Does Hetzner has any proper competitor somewhere, with similar power/price ratio? Especially interested in some on the US side of the pond. They seem to be a go-to company for everyone that wants to host stuff on his/her own.
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Anyone have any opinion on React vs Polymer?
It's something i've been struggling with quite a bit. Conceptually i love Polymer, and really want to switch, but React's serverside rendering is just hard to beat. I'm scared of showing users page load spinners while my 20 Polymer components all load their data heh
James Long from Mozilla has his answer for this:
Aren't you tired of having to query the DOM tree and manually manage the structure to create UIs? Web Components doesn't solve this at all, it just tries to encapsulate the work. The problem is that building apps is building components, so you inevitably are forced back into the manual DOM management to create your app-specific components (like how you constantly have to create directives in Angular). You also need to jump into JavaScript to configure and wire up any Web Components you used. It's a very messy abstraction, and fools you into desiring a pure HTML-based declarative way to write apps, which is like wanting steak but eating liver.
See http://jlongster.com/Removing-User-Interface-Complexity,-or-...
morkbot commented on Leading HIV researchers lost as flight MH17 is downed in Ukraine telegraph.co.uk/news/worl... · Posted by u/antman
So it didn't occur to either the Ukrainian authorities or Eurocontrol that due to the existence of advanced weaponry and the remote possibility that either faction could gain access to them, civilian flights should be barred from that airspace? Was the economic impact of rerouting flights so high that they were willing to take the risk with civilians?
This is targeted in the same article, although no clear answer is given:
Questions were raised as to why Malaysia Airlines had continued to fly over such a volatile region, where separatists were known to be shooting at aircraft. Qantas, the Australian carrier, said it had been steering clear of the area by 400 nautical miles for several months. Malaysia Airlines said that after the crash it immediately altered its flight paths, while other airlines either did likewise or emphasised they had already been taking alternative routes.
"With immediate effect, all European flights operated by Malaysia Airlines will be taking alternative routes avoiding the usual route," said a statement from the airline. It added: "The usual flight route was earlier declared safe by the International Civil Aviation Organisation. International Air Transportation Association has stated that the airspace the aircraft was traversing was not subject to restrictions."
I haven't worked at a place that has cared about IE since 2009. Besides old versions of IE Polymer works everywhere. Worrying about being backwards compatible with old browsers is a thing of the past with constant updates to Chrome and Firefox. If you're developing a mobile site you can't use any of the newest things until Safari updates (about once a year, seriously) but you should be otherwise ok.
But Polymer depends, for example, on Shadow DOM, which is currently only supported by Chrome, Opera (Chrome-based) and Android browser - not even by Firefox yet (http://caniuse.com/#search=shadow%20dom). There are pollyfills but they're too slow to treat them as a viable solution.
morkbot commented on Leading HIV researchers lost as flight MH17 is downed in Ukraine telegraph.co.uk/news/worl... · Posted by u/antman
Excuse my ignorance but I would have thought that the Ukrainian airspace would be restricted due to the ongoing 'conflict'. Surely they could have used a different route no?
The European air traffic control body, Eurocontrol, said Ukrainian authorities had banned aircraft from flying at 32,000ft or below and the doomed aircraft had been cruising above that, at 33,000ft – however this apparently still left it within range of the sophisticated surface-to-air weaponry that pro-Russia forces have been using recently to target Ukrainian military aircraft. All civilian flights have now been barred from the area of eastern Ukraine.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/mh17-pressure-o...
morkbot commented on European Citizens’ Initiative against TTIP and CETA stop-ttip.org/... · Posted by u/Tsiolkovsky
For those wondering what's wrong with TTIP, a while ago Geroge Monibot wrote a well documented piece about it: http://www.monbiot.com/2013/11/04/a-global-ban-on-left-wing-...
morkbot commented on Buongiorno, Milano – CloudFlare’s 26th Data Center Now Live blog.cloudflare.com/buong... · Posted by u/jgrahamc
"the Colosseum, the fountains of Florence, the canals of Venice, the Alps, Lambos, pizza, pasta, the good life in Tuscany, Michelangelo, da Vinci, the leaning tower of Pisa, opera, fashion and, of course, colorful gestures"
It's always irritating to be reminded of how the rest of the world sees my country: as a series of (mostly correct) stereotypes.
It's not how the rest of the world sees your country, it's for what the rest of the world loves your country :)
morkbot commented on Intel Bringing SIMD to JavaScript 01.org/blogs/tlcounts/201... · Posted by u/deathtrader666
Would these changes eventually make their way into node.js (through V8)?
From the linked article (OK, press release):
It will, however, run (...) on the platforms that support SIMD. This includes both the client platforms (...) as well as servers that run JavaScript, for example through the Node.js V8 engine.
...and:
A major part of the SIMD.JS API implementation has already landed in Firefox Nightly and our full implementation of the SIMD API for Intel Architecture has been submitted to Chromium for review.
...and:
Google, Intel, and Mozilla are working on a TC39 ECMAScript proposal to include this JavaScript SIMD API in the future ES7 version of the JavaScript standard.
So, yes, there's definitely an intention there to put it into V8/Node.js/ES7 (guess, it will be in this exact order).
Ironically and to my surprise, as I'm far from being any sort of an art buff and this stuff usually bores me, at Rijskmusem I really enjoyed those typical descriptions put next to the paintings, with short notes about art history and some details about described work of art. There they really are filled with interesting info. To each his own I guess. Or maybe it is unexpected side-effect of the "Art is Therapy" project.