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by tgflynn 4y ago
One difference may be that, as I recall, Lytro was focused on (2D) photography, while this seems to be targeting 3D, which may be a much more compelling application.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Thanks.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
> There are lighter-weight shadow dom frameworks out there (than Vue/React/Angular) so why would you want to write one yourself? Mainly because I prefer working with my own code to working with other people's. Another adva
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by tgflynn 4y ago
> You cannot rerender (and inject/replace) every time the underlying data changes. OK, so how do the frameworks do it then ?
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by tgflynn 4y ago
What is the basic principle behind this approach. A lens essentially allows you to map light rays (which have an origin and a direction vector) to position on the sensor (a pinhole does the same but lets through much less light). Did Lytro
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by tgflynn 4y ago
All software is built from simple primitives. If the fundamentals are solid scaling up should be just a matter of managing complexity in your own code. I'm aware that performance problems that I don't have direct control over co
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by tgflynn 4y ago
> Ok, but surely you see the difference between this very simple/straightforward "demo app" and a real webapp? Something like Zillow, Facebook, Doordash, Spotify, etc. Yes and no. What are those apps really doing that&#x2
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by tgflynn 4y ago
> The key reason web frameworks dominate these days is that it's very hard to keep the UI in sync with state. That's a very interesting comment, but it is rather abstract. I think it would be very helpful if you (or someone el
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I'm still learning modern web development but here's a simple demo app that I wrote using only plan vanilla HTML/CSS/JS: https://tgflynn.github.io/AlgoVis/ (github link: https://github.co
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Not at all, that was the decade personal/home computers first become available. It's also when Steve Jobs founded Apple.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
What surprises me is how little technological progress appears to have occurred in the last decade (ie. 2010-2020). I think you'd be hard pressed to name a decade in the past 50 or even 100 years where the technology available to the
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by tgflynn 4y ago
> Arguably the largest change in humanity in a ~100 year span? I don't think so. My grandmother was born in 1900 and died in 2003. Cars, airplanes, electricity, radio, TV, computers, space ships, etc..., all were invented or becam
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by tgflynn 4y ago
That explanation doesn't make sense because the fraud prevention/transaction denials are being done by the card holders bank, not by the merchant or payment processor and merchants don't get to decide what issuing banks they
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by tgflynn 4y ago
If it's the merchants who carry the burden of credit card fraud why is it that almost all fraud prevention efforts seem to be done by banks/card issuers rather than by merchants ? Except for a small number of cases involving pre-p
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Given how many successful SaaS products are out there it seems like even non-PWA web apps are sufficient to cover a great many needs (a few examples: Google Docs, Figma, Elementor, Airtable, etc.).
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Could you explain what you mean by tab discarding ? EDIT: So I had to google this because I don't think I've ever encountered this behavior. Apparently it only happens when system memory is low so one thing you might want to consi
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. X can certainly run a full remote desktop, or at least it could, I'm not sure how well it works with current versions of KDE and Gnome. If you mean connect remotely to a desktop that someone else is us
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by tgflynn 4y ago
This was a solved problem 30 years ago in the Unix and later Linux worlds. Completely remote X based terminals/thin clients were quite common. My impression is that things have mostly regressed since then, probably due to neglect sin
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I think it's fair to expect hardware companies to publish sufficient documentation so that independent software developers can write code to make use of their HW. Preferably that would be done through market pressure, but may at times
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Is there public documentation on these "image processors" that is sufficiently detailed to implement drivers/firmware for them ? It seems to be that making such documentation available should be the core demand on hardware ma
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by tgflynn 4y ago
> You're largely alone. I mean that's literally what you said, my imagination had nothing to do with it.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
He's not alone. I also have a lot of bookmarks and would like to be able to use them more easily.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I'm currently working on a bookmark extension for Chrome, initially targeting my own needs, but I hope to make it available to others eventually. I'm wondering if there are any insights you could share about what factors led to t
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I'm wondering about that too. The object looks remarkably similar to some photos of the Cairngorms I've seen, but I don't know if there's a way for the geography and atmospheric conditions to create such an illusion in
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by tgflynn 4y ago
> How do you know that this guy was arrested "just for writing open source code?" I don't know that, but that currently appears to be the case and I have yet to see any evidence to the contrary. EDIT: The title of the page
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by tgflynn 4y ago
It could be the first of many. Up until yesterday we lived in a world (by which I mean the Western World) where no one had ever been arrested just for writing open source code. It appears that this is no longer the case. This is how the
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by tgflynn 4y ago
My 4 year old laptop was purchased new for less than $500 and it browses the web just fine. I routinely have 4 chrome windows open across 4 virtual desktops, each with multiple tabs and no significant slowdown.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
> For example, the front page of Github with the 3D globe brings lower end machines to a halt How low-end are you talking about ? I have a fairly low-end laptop that's more than 4 years old and it works fine. As for the rest of wha
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by tgflynn 4y ago
> because the people who produce hardware don't share with the public (and with the people with the skills and interest to create non-user-hostile software) the information necessary to run that hardware, artificially restricting th
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Maybe I'm missing something but I have a hard time seeing what any of this has to do with autism. Everything in this article sounds like the lament of an intellectually honest and rational person working in an environment filled with

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