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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
And what are those exactly? JVM and CLR bytecode is totally platform agnostic and both support many languages without trouble. Apparently they aren't cool anymore so we need to spend another few thousand man years building another syst
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
So wasm is a bytecode format like Java or C#'s IL except it basically has no runtime? Why don't we just use an existing bytecode format and skip all the pointless design? LLVM? Android DEX? Java Class or C# IL formats aren't
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
Is it just me or do Java applets seem like they were way the hell ahead of their time? If the sandbox didn't have so many holes in it Java applets were arguably better for webapps than the unholy mess we've cobbled together over t
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
I don't get why this isn't obvious. Software is seen as the wild west of engineering. Exciting, competitive, reckless, sometimes brutal. It's like Wall Street, selling cars, working oilfields. The popular perception has been
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
It's likely that the RNG's in slots don't produce uniformly distributed wins and losses except over long timeframes. A machine that's truly random will result in everyone losing money slowly and reliably after a large nu
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
Its absurd for the highest paid employee to be paid more than 10x the lowest. It's not like a CEO is a hundred times smarter than the people one level below. The reality is that any of the executives could do the same job. At larger co
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
Everything old sucks, but there's fixable and unfixable suckage. IMO stuff like old PHP sites are fixable suckage. Usually minimal layers of abstraction and no crazy hooks affecting the vanilla behavior of the browser and HTTP. If they
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
Political realities can ruin your reputation with some customers. The business goal is to maximize profits even if that means not hiring black people in the southern US, or LGBT in Russia for example
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
Eh, if you're using TLS it really doesn't matter where you hash. There's a lot of arguments for not doing secure hashing and encryption in JavaScript
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
It sucks but places like Walmart have been doing this for ages
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
Angular feels like Google's GWT (Google Web Toolkit) re imagined in JavaScript. It's not bad by any means but the layer of abstraction is too thick for my taste. Like GWT or Rails, Angular makes easy stuff trivial but you start ch
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
The free market optimizes in a way that isn't "fair". Young people are measurably quicker thinking and willing to work longer hours for less pay. They cost the company less in insurance and sick pay as well. Young males tend