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by rictic 9y ago
And developers only thinking about the development experience. In my next project I'm going to monitor the gzipped size of my deployed site as part of continuous integration.
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by rictic 9y ago
Yep! High volatility.
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by rictic 9y ago
Yeah. The price has varied by 20% in the past 24 hours.
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by rictic 9y ago
What about the other side of that coin. Does a small amount of idiomatic Kotlin compile down to a small amount of JS, or a large amount (in bytes, after gzip)?
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by rictic 9y ago
The great filter can't just be something that wipes out most civilizations, it has to be something that wipes out essentially every civilization, and in such a way that doesn't propagate. I don't think war is enough by itself
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by rictic 9y ago
It seems like it's not ill-defined, it's like all categorization schemes. It's suitable for some purposes and not others. The level system is important to the experience of the passenger, and to a number of design elements of
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by rictic 9y ago
I think ya'll are kinda talking past each other, and you may agree more than it appears. The DX for raw web components, without any library, is awkward and verbose to handle observing changes well. I think the point of departure is tha
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by rictic 9y ago
> I think you mis/underestimate the extent to which you have a component model already. What you already have is the equivalent of React's "functional components," where the component is nothing but its render method.
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by rictic 9y ago
The service worker spec was deliberately designed to give the browser, not the site, control over resource consumption. The browser is permitted and encouraged to keep them on a tight leash on behalf of the user's experience. See e.g.
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by rictic 9y ago
Most sites can do with very little JS. Many do well with just a bit, like hacker news, which uses JS for little stuff like voting. Appier sites, like video, music, games, maps, etc are gonna need a lot more client-side logic to be pleasant
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by rictic 9y ago
That's pretty likely, but not certain. Go-playing-AI went from "talentless amateur" to "better than every living human" in about a year. Sometimes things progress rapidly, and some kinds of intelligence could recurs
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by rictic 9y ago
Distributed technology keeps centralized providers honest. If github got complacent their customers could migrate their most important data in a very short time.
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by rictic 9y ago
The problem it solves is reducing friction on checkout. For a super quick gist, watch 15 seconds of this video starting at this time: https://youtu.be/NDZw7vtoYnU?t=514
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by rictic 9y ago
If you're wondering why JavaScript does this, it's because early versions of the language did not have exceptions. So every operation defined at the time has to return some value for every possible input, even when those inputs do
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by rictic 9y ago
There are people whose epistemic hygiene I'd trust enough to think that their independent research would bend the outcome of the case towards truth. I don't know if the average person would though.
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by rictic 9y ago
I don't understand what you're trying to say. I'll rephrase my position in longer form, because I think we're talking past each other. High level APIs necessarily make a lot of assumptions of how the low level details sh
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by rictic 9y ago
> No API is non-opinionated. It's the difference between AppCache and Service Worker. AppCache is very easy to write, very easy to read, has a nice and simple API. It's just the wrong API, so it's functionally almost usele
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by rictic 9y ago
There has been an extraordinary peace since WW2 in terms of number of deaths. Things improved further post-cold war, but the international climate changed significantly after WW2. It is damning with faint praise to say that the tremendous l
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by rictic 9y ago
Poking around with it, it looks like that gives a 20% or so improvement in node v8.4.0, from 1239ms to 1022ms (vs 56ms for the sync version).
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by rictic 9y ago
Expect good news on this front at the Polymer Summit on Tuesday.
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by rictic 9y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by fake transactions, but transactions are verified with public key cryptography, and a block with invalid transactions will be rejected out of hand by blockchain nodes. There are two* major classes of attack
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by rictic 9y ago
> I understand the reason for a larger block - it seems like it's pure profit for the miners (should we just refer to it as greed?) As space in blocks becomes crowded we should expect transaction fees to grow, and indeed they have:
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by rictic 9y ago
I agree. My point was in contrast to the attitude that once something is in babel that's all that matters.
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by rictic 9y ago
Just so we're clear though, the disarmament that we should aim for is to change physics so that nuclear weapons don't work at all, right? Because that's an option, we could change how the patent system works.
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by rictic 9y ago
I think it does matter to end user developers though. Once something is in the standard, you can rely on it. It won't change in a backwards-incompatible way. That means that you're not imposing an unusual configuration on downstre
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by rictic 9y ago
I had a project that was pretty much a perfect fit for the app cache: - 100% static - reasonable dataset size - amenable url space (a few static files, then a large url space that could fall back to serving out the index
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by rictic 9y ago
True but if the sites were served by different processes then there would have to be a trusted reverse proxy process to dispatch.
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by rictic 9y ago
It just occured to me that the second and third options are more similar than they initially appear. In both cases you've taken responsibility for the library in a new way. It's no longer a breaking change for the library authors
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by rictic 9y ago
I'm not sure I agree. If my insurance is on the hook for prostate cancer treatment, then they may expect a prostate exam to save them money, in which case they would have an incentive to pay for it.
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by rictic 9y ago
Push notifications – by spec and by all implementations I'm aware of – must not be sent without explicit user consent: https://w3c.github.io/push-api/#security-and-privacy-conside...

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