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by hicksyfern 1y ago
The counter to that is that going and looking at the call sites to that function would have given the author a better understanding of what those call sites were, why they called the function, etc, thus learning more about the codebase.
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by hicksyfern 3y ago
Appreciate the response. The thing is, for a lot of it I can’t go into huge amounts of detail otherwise I could write a book on it. You’re right that the interaction system could keep the SVG as a renderer, and I don’t remember whether that
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by hicksyfern 3y ago
Author here. It might be worth reading part 1, also. Aside from that, yes z-index was because there are multiple SVGs rendered. We also had non-SVG stuff for each element like inputs and stuff, plus it was just like that when I got here, an
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by hicksyfern 3y ago
Author here. For sure. That’s actually what we’re likely to do as the basemap rendering is done in webgl
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by hicksyfern 3y ago
Author here. The example given is slightly contrived. A more realistic example involves large polygons that you zoom “inside” or locked elements overlaying active ones. But I had to try to give an example without a ton of context. There are
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by hicksyfern 3y ago
And since you mention state machines: most of the handlers are done as state machines. Plus the overall app state is done as a kind of reverse state machine where we derive the status from various app states. I would like to change this to
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by hicksyfern 3y ago
Author here. Absolutely right what you said about being easier to grok. Shortly after this was merged to main (though under feature flag) another dev had to fix something and commented something like “I just fixed X in two minutes which wou
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by hicksyfern 3y ago
I would agree with you if it was t for the fact that we’ve seen a big increase in the number of complex maps being made since the change. You give people a more powerful product and they’ll use the power.
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by hicksyfern 3y ago
Author here. I know this is the orange site and we have to expect this type of comment, but still… I’ve been building software for more than 20 years, and using React since it came out. You’re right that this event handling system isn’t exc
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by hicksyfern 5y ago
I don't work at Candide any more but I was CTO there when this was written. I can assure you you're reading too much into it! Candide is very well set up to protect users' private data, and has a great set of engineers and en
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by hicksyfern 7y ago
This appears quite useful for debugging renders in web apps, and also just sounds quite cool.
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Plink-plonk.js – hear webpages render with DOM observer and audio API(gist.github.com)
248 points by hicksyfern 7y ago|58 comments
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by hicksyfern 10y ago
My colleagues built this and it's pretty neat. But it raises the question, do we have a new law on our hands (if it hasn't already been made): "Anything that can be implemented in a chatbot interface will be implemented in a
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Financial wellness chatbot(momentum.co.uk)
2 points by hicksyfern 10y ago|2 comments
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by hicksyfern 10y ago
Currently trendy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns#Introduction.2... I wouldn't consider 1995 current. And it's gone way beyond "trendy". EDIT: Also, what you've mentioned there is
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by hicksyfern 10y ago
I don't think you've really read and understood the notion of function composition. All you're talking about here is having objects as properties of other objects - that is not function composition.
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by hicksyfern 10y ago
We have a Cordova app that begins on a local web page then immediately redirects to a remote page, and we have recently had a bunch of users on iOS 9.3 complain that they are just stuck on the first screen. So it looks like it probably do