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by sophiebits 6y ago
There is about zero chance that the processor architecture transition is not many years in the making.
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by sophiebits 6y ago
Google does a lot of different things. In this case, it’s part of the Chrome team that has been focusing on this and how to help the web dev ecosystem more broadly.
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by sophiebits 6y ago
The React team has been focusing much more on SSR lately. I think it's likely we'll see big things in 2021.
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by sophiebits 6y ago
The React team is working on some experiments that’s not quite what you’re describing but achieves the goal of sending way less code to the client. I can’t wait until tools like that are more standard.
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by sophiebits 6y ago
AJAX is the default now, so no one talks about it.
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by sophiebits 6y ago
I can’t remember what the hosting OS is but it just runs a Chrome fork; all of the (many) apps are web-based.
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by sophiebits 6y ago
I'd bet a lot of money that the next version of React will not remove Hooks.
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by sophiebits 6y ago
You can just say “Except they are probably”.
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by sophiebits 6y ago
Many of those questions about past situations are illuminating for interviewers about the kind of manager you are / how you think about enabling teams, though they can certainly seem odd if you are not sure what they are trying to eval
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by sophiebits 6y ago
Sounds like some implementations of MessagePack may be in the same category.
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by sophiebits 6y ago
A function that concatenates the results of two 64-bit hash functions _is_ a 128-bit hash function. Just as a string of individual digits makes a larger number.
102.
by sophiebits 6y ago
I think the author clearly acknowledges that is a bad thing but argues that other advantages outweigh it.
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by sophiebits 6y ago
(Sophie Alpert here.) What I meant is it’s not clear the next thing that will _replace_ React. Certainly there are plenty of great alternatives, each with their own pros and cons – but at this point, none clearly poised to “take over”.
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by sophiebits 6y ago
No, not all web devs are “newbies”.
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by sophiebits 6y ago
Curious to hear more about what SwiftUI does better than React… any place I can read more?
106.
by sophiebits 6y ago
This isn’t true.
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by sophiebits 6y ago
Last I heard, they are using it for at least significant parts of Office and Skype.
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by sophiebits 6y ago
A hodgepodge of (mostly proprietary) technologies.
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by sophiebits 6y ago
Yes. (Source: Was involved in early planning for the rewrite and fixing the Back button was one of the primary goals.)
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by sophiebits 6y ago
In Ruby, monkeypatching is idiomatic and you can’t even tell what package any given global came from.
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by sophiebits 7y ago
It’s become more common to eschew long-lived release branches for SaaS applications. For example: https://engineering.fb.com/web/rapid-release-at-massive-scal...
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by sophiebits 7y ago
Playwright looks promising if you’re OK with a narrower range of browsers: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright
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by sophiebits 7y ago
It hasn’t been open sourced, right?
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by sophiebits 7y ago
There are other projects like create-react-app that already do that. Rome is a bet that by integrating disparate systems that need to perform many overlapping tasks, you can make a better whole.
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by sophiebits 7y ago
Good news – they're working on it: https://help.github.com/en/github/searching-for-information-...
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by sophiebits 7y ago
Try the first four videos here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPxbbTqCLbGHPxZpw4xj_...
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by sophiebits 7y ago
Closer to how humans often sort things.
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by sophiebits 7y ago
She explains that in the second half of the paragraph you quoted.
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by sophiebits 7y ago
Facebook is unlikely to move to D at this point and already has multiple serious projects in Rust (that they’re happy about, AFAIK).
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by sophiebits 7y ago
AMP obscuring the URL is a side effect of the current technical implementation, not a goal – and they are working to fix it: https://searchengineland.com/google-announces-signed-exchang...

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