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by rpeden 8y ago
Using SOAP from JS is doable if you really want to. :) But if we're comparing to crufty tech, I'd say what I was talking about in that sentence was more like DCOM or CORBA. Both of which were nice in concept but a bit of a PITA in
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by rpeden 8y ago
It looks like the author removed the bit about C77 from their post. Although ANSI C wasn't a thing until 1989, the language had been around since 1972. The original K&R book was published in 1978, and if you read it, you'll se
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I'm not sure stateful vs stateless is even the right way to frame it. With no JavaScript at all, your application is still stateful. Even if an individual HTTP request is stateless, your app as a whole still has state. The state just l
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Well, I guess you could say the display is edge-to-edge because it goes from the edge of one bezel to the edge of the opposite bezel... :)
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I thought the no appendix requirement was only for doctors going to Antarctica? There was a Soviet doctor there in the 60's who successfully removed his own appendix, but I think in general that's a situation that you want to avoi
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In the first case, maybe it's treating the '+' as string concatenation - so 3+4 is giving 34? Then it's just dropping the 5 because it can't multiply a string and a number. Regardless, I really like this project. :)
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I enjoy revisiting this demo from time to time, because it reminds me of how fun Hypercard was. As much as I enjoy developing modern web apps using React etc., I can't help but feeling that we're kind of like cavemen assembling th
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Hypercard (1987) [video](youtube.com)
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"Windows 10 is the best Windows ever" isn't a projection, though. People wouldn't rush out to buy MS stock based on a statement like this. I hope not, anyway. "We're going to sell 800 million Windows 10 license
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If you had the source and enough developer time...sure, it would be possible. :)
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Galveston is another well known instance of this. After much of the city was destroyed by a hurricane storm surge in 1900, it was raised quite significantly. There's a good read about it here: https://texashillcountry.com&#x
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Well, it was 1983. So seeing something like this in a programming language was more novel than it is now. Also, up to that point the author has only programmed in a couple of different assembly languages, plus Basic. Coming at it from that
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I don't think it's quite the same, is it? In the Reagent example, you declare the atom outside of the component function, and that atom would end up shared if there were multiple instances of the counting component. In the react e
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As dang mentioned, threads about open office hate are pretty common on HN, so I'll talk about the time I liked an open office plan, and try to figure out why I liked it. The one time I really, really enjoyed an open office was when my
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by rpeden 8y ago
That's fair enough. I've done a fair amount of development work on both an ARM Chromebook and a Raspberry Pi, and I didn't run into any major issues. It depends heavily on your tech stack, though. I find that developing on AR
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ARM wouldn't be a niche instruction set in the current computing landscape. It might even be the dominant one, if we consider how many people are carrying around multi gHz ARM computers in their pocket every day.
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For anyone confused, by ML blt means machine learning. The confusion might arise since ML is also a statically typed programming language, usually seen in the wild in the form of Standard ML and OCaml: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by rpeden 8y ago
Isn't MagLev sort of a Ruby implementation on a Smalltalk runtime? I remember reading about it, but never used it. It's up on GitHub, but looks fairly dead: https://maglev.github.io For fun, here's some Smalltalk
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No, praptak was saying that some people start a business because they fear that if they don't, they'll look back on their life and regret that they didn't start a business, and that this is similar to the way some people deci
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I agree with your suggestions, and I found "How to Become a Rainmaker" quite helpful as well. Granted, the title is pretty cheesy. And some of the content is, too. And yet I found it super actionable and straightforward. You can u
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by rpeden 8y ago
Along similar lines, one of the first things that came to mind for me was Benjamin Franklin's Junto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junto_(club)
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You're welcome! I'm glad it was useful. If TPM seems useful to you, you'd probably enjoy signing up for Philip's newsletter. He sends out an e-mail every day, and I usually find them useful and insightful. Along the same
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You're welcome! I'm happy it was useful.
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Is it possibly because you've positioned yourself in a such a way that you attract customers who will only ever see you as a coder for hire? I love the look of your consulting website, but "We create beautiful, engaging applicatio
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I think it depends on how much leverage you have, doesn't it? If your skillset is in huge demand, and a company needs you badly enough, they might just be willing to guarantee in writing what project you'd be working on - and mayb
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I'm not sure this is really true. The focus of market research can be to find markets that are currently unserved. I suppose that this is still entering an existing market since the people who comprise the market exist already exist, b
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Although that didn't happen this time - the escape rocket had already been jettisoned before the failure occurred.
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Some people really hate screens that aren't symmetrical. Or they just think that the notch is ugly, or distracting. And I think those are all fine reasons to consider the notch a horrible idea. I don't mind the notch myself. I don
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It's nice that they're at least bringing WinForms and WPF to .NET Core. I'm looking forward to using UWP components in WPF apps, though I imagine that'll only work on Windows 10.
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That's a reasonable question to ask. I think in general, there are lots of reasons to like a language outside of its runtime performance. I love working with Go and Rust due to their performance. Any I work every day in C#, which ends

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