greenscale (u/greenscale)

greenscale commented on Ask HN: Which TypeScript codebase should I study to get better? · Posted by u/nblavoie

nikcub · 8 years ago

Three i've read through recently:

1. InversifyJS - DI in Typescript / JS

https://github.com/inversify/InversifyJS

2. TypeORM - as it says, might be the best ORM for nodejs projects:

https://github.com/typeorm/typeorm

3. Searchkit - ES web frontend - react + typescript

https://github.com/searchkit/searchkit

greenscale · 8 years ago

+1 for InversifyJS - I learned a lot of TypeScript by just reading through the actual Inversify codebase, and then used what I learned to write what would become https://github.com/inversify/inversify-express-utils.

Also, thanks to the Inversify contributors for continuing to maintain and improve express-utils!

greenscale commented on Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web neustadt.fr/essays/agains... · Posted by u/livatlantis

titzer · 8 years ago

FTA:

"...we have faster connections, better browser standards, tighter security and new media formats. But it is also different in the values it espouses. Today, we are so far from that initial vision of linking documents to share knowledge that it's hard to simply browse the web for information without constantly being asked to buy something, like something, follow someone, share the page on Facebook or sign up to some newsletter. All the while being tracked and profiled."

The author is absolutely right that the _values_ of the web have changed. IMO this is due to the much more vast penetration of the web and the bubbles which have been birthed as a result of attracting very aggressive profit-driven actors. Rebasing the web's economic model on advertising has fundamentally changed the conception of users, and the expectation of enormous profits has steamrolled the egalitarian principles of early web citizens.

I kind of hope that the web will reboot itself in dark corners, away from the mega actors, away from the tracking and surveillance, and the torrent of the current web can keep on going for the masses.

greenscale · 8 years ago

I think you're right, but one issue is keeping the problems of the "web of the masses" from spreading to our secluded dark corners once they pick up traction.

greenscale commented on Luminoth: Open Source Toolkit for Computer Vision luminoth.ai/... · Posted by u/jonbaer

greenscale · 8 years ago

Is this a reference to the Luminoth [1] from Metroid Prime 2?

[1] http://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/Luminoth

Edit - Turns out it is! From the github:

"Why the name?

The Dark Visor is a Visor upgrade in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. Designed by the Luminoth during the war, it was used by the Champion of Aether, A-Kul, to penetrate Dark Aether's haze in battle against the Ing.

-- Dark Visor - Wikitroid"

greenscale commented on Windows is doomed theweek.com/articles/7219... · Posted by u/mcone

endorphone · 8 years ago

Doomed in this context doesn't mean "is extinguished from all use". For instance, CAD is an absolutely tiny usage of an OS. Minuscule.

Office...I'm in finance and massive numbers of people are either working on ancient versions of Office, or they've transitioned to alternatives. Office is absolutely enormous in scope, but it's one of those things that is detrimental to many workflows because of its powers. Many shops prefer webapps and on-demand generated consumables. Even Excel is very rapidly dying.

The criticality of Windows has absolutely imploded, and is nothing like it was. If someone wants to use Linux, or OSX, or Android, or whatever, in most cases it fits in many workflows with absolutely no issues.

On the home front the single thing keeping Windows running in most home situations is game compatibility. A massive number of home users never go outside of the browser, and those that do usually do just for games.

greenscale · 8 years ago

I definitely fall under your last point. As soon as I can play my entire Steam library on a Mac or Linux, I'll make the switch. Until then, I'm stuck on Windows.

greenscale commented on A Year After ‘Pokémon Go,’ Where Are the Augmented-Reality Hits? wsj.com/articles/a-year-a... · Posted by u/lxm

habosa · 8 years ago

It's interesting that almost all of the comments here assume that the 'AR' in Pokemon Go was showing the Pokemon character in the camera viewfinder during the catching sequence.

Is it not also AR to have many invisible creatures, gyms, and resources placed in the real world? I don't think there needs to be a visual component at all for it to be AR. When I used to play the game my reality was augmented because everywhere I went I thought "I wonder what Pokemon are around" and would check the app.

A seamless visual integration would be nice (I want to see some Pokemon battle in my living room) but even just the Ingress-style map integration is AR in my opinion.

greenscale · 8 years ago

Interesting point. I'm not sure what the actual definition of AR is, but the article seems to assume the same definition that several others did, including myself:

> "the nascent technology, which blends digital images with a person’s view of the real world."

greenscale commented on A Year After ‘Pokémon Go,’ Where Are the Augmented-Reality Hits? wsj.com/articles/a-year-a... · Posted by u/lxm

vivekd · 8 years ago

I still enjoy 3d movies.

greenscale · 8 years ago

Granted, sometimes gimmicks can be enjoyable. But in the case of AR in Pokemon Go (and IMO most 3D movies) they just distract from the actual content.

greenscale commented on A Year After ‘Pokémon Go,’ Where Are the Augmented-Reality Hits? wsj.com/articles/a-year-a... · Posted by u/lxm

greenscale · 8 years ago

I've played Pokémon Go quite a bit since it released, and I turned off AR mode within the first few weeks of playing. It's just a gimmick, and it gets old pretty fast, kinda like the '3D movies' fad.