but relatively low-level, tough-going for newbies.
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by nilliams 11y ago
Because 'scripting' hardware (coding in a fairly high-level language) is a lot of fun and coding the same sorts of things in C is pretty painful & requires up-front knowledge of a lot of stuff you don't really need to kno
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by nilliams 11y ago
But it's still not a good idea to use IDs. Why not: .login-widget { @extends widget(); } The specificity that ids bring alone are good enough reason to avoid them forever. They're a sledgehammer that can pretty mu
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by nilliams 11y ago
You wouldn't necessarily. Main use-case I believe was FirefoxOS -- at least the first time I heard it mentioned was during an FirefoxOS talk where they discussed other hardware-y APIs and trying to get them standardised. It would also
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by nilliams 11y ago
> Actually this has me wondering, is there anything else out there like Meteor that covers both client and server development at the same time? There's also Derby.js and Socketstream which arose around the same time as Meteor: http
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by nilliams 11y ago
That looks pretty neat, thanks! I'd only previously come across underscore.py [0] (python port of underscore.js) which looked a little unmaintained though perhaps because it's 'done'. [0] https://github.com&#x
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by nilliams 11y ago
There are languages that have map, filter and reduce as built-ins but aren't very accommodating of -- or discourage 'fluid interfaces' that allow the piping style in his examples. E.g. in python, you can't really 'p
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by nilliams 11y ago
Could you explain why the trade-off of 'just-html' vs the overhead of pre-processing so you can use this not-quite-html-with-weird-parens syntax is worth it? To me it looks considerably worse than other nicer-than-HTML syntaxes li
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by nilliams 11y ago
Presumably parent is offended by the privacy violation. It allows developer of app A to know I have app B installed, which can be used to target adds etc.
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by nilliams 11y ago
Would just like to point out that though Haskell may be an interesting language this url and title itself is still needless, passive-aggressive douchebaggery from the author responsible, and a turnoff to many JS devs like myself who aren&#x
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by nilliams 11y ago
> You don't need the backslash on the first, making it a little cleaner I was not trying to illustrate that the backslash made it ugly (I've removed it - I was pasting from a repl). It's ugly because of Python's lambd
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by nilliams 11y ago
As humans, there is always subjectivity, even in things we declare objective. I'm willing to admit that :) It's easy to pedantically point out I used 'opinion' in the same sentence as 'objective' but I'd h
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by nilliams 11y ago
> like Javascript, in many ways it's a neat little language, but manipulating the small little ad-hoc data structures (arrays and hashes, and combinations of them) that seems to be half of most programming tasks is definitely a ste
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by nilliams 11y ago
>> The reason the "web developer community suffered overall by 'supporting' IE6" is because people wont and dont update their "broken sites". That's a pipe dream. I meant that we wasted a lot of effo
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by nilliams 11y ago
> I don't know where you got Reddit from Reddit is the example given in the thread parent (luos) linked to. > but it has not only a modern mobile website[2] Here're the exact first words from the m.reddit.com link you post
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by nilliams 11y ago
Because, like the other downvoted-for-no-reason commenter posted that's great for you in the short-term but bad for all of us in the long-term. Far better if people fix their broken sites. It's analogous to why we as a web develop
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by nilliams 11y ago
If I understand correctly, you are asking the browser to provide a workaround for a website that isn't optimised for mobile, and asking that browser to maintain that workaround forever? I'm surprised they ever tried to do this in
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by nilliams 11y ago
Once upon a time (about 7 years ago) Beej's guides saved my life at work when trying to implement network stuff in C for a project at work I was in over my head on. If there was more stuff like this in C-land I probably wouldn't h
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by nilliams 12y ago
The EU announced antitrust charges against Google a couple of weeks ago [1]. tl;dr - '[T]he company has given an unfair advantage to its own comparison shopping service ...' [1] http://www.theguardian.com/technolog

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