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by wusspuss 5y ago
I wouldn't call having to learn a million frameworks with a million layers of abstraction to accomplish the same stuff you could accomplish with plain html in a both human- and machine-time-consuming manner a pleasant developer experie
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by wusspuss 5y ago
I thought Office Space (1999) was an exaggeration. Maybe back in its day it was but apparently today it is an understatement. I'd like to see an Office Space remake where the main character's job isn't the 2000 switch but bui
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by wusspuss 5y ago
One man would hardly ever design something as abhorrent as twitter or facebook frontend - he just wouldn't have the time
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by wusspuss 5y ago
>"guys, this is shit, start again and let's do it properly, no you can't have your 1 meg tracker in there, not even one of them, write a barebones one". Is it even really about trackers? Even with adblocker on purging
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by wusspuss 5y ago
>Back in the day you could just send everyone the same HTML/JS/CSS rendered on your server and it would work for everyone. HN itself works perfect on mobile or anywhere for that matter and is very lightweight. I don't thin
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by wusspuss 5y ago
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. You can't vote twitter or youtube out of power. You can't code their wealth away https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEU632_Em3g
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by wusspuss 5y ago
Because network effect. Because alternative services not only don't have the vast user bases to begin with, they also don't have the capital to spend on marketing. When they do, it's pretty obvious they aren't benevolent
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by wusspuss 5y ago
Getting you to click on ads does not takes megabytes of JavaScript diarrhea.
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by wusspuss 5y ago
That doesn't explain over-engineering. I would understand building slower and less efficient systems if that took less resources. Or more complex systems if it achieved something. But modern web takes more resources to develop and achi
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by wusspuss 5y ago
Pretty sure reddit or twitter would be just as hellish to use if you had their frontend files stored locally Oh wait, they already are cached locally.
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by wusspuss 5y ago
>CloudFlare Pages and GitHub Pages are bringing in a new era of fast, static websites. Static site hosting with a brand name smashed onto it is a new era? GitHub itself btw is broken on palemoon for one thing. Not here to defend palemoon
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by wusspuss 5y ago
>Modern front end javascript frameworks are made to offload the compute from the server to the end user. This saves the company money Does it? I doubt hiring people to produce dozens of megabytes of compressed (!) javascript costs less t
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by wusspuss 5y ago
Tbh if a client is dumb enough to put xhtml-im directly into DOM with no verification that is the client's problem , not the XEP's, and that should be no reason to cancel it.
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by wusspuss 5y ago
>XML is best used for markup, Funny enough, the one thing XMPP does not use xml for is markup! See https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0393.html - an ad hoc markup format https://xmpp.org/extensions&#x2F
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by wusspuss 5y ago
> in JSON there can be many ways to implement a collection of name/value pairs. Are there? JSON has dicts and lists. I mean you could store a collection of name value pairs in a list, maybe even a list of lists, but that's just
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by wusspuss 5y ago
>JSON maps well to javascript types, but not anything else. Except it does. Take python. Ruby. Any language that has a notion of dicts, lists and strings/ints/floats. That's basically every high level language ever. Even e
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by wusspuss 5y ago
>Now I need to find out which type of JSON an application uses (does it always use UTF8 or does it break the standard? Utf-8 isn't standard to XML, it's required by XMPP. So in this scenario the same could be required from json
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Ask HN: Why does the modern web hate users?
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