nostalgeek

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by nostalgeek 8y ago
TLDR; no, because WebAssembly use browser API, when Flash and Applets do not. There is nothing that can be done in WASM that cannot be done with Javascript API wise, whereas Flash was able to do socket programming 10 years before webosocket
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> That polyfill relies on a third party which can then effectively gain analytics for your site. They store and keep the referring URLs and user agent combinations. That polyfill relies on nothing since you can run your own custom '
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> For me, the go threading model is easier. I just can't stand DOM and web programming in general. Because you didn't take the time to learn the DOM, that's all. I doubt learning a simple composite API made of dumb nodes i
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> Many functions such as closest() and remove() have no equivalents in IE11, and other things such as replaceWith() and before() are not available even in Edge. Many of these can be polyfilled, Going the polyfill route IMHO is a bit bet
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
To me that award goes to Twitter, not Facebook. Facebook is actually useful to stay in touch with friends and family in a private fashion. Twitter on the other hand is constant pettiness, aggressiveness and bickering 24/7 from people
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> but I'm sure that takes much longer? Your people can pick up go reflect package or go routines/channels and co in 1-2 weeks and start contributing? impressive... most people can pick up for loops, if,switch statements, variab
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> It depends. I have a friend who used to work on banking systems. They had full test coverage of every dependency. Even standard lib functions and language features. these are not dependencies anymore then, they are part of your code so
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
One of the most comment article on HN in recent history https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13682022
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> You could argue that you should add the JS / browser runtime to those libraries too, then. No, since they are already in the browser at first place. That's the point. I don't need any extra runtime to run JS in the brows
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
You are comparing some MVC frameworks that brings a lot of functionalities with basically a runtime that does nothing on its own. Compare functionalities AND weight instead, otherwise it makes little sense.
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
It seems to me that REST "was never meant to solve web developers problems" at first place and that dissertation wasn't addressed to them. I'm glad we are getting out of REST. Devs need protocols and specifications, not
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
This is both an education issue and a std lib issue. There is no need for packages such as "is-number" or "is-odd" when the language already provides the facilities it check if a value is a number or is even/odd, ye
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
You are mistaken, these aren't fads but buzzwords. Web 2.0 is the web of API, NoSQL existed well before the term was invented and microservices are a valid software architecture since it's not a question of size but an organizatio
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
There is no real good framework and anybody can write a trie based router in 2 hours: https://vluxe.io/golang-router.html However, Go ecosystem is starting to look interesting library-wise, as long as your project doesn&#x2
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> WebAssembly isn't just a cross platform technology, it's also a way to target platforms that are currently walled gardens. Being able to run software on e.g., the iPad without paying Apple's 30% fee and being able to shi
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> They are all very popular “open source” ecosystem tools beholden to a for-profit corporation. NPM server is not open source to begin with. Its client shouldn't be bundled with node, an open source project. I don't use Wordpre
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
You need to load the app at first place. Launch Photoshop CC and check how much memory it takes. Then open a 200 MB psd.
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
You can't really load giga bytes of data in a web page without that page dying. The issue isn't really what Javascript can or cannot do (though speed is obviously a concern). Even if you manage to stream the data somehow you still
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
JSON type is JSON type, EAV isn't a data type, it's a data modelling pattern.
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
Now please explain me what it has to do with anything I say, since I do not use any of these services.
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
Well, this is exactly why competition is good, in every domain. That's why PostgreSQL got its column mode and JSON type, because there was a clear use case for performance for the former and schema-less data for the latter. EAV pattern
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> It bothers me greatly that npm is a private company. It bothers me that npm is closed-source (the registry and server). It bothers me because I can't contribute. I can only inform the community of the problems. NPM the repository
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
You shouldn't. I wish all these apps had a dumb basic mode (like gmail html mode) that would just show the photos in a static fashion so it's not a pain to browse on low end mobile. The article is interesting, but just like onedri
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
While customers victim of online scams and identity theft are more or less protected by big vendors or banks because of regulations, provided they act swiftly, small merchants are often on hook when a scam happens with very little options t
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> The term brutalism is derived from the French betón brut it's "béton", not "betón". And I'm pretty sure the term comes from the word "brutal" because the style was deemed as such, figuratively, a
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
The following is purely my opinion. Rust might have gone too far the other way. Yes it strives to be a modern language, with a lot of functional programming features and "OOP" done right (aka no inheritance, simply method polymorp
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> Right tool for the right job. I would argue that since both Mysql and PostgreSQL are JSON document stores with mostly the same capabilities when it comes to querying and aggregation I don't see the advantage of using MongoDB at al
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
Nah. I started with Flash and would never have had a programming career if I had to start with C, gcc, make and all that bullshit. Learning C by itself is interesting because obviously a professional programmer needs to know how memory is m
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> What marketing studies? I'm talking about marketing results. Their ever thinner laptops remained at the top of best selling laptops in their price class -- selling several times more than the closest competitor ever since Jobs cam
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> It's easy: every time people had the chance to buy thinner or thicker products, they flocked to the thinner ones. You'll need to back up that statement with factual sources, because clearly all Apple decisions aren't alw

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