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by untog 6y ago
Rather than deal with hypotheticals, why don't we talk about the actual e-mails in question?
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by untog 6y ago
I'd suggest reading the e-mail thread regarding the article: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/emails-with-intercept-edito... The editor in no way seems compromised to me. There's a lot of very clear, straight
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by untog 6y ago
edit: never talk politics on HN, how many times must I tell this to myself
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by untog 6y ago
Yeah but then you have to use XSLT. (Jokes aside, I tried this years ago hoping for it to be a magic bullet. Gzipping meant that the bandwidth savings weren’t anywhere near what I hoped and XSLT is a PITA to deal with)
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by untog 6y ago
Strongly agreed that service workers have a ton of potential here. But I’m still waiting for there to be some kind of killer framework that crosses the bridge between worker and window, saving lots of main thread processing, etc... MessageC
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by untog 6y ago
The promise of streaming was releasing us from bundled cable TV contracts and letting us pick exactly what we wanted to watch, paying for it and nothing else. We came close for a time, but I think everyone realised it wasn’t what they wante
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by untog 6y ago
So I like Slack, the chat platform? I don’t. Do I like Slack, the Mac app? Honestly it’s fine. My problem isn’t with the app, it’s the amount of attention I have to give it. Making it native wouldn’t improve that.
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by untog 6y ago
> People uses Macs because they want to use Macs and software that takes advantage of the reliability and consistency of that ecosystem ehhh. I think if you did some analytics of “apps Mac users use” an absolute ton would be “a web brows
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by untog 6y ago
I still don’t think the vast majority of users care. Slowness is something separate and I’d agree that a laggy interface is an awful one, especially with a visual tool like Sketch. But I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone make that complain
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by untog 6y ago
It doesn’t answer how Twitter can be so bad at this, though. Looks like a like of us have experienced this for a long time, I’m mystified why they wouldn’t fix the bug.
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by untog 6y ago
That presumes the story about the laptop is true. And a lot of details in the story don’t quite make sense. But still, how is Twitter even supposed to judge whether a story is trustworthy? No clue.
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by untog 6y ago
My laptop is festooned with a hub. It covers power, peripherals, HDMI and networking. And that’s all I need. So really not very different to a desktop, except I can also pick it up and take it with me if I want.
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by untog 6y ago
Nate was the outlier in that respect. But it’s true that the polls aren’t weren’t all that inaccurate in 2016: a bunch of important swing states were within the margin of error and Trump won some important states by very small margins. The
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by untog 6y ago
For sure. But JS is JS, and far more ubiquitous than Lua. So QuickJS still has a place.
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by untog 6y ago
OK, to be clearer: almost all the libraries published to NPM that would use the functions in QuickJS’s std module instead use Node modules and there is no compatibility layer. So yes, there are plenty of pure JS modules. But if you want t
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by untog 6y ago
QuickJS is a really, really interesting engine because it's only ~200KB. Fits a lot of cases where you want to add scripting ability but without bulking out size unnecessarily. Unfortunately because it lacks stuff like JIT it'll n
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by untog 6y ago
It has a very small standard library: https://bellard.org/quickjs/quickjs.html#std-module It would be enough for a good number of CLI tools, I'd think. But one big issue is going to be that every library on NPM is
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by untog 6y ago
I can't say I've had that experience, I've never had YT music throw a video at me. I've seen them listed as results in searches though. The YT Music move annoys me more because it all just seems like such a dumb waste of
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by untog 6y ago
I'd push back against "serious JS codebase", there. Maybe it's just me but a monorepo with 180 packages sounds like a hole you've dug yourself into and you're propping yourself up with yarn. I certainly don&#x2
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by untog 6y ago
> seems, to me, to indicate some behind the scenes UUID tracking. I don't know why. It's updating the URL so that if you copy and paste it'll show the receiver the same view you have as the sender. They just need to be usi
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by untog 6y ago
I doubt it has anything to do with that at all, that's not a performance intensive operation at all. Rendering a map, however, can be very performance intensive when done the wrong way, as I suspect it is being here.
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by untog 6y ago
Oh, I know. But once the option is available you can bet plenty will.
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by untog 6y ago
I'm conflicted about this. Being able to use two versions of React on the same page has a very obvious practical benefit for developers, but man does it feel like bad practise. Yet more JS dependencies you're forcing users to do
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by untog 6y ago
But only one of those assertions is actually backed up by evidence.
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by untog 6y ago
It depends how deeply you want to get involved in all this stuff. I used to have a Synology box and it was great in terms of plug'n'play: you set it up via a nice web UI and it... just works! It also has downloadable plugins/
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by untog 6y ago
It's evidence that their policy is not to suppress conservatives, because conservative content is very obviously flourishing on their network.
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by untog 6y ago
> What am I missing? I guess the incredibly long tail of JavaScript deployments. You could change the language today and it would take years for it to percolate down to all the deployments out there. By comparison a silicon change requir
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by untog 6y ago
> Showing "their algorithms and content-removal practices are politically neutral" is not an insurmountable bar. It is when political appointees are the ones who judge if you've cleared the bar.
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by untog 6y ago
Well Rust's complication is memory safety and the lack of garbage collector. You see similar issues in a language like Swift, but Swift lets you create a memory leak very easily if you're not aware of the issues. Which can be fi
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by untog 6y ago
Yes, I think for me Nim could be a great answer for when I want to throw together a quick script. Right now I'll often use JS/Node for that and I'm not going to switch to Rust because it'll take a lot longer to get a rou

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