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by easong 10y ago
Small hiccup in the grand scheme of things. I believe that they will get a product car out this year!
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by easong 10y ago
I love mobx (definitely not one of the 58), but I would use redux on large apps (maybe, more than 15 pages?), especially if you don't care too much about performance. Redux has better debugging, forces more structure to the code, has a
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by easong 10y ago
I've had good experiences with https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rtorr.vs... so far, but perhaps I've gotten lucky. When I first tried flow out a few months ago I was also very unhappy with the t
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by easong 10y ago
It definitely has advantages. But I don't think using babel precludes shipping a binary with a standard pre-built config.
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by easong 10y ago
Totally. I tell new devs to use typescript. But I don't think using babel precludes shipping a binary with a standard pre-built config.
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by easong 10y ago
Microsoft has absolutely done an amazing job with typescript IDE integration. But are there any end-user IDE benefits to typescript over flow/eslint? (Not being snarky.) I've been using both on separate projects (with MS IDEs) and
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by easong 10y ago
I suppose the problem is that I see typescript as the fragmentation. If MS leverages babel (they can even keep shipping TS as their own thing if they want, I just want them to provide babel plugins), we can all use that and focus on making
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by easong 10y ago
I really wish that MS would release typescript as a collection of plugins for babel that would handle only one thing at a time (eg, the type system). Having my production build, es6 transpiler, type system, JSX compiler and so on (including
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by easong 10y ago
If anyone is looking for a similar tool for JS, I've used codemods to great effect. https://vramana.github.io/blog/2015/12/21/codemod-tutorial/
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by easong 10y ago
Honestly, this sounds like a big step backwards in UX if implemented widely. I would really rather not have to manually install a million packages when pulling down dependencies - "npm install && npm start" and then going
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by easong 10y ago
Some discussion on the elixir subreddit a few days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/50nvhg/websocket_sh... Of note is that of these, I think only the elixir and ruby (?) solutions are distri
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by easong 10y ago
(Note: I support trigger warnings and think that they have a lot of use as a tool even outside of the typical context) I'm in close contact with a lot of social justice groups, specifically ones based out of UC Berkeley. It's not
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by easong 10y ago
I mean, react (and associated frontend technologies) are just a way of making it easier to write code within the constraints of browsers, which are honestly a small miracle. Yes, they're a pile of hacks upon hacks (the web was designed
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by easong 10y ago
What stack are you using? The description you give doesn't match my experience with modern javascript (react, webpack, flow/typescript, etc). If you have to build a desktop app with jquery soup (or even angular), I definitely feel
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by easong 10y ago
What are you having problems with? I remember setting up react-native to be a total breeze the first time around, especially compared to html react.
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by easong 10y ago
While the cryptocurrency conversation online is dominated by right-libertarians, I think you'll find that a lot of hard/radical leftwing direct-action types are very much obsessed with cryptocurrency and structures like the DAO.
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by easong 10y ago
It's disappointing that this article doesn't address the various animals with a degree of biological immortality (eg jellyfish, lobsters). I'm not convinced that the laws of thermodynamics make (human-scale) aging inevitable
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by easong 10y ago
We don't have anything remotely close to a free market in housing, though - I would be much, much more apt to lay the blame for the current housing crisis at the feet of misguided zoning and NIMBYism (often dressed up in pseudo-leftist
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by easong 11y ago
That's how these things always go (15 years is the usual "sentence"). Assuming that the US is willing to play ball, they'll start negotiating now and eventually trade him for a visit from the director of the CIA or some
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by easong 11y ago
I don't want to get into too much detail on this out of respect for Otto. I wasn't there when he took the poster down, but I definitely believe that he did. Also, no invisible lines were crossed - we were told very specifically be
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by easong 11y ago
Definitely! But imagine you're North Korea, looking at the world's most powerful military by a huge margin, practicing the invasion of your country a few miles from your border, on a regular basis. Makes you feel pretty nervous, r
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by easong 11y ago
Whenever I got home from my previous vacations, my mom would say, disapprovingly, "Where are you going next, North Korea?!". I had a spare week this winter and thought that sounded like a pretty good idea. Also, it's an inter
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by easong 11y ago
Hrm, that's the not impression I tried to give in my comment. Obviously I was in a dystopia, and it was made very clear that we were being handled - not even the guides tried to pretend we were being shown the North Korea that civilian
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by easong 11y ago
No sarcasm tag on HN, sorry.
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by easong 11y ago
Right, but imagine that you're the head of the DPRK military and you're reading this comment as the general attitude of America. Now you think that you have to get nukes ASAP, and you're risking US invasion at any time until
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by easong 11y ago
The North Koreans are totally obsessed with the Korean War, and seem to think that the entire world is too. They've convinced themselves that the US started the first Korean war because controlling the Korean peninsula is vitally impor
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by easong 11y ago
They're totally related. That said, it doesn't mean that the paranoia you see in these sorts of blogs is entirely warranted - in my experience NK wasn't particularly interested in oppressing random tourists (they want those s
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by easong 11y ago
I went to North Korea in January as an American (incidentally on the same tour as the kid who is currently being detained there and in the same group). As mentioned in the article, Americans can't go on the train, so I can't speak
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by easong 11y ago
If the law is never enforced, that's almost as good as it being repealed. Given the lack of any other effective mechanism for obsoleting laws, I would book 'this joins the thousands of other bad laws that are never enforced'
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by easong 11y ago
No, the point I'm trying to make is that seemingly one of the only ways to get stupid laws changed is for them to be broken, and for people to see that the law is pointless (or not pointless!). Why exactly the law is or was in place do

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