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by tabtab 7y ago
Re: As I mentioned in my comment, JS frameworks by adopting a reactive model are getting closer to how desktops apps function. That has always been the goal And they keep failing because they throw layers at the problem: chicken-wire is u
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by tabtab 7y ago
Re: and things are now moving towards the simplicity of how it used to be when creating desktop apps using web tech with the advantage that they're cross platform. I suspect we'll need a new web standard that's GUI-friendly
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by tabtab 7y ago
Re: [That doesn't really solve any serious problems] "Yes it does. It meant that less-experienced developers could make nice programs that near-zero-experience users could immediately take advantage of, with the same look and fee
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by tabtab 7y ago
Declarative techniques for doing such make rocket science look easy. It's probably better to develop separately for small/mobile versus desktop. It's too hard to make both happy at the same time via client-side re-flow. Even
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by tabtab 7y ago
Good thing we improved with Windows 10 and have to reboot only every 52 days. Progress! Seriously, Windows 10 does tend to get dodgy if you don't reboot for a few weeks. I'm not the only one who's noticed. Granted, it's
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by tabtab 7y ago
Making decent UI's went from bicycle science to rocket science. VB-classic was easy to learn and easy to use, and you had coordinate control over where most things went on the screen. If your layout engine didn't put it where you
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by tabtab 7y ago
As a lifetime CRUD programmer/architect, I have to say that the current web standards have been nasty to productivity-oriented CRUD. Desktop GUI's are still more productive and easier to develop. We de-evolved. The web really need
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by tabtab 7y ago
Nope. As a species we tend to over-prepare for the "last war", rather than basing them on actual risk probabilities.
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by tabtab 7y ago
Recoveries from slumps (business cycle down-turns) have been getting gradually slower over the decades for reasons not entirely understood. The cascading effect of job loss and purchase reductions causing each other to grow worse seems hard
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by tabtab 7y ago
Note that existing RDBMS are gradually adding and improving their text search engines. Of course there will always be specialized situations that need dedicated high-end text search engines.
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by tabtab 7y ago
In my opinion it's overhyped. I'll probably take point hits for claiming it, but so be it. Let the truth ring. Why copy techniques meant for Netflix and Facebook when your org or app is most likely 1/1000th their size. Phalli
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by tabtab 7y ago
As a hard and fast rule, yes, it has been deprecated, but not as a tendency or influence.
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by tabtab 7y ago
Different optimization techniques will end up approximating such formulas in the course of execution such that you may not necessarily have to code or see an explicit logarithmic formula. I'm not necessarily downplaying logarithms, onl
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by tabtab 7y ago
Economists are stuck in a catch-22. If they find demonstrate-able patterns, investors take advantage of the patterns and change the rules of the game, putting the economists back at Square One.
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by tabtab 7y ago
PG doesn't brag incessantly. Both produce a large stream of consciousness that may have nice tidbits and sayings. But the real test is to see if such ideas can be turned into a consistent algorithm or formulas that one can test via his
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by tabtab 7y ago
It's a matter of knowing your audience and knowing your funder's/owner's goals and expected risk-reward trade-off profile. A "cowboy" mentality may indeed help a start-up edge out competitors. But applying that
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by tabtab 7y ago
Customers have repeatedly and historically valued features over quality (for most niches). If somebody finds a magic formula to have both for a good price, this may change. But so far it hasn't proved consistently possible. I will ag
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by tabtab 7y ago
Anybody remember the end of Waterworld ?
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by tabtab 7y ago
The cited book is 1963. I'd feel more comfortable with something more recent. It seems to be a debate of degree . Earlier forms do tend to be preserved in the embryo, but it's only a tendency, not a "rule".
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by tabtab 7y ago
Re: The first organ that gets formed is the anus. And some modern day ancestors stay that way into adult form (or at least externally adult in appearance). On a serious note, it looks roughly slug-like. Most guesses of the earliest animal
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by tabtab 7y ago
Security-as-a-second-thought also doomed Java Applets and Flash. If Cloudville doesn't focus heavily on security, it's doomed. History has given you at least 3 lessons.
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by tabtab 7y ago
Re: for a crash to happen, one of the FAANGs has to fail, spectacularly. Demand for digital services has gone up due the epidemic. Big Tech will do fine, but everything around them may crumble.
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by tabtab 7y ago
Physical engineering is more objective. For example, in designing a bridge an engineer is sandwiched between the architect's illustration and the laws of physics. Bridges can't fall. There are various "gut instinct" desi
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by tabtab 7y ago
"Computer science" is NOT science. Good science is rarely done outside of machine performance issues. How to organize information to be best "digested" by human programmers and users is largely in the realm of psychology
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by tabtab 7y ago
I have to agree: VB has better syntax, at least for my head. In addition to better block-boundary-matching, I like the type name coming after the variable name. It's silly to put the type first, especially for long ones. And it has a m
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by tabtab 7y ago
It generally divides along continental lines, which is mostly as expected. It's harder for genes to cross continents.
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by tabtab 7y ago
Perhaps they are not. As I mention nearby, successful breeding can be measured on a continuous scale. We don't really know the success rate, other than it being above zero because humans have some of their genes. Maybe 9999 cross-group
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by tabtab 7y ago
Even mating is often a matter of probability. As two genetic groups diverge, the probability of successful mating gradually shrinks over time. We could define the boundary at 0% success, but that's really hard to verify in practice.
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by tabtab 7y ago
Corona has swamped a lot things.
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by tabtab 7y ago
Technology and R&D are always creating new treatments, but the new ones are rarely cheap, as is true with any new technology. The first desktop laser printers cost almost as much as a car, for example. It's good to have new options

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