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   by smadge 11y ago

   I agree. Sometimes your soup could use some salt in it, but you shouldn't just skip the soup and go directly to eating salt. If someone decides they don't want any salt, they should still be able eat the plain old boring soup. The
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   by smadge 11y ago

   I don't think client side scripting is always innapropriate. I just think it often is. For example, I've seen a lot of pages that just display some copy marketing a product that won't display properly without JavaScript. On t
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   by smadge 11y ago

   It already does work without javascript. Or do you mean is there a way to asynchronously vote and hide the voting arrows without a page reload?
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   by smadge 11y ago

   A few weeks ago I turned off javascript in my browser out of principle and to see if progressive enhancement was still a thing web developers cared about (hint: it's not). I was pleased that HN worked fine, and the only annoying thing
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   by smadge 11y ago

   I think their point is that open standards are good for user experience. Can you imagine if each browser implemented their own hypertext format instead of html? Or Stylesheet language beside css? Or they used their own application protocol
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   by smadge 11y ago

   I think the point is that we should enhance IRC or XMPP, or create a new federated and open protocol that supports the features and easy setup Slack offers. Users suffer when we create proprietary protocols and walled gardens. Can you imagi
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   by smadge 11y ago

   I think you can use https keep alive to only require one tcp connection.
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   by smadge 11y ago

   HTTPS and HTML were designed on a NeXT with 24MHz CPU and less than 64MB RAM over a 56kbs connection. Yet these technologies are considered too heavy for a Galaxy Y with 600MHz CPU, and 290MB RAM over a 500kbs connection. Instead facebook n
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   by smadge 11y ago

   Thanks, this is helpful! I didn't know about Technology Radar before now. Interestingly, they say "Subversion moves back into the Adopt section of the radar because it is a solid version control tool suitable for most teams."
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    by smadge 11y ago

    Gradle allows you to 1) use maven plugins 2) download dependencies from maven repositories. So my understanding is that Gradle is backwards compatible but separate.
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    by smadge 11y ago

    Yikes, I still use Maven. I don't like being left behind in the dust. Is there any compelling reason to prefer Gradle? What mistakes did Maven make that gradle avoided? One thing I am hesitant about is the I don't need my build to
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    by smadge 11y ago

    Ultimately separation of concerns is an organizational and social problem, not a technical problem.
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    by smadge 11y ago

    If you practice separation of concerns and design your interfaces well, I feel the debate is moot. Who cares if your authentication (micro)service is running locally or on it's own remote cluster as long as it implements the same inter
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    by smadge 11y ago

    > I still think, front-end should just present the information, not the whole application logic. I think you are absolutely right! Progressive enhancement is a foreign concept to some developers. They've forgotten that hyperlinks ar
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    by smadge 11y ago

    Hacker news is too often obsessed with get rich quick schemes, and devising new ways to rip people off. It's nice to hear a story about people who just wants to write good, useful software, and release it to the public domain.
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    by smadge 11y ago

    That's not an accurate representation of the article at all. I don't think the author is suggesting that web development was nice overall in the past, but that it was nice in the sense that you didn't have to download >100
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    by smadge 11y ago

    I say this as a developer who, if it were up to me, would just spend all day refactoring existing code and not implementing new features or fixing bugs.
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    by smadge 11y ago

    I'm not convinced we need a monolithic, standard front-end web framework. If there is a framework, it should just be a collection of libraries, and integrations between those libraries. The libraries should be useful by themselves. If
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    by smadge 11y ago

    why on earth would you let your developers decide what to develop? Isn't that the role of the product owner/client/management? There should be some back and forth between stakeholders.
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    by smadge 11y ago

    > The point of mentioning it is that there are some fields that there is a push for gender parity into and others that are not I think the main point of the article isn't gender parity, but equal treatment in the workplace. The focu
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    by smadge 11y ago

    The difference is that men don't face barriers to entering and progressing within woman dominated industries or positions. Their skills, motivations, competence, etc are called into question because of their gender. They don't fac
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    by smadge 11y ago

    http://tableflip.club/
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    by smadge 11y ago

    Can you elaborate? I don't follow the subject very closely anymore.
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    by smadge 11y ago

    Why do people hate css so much?!?! Why is the solution to styling components to throw out css? I thought BEM and other css frameworks/conventions solved this problem. For example: myComponent/myComponent.jsx myComponent&#x2F
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    by smadge 11y ago

    To add on: For example, monads don't "compose" as nicely as applicatives. You can automatically compose two applicatives and have a guarantee the the result obeys the applicative laws. Like you say, for monads you would have
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    by smadge 11y ago

    This is actually a pretty well researched and established thesis. Whether you accept it or not is up to you. Take this quote from a mainstream American publication, the Atlantic: "there is nothing particularly "natural" about
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    by smadge 11y ago

    Racism was invented to provide an ideological justification for the African slave trade and colonialism. The institutional racism faced by African Americans today has direct and traceable roots to the African slave trade of the 1700s. It&#x
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    by smadge 11y ago

    I'm not saying there was discrimination, I'm just pointing out that in the world according to your comment, someone confronted with discrimination has two options: 1. Silently endure it, and hope the world becomes a better place(i
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    by smadge 11y ago

    Someone's bitter about Silk Road going down...
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    by smadge 11y ago

    So the proper way to address racist workplace discrimination is to not say anything?