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by westoncb 5y ago
I think because it's a consistent pattern, so its causes may reveal something interesting about human nature or society.
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by westoncb 5y ago
That was pretty rude, but I do think Miłosz was on to something.
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by westoncb 5y ago
My concern with safety is strictly around accidental over-dosing. If I understand correctly this fallback mechanism wouldn't help with that case—is that right?
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by westoncb 5y ago
It just doesn’t come up that often though. In most cases it’s not hard to narrow down which aspects of state are relevant; you really only need to preserve everything for rare exceedingly subtle/deep bugs, which is a special case not a
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by westoncb 5y ago
I hear this talked about quite a bit, but it still doesn't quite make sense to me why it's such a big deal: I know this situation where debugging-fix attempt loop is far more efficient if you don't lose state, but it's n
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by westoncb 5y ago
Hi vdemedes—nice work! I'm curious whether you've considered putting this in the mac app store or not, or what your reasoning was around that. Also curious if you did beta testing if you could tell us anything about what that proc
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by westoncb 5y ago
Honestly I find it embarrassing that I have so many books because I think the default assumption people have is that it's related to signaling on some level. If I easily could I'd hide 'em away before people came over (or red
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by westoncb 5y ago
What did you do while embodied? It seems dismissive to say it was tried and wasn't a big deal when it's such a vast heterogenous space of possibilities that getting a set of examples indicating upper bounds on available experience
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by westoncb 5y ago
Is there some basis for thinking that? AFAICT your eyes/brain seem to overlook the physical location of the screen and are tricked into variably focusing based on simulated depth.
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by westoncb 5y ago
Can anyone comment on raising investment for software projects that might earn on the order of several million dollars but with no real potential to become 'unicorns'? Where does someone look for smaller business ideas like this (
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by westoncb 5y ago
Curious if people have opinions on Bootstrap vs Material UI for building responsive web apps in 2021.
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by westoncb 5y ago
I wonder about this as someone working a small indie software business rather than a startup. Most of the replies here seem applicable only to products offering new capabilities, as opposed to products intending to be better implementation
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by westoncb 5y ago
I love the concept here (nice implementation too) Removing the 'content' and just showing the structure of these annoying web elements in isolation has an interesting effect: our minds typically do the exact opposite (to a certain
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by westoncb 5y ago
Can anyone give a brief explanation of what it means to use SVG in this context? I think of it as a file format, but I'm assuming no files are involved here. Aside from that I've noticed the contents of SVG files look similar to t
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by westoncb 5y ago
> you can create snappy experiences with vanilla JS and enough elbow grease ... But people naturally reach for modern frameworks - and that very decision is what usually kills snappiness at the spot I think there is still a misconception
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by westoncb 5y ago
> ... the cost of making an app in a typical startup has zero relation to what the users pay ... These aspects of where the money comes from are orthogonal to the tradeoffs problem though: at the end of the day you have some quantity of
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by westoncb 5y ago
That's pretty awesome, hadn't heard of it before. That said, I think it's important to consider how much development time is spent on iterating as a new product's design is figured out. The company developing Slack has p
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by westoncb 5y ago
> I'm not sure that developers working on performance tuning in any meaningful way still post online This is a very confusing comment to me since "cares a lot about performance" is probably one of the most consistent attri
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by westoncb 5y ago
A couple things here. First is that this is fundamentally a question of tradeoffs, which means a single axis diagram like this is fundamentally misleading. For instance, we have the conclusion about 'being mean to users' toward th
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by westoncb 5y ago
Absolutely. Anyone building on top of performance critical systems should have a healthy bit of gratitude for the engineers who were interested to specialize there. That said, I think it's good to remain as objective as possible about
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by westoncb 5y ago
The outrage around these supposedly egregious performance issues is more understandable when you consider that developers who spend a lot of time tuning performance in their work would naturally develop a 'selective attention bias,&#x2
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by westoncb 5y ago
The article has a good example of exactly the kind of thing I also found useful in the book: > He also discusses the fact that the language of mathematics is looser than programming in a lot of ways. In code, things have to be expressed
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by westoncb 5y ago
While I agree this is definitely a thing, it would be a mistake to swing too far in the other direction and view any texts sharing a subject as roughly equivalent. I've experienced the '3rd text' phenomenon, but I could also
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by westoncb 5y ago
I wonder how much of this is just a psychological effect from knowing it's Electron beforehand. Sometimes I think I can almost perceive a little bit of slowness compared to e.g. Sublime—but then I lose sight of it. Certainly in compari
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by westoncb 5y ago
This is a nice, inventive high-level explanation. Linking scroll position in the article to showcase various features in a live version of the renderer was a great idea. Also, for those unfamiliar with PlayCanvas: it's an open source j
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by westoncb 5y ago
Ah thanks—I hadn't noticed it.
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by westoncb 5y ago
I think this is the nicest one of these I've seen—seems to actually work in a non-superficial way, from the package manager, shell, system settings, chat app, "p3" ("pseudo peer-to-peer"), system backup (downloads f
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by westoncb 5y ago
GP was asking whether it would be more performant to do via webgl though. (It's already known that canvas is currently used) My bet is that webgl probably would be, but I'd also be curious to hear from someone with more info. Se
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by westoncb 5y ago
I agree with your analysis, but there's a little more to it. Indirectly, there are two important ways in which end users benefit significantly: 1. Higher likelihood that the app will be available at all on their platform. 2. Companies&
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by westoncb 5y ago
I only upgraded from my 8GB laptop a couple months ago. And I did run into issues with memory frequently—but here's the thing: I would be running 4 or 5 Electron apps at the same time and they were fine; the memory issues were always f

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