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oatmealsnap commented on Apple Discontinues macOS Server   support.apple.com/en-us/H... · Posted by u/sharjeelsayed
OJFord · 3 years ago
Well that could be even more interesting! Not likely though?
oatmealsnap · 3 years ago
I use my old MacBook Air as a server. Really easy to set up out of the box.
oatmealsnap commented on Deno on MDN   deno.com/blog/deno-on-mdn... · Posted by u/monstermachine
spankalee · 4 years ago
Which slightly incompatible version of TypeScript though?

edit to add: I'm serious. JavaScript tries very hard to not have backward breaking changes. TypeScript does have breaking changes at about ever minor release. The TypeScript team manages the project as a versioned tool, not as a distributed environment like the web. afaik, Deno hasn't really solved this problem, so there's a chance your code breaks when Deno upgrades its TypeScript version.

oatmealsnap · 4 years ago
That's always a concern, though. Node has breaking changes, too.
oatmealsnap commented on How iOS 15 makes apps launch faster   medium.com/geekculture/ho... · Posted by u/jshchnz
Shadonototro · 4 years ago
with iOS it's not a problem

85% of all devices at already all on iOS 14

https://developer.apple.com/support/app-store/

oatmealsnap · 4 years ago
15% is most likely too much to ignore. Most web developers have had to support IE11, which is at like, 3-4% tops.
oatmealsnap commented on How iOS 15 makes apps launch faster   medium.com/geekculture/ho... · Posted by u/jshchnz
apozem · 4 years ago
That's the name of the game with Apple development, unfortunately. Every year, I get excited for all these cool new SwiftUI features at WWDC and wait 2+ years to actually use them.
oatmealsnap · 4 years ago
hey, just like web development.
oatmealsnap commented on The Programmer's Brain   manning.com/books/the-pro... · Posted by u/teleforce
anoncoward125 · 4 years ago
Interesting that it specifies "speed reading". I think speed reading for code is actually an anti pattern since it is encouraging your biases and guesses instead of actually reading the damn output. If you ever wondered how people ended up programming stochastically and just making random changes I'd say speed reading is part of it
oatmealsnap · 4 years ago
I mean, there's a time and a place for speed reading. Part of being good at speed reading is identifying the areas you need to slow down for and pay attention to.

Another aspect of writing code is to think about future speed readers. Can your code be skimmed and understood on a cursory level?

oatmealsnap commented on I loved jQuery, and still do (2019)   withblue.ink/2019/04/12/i... · Posted by u/notoriousarun
rchaud · 4 years ago
In your example, switching from jQuery was just a matter of personal preference. There's nothing wrong with that.

My original comment left out some context: on HN, a lot of the hostility to jQuery is either cultural or gatekeeping oriented. Cultural opposition is of the 'not invented here' variety, e.g. 'Why use Dropbox when you could do this w/ rsync? Gatekeeping-related opposition is where it's implied that you shouldn't call yourself a dev if you use jQuery and not vanilla JS.

That is the kind of discussion that happens nearly every time a link to YMNNJQ is dropped.

oatmealsnap · 4 years ago
That's not how I see jQuery hate.

jQuery promotes bad development patterns, AND brings a cost for end users. Developers will do themselves and futures devs a favor by not choosing to use it. Is it really gatekeeping to expect people to be aware of commonly used 10 year old features?

I assume developers who share YMNNJQ are just sick of inheriting messy projects built with jQuery. I know I am.

oatmealsnap commented on Let's Bring Spacer GIFs Back   joshwcomeau.com/react/mod... · Posted by u/feross
iamleppert · 5 years ago
This is everything on how the modern web is a complete disaster. We need react and a 30+ line “component” to represent what used to be a single html tag.

Please wake me when this nonsense is over.

oatmealsnap · 5 years ago
I thought this was a parody post.
oatmealsnap commented on Servo’s new home   blog.servo.org/2020/11/17... · Posted by u/g0xA52A2A
lastontheboat · 5 years ago
Servo currently incorporates a network stack, a JS engine, the DOM, JS APIs, an HTML parser, a CSS styling engine, graphical rendering, media parsing and playback, etc. It is not a browser, since it doesn't impose requirements about how to load specific pages, interact with tabs, expose history or bookmarks, etc.
oatmealsnap · 5 years ago
Could it be used as a Linux desktop environment? I.e. Alternative to Gnome?

I would love to be able to contribute improvements to the desktop environments I use, but I don’t have the time to learn languages that aren’t applicable to my daily work.

oatmealsnap commented on 2020's fastest-rising tech jobs? Programming language PHP leads the way   zdnet.com/article/2020s-f... · Posted by u/mg
conradfr · 5 years ago
I would expect the same as with Rails or Django if they use Symfony or Laravel, but with cheaper developers.
oatmealsnap · 5 years ago
Yea, far more web developers know PHP than Ruby or Python.

Python devs don't necessarily know web development, and Ruby is pretty old-school (I don't mean that in a bad way, it's just not what they teach these days and not as applicable outside of web development).

oatmealsnap commented on AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th   anandtech.com/show/16202/... · Posted by u/jsheard
snvzz · 5 years ago
Just be careful the 3070/3080/3090 lineup are gamer cards and do not have ML drivers.

FP32/64 performance is going to be capped, as with prior generations.

oatmealsnap · 5 years ago
I know several people look at the 3090 for ML use, due to its extra RAM. Hobbyists, not companies.

Do you mean "enterprise ML"? Like, if I ran an ML company I wouldn't be looking at these cards?

u/oatmealsnap

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