scegit

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by scegit 8y ago
Debugging a system like this must very scary because of the tremendous responsibility. It is intersting to know how they actually communicate with it and handle auth.
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by scegit 8y ago
It is pretty cool that they created their own language, but I was not sure if they really needed to do that. I guess it was worth it back then. Looking at their website in 2002[0] it is pretty impressive indeed. [0] https://web
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by scegit 8y ago
I'm not really familiar with how things were ~20 years ago, but I still believe that creating a language to use internally just for this is overkill. Dynamic ads, weather reports ... etc. are not that difficult they could have probably
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by scegit 8y ago
> “We probably over-engineered it, I guess,” Damens said. Exactly. Also, creating a programming language for something as simple as a newspaper is pretty much a nightmare. Worrying about scalability when most of their content is static.
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by scegit 8y ago
Looks good but the dark version is not really dark mode.
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by scegit 8y ago
Great job! very annoying. I was wondering why they haven't done this before.
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by scegit 8y ago
Maybe their intent was to show the sidebar on the right when it's clicked.
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by scegit 8y ago
You can read about IETF QUIC here https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-quic-transport/ HTTP over QUIC is now HTTP/3. "HTTP/3 is just a new HTTP syntax that works on IETF QUIC, a UDP-based mul
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by scegit 8y ago
This reminds me of Laravel their codebase sometimes feels like a maze even with a very decent IDE. Too many abstractions, and facades makes it even worse. Edit: Baklava code is a good term for it https://www.johndcook.com/bl
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by scegit 8y ago
TL;DR HTTP over QUIC is now HTTP/3. "HTTP/3 is just a new HTTP syntax that works on IETF QUIC, a UDP-based multiplexed and secure transport"
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by scegit 8y ago
HTTP1.1 is expected to just work it has been here for a very long time. It takes time to understand, support and adopt new technology. I'm not sure if the blame should be on HTTP2 in this case.
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by scegit 8y ago
Pretty cool! but it doesn't support HTTP2 which is a bit disappointing
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by scegit 8y ago
You can still do this input[type="button"]:active { background-image: url(' http://www.google-analytics.com/collect?v=1&_v=j23&a=...'); } https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014&
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by scegit 8y ago
Android is a mess