xigma

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by xigma 8y ago
The point I'm making is not "use short variables everywhere", it's that in this case , the verbose alternative is not "much more readable". Abbreviating "element" to "el" or using "a
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by xigma 8y ago
They'll figure it out. They're a programmer, figuring things out is their job .
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by xigma 8y ago
> The more software developers there are, the easier it becomes to automate the drudgery and toil of life. By "easier", you must mean "cheaper", but I don't believe that at all. There are now more software develo
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by xigma 8y ago
Of course, up to a point. The same goes for very long but extremely descriptive variable names. Hence, it is a tradeoff.
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by xigma 8y ago
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by xigma 8y ago
Except there isn't any problem here whatsoever. Yes, it's coupled, but it doesn't matter. No, this kind of code doesn't scale. It doesn't have to . The time you spent writing this comment was longer than what it to
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by xigma 8y ago
> It costs almost nothing more to write "event" instead of "ev" or "removeElement" instead of "remEl", but it makes the code much more readable. No, it doesn't. Unless you're an absolute
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by xigma 8y ago
> Its a good point, if you overlook the fact that the British destroying the Indian & Chinese economy (through war/invasion) created a vacuum for the US economy (British colony at the time) to flourish. You're making some s
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by xigma 8y ago
> Russia with Putin as its leader stands in the way of American domination of Eurasia. Hence, the military encirclement of Russia and the belligerent anti-Russian rhetoric from American leaders. Is the US really dominating Europe and i
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by xigma 8y ago
Military people applying their experiences to company leadership are problematic, because they worked with a selection of people that doesn't reflect the general population. In the general population, not everyone wants to be a leader,
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by xigma 8y ago
People tend to have a strong urge to avoid responsibility (and therefore making decisions), that's the whole point of having superiors. If everyone's fully responsible for what they do, they don't do their work. Even an incom
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by xigma 8y ago
No, this is a permissions problem. Reading and writing to an application directory does not cause any issues until some code in that directory starts running with privileges it shouldn't have. It should not be possible for an applicati
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by xigma 8y ago
That's not true. I'm sometimes faced with a lot of companies to choose from and if one of those companies has a badly designed logo, I'll immediately become suspicious of all of their other qualities. On the other hand, a rea
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by xigma 8y ago
I can't remember ever having been stunned by a logo. The height of my experiences could be described as: "Oh, nice logo." or "Hmm, clever." The line between "clever" and "trying too hard to be clever&
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by xigma 8y ago
So, a "feature" in the installer allows an already installed malicious app to install even more malicious apps. That new malicious app then gets to somehow have more permissions than the original malicious app or the installer
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by xigma 8y ago
Do you realize that in Canvas colors are represented as a "series of text strings" that need to be parsed? Did you know that drawing paths requires a ton of pretty expensive Javascript calls or alternatively passing "a seri
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by xigma 8y ago
> SVG is not a part of HTML 5, it is older Maybe not formally, but making that distinction makes no difference to my point. > Canvas is as fast as the now defunct Flash ...not even close.
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by xigma 8y ago
> you're not telling us anything interesting First of all, that's a pretty condescending thing to say and you're obviously not speaking for everyone. I wouldn't mention that if you weren't tone-policing me. I&#x2
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by xigma 8y ago
The difference in performance with Flash is huge, modifying the context is quite expensive, resetting it is expensive, which is problematic because it is stateful. You have to compare it to non-Web technology to get an idea of how bad it re
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by xigma 8y ago
I have no idea what exactly you did, but I can't fathom how you would form such opinions from hands-on experience with both technologies. You say things like "just export to HTML5 from Adobe Animate/Flash", but if you ha
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by xigma 8y ago
That's why I said "at least in terms of propaganda". Anything that's owned by the state is considered to be owned by (all) the people. Venezuela also is not by definition a socialist country, it just has a socialist part
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by xigma 8y ago
> In modern political discourse, democratic socialism and social democracy are considered interchangeable Not at all, case in point: We are having a political discourse and people don't consider it interchangeable.
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by xigma 8y ago
That's not a library, that's a demo and it takes several seconds to load, just like a flash applet would. I'm aware of minimalist things that can put stuff on-screen instantly, but not of something that's a fleshed out s
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by xigma 8y ago
Because mobile GPUs have terrible drivers that rarely get updated and browser vendors can't be bothered to deal with that combinatorial explosion. Having said that, iOS isn't that bad.
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by xigma 8y ago
Another opinion from someone who presumably looks at "browser support" tables and green checkmarks and forms an opinion that way. How much actual WebGL vs. SVG development have you done? How many devices have you tested?
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by xigma 8y ago
> Of course I have no idea, I'm only following the development of web technologies since IE6. You followed other people doing the development at great expense. You're in no position to evangelize anything. > Just pick a gr
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by xigma 8y ago
The fact that a browser supports WebGL tells you nothing about which devices support it. It all depends on the GPU and its drivers, browsers have blacklists of GPUs, but even if your device is not blacklisted, it may simply screw up, espe
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by xigma 8y ago
> We have all the features flash had now (and had it for many years now) You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, yet you're evangelizing HTML5, that's the problem. Talk to somebody who tried to bring Video or 2D
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by xigma 8y ago
Dude, this is the kind of stuff I could run in realtime on an Amiga. Maybe not at the same resolution, but the resolution isn't the bottleneck in this demo either, I'm struggling to hit 40Hz at any scale.
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by xigma 8y ago
It's not a "3D engine", it's basic line and shape drawing. With SVG, you will easily run into the same performance issues with any kind of dynamic content, 3D or not. With Canvas, you may or may not run into them, depend

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