daliwali

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by daliwali 3y ago
At my work, I have a somewhat clever (or idiotic) technical solution to the problems of feature flags: they are actually implemented as feature modules that monkey-patch the base application in runtime. There are a few benefits: removing fe
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by daliwali 4y ago
Really reminds me of Parenscript[0], which is a subset of Common Lisp that transpiles to JS with no runtime. It's basically a thin skin around JS and it feels more like writing JS with a Lisp syntax. What I feel is missing from Parensc
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by daliwali 5y ago
If I had to guess, it's because the WebAssembly Text Format is S-Expressions, similar to the target language, Scheme. Also, less tooling involved to build the binary, since the text format is pretty close to the binary format. In pract
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by daliwali 5y ago
I've never actually used Knockout but I guess it looks vaguely similar. s2 has the advantage of being much smaller (a little over 2kb compressed), and faster on benchmarks[0] and probably real world performance. The API tries to get ou
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Show HN: S² is a function for reactive web UI(gr0uch.github.io)
6 points by daliwali 5y ago|2 comments
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by daliwali 5y ago
Open source is not a business model, and I think the expectation to get paid for open source is a bit disingenuous. There is also the ideological aspect of free as in freedom licensing, while it doesn't exclude monetization, often detr
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by daliwali 6y ago
the root template references the other one with data-template=“#countbox”. this allows for composition and re-use of templates.
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by daliwali 6y ago
It is pretty much feature complete already, there are only so many fundamental operations and DOM attributes. besides, I would like to keep it around 2kb ;)
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Show HN: A ~2kb metaprogramming function that maps data structures to the DOM(github.com)
3 points by daliwali 6y ago|4 comments
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by daliwali 7y ago
Hahaha this will never work for an obvious reason that isn't socially acceptable to state. As soon as looks get involved, it's over.
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by daliwali 7y ago
I think concurrent mode and fibers are kludgy hacks that arise from the problem that only the main thread has access to the DOM. As far as I know and I may be ignorant but few, if any, other frameworks are scheduling DOM updates as aggressi
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by daliwali 8y ago
I made something almost exactly like this: https://simulacra.js.org/ This actually uses object getters/setters, has full support for arrays, and nested arrays of objects. There is no API beyond the initial binding, eve
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by daliwali 8y ago
This is my first time reading about Edsu, it seems very similar to the Solid Platform in one important aspect: it keeps data in the control of the user, separate from applications. I like how low-level and simplified the protocol is, being
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by daliwali 8y ago
There is no way this isn’t well done satire. Facebook might as well hire people to work on their open source just to keep them away from being productive at other companies, and that has more value to them than whatever bullshit monetary va
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by daliwali 9y ago
From what I understand, it installs a bunch of opinionated packages and then you're on your own. This isn't the same as "create a useful app in 30 seconds".
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by daliwali 9y ago
REST failed at marketing itself and its primary document is a doctoral thesis, hardly something that an average developer is going to grok, understand and implement. Hypermedia is a more appropriate term, and emphasizes the actual substance
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by daliwali 9y ago
Software seems to actually be progressing at such a slow pace, I don't think more frameworks to do the same old things are helping. It seems to be harder to retrofit a new format onto an existing framework, than to write a new framewor
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by daliwali 9y ago
Funny how the advice to hire people smarter than you, doesn't work out in real life. Meritocracies are rare, and only seem to emerge out of necessity. That applies for tech companies as well.
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by daliwali 9y ago
As long as your employers are not acting in good faith, then I don't think they are worth any extra effort. When most employees are doing just enough work to get by, it says more about the employer than employee.
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by daliwali 9y ago
You don't have to be 35 to start hating your job, I did at 25. It begins with the realization that you're a loser in the corporate hierarchy, and do as little work as you can possibly do without getting fired. Software developers
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by daliwali 9y ago
Consider facts: React is over 40k lines of code, there are 30+ classes/methods to be aware of though maybe 10 of them are commonly used. Would you call it "minimal"? There is still a lot more that could be done with a smaller
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by daliwali 9y ago
npm downloads seem to exaggerate how many actual people are downloading packages rather than bots. A funny pattern that emerges in the above chart is that downloads drop sharply on weekends. I have seen packages that exhibit the opposite pa
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by daliwali 9y ago
Regardless of technical merit, I don't think it stands any chance of adoption without major users. Specifications and standards are only really valuable as a contract between two or more parties, otherwise they might as well not exist.
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by daliwali 9y ago
Care to explain how your product has been around for 6 years and you're just beginning to push it?
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by daliwali 9y ago
It was clearly not my intention to judge programming competency by appearance. But it is also undeniable that the industry does select for young, good looking people.
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by daliwali 9y ago
I'm a millenial myself, not older than the people I am critiquing. (after looking up your profile I realize that I am much younger than you) My comment was made in jest, pointing out how incongruent technical interviews can be to the j
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by daliwali 9y ago
I'm not too worried. There are Indians who will do my job for $15/hr. The fact that they haven't undercut the whole industry doesn't surprise me.
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by daliwali 9y ago
I wasn't suggesting that a 4 year degree confers any advantage. I think it's merely status signalling to potential employers. Practically speaking, my degree only helped me at one point in my life: moving to a foreign country. The
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by daliwali 9y ago
Is this a personal attack on me? :^) The projection in your comment is unreal: a just world fallacy where only unattractive people can be smart, attractive people are mindless, which was definitely not the point.
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by daliwali 9y ago
I got an impression who their target audience is, based on the examples used, drinking kombucha and listening to Spotify. All the young, beautiful people who wouldn't have ever taken a computer science course if it weren't such a

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