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by vcarl 11y ago
It would allow languages that use JS as a compile target to skip that intermediate step and output bytecode for the VM, but as I understand it would also allow Javascript to skip that step. Right now every client needs to JIT compile and
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by vcarl 11y ago
That was my first thought as well. If there are people who can corroborate that they commented or liked it, great, but if not it's just a single unreliable anecdote.
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by vcarl 11y ago
Yeah I don't specifically mean the virtual DOM, I'm thinking more about the fact that your interactivity isn't coupled to the actual markup. If you avoid browser specific functionality, it would be super easy to port to anoth
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by vcarl 11y ago
I've been wondering about additional benefits to abstracting away the DOM, about how practical it would be to then have UIs constructed in different environments that runs off the same base logic. I suppose that's the value propos
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by vcarl 11y ago
That makes sense, thanks for elaborating!
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by vcarl 11y ago
I'm exactly the person this article is talking about. Dropped out after a year, helped build a startup for two years afterwards (the dropout was unrelated to the startup). You're right, I'm completely unqualified to help make
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by vcarl 11y ago
Do you think there's enough interest to do a "low usage" (i.e. cheaper/free) option where you aren't hopping gateways and just want to use Spreedly as a processor abstraction layer? I'd love to investigate this
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by vcarl 11y ago
This is really interesting, thanks for posting. I've been idly concerned about tying customer data in with the payment processor, but I accepted it as a given.
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by vcarl 11y ago
Yeah, I talked to a startup that had an existing product with a revenue stream, but they were aiming to take like 10m in investment in order to either grow exponentially or flame out early. That makes zero sense to me, why not bootstrap and
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by vcarl 11y ago
Their explanation of a line break doesn't really explain why JSON or something wouldn't work. Strip whitespace from input and it's basically the same.
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by vcarl 11y ago
I love the line, "Let's right the balance and tell ASCAP about every one of these violations!" That's where I realized it wasn't a serious enforcement piece, and something encouraging malicious compliance.
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by vcarl 11y ago
I worked for a hardware startup for 2 years. In my experience, part of the reason "Hardware is hard" is because it's not something that a lot of people in the tech space have spent their lives tinkering with in the way that t
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by vcarl 11y ago
Holy crap, that's amazing. I had no idea, thanks for spreading the word.
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by vcarl 11y ago
As long as the rants aren't inappropriate and are related to whatever professional area you're in, I wouldn't think they're a problem. e.g. ranting about the webdev toolchain would be reasonable, ranting about current ev
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by vcarl 11y ago
The way it was explained to me is that the letters are vastly less useful alone than with the scores. The score you get says where on that bell curve (approximately, depending on how well-posed the questions were) you lie in each of those s
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by vcarl 12y ago
I'm sure it still happens, but the popularity of Unreal, Unity, etc says to me that they likely wouldn't be too negatively effected.
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by vcarl 12y ago
This is interesting, it's good to hear the opinion of somebody who's actually programmed against the APIs. I think the increase in exposed complexity is probably a good thing. The AAA studios have proved that they're able and
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by vcarl 12y ago
I took a bag to the beach, then put my laptop in that bag a few weeks later. The leftover sand (because sand is basically glitter) had some magnetic bits, which clogged the magsafe connector. I had to spent like 20 minutes with a toothpick
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by vcarl 12y ago
True, but the regional monopolies are pretty solid. Net neutrality doesn't fix the root problem, but it makes it harder for ISPs to flex their muscles.
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by vcarl 12y ago
I think an apt analogy would be if GFS[0] opened a chain of restaurants and started restricting deliveries to other restaurants, unless those restaurants paid an extra fee that the GFS restaurants weren't subject to. [0]: http:/&
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by vcarl 12y ago
This is like the if (x = true) {} kind of error. Yeah it sucks, but it's not really the language's fault. Not to mention that that large a block of addition is bad code smell to me.
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by vcarl 12y ago
Not to mention that they open sourced their interface for rendering React on canvas, which is opens the door for more (smaller) companies to do the same. What they did is phenomenally friendly to the open source community.
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by vcarl 12y ago
Variable shadowing sounds like a hacky way to solve problems caused by function scoping, which is solved in ES6 by introducing lexical scoping (i.e. the same scoping rules as in every other language). It's also worth pointing out that
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by vcarl 12y ago
It may not be harming YOUR customers, but I don't agree with the premise that you only have an ethical obligation to protect the people paying you. The competitor's bad practice vastly increases their customer's risk of havin
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by vcarl 12y ago
"Predictable" then.
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by vcarl 12y ago
Absolutely. Not only does it simplify deployment, you also get the ability to quickly spin up a new development environment. That means it's easy to dip a toe in and slowly increase how much you use it.
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by vcarl 12y ago
When is it worth it to be concerned about this type of attack? Do both files need to be altered to find a collision, or just one? Can it be done in a fixed file size?