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by vjeux 7y ago
In a language I worked on ( github.com/skiplang/skip ), at the moment where we throw a syntax error, we can look at the previous few tokens and generate much better error message. In the case of the above, if last is ], previous i
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by vjeux 7y ago
Average habitable surface per person in Paris is ~330 square feet. The average tiny house is 500 square feet (quote from the article). It may be tiny for US standards but is livable. https://www.cnews.fr/france/2015-04-
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by vjeux 7y ago
I reimplemented a simplified version of it 7 years ago (wow, time flies) and open sourced it, if people are interested. https://github.com/vjeux/soulver.js
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by vjeux 7y ago
There's some information about this in the protocol description: "Discovery keys are used for finding other peers who are interested in the same Dat as you. If you know a Dat’s public key then you can calculate the discovery key e
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by vjeux 7y ago
In addition to that, RSUs are taxed at around 50% before you receive them and another 20% of the value it gained from when you received it to when you sold it. So the numbers in your bank account look less impressive than the ones on paper.
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by vjeux 7y ago
He refers himself as “the leader of Doist’s back-end team” so there is indeed some sort of structure.
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by vjeux 8y ago
A twitter thread with technical information (in French, would someone be able to translate?) with why it's not happening: https://twitter.com/FranckMee/status/1117862376047382528
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by vjeux 8y ago
I wrote a similar project many years ago: jParser. https://github.com/vjeux/jParser
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by vjeux 8y ago
There’s a ton of similar content on Youtube.
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by vjeux 8y ago
This was something I wasn't really expecting when I started working on prettier. It was a strong selling point when people adopted it within Facebook. I still can't believe that it only took a year between the first commit of pret
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by vjeux 8y ago
I am admin on a few high profile js projects. Github has enabled sending alerts for vulnerabilities, I haven’t yet seen one that was actually a real one. Lots of times there’s a deep dependency that we’re not even using that can accept a re
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by vjeux 8y ago
It’s really hard as a Facebook employee to engage in those topics. The probability of your comment to hit the front page of the New York times is very high. There are a lot of pending litigation so you’re also likely to be involved in those
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by vjeux 8y ago
Note that the claim that was denied was Facebook moving away from React Native. Server-driven UI rendering and Litho/ComponentKit are also growing along with React Native. Facebook app has a big enough surface that it makes sense to ha
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by vjeux 8y ago
If you’re interested in all the big refactoring projects happening in React Native right now, there are summaries here: Fabric: https://github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-pr... TurboModules: https:&#x2F
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by vjeux 8y ago
I don’t call it semver, I publish it to npm with this version number. The fact that npm install automatically adds a ^ next to the version number has caused so many issues in the past where some deep dependency would push a patch, not follo
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by vjeux 8y ago
I’m running into this issue with “prettier”, a JavaScript pretty printer. If we were to follow semver, we’d have to always bump the major version because every version changes in some way or form the output of some construct. Instead what w
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by vjeux 8y ago
For the Equifax breach, most of the people affected didn’t have any direct relationship with Equifax. So this advice wouldn’t apply in that case.
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by vjeux 8y ago
“Oops, we didn’t notice, but it’s another to be a company like Facebook that takes your private messages and sells that data. It takes your address, it takes your interest, it takes your browsing history and sells that to people without you
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by vjeux 8y ago
Lots of people are doing some really cool art using VR headsets. Those two Facebook groups are really nice to join if you’re interested. Animations: https://www.facebook.com/groups/virtual.animation/ Paintings: h
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by vjeux 8y ago
It sounds like the sign on bonus she’s referring to vests over 4 years. Unless I’m mistaken, this is an initial stock grant and you only get the full amount if you stay with the company for 4 years.
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by vjeux 8y ago
Facebook publishes some stats about worldwide ipv6 usage that they observe: facebook.com/ipv6
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by vjeux 8y ago
Fortnite has 80 millions players[1] vs WoW with 5.5 millions at its peak[2]. [1] https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/fortnite/2018/9/20/1788... [2] https://www.statista.com/sta
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by vjeux 8y ago
If you read the full article there are many examples of real systems being migrated with their associated wins.
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by vjeux 8y ago
Nuclide has always had a ton of value for Facebook itself as we could build a lot of Facebook-specific integrations and ship a new version to all the developers every week. It's now the most used editor at Facebook. This announcement i
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by vjeux 8y ago
In the past, a new platform required a new language which required a new IDE. Fortunately those days things less tied together. React Native is mostly using JavaScript which can be productively edited with a lot of editors and IDEs. So the
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by vjeux 8y ago
I’m not sure that I read the same article. “For me at least, Facebook would have crossed a moral red line if it had, for example, intentionally sold the data of its users to Cambridge Analytica with the full knowledge that company would use
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by vjeux 8y ago
There seem to be at least one post every day on Hacker News that’s negative about Facebook. Does anyone here know why?
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by vjeux 8y ago
Could you explain why?
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by vjeux 8y ago
Lee Byron who was one of the founders of GraphQL and has been actively driving its success in Open Source left Facebook recently (after a very long tenure). Making GraphQL part of a foundation is likely a way for him to be able to keep stew
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by vjeux 8y ago
Not responding to your question directly but I just want to mention that if you mark your class as mutable and use mutable instances, you can write code as you’d expect from other languages. The only downside is that you can’t pass those va

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