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by pfooti 9y ago
What happens if your user is offline (airplane mode, no data, etc), and can't download the initial bootstrap script? There's no way to avoid an error page at this time, unless you use a browser-specific plugin (the drive offline a
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by pfooti 9y ago
The irony is that the only apps I could install on my iPhone 1 were javascript-powered html fragments. They launched with no app store or 3rd party binaries at all, and everything was to be done via js. Now when we are super close to really
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by pfooti 9y ago
That works fine for your xhr data (and is what I do now), but is idiosyncratic to your library (note that detecting online state, responding to online state changes, etc all add complexity to this seemingly simple module, as does managing c
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by pfooti 9y ago
Alternatively, wsj could sponsor those results, and jump to the top with their paywalled content.
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by pfooti 9y ago
Yay. Now let me build a progressive web app for iOS and I will care about javascript perf on that platform. Speed is great and all, really great for some people. I just wish they had different priorities.
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by pfooti 9y ago
Something here about babies and bathwater. Service workers are pretty limited in what they can do. Is there UX work to be done? Sure. But the fundamental problem is that they fill a need that is not met at all by Apple, and not even in a si
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by pfooti 9y ago
I'm not entirely interested in relitigating a past I literally lived through. On the other hand, it is objectively true that there is only one browser platform for iOS. WebKit or nothing. If they actually supported chrome or Firefox in
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by pfooti 9y ago
With service workers you can transparently intercept outgoing XHRs and replace their results with cached values. You can even do a cache race if you want (cancel the xhr if your cache returns first). This is a hugely important feature for m
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by pfooti 9y ago
It seems weird to focus so much on es2015 features, when so many of them are polyfillable (not optimal, sure, but still) when there is such uneven support for DOM (and related browser) API features in safari. I mean, where are service worke
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by pfooti 9y ago
My only wish for TS (which I use on the daily and love) is for some way to export type annotations at runtime. Like I'd love to inspect a class property and see if it is annotated as "this is a date" (in particular for deseri
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by pfooti 9y ago
Nice ad you've got there. Be a shame if someone came along and blocked it.
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by pfooti 9y ago
One thing I'm surprised about is the way Gogoro scooters are being rolled out and sold. The model 2 has a retail price of below $2,000 and is pretty much ideal as a city commute scooter. But they're not selling them for individual
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by pfooti 9y ago
I've tried (I use the coffee popper), and it's very satisfying , but also I'm pretty bad at it. I'm pretty sure I can't get the heat to evenly distribute right - I ended up with some beans way scorched. Still, fun.
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by pfooti 9y ago
My local roaster / coffeeshop: http://www.andytownsf.com/ I usually get the Amaro Gayo Ethopian beans (I tend to prefer african beans to south / central american ones, and ethiopian over the rest of africa, but th
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by pfooti 9y ago
I buy coffee by the half-pound, fwiw. Each cup uses around ... well, exactly 25g of beans. Which gives me about 9 cups per bag, which I go through in about a week. The last cup is usually the one where the coffee isn't blooming anymore
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by pfooti 9y ago
The important question is: is it good? I typically spend around $25 / pound on coffee beans, which is a fairly large amount of money. But: the beans I buy are very freshly roasted right near where I live and make excellent coffee (whic
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by pfooti 9y ago
To be fair, they could get the cost down to $74k if they had a woman do the research.
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Not only that, but some of the "civilian" folks in the video (towards the bottom of the article) are just plain US citizens and residents. That they haven't been arrested yet either is pretty astounding.
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by pfooti 9y ago
yeah, a lot of the problems with the fiber rollout (I am not affiliated with Sonic, but I'm in their fiber zone and read a lot of their statements about fiber as they were starting up) is that you're limited by overhead wires, gro
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by pfooti 9y ago
I went from ADSL to fiber (both provided by sonic). It is really quite something. The speed is rad (I can't compare it to something like, say 500 mbit, but compared to DSL it's amazing) - I can download a whole steam game or a stu
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by pfooti 9y ago
I wear duluth trading jeans. The model I buy [0] is made in the usa, although there is also a less-expensive model. It's nice especially because I'm pretty short, and it's nice to find 30" inseam pants without having to
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by pfooti 9y ago
what sort of coding do you do on the spro? I'm going to be buying a new laptop / ultraportable / tablet in the near future, and I'm curious about this. Can you comfortably run some kind of linux VM on it? What kind of ex
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by pfooti 9y ago
The funny thing is that as and end user, I can use authy to replace my Google authenticator, since it also implements the same protocol. So I use it for all my 2fa codes, mainly so I can access it from places other than my phone if needs be
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by pfooti 9y ago
"Lola" was the name her owners called her. Affectionate is a complicated word here, considering that affection didn't change the fact that a woman was held in servitude to the Tizon family. The least we can do in this situati
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by pfooti 9y ago
So, her name wasn't actually Lola. It was Eudocia Tomas Pulido. Lola was literally her slave name. There's a lot to talk about in the article, and I'm not super-excited about digging deep into that here on hn, but I think it&
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by pfooti 9y ago
I think there's room all over for different kinds of ergonomics for software development. Languages play a big role here, for sure, and having access to more languages for the front end feels like it will be good by definition- more ch
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by pfooti 9y ago
Getting steam in with your dough is a big deal. Instead of using the dutch oven to bake my loaves, I have a baking steel for high heat transfer and bake under a stainless steel bowl. The bowl doesn't have the thermal mass that a dutch
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by pfooti 9y ago
Yeah, it's of moderate concern. I can see why it's not really a priority here, since they're probably targeting languages that already don't have GC to compile into WASM, like c++ as a canonical example. I have to imagin
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On the one hand, I hear you and don't disagree - programming ergonomics is a big deal, and access to the language you like is important. I for one really don't want to program in a language that uses significant whitespace, if I c
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by pfooti 9y ago
Yes, they do. Water is a lot less expensive for farmers, always has been. This [0] is a pretty good analysis of how California spends its water. One interesting point: instead of carefully installing low-flow fixtures and rationing showers

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