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by untog 7y ago
People don’t give web browser engines enough credit sometimes. WebGL performs wonderfully. 2D Canvas performs very well. Even hardware accelerated transforms on DOM elements perform damn near flawlessly even on slow devices. Unfortunately a
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by untog 7y ago
> When the alternative is Your supposition is that there are two options for everyone: a) go deep into student debt b) go deep into ISA debt and no others. I contend that isn't the case. You could do neither. When you're in dan
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by untog 7y ago
"strictly better" and "carry many of the pitfalls of traditional private student loans" aren't contradictory. ISAs can be, and are, better than student loans. But they're not a universal good, as demonstrated i
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by untog 7y ago
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy we see a lot in the US as well. Underfund the government, they become inefficient, use that inefficiency as the reason for cutting funding yet again because everyone is sick of the inefficiency.
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by untog 7y ago
Perhaps unsuprisingly, React's own web site is a great example of how to do React right. By the looks of it it's not loading the entire page into Virtual DOM, it's got code splitting, loading on demand... all the absolutely r
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by untog 7y ago
> HN is very anti-blockchain which is surprising. It's a direct reaction to the hype. The Twitter thread posted is a perfect example of why: people are sick of receiving pitches that are utterly irrelevant to what they do, promoting
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by untog 7y ago
They are rendered statically... then hydrated client side, needlessly, because they’ll never change.
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by untog 7y ago
Because you still need interactivity of some sort. Even if it’s just a navigation menu.
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by untog 7y ago
That’s often a bad bet though. Obviously it depends on what kind of site you’re operating but a lot of places have a very steep drop off after a single page view. If that’s your case then you’re optimising for an edge case at the expense of
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by untog 7y ago
To me there’s nothing wrong with React, but everything wrong with people using it in inappropriate contexts. For instance, I’ve seen a growing trend of people creating a whole DOM using React JSX so that they can use React’s server side ren
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by untog 7y ago
Well, the OP's full line was "very bad but with a good user interface", which IMO is an important caveat. In every category except user interface the first iPhone was behind the times. Devices like the Nokia N95 could do ev
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by untog 7y ago
But significantly less than CD sales used to.
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by untog 7y ago
I’ve had great success with Sharedrop, but it’s at https://sharedrop.io , not .net as the OP linked. One reasons services might have shut down is running the TURN server. An added annoyance over what would otherwise just be stati
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by untog 7y ago
> If the differences are only minor then what does it enable that the more popular alternative does not? Fair point. I think there's a tradeoff in there somewhere. The fact that you need to do things like wrap JavaScript in order t
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by untog 7y ago
Being similar enough to the technology a huge number of people use doesn't strike me as a bad thing. I don't think this is for me, but it's an interesting experiment and I could immediately grok what it was doing.
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by untog 7y ago
A lot of people are waiting for Web Components folks to answer how you're supposed to render them without JS (i.e. server-side renders)
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by untog 7y ago
In a way it was. If you're building something that is going to function on one night and one night only you really, really don't want to choose tech that won't let you do an on-the-fly update if something goes wrong.
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by untog 7y ago
And it's entirely possible to do that today. Things like WebUSB require permission prompts, which you can say no to or disable entirely.
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by untog 7y ago
The title here is pretty misleading. WebUSB certainly isn't dead, but it's true that Google are the only ones pushing it forward.
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by untog 7y ago
I agree with you entirely, but how would you build a business around a library? It's one of the side effects of the (amazing) open source ecosystem we have these days that installing some kind of paid-for package isn't really that
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by untog 7y ago
> lack of autonomy, petit politics and meaningless work This isn't a given. Plenty of (particularly large) companies will inflict this on you, but it's also very possible to work at a company and have autonomy and do meaningful
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by untog 7y ago
I think it's dangerous to consider commenters "people without an agenda". Automatically generated comments aside, I'm quite sure that plenty of real human beings have "an agenda" when they're commenting on
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by untog 7y ago
It sounds like you're projecting a straw man onto me.
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by untog 7y ago
Plenty of people go to SF by choice. Very obviously that's the case. Why try to assert otherwise? Just mindless trolling?
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by untog 7y ago
I do see the old taxi system as deeply corrupt. I just see Uber/Lyft is utterly corrupt in a different way.
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by untog 7y ago
And I'd personally be in favour of that. But is the argument really "taxis shouldn't be allowed to do X because the unregulated startup that ignored city regulations has worked itself into a position where it can't do X,
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by untog 7y ago
I don't know about corrupt. Uber and Lyft sidelined the regulations around taxis when they launched because "disruption". There is no limit to the number of cars Uber and Lyft put on the road. And just about anyone can be a d
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by untog 7y ago
What do you hope to gain by posting such obviously false posts?
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by untog 7y ago
You can now wrap a PWA up as a TWA (Trusted Web Activity) and publish it to the Play Store, which should make a huge difference.
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by untog 7y ago
They definitely do for advertising, at least. You can click “why am I seeing this” it’ll tell you as much.

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