nostalgeek

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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> I would love to do frontend web development but the current high-churn Javascript ecosystem makes me dizzy; this is probably a naive question but will it be possible to do web-development without integrating in the Javascript ecosystem
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> In js/front-end world, what would be the closest to those RAD/component based toolkits like Qt, wxWidgets, Delphi/VCL, WinForms? Is Vue a good candidate or maybe Angular is a better choice? Telerik, Sencha and a few othe
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
The issue is how many people actually read the linked article when paywalled before leaving a comment on the thread. Which leads to a drop in discussion quality since nobody even knows the content of the article at first place, so it quickl
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> I've demonstrated how you map a function over a list containing any type. How would you do it? Provide a solution. you've demonstrated you are unable to do it while conserving the type of an element. You iterate over an array
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> There is literature legion on the implementation of the database that would assuage you, should you concern yourself with reading it. I don't think you need to. Trust that many many smart people have engineered many many decades o
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> It is how container types are done in Go. You can't define your own compile type safe container types in Go at first place. You demonstrated nothing with your piece of code, you just wrote some dynamic stuff that doesn't care
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> Did you miss the point where I said "it's not good or pretty" ? Or do you just want to bitch about everything? I'm not bitching about anything (you don't need to use this kind of language here, it is not reddit
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> Yes, I get that, but that's also moving the goalpost. no it is not. The whole point of generic programming is compile time type safety for incomplete types. > but you can (if you take generic to mean "general" and not
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> Not only does this proliferation of forms over-complicate a language, but it's also completely redundant as a no-parens language would write it as `f a b c d`. and I don't see how it makes anything more readable. It doesn&#x2
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> It’s a ”function value”, since you haven’t applied it to another expression. foo bar is it calling bar then foo or passing bar as a value for foo? > As soon as you get serious about type-level functions, the first syntax b
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> I hate function call syntax with parens. It makes code much more difficult to read and, if it supports calling functions, calling functions with args is harder than it should be. the parent has a point you have no point. foo i
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
Get a grid widget from some actual widget toolkit? no seriously, that's why I don't really values these dashboards. Because let's be honest they don't come with actual useful stuff for someone who is developing a LOB tha
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> Neither Chrome nor Firefox's JSON.parse accept JSON5. I'm not sure what browser API you mean. This is a typo, I meant "can't" not "can". Off course browsers don't support JSON5 or my message make
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> "The limits of my language means the limits of my world." there are many languages and each languages has many medium. There is no limit to communication. In fact we probably don't even speak the same native language, ye
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
More like browsers can de-serialize JSON5 natively. writing a JSON5 parser is not difficult. It's just not part of most std libs in most languages, but I would argue that most std libs don't parse YAML either. JSON5 is a good comp
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
In theory it is more secure than Flash and "more open". Flash was bad because it was a security nightmare even "sandboxed" and the player was closed source. Nothing prevents either ActionScript or Java from compiling to
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
A lot of people using Vue just link Vue from a CDN and drop it in a webpage as a script, without using NPM. Does the stats account that fact? Sure you can do that with React as well, but you wont in production with JSX as one needs to compi
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
Interesting, just when the "post-meritocracy" manifesto was published, Mozilla changes sides on meritocracy : https://postmeritocracy.org/ authored by Coraline Ada Ehmke who is already well known for their activi
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
Table top role-playing was never dead. It's just hip right now for some reason like anything "geek", since "geeks" now have money brands and the media try to cater to their tastes, the same media who painted them as
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
AFAIK you can't delete all your messages on HN, nor even delete your profile. They also do fingerprinting, or else how can they detect people with multiple accounts?
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
Well we eat snails and frog legs so maybe he thought there was a business opportunity...
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
They already have a few CRM like Marketing Cloud but these are SaaS. I guess they'll integrate Magento with their marketing tool suite. Magento is first and foremost an open source e-commerce "script" built with PHP so it wil
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> Google reviews are also pretty horrific as well. Completely untamed and unprofessional, by people that don't know anything about the subject. I'm not sure what the problem is, in both cases reviews are crowd-sourced. So what
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
GOPATH is going away with vgo so it wasn't really good at all as it forced the developer to adopt a specific folder organization. The fact that go maintainers acknowledged this issue is a sign they are ready to move the language forwar
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> [x] not written in python (eg. in go or rust) Don't you need some kind of scripting capabilities though to create custom pipelines without having to recompile all the app each time you had a new one?
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
It's funny to think retrospectively that something like Backbone.js absolutely did not solve view state management at all and people adopted it because it somehow looked like Rails with big models, Angular.js misunderstood the issue co
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
> As of now, I have still yet to see a JS framework that made any sense to me. The basic issue with the DOM is that it makes state management a pain in the arse. So you have written a DOM widget and you want to incorporate it in a bigger
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
A good alternative would be to use JSON types in RDBMS in combination with classic field types. EAV is really just free form data and JSON is easier to query in MySQL or Postgres.
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
It is nice, it seems it uses asm.js. With what language was it coded at first place? I'd say the only issue is initial loading times (> 30 seconds on my machine). You got to have some kind of visual cue for loading or it's not
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by nostalgeek 8y ago
Facebook app was 600MB on my girlfriend's phone. Unbelievable. What the hell does Facebook need 600MB for? (granted it was the mostly the data but it made her phone run like crap because the data is stored in internal storage, not on S

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