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by steego 7y ago
Do you think the security holes killed Java and Flash? Or do you think they were just nails in the coffin? I suspect performance and inconsistent experience killed Java applets and Sun stopped caring about desktop Java when they realized t
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by steego 7y ago
That's exactly why we were able to use it. For a while, we were IE only, but then we started to support Firefox (Only because the developers were fans and we started recommending it to users).
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by steego 7y ago
They do deserve some credit for intentionally introducing that feature to the browser as a standard feature, but the notion of fetching data without reloading the page wasn't novel at all. That's what Java applets and plugins were
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by steego 7y ago
It was used, but mostly for internal applications or websites that were willing to dictate a minimum browser. Firefox was only released in 2002. By 2004, it had hit a critical enough mass that it was reasonable to tell a user they needed
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by steego 7y ago
That's because they hadn't used it yet. :) In all seriousness, everyone was in on Java. Even Microsoft (Everyone was in on Java, even Microsoft ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B ). So most of us
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by steego 7y ago
They really weren't a thing, but they also weren't unheard of. Personally speaking, I started working on a complex JavaScript application (web-based ERP/CRM system) in 2000. While it wasn't an SPA, we designed our page
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by steego 7y ago
The government definitely played a role in AT&T's monopoly, but to say they caused it is playing it very fast and loose. Even before the government sanctioned their monopoly, AT&T was becoming a monopoly using strategies that
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by steego 7y ago
I had the same mental association and my first thought looking at this feature was: "What sort of misguided, insecure feature did they come up with this time?" I'm not saying this feature is misguided because I know very lit
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by steego 7y ago
Is that what you’re doing?
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by steego 7y ago
You might be tired of it, but what it underscores is that Google has developed a reputation for creating experiments and killing them off when they no longer serves Google's purpose. It reminds Google's users that they're no
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by steego 7y ago
Maybe they're not superhuman? Maybe they applied their time, practice and attention to developing skills that have yielded very big returns?
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by steego 7y ago
They have to become an open source company because they can't risk putting all their eggs in the software basket. They have to work on projects like this to ensure developers can easily deploy to Azure so they can hedge their revenue.
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by steego 7y ago
I agree with the spin of this comment, but would add you don't want to be sycophantically positive about working there. If the place sucked, you can diplomatically point out it was a challenging experience (not ideal) and you learned a
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by steego 7y ago
You're very polite. I'm going to be more frank. Monads like this are very problematic in the JavaScript world. I say this as an F# programmer, and our community is not unfamiliar with Railway Oriented Programming ( https:/&
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by steego 7y ago
I can't believe people have been giving this post this much credit in the first place. All of his contrived examples are solved with trivial methods and it just sounds like he doesn't know how to migrate data from one database sy
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by steego 7y ago
You didn't ruffle my feathers, but I can easily see how you'd ruffle the feathers of someone who's invested a tremendous amount of time into a new language. > but can't help but think the time would be better spent a
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by steego 7y ago
Are you new here? In all seriousness, what questions does it raise? HN has a long history of featuring old and new languages on the front page and often you'll bump into language designers and researchers. I could be wrong, but I reca
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by steego 8y ago
I hate it when news outlets and movie production companies focus on individuals and ignore the team effort and dynamic, and it's not because I care about distributing credit. I want them to tell more stories about teams and communitie
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by steego 8y ago
Parents already unload and load the stroller and diaper bag at their destination, what's the big deal about doing it at the origin? Some people will pay extra for car storage, other people will opt for the discount of not owning a car.
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by steego 8y ago
I've had to use a number of visual programming tools and I never truly appreciated this argument until I had to deal with all of the trade-offs. Most visual tools handle version control poorly. Refactoring and reuse is a joke. They oft
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by steego 8y ago
> Isn't there an "insect apocalypse" every few years and never actually coming to any sort of fruition? Would you call an 82% drop "coming to any sort of fruition" or are you holding out for a higher threshold? S
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by steego 8y ago
I had to upvote you just because I plan on getting some mileage out the phrase "YOLO last write wins." It has just the right amount of snark to remind junior developers to not trivialize or discount the value of consistency.
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by steego 8y ago
> It being a nightmare to maintain/operate would be an accidental difficulty, not a necessary one. Who's saying it would be a necessary one? If you inherit an awful system that's time consuming to maintain and operate, yo
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by steego 8y ago
Check out this Computer Science Professor's website! https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/ And I'm supposed to use this guy's typesetting program?
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by steego 8y ago
> The point is that the job is essentially data management. You might be right, but you could so easily be wrong. You really have no idea what the job entails. The software might be great, it might be a nightmare to maintain/operat
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by steego 8y ago
> I was thinking that it sounded a bit high but OK for a 1 year contract If you think that's expensive, you really have no idea what other organizations spend on IT projects. Do you have any idea how much the NYPD spends in IT? I
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by steego 8y ago
So what you're telling me is the reason for failure really isn't important. The fact that one program was championed for 40-50 years while the other one defunded and dismanteled is of no consequence. The real takeaway here is
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by steego 8y ago
> For that one I wasn't too familiar but quickly looked it up and didn't see anyone claiming success: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Poverty Think about it. The "War on Poverty" was Lyndon
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by steego 8y ago
> A billion people consuming more is surely bad for climate change though, no? Let me ask you a question: How do you incorporate the concept of efficiency when you talk about wealth? Is wealth and not being impoverished defined by how
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by steego 8y ago
I can't help but think that picking apart a magazine's headline is a huge distraction from an important issue, but I also can't help myself in pointing out how off the mark you with such a superficial observation. As far as g

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