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C++/WinRT is a standard C++ language projection for the Windows Runtime(github.com)
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by rpeden 10y ago
Google Apps use Closure, and after taking a peek at the source of Microsoft's online office apps, they appear to be using Script# or a similar C# to JS tool, as I see lots of references to namespaces, and lots of calls to dispose() met
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by rpeden 10y ago
I've read that large bits of it were written in 68k assembly too, so those parts might be responsible for the crashiness.
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by rpeden 10y ago
That's a good question; I didn't try it. On the bright side, if you don't mind diving one layer below the surface, the code for react-router-redux is short, well written, and easy to understand: https://github.com&
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by rpeden 10y ago
HN (and perhaps SV) might be a bit of an echo chamber that doesn't reflect industry overall. In most decently sized cities, there seem to be plenty of development jobs available that make heavy use of solid software engineering and arc
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by rpeden 10y ago
The AdWords team could have chosen any of a fairly large number of technologies to develop their new front end, but they chose the Dart version of Angular 2 to do so. CircleCI chose to use ClojureScript and Om instead of using React directl
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by rpeden 10y ago
You can use Redux with Angular 2, and it works quite well! The dev tools work the way you'd expect them to. Webpack hot module loading works well Angular 2 as well. I agree that JSX is easier to debug. The Augury[1] Chrome extension se
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by rpeden 10y ago
It appears that the new version of the new AdWords UI is created using Dart and Angular 2: http://news.dartlang.org/2016/03/the-new-adwords-ui-uses-dar... I'm not a heavy AdWords user, so I can't say for
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by rpeden 10y ago
It adjusts based on your location too, so browsing in incognito might not be sufficient.
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by rpeden 10y ago
So far I haven't seen any indication that they plan to stop developing the full .NET Framework. I'm sure some parts of it will stop growing - things like WinForms and WebForms probably aren't going to see a lot of attention i
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The Internet Is No Place for Elections(technologyreview.com)
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Video claiming drilling into iPhone 7 will reveal headphone port goes viral(theguardian.com)
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by rpeden 10y ago
I believe that a huge amount of SOA in production wouldn't qualify as microservices - especially enterprise SOA. Heck, I'd bet a lot of enterprise SOA is just a giant crufty monolith with a bunch of its functionality exposed via
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by rpeden 10y ago
As the author mentions, it's not that microservices are necessarily bad - just that they're too often used when they're not the appropriate solution for the problem at hand. I feel as though about 80% of the programming blog
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by rpeden 10y ago
Rather than looking at it as a language that needs an IDE to be bearable, it might be more helpful to look at it as a language that is most pleasant to use in concert with well build tools. I look at it similarly to the way I look at Smallt
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by rpeden 10y ago
Interesting. I've used C# heavily at my last couple of jobs and it has all been server side web work - mostly back ends of web apps, but also services and microservices of various kinds. From talks with coworkers, the impression I&#x27
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by rpeden 10y ago
I can see it working in a statically types language with macros - maybe Scala or Template Haskell? I'm not 100% sure if their metaprogramming is capable of this. Ideally, you could define a type like FileNameString to be a string that
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by rpeden 10y ago
Definitely - the manufacturing that Apple outsources to Foxconn is a cost center for Apple, and a profit center for Foxconn.
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by rpeden 10y ago
You should of course do what you believe is best for your situation. Patrick's observations are still useful, though. The semantics aren't ridiculous. They're a very real distinction, and they matter...especially if you'
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by rpeden 10y ago
Wouldn't Apple see manufacturing as a cost center? The act of manufacturing costs Apple money, but on its own doesn't generate any revenue. Apple probably sees design, marketing, and sales as its profit centers. I don't know
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by rpeden 10y ago
The world can demand your time, but that doesn't mean you have to give it your time. Your careers are social obligations are all things you do by choice. I'm not saying you can drop all your careers and live without money, but you
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by rpeden 10y ago
Every time Chuck Yeager's name comes up, I feel a little bit of amazement and happiness when I realize that the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound, in 1947, is still alive nearly 70 years later.
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by rpeden 10y ago
The catch is that using NPM and CommonJS modules for front end packages makes it so that tools like Rollup and the Closure compiler can't do the kinds of optimizations they are capable of. The code we ship is doing a lot of runtime dep
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by rpeden 10y ago
Google sort of already has one, and has for a long time. Now that their Closure Compiler supports ES6 quite well, I've had a decent amount of success writing my app using straightforward ES6 and referencing the extensive Closure Librar
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by rpeden 10y ago
Don't worry too much. I don't see browsers dropping ES5 support any time soon, and jQuery isn't going to disappear. There will still be plenty of opportunity for people to jump in seize great market opportunities using PHP, j
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by rpeden 10y ago
JetBrains' Rider is looking really good in private beta, too. The last e-mail they sent out mentioned that the public preview version will be out soon.
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by rpeden 10y ago
You might be underestimating how much inertia the Angular name has in larger enterprise dev shops. They're still creating new projects in Angular 1.x, and will eventually starting using Angular 2 just because it is called Angular.
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by rpeden 10y ago
If you can, try reading The Shallows by Nicholas Carr. It's not perfect, but it will get you thinking about how and why your attention span got to be the way it is. It will also give you hope, because you'll realize that it's
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by rpeden 10y ago
True, but it should be possible to create high performance UI controls inside an HTML5 canvas element. With canvas, every browser has hardware accelerated immediate mode rendering that could be used to create UI toolkits. Looking around t
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by rpeden 10y ago
It's usually not easy to compare across industries, though. A software company with $1M revenue could easily end up with higher net profit than a restaurant with $3M revenue.

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