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by untog 6y ago
> It only took us 15 years of being flamed every time you pointed out you didn't like Javascript I don't think that has ever been an unreasonable reaction. Nor is it all that unique: if you want to do iOS development in somethi
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by untog 6y ago
You can, yes. But the developer working on the codebase you’re going to inherit might not. Class components are usefully opinionated in that way.
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by untog 6y ago
Hm. I like the idea of gradual upgrades in theory, but I worry the reality will be sites loading at least two versions of React semi-permanently. And possibly even worse, you end up with an NPM dependency nightmare of off-the-shelf componen
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by untog 6y ago
Your post essentially boils down to “Twitch would never let that happen”, but the problem is that it wouldn’t be Twitch’s decision to make.
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I imagine part of this would be ensuring that companies do not underpay their workers by enforcing strict standards on minimum wage and changing corporate tax obligations. Having employers provide benefits like healthcare is crazy. The US r
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Plus holding option while you click takes a screenshot without the shadow, which I find vastly preferable. I only found out about that a couple of months ago, after a long time being annoyed.
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What are they supposed to do, try to return their phone months after buying it?
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And yet individual teachers still have to go out and buy supplies for their classes because there is no budget for them. There is a huge, huge amount of money being wasted.
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by untog 6y ago
Schools in the US are, as a general rule, chronically underfunded. If they had money they could have erected tents outside in playing fields and car parks to allow teaching while socially distant. But slashing school budgets has been a popu
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by untog 6y ago
Not really. You can’t buy a Pixel 1 and haven’t been able to for years. Nor can you buy an iPhone 3GS.
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An extreme minority. Unlocking your phone is very low on the list of issues if you are one of those people.
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None of that is particularly surprising or alarming if you consider Twitter to be a networking tool, though. It seems like that's exactly what it is for many, including people in tech. You talk to people in your industry, exchange advi
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I understand being thrown off by inconsistencies in typography and it’s exactly the kind of thing that bugs me too... but it’s also an objectively tiny thing to worry about in the broader context of which computing platform you’re going to
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by untog 6y ago
I agree that UI between the two is largely just a personal preference thing. But the POSIX underpinnings of MacOS is objectively useful for a great many developers. I appreciate what MS is doing with WSL but it’ll always be a poor substitut
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From what the OP said I don't think that's the case. They're specifically talking about clicking on links not working.
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Can you add an exception for the site? It seems like a slightly inconsistent position that you don't mind them earning affiliate money yet you're actively blocking them from doing so.
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by untog 6y ago
Absolutely the same about bullet three! My first few Rust attempts had “map_err” all over the place and while it still felt semi-graceful it seemed like a ton of boilerplate. Learning about From was a revelation.
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by untog 6y ago
Not having garbage collection isn’t a personal preference, it’s something that enables high performance, low footprint programming. I’ll agree that I personally am a little confused by the HTTP web server frameworks I see written in Rust, i
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by untog 6y ago
Conversely, I find it a bit weird when people anthropomorphize corporations as if they have personalities and traits that somehow live beyond an almost 100% turnover in staff and senior management changes. The MS of today isn’t the MS of
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by untog 6y ago
> Further it's possible to opt out of seat belts by not driving and you can kind of opt out of government IDs also by not driving or flying. It'd be difficult but if you really, really cared you could. Not driving (or being the
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by untog 6y ago
The Pixel “a” devices and the new iPhone SE are really great news. Until recently it seemed you had to choose between a $1000 flagship phone and a $200 piece of garbage. I’m really happy to see a sensible middle ground developing at last.
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by untog 6y ago
It's selling the Raspberry Pi short to describe it as a "limited embed". You can run a full desktop OS on it (I do) and everything works great.
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Not being owned by a Silicon Valley giant? No advertising? API access that doesn’t get shut off for idiotic reasons? I’m sure there are plenty more.
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Which requires you to trust your neighbours. To which you might say: aha! Just use end to end encryption! And sure, you can. But at that point, what benefits are you getting over using E2E with a centralised system? Very few. And you’re get
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by untog 6y ago
IPv6 solves one of the reasons to use NAT. One more intractable reason is that many players (cellphone network operators, corporate networks) consider it a positive thing that individual devices are not globally accessible.
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by untog 6y ago
The racist notion of Obama being a foreign “other” was intrinsic to Birtherism. There is nothing inherent about that, no. It was an explicit piece of context. It is known and not under any debate that John McCain was not born on US soil (he
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by untog 6y ago
> But unless it was web technology regressing Arguably it was. I’d say we still don’t have something that rivals every feature Flash provided.
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Why should it be? If 90% of all sanitizers produced in Mexico were dangerous then it makes sense to include it in the headline: that’s useful information for the reader. But if it’s a tiny minority then knowing the country of origin doesn’t
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Birtherism was inherently racist in and of itself, though. If Obama was white it simply wouldn’t have been a factor. It relied on suspicion of an “other” as a key component.
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Hasn’t Q made plenty of posts that turned out to be totally incorrect ? I’ll admit, the whole thing baffles me: Q makes incredibly vague posts that sometimes end up somewhat matching reality and everyone decides they’re an insider clued int

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