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Yeah, I think it's basically the same concepts but repackaged for web developers. You can tell from the names - "React", "Om" and "Flux" sound like the kind of things web developers might use, and "D
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It seems to me that with crowd-funding and big data, the people who have jobs picking winning companies out from a lineup will be obsolete before the engineers building the crowd-funding and big data platforms will be.
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This doesn't pass the sniff test. The demand for high-quality software continues to outstrip supply. Bad software is an imperfect-but-better-than-nothing substitute for good software, which is why so much of it gets written. The pr
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Uniformity isn't so great for people who want to differentiate their products. (Not saying that they should want to differentiate their products visually, but they almost certainly do want this).
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I have a suspicion that it's due to the "unreasonable effectiveness of software", to paraphrase Eugene Wigner. The ability to do large amounts of computation quickly and cheaply is just so powerful that we can get away with
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OK, but he's still on the hook for "mentally mutilated". Also, my point is that "good" is really a relative term. PHP is good, because the baseline for programming language quality is quite high. You can do so mu
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By telling someone else that 'X sucks', you're asserting your knowledge of X (and often Y or Z too, one of which you might recommend instead of X). Within limits, this is perfectly reasonable - there are pitfalls out there,
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So, I think this phrase may benefit from some context. Specifically, the cultural backdrop to the statement is that we[1] have a recent tradition of using the transition from "pure, sweet good-girl teen" to "raunchy, sexuali
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I am probably not the best person to judge this, but I don't see that much of an improvement. The current haskell.org home page is quite dense, with lots of links, but I quite like that. There are individual links to various Haskell c
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There is definitely a need for private APIs that normal apps cannot use - they might have security implications, for instance. The App Store or Settings apps clearly need to be able to do things that other apps cannot do - for instance, an
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This is a recently published article which suggests that PHPNG is an upgrade to the Zend Engine designed to compete with HHVM: http://www.sitepoint.com/php-fights-hhvm-zephir-phpng/
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To elaborate, slavery has existed in many times and places and still exists in some places today . Many people have to live with the fear of slavery even now.
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Specifically, American people.
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If you're going to replace a term, it might be a good idea to pick a new one which is precise and descriptive, given the opportunity to do so. "Senior" and "junior" might work, or "primary" and "sec
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It's not a question of sources, it's a question of being able to identify the thing when it happens. Women have no problem in identifying it, because it's directed at them. Men might have a problem identifying it, for vario
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As an aside, Twitter's new-ish mute feature solves that problem. If someone you don't like is being retweeted by someone that you do, you can mute the person being retweeted without affecting the other content from the person you
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> "not all men" attitude is a key way that harassers are sheltered. I'm not sure that this makes sense. Saying that someone's behaviour is unusual - not typical of most men - does not sound like sheltering them. Mos
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It's not actually about skepticism, I think. It's more like this: some companies have so few women that there's no visible sexism! The kinds of incidents described in the OP don't happen because there are no women fo
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To deconstruct means something like "disassemble" or "reverse engineer" - to reduce something to its constituent parts in order to de-mystify it. Quite a lot of posts on HN do this - explaining how some particular effec
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I feel that this could have been stated much more simply: 1) There are personal attributes which are easily observable (mostly physical, also charismatic and possibly social status). This is basically what we can know about a person from a
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Another way of looking at it is this: had the pound remained on the ERM, Britain would have remained on-track to join the Euro. Assuming no devaluation of the pound (the incident that caused Britain to leave the ERM), the pound would have
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The wider process is the only part of software development that non-developers can understand[1]. Developers, given the choice, would probably rather go to meetups and conferences about technology than about process. These two facts creat
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I may be mistaken here, but I think that the main advantage of the virtual DOM is to avoid calling across the JavaScript-native boundary. Since calling browser APIs is inherently expensive, the virtual DOM improves performance by reducing
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React has a much richer notion of what a 'component' is. To date, most JavaScript libraries lack shared assumptions about how you will build your UI. jQuery plugins make only the extremely minimal assumption that you will apply
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Bower and component are more like package managers. GP is talking about a library of re-usable user interface components. Unfortunately, my best attempt at an analogy is Visual Basic controls, which might not be a great precedent, but th
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Possibly because Microsoft never had the ability to restrict your ability to sell software for their platform?
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I'm afraid it's rather like anything else - Drupal works well for people who understand what it's good for. In particular, it's good for content management, where 'content' is loosely defined as 'stuff in
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ZeniMax says Carmack and others improperly provided tech to Oculus(polygon.com)
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Depends on who you ask. I doubt that the Scots or the Welsh or even the Cornish would consider the Anglo-Saxons to be the 'natives'. Fortunately hardly anyone in Britain actually thinks in terms of racial or ethnic purity. There
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That's a good point, thanks for disclosing the reasons. It's weird, I feel as though this story has gained enough attention that its conclusion ought to be acknowledged, however whilst I imagine that other people might want to r

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