nostalgeek

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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> Macros are a cop out of language design. They mean "everybody do what you want and create your own language, we don't care anymore". I prefer safe AST based macro than runtime reflection like Go has. The latter is actual
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> I guess we need an in-browser package management like npm? It exists and it's called bower.
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> Liberalism itself isn't right wing at all. Classical liberalism is considered right wing in Europe because most of the the classical liberals are also culturally conservative (against gay marriage ect...) and globalist. Although p
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
Yes it's bad UX on mobile, here you go: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mvdan/talks/master/2018/go...
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
AFAIK Javascript does this as well.
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> That's the business model of most of EU's cheap air companies. E.g. EasyJet "allows" you one piece of luggage on board, but unless you're EasyJet Plus (i.e. pay extra), good luck actually taking it with you on
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> so they did build up some trust for me (and others) let's not pretend they don't try to rip customers off with hidden or gotcha fees, because they do. Their whole business model is based on bait+switch. You said they did &qu
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> You don't need Typescript to use JSX without React. Plugging my own isomorphic-jsx project: https://github.com/TheKnarf/isomorphic-jsx Yes but since I use Typescript static analysis as well: 2 birds, one ston
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
I believe the point of the OP is, you don't need the verifier library at first place. This is one of these dependencies that offer very little for the cost of adding a new dependency to a project.
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
If only there were some features in some computer languages or type systems that allowed to eliminate 99% of these kind of errors AT COMPILE TIME, making these kind of libraries redundant... but Go is so simple "you don't need all
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> I've used Flow in 2016 and getting it to work on code editors was a huge pain. Typescript also has support for js-doc style type declarations, at a basic level, IMHO it's less painful to use than Flow. Does Flow even has a co
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
I actually use JSX without React thanks to Typescript, I wrote an HTML builder myself (anybody can write one, it's easy) and it's quite handy since I don't have to rely on any framework/view library anymore.
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Six Months at Riot Games(meagan-marie.tumblr.com)
320 points by nostalgeek 8y ago|248 comments
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
Because it has a generous free tier, that's it. As soon as one does really heavy work with these systems cost start to get extremely high. There is nothing new with this, it's just worker queues, with a warm up/ shut down AND
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> Clearly the system you advocate is an abject failure at preventing crime, maybe it's time to open yourself up to new processes? It literally can't get much worse. I advocated for nothing, if you read my message I'm not s
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> [citation needed] Norway doesn't have a network of violent gangs sitting in their prisons. > I'm not sure you can call the Canadian Canada is mostly on the path to copy US when it comes to gang violence.
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> The US prison system and the harsh police also contribute to violence, people are more violent because you are violent with them, it works as a feedback loop. chicken and egg problem. I don't think US society was ever "not vi
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> There other countries where incarceration works, for example Norway [1] The Nordic model works in Norway because of Norway's society and culture. It wouldn't work in US, or South Africa or El Salvador because of what level of
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
I disagree, facts do exist, the truth has always been a valuable asset for the ones who knows it. This is what most modern journalists or glorified bloggers don't get.
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
Who decides what Junk is? who guards the guardians?
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
No, i'm not smart, I'm just not ignorant. Learning Django isn't going to make you learn HTTP spec for instance, you know what i'm saying? the same way, learning Angular OR Vue.js will not make you understand how event bu
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> Oh my goodness, please no. You don't educate developers to good practices just by abstracting the hard things. You don't need to use React/Angular/Whatever to manage state the right way in a front-end application. Y
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> I don't understand the knee-jerk opposition people have to serverless architectures because it's purely a marketing concern, it means nothing from an architectural standpoint, it"s a buzzword, like 'cloud', &#x
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> I think there is still space for one more framework to rule them all. People should learn to write apps with the DOM, that's the framework to rule them all and it's already in the browser. There no need for a framework to wri
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> - "Do more with Microsoft Edge!" (this one shows up when you change your default browser) lol, "do more ..." a browser that doesn't even support basic API like EventTarget or CustomEvent constructors. they lea
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
Chrome browser is only 50% of Electron. The other 50% is a complete nodejs distribution which allows access to the OS filesystem, network, anything Java or .NET can do on a desktop... So no, it's not just a browser web app. Electron is
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> Flash player had a open access spec and there was more than just the Adobe Flash Player as implementations. No, the compiler maybe, Action Script maybe, but not the player. The player is entirely closed source and there is no open spe
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
https://github.com/mozilla/shumway is supposed to be an implementation of the Flash VM in typescript, But it can't even run in latest Firefox browser anymore apparently and no commits from 2 years.
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> The product was originally called Adobe Edge, and it was rolled into Adobe Animate. Not Adobe Edge was killed dead, it was not rolled into Adobe Animate. Edge did export animation with jQuery and DOM element, while Adobe Animate export
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> Macromedia Flash keyframe animation was great even for technical users who didn't know animation. However, as soon as you wanted any kind of interactivity you had to start learning a new scripting language and that was painful for

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