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by tl 7y ago
My experiences with React / Vue / Angular: server side rendering plus a reasonable refresh interface (LiveView, PJAX, Turbolinks, etc...) wins until you reach the point where native code is a better solution anyway. JQuery /
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by tl 7y ago
It’s a preference in his case that cannot be solved with licensing. Eric doesn’t want even potential ideas to influence him, and he says he has more puzzle ideas than time to implement them. Personally, I suspect that he wants something tha
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by tl 7y ago
Math is definitely political. Problem #1: All models are invalid, some are useful. You need to stop ignorant actors who don’t understand that 3 is not a valid approximation of Pi, while simultaneously stopping pedants who want to everything
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by tl 7y ago
> Some algorithms may seem to demand tenths of gigabits of memory bandwidth on paper, but in reality smart prefetchers can reduce that to hundred megabits. Are tenths of a gigabit and hundreds of megabits not the same thing?
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by tl 7y ago
"Cash pay only" doctors compete with the existing system today. With the rising upfront costs each year, there's an increasing trend of a cash pay doctor's office visit being cheaper than the co-pay of your insurance pro
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by tl 7y ago
It's more of a compromise between the humans dealing with language (compiler, editor, DSL authors) and the humans who exclusive want to write application code. Common Lisp is far from the only option, but it's arguably the best co
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by tl 8y ago
It still exists. We learned that the "Interim Dynabook" is really useful to certain classes of professionals, and we learned that the "Dynabook" is a lot more valuable when it fits in your pocket, even though that requir
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by tl 8y ago
This was actually a big problem for me because Amazon Fresh was available pre Whole Foods acquisition, and now its gone.
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by tl 9y ago
I’m 12 / 15 GB on the free plan and considering upgrading to paid. If Google is now “intelligently” flagging content, I want to store my personal content elsewhere, regardless of its nature. Who’s not being stupid here? Apple? Should I
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by tl 9y ago
I'm sympatheic to Smalltalk's approach to highlighting, but as long as we're all editing text files that contain multiple classes / functions / methods / etc... colorizing a few tokens (like class/func&#x2
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FCC Ignores the Will of the Public, Votes to Begin Dismantling Net Neutrality(techdirt.com)
1 points by tl 9y ago|0 comments
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by tl 9y ago
That doesn't explain why an article with more points that is a newer is below an article with fewer points that is older.
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Ask HN: How are submissions ranked?
4 points by tl 9y ago|4 comments
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by tl 10y ago
A career politician who had lost the primary in 2008 proved that money and connections aren't everything.
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Hey, Democrats We need you to get your act together(esr.ibiblio.org)
4 points by tl 10y ago|0 comments
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Big Tablets are Coming(evanmiller.org)
6 points by tl 10y ago|1 comments
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by tl 10y ago
20% is a low enough bar that you can cite a well-known example: Objective C vs. Swift removes entire sections like headers and adds sorely needed typechecks. Our internal results are less code and fewer defects per line of code. However, a
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The (UK) Government IT Self-Harm Playbook(medium.com)
1 points by tl 10y ago|0 comments
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by tl 10y ago
Take Ethernet for example: we've had multiple distinct technologies that used the name, but we always call it ethernet (I suspect that we only avoided calling wi-fi "ethernet" is because wi-fi is shorter). It is much the same
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From Dropbox to iCloud Drive: A Review and Some Thoughts(finertech.com)
1 points by tl 10y ago|0 comments
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by tl 10y ago
Like so many other areas, it's really a shame that the industry can't co-operate here. Apple Pay works fine at the one location near me that supports it, but it's a headache for the merchant (I might be the only person who us
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by tl 10y ago
It's a wonderful way to fight things governments don't approve of. For example, generating a list of every person who bought food / water / whatever at a protest.
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by tl 10y ago
Geography bias is a real problem. Some areas have several gyms in walking distance, others have miles in-between gyms.
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Urbit monthly update (crowdsale delays)(urbit.org)
2 points by tl 10y ago|0 comments
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by tl 10y ago
That contempt is earned from a history of doing things that make articles like this one necessary.
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by tl 10y ago
Even if your web app and database are on the same server, you may experience partitions between the client and server.
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by tl 10y ago
> everyone knows Maps is incredibly complex Citation, please. I deal with clients on a regular basis who think that software with 20+ years of time invested can be duplicated by 1-2 engineers working for 3-6 months. Earlier today, I had
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by tl 10y ago
Xcode handles the simple case automatically and screws up everything else making the "Fix Issues" button a bit of a gamble, honestly.
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by tl 10y ago
Once upon a time, Americans didn't care about violating European (largely British) copyright. I expect at some point, the Chinese will start moving to protect the "originality" of their near copies which will get more legitim
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The Full Stack Developer(dennisforbes.ca)
4 points by tl 11y ago|0 comments

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