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> Along with Javascript’s lack of strong-type safety They could have just used TypeScript or Flow. It doesn't sound like they did enough research on the HTML5 option if they haven't came across these.
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As Webpack user, I can affirm that the documentation and the error handling is way better than it used to be. Webpack, by it's nature, is not an easy to use tool. I don't think all developers should have to deal with Webpack direc
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export default { foo: 2 }; is not the same as: module.exports = { foo: 2 }; The way your example would translate to commonjs is: module.exports = { default: { foo: 2 }, foo: 3 }
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Recommend watching this video and others that are on his channel before believing what the media says about him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l__qN9Qt3Hc I only became familiar with Martin Shkreli's story a only few
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If I can't get filthy rich, why would I even risk building a business if I can just stay home all day and play video games? Is the US even making a net profit?
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After these I find it hard to trust Google's results on subjects like politics: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/25/google-tweaks-search-to-he... https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2
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The thing that bothers me about GraphQL is that it adds multiple layers that I have to debug if something goes wrong. I have an app that displays a hello world from the server, and it's not displaying, where is the problem? Is it in my
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The goal of Flow was apparently to be able to add types to some parts of the code while leaving the rest of it unchanged, this to me was confusing, because at that time, you were already able to do that with TypeScript. Over time the argume
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> Composer is a finally thing Was released in 2013. > Laravel is a "at least it's not garbage" framework. How many PHP frameworks do you actually know? > Find something in an array? One function call(PHP 4 >=):
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> 82% of business applications used to be written with COBOL or FORTRAN. 'used to be' being the key words here. PHP is __still__ being used. > PHP has vastly out-lived its welcome. Care to explain why you believe that? C is
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> A marketing buzzword is something like "web scale", which might be used by a non-technical person to describe a technology, but has no real technical meaning. Serverless is not a buzzword because it is the name used for a co
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Reminds me of the following meme: #define TRUE FALSE //Happy debugging
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> But 'serverless' does accurately describe services like AWS Lambda, Serverless means no server, which is false, because there is a server that runs your code. > because the experience of development is such that you don&#
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I don't get it, I'm an immigrant, and I enjoy people asking about questions about where I'm from and my culture, it feels flattering, it feels they want to get to know me. I don't understand why people take offence to th
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> It’s Dangerously Insecure (In the Wrong Hands) Just like any other programmable internet connected device. > A Mini-PC or Tablet Would Probably Be Better How does this solve the security problem mentioned above? IMHO it actually ma
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> As an another analogy (as you brought one up) I'm not supporting banks and financial institutions that support the weapons industry, even if that bank provides the highest interest. If you live in the US or the UK and pay your ta
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> Please consider to stop using/contributing to software of companies, if you don't agree with the way they conduct business or treat their users. I'm of the opinion that we should separate the art from the artist. If Fac
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Why does racial and gender diversity matter in tech? I have worked in teams of all white guys and teams of mixed race and gender and I have seen no difference in productivity. The only thing that ever mattered was the skill level of the peo
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There could roughly be as many front end developers in India ... which has 23 languages. China also has multiple languages and dialects, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_China#/media/File... En
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> React integrates really well with flow[1] (which is not surprising because they're both developed at Facebook) It can integrate just as well with TypeScript. > flow's typesystem is more powerful (OCaml inspired) It lacks
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> I'm glad he admits this, but then what exactly makes him qualified to opine on the language? The fact that he has been using the language for a decade. > Look, Javascript is not great, and I'm perfectly open to the thesis
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I don't think we really need another locked down OS where the vendor will control everything. The other issue I have is that I don't see Android apps as efficient way of getting my work done, applications that don't need to w
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> You don't will yourself to be taller. It's written in your genes. Partially genes and partially other factors: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150513-will-humans-keep-ge... You don't have di
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Can you point out the parts of the document that proves that it is based on "hatred," "bigotry," and "racism"? I don't think having ad hominem as your main argument is a good strategy, look at the election
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> "Complexity": Cyclomatic complexity is a near-worthless metric, especially in a language like PHP. It's easy to convert a series of 10 if statements into one while loop by leveraging call_user_func and deterministic met
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> Recruiters look at hundreds of resumes every day, and they are highly tuned to detecting quality candidates and rejecting those who don't match up with their model. For some reason, I just didn't fit the profile. They probab
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These are my personal opinions: I don't like the touch bar because it forces me to look at my keyboard, which is inefficient and probably unhealthy(moving my neck like that). I don't like the keyboard because it's too noisy.
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> I find it very frustrating that intelligent people don't seem to follow through their thought process here. > The intelligence community will never be able to release enough information to satisfy people. This is as far as my
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> The first part of your comment doesn't make sense. What does diplomatic saber rattling have to do with arresting people? The point I was trying to make is that if you accept any statement without proof then they can also easily f
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> That's a very condescending tone. It's writing, it has no tone, you can associate whatever tone you want with it. What I implied was that I am unsure how familiar are you with the technicalities of hacking so I will not go i
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