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by tragic 11y ago
> Edit: To clarify why I find it is distasteful — In context of recent events this is just a poorly and honestly unfunny joke. But out of context, in the way in which many may read it, it is strikingly more concerning. The point isn&#x27
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by tragic 11y ago
It depends what you mean by front end, really. If you're working on a single page app type thing, I see no reason why the engineering shouldn't be done by the same people. Design , however, is a different matter. It's a wh
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by tragic 11y ago
Given the focus on market share charts, that's fair enough - but I don't think that's anyone's complaint with, say, Uber. There's a whole host of different problems here (including anti-trust, data protection, &#x27
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by tragic 11y ago
Indeed: one of the things that jumped out at me here was how much stricter European law is on data protection and suchlike than the US. Maybe that has a little something to do with friction emerging between certain US tech giants and EU aut
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by tragic 11y ago
Maybe they're just thinking in terms of touchscreens or something, but that's hardly what makes a phone 'smart'. And it doesn't explain how they managed to forget myspace, friendster, friends reunited, etc, etc, etc
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by tragic 11y ago
> Apple invented the smartphone No they didn't. > (and the tablet) No they didn't. > Facebook coined the concept of social network. No they didn't. In fairness, the iPad was the first tablet to matter all that much,
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by tragic 11y ago
I disagree with OP on his bullet points of what doesn't matter (and I don't think it follows from the anecdote): > That indentation is more than an incidental detail. > That good programming is about following a set of rules
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by tragic 11y ago
> Is anyone using it, like at all, except discourse? Ubuntu: http://discourse.ubuntu.com/ Rust (I think): https://users.rust-lang.org/ It's pretty big in the Ember community for obvious reasons. Out
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by tragic 11y ago
The point is not whether or not there will be a downturn. In any sector, there will be a downturn ... eventually. That's just capitalism. (And it could be triggered in the short term by something like the small reasons you mock - it
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by tragic 11y ago
"FYI - there are better books to get started with [than the Joy of Clojure]." FMI: what are they? :-)
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by tragic 11y ago
I missed the word 'this' in the GP, so this is fair enough. Even if we're just talking about Backbone, however, it's a little off: I mean, people use react with the non-view parts of Backbone. Often you're going to
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by tragic 11y ago
Er, adding an option doesn't delete all the other options. MVC is a decades old, tried and tested pattern for building user interfaces. Whatever its merits, I suspect it will survive react.
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by tragic 11y ago
It doesn't really bother me that much. But I was watching the Terror in Resonance anime series, and was surprised by how happy plausible references to Tor and a character running an honest to god wget made me. It is also just brillia
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by tragic 11y ago
Re stunt doubles: I think it tells you something that some actors actually market themselves as NOT using them - eg, Jason Statham or someone like that. There is certainly a corner of (especially) the action movie audience that gets off on
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by tragic 11y ago
Do Apple employees not drive cars on roads (paid for by the taxpayer)? Do they rely on no technology whatsoever which did not rely on the taxpayer to exist (for example, er, the internet)? If they want to defend some other part of their pro
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by tragic 11y ago
I just don't see what's so hard about desktop Linux at this point. In the last 3-4 years, I've installed various Ubuntu flavours on hardware varying in vintage from 2005 to 2012-ish, with no problems, every bit of hardware ju
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by tragic 11y ago
It's all academic until things blow up at runtime. Choosing more type safety over less is a pragmatic concern - one input among many into the cost benefit analysis we all do when picking languages and platforms. More type-safe language
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by tragic 11y ago
> The actual nightmare scenario is that people with learning disability are killed by doctors because those doctors think "retards have no quality of life". When people toss around the word retard they contribute to a culture t
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by tragic 11y ago
Meh... they can afford to let this one slip. It's one copyright, it's an embarrassment, it makes them $2m a year which is chicken feed for these sorts of companies. No expensive precedents will be set. Take it on the chin and mov
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by tragic 11y ago
That certainly could be it - it's literally the only graph I could pull up at short notice. There are stats around but like browser usage etc they tend to come from this website or that. Based on some other numbers[0], trends seem to b
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by tragic 11y ago
You're probably right against the parent, but in the long term I would expect use of ad blockers to rise, simply because ads are getting observably more bloated and intrusive. Elementary example: the likes of us will get requests from
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by tragic 11y ago
Damn, that must have been a long day at the office.
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by tragic 11y ago
I remember playing the Terminator game on the Master System when I was about 8, getting so frustrated by it that I rolled off the couch and put my back out for several weeks. I got hold of it recently to see if it was really as hard as I re
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by tragic 11y ago
Flexibility is not 'bad' - it's a tradeoff. More flexible languages are better for writing DSLs, etc; but using them means a lot of self discipline regarding code style. One thing I wish JS had is a PEP8-style canonical style
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by tragic 11y ago
> Nor is giving me the option to override it. Oh, come now. Even make install makes assumptions about default directories etc. The right to override is the correct level of control over target directories - people who care can make that
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by tragic 11y ago
That may not be first thing on the mind of people trying desperately to keep the dream alive. Still, it's bloody irritating.
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by tragic 11y ago
> Each of the scenarios above can have both a qualitative activation goal, as well as quantitive results to make sure it’s really happening. Whatever you do, sending a shitload of spammy email notifications with the subject line “We Miss
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by tragic 11y ago
Apple is going up against well-entrenched incumbents. It would be a good idea for it to use those cash reserves in order to carve out a space in streaming-land, if that's something it wants to get into. See also: Microsoft and the XBox
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by tragic 11y ago
While I feel your pain, and have spent a stretch or two in life-sapping Grunt Hell, this is kind of a sunk cost: ie, all this setup fiddling is necessary anyway for linting, test runs and so on - not just for the new shiny. So, IMHO, you ma
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by tragic 11y ago
That's an extraordinarily reductive view of improvements to a programming language. A basic example: cleaner syntax for anonymous functions will have (presumably) almost no effect on speed/memory either which way, but will make co

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