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Except that MDN isn't your hipster startup website with a 20MB hero image that needs to get its point across immediately. You're never going to end up on MDN and say "I have no idea what this is". You're there because you already know what's under the damn fold.

What a genius idea, design only for people with expensive screens, make software only people with a dual Xeon and a GTX1080 can run, and be sure to make the minimum resolution 2560*1900. You're sure to make friends.

Welcome to reality, most people use cheap $20 chinese screens.

Perhaps if government lowered taxes and relaxed the labor code

Oh, Brian, we meet again, and we disagree once again. Taxes and the labor code are not what is making things expensive.

- The labor code is not even close to being the one reason companies do not hire : https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/2871900?sommaire=287202...

- Countless fiscal advantages have already been given and tried, effectively the same thing as lowering taxes on companies. That includes the CIE, CICE, CIR, the reduction of TVA in restaurants, fiscal benefits for life insurance holders, lowering the ISS to 34.6%, removing taxes on plus-value, the globalised worldwide profits regime, and the countless things that can be listed here : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niche_fiscale

All of these happened, and the costs have not changed. Some of them were given in exchange of promise of jobs (the change of TVA in restaurants being one of the most notable), and none happened. Profits went up, though.

I would rather have microwave repair costs go up to 80€ than lower our living standards.

I certainly wouldn’t be happy if I had to pay several hundred euros more for a microwave because of a law mandating the type of screw holes that must be used.

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One solution to the any typing problem is to use tslint with no-any. It's a bandaid, but it's better than nothing.

Agreed upon tax deals have to be legal in the framework laid down by the European union if you're a member. Ireland made a deal that wasn't legal. The EU reminded Apple they had to pay it. Nothing more.

Fight dictatorial control with dictatorial control.

...You do know that communism advocates for a society where control is something done in collaboration with others? Because China, or the USSR calls itself communist does not mean it is. A simple reading of Marx & Engels' work would clarify that.

*citation needed

The congested road network still happens with Google cars.

Air routes are more flexible than rail routes.

Except for having to build an, uh, entire airport.

as was Donald Trump

The notion of no longer blowing up the Middle East and treating Russia as a villain, was impossible for them to stomach re Trump,

Ah, yes, which is why he's threatening North Korea, attacking airfields in Syria, selling weapons to Saudi Arabia (which is currently in a war with Yemen), bombing in Afghanistan, in his own words giving the military "total authorization", authorized a raid in Yemen, and the list goes on.

You were _sold_ no more nation building, by a man who has interests in having his fingers everywhere in the globe. That you bought it hook, line and sinker is yet another problem.

In the same way, the Vietnam war was reasonably popular at first. It was barely around 67 and after countless deaths that the opinion was overwhelmingly negative, forcing the US to go back tail between its legs.

Maybe Americans no longer want war. Every single leader they are electing certainly doesn't share that opinion though. So, either they actually quite enjoy playing world police, or they're quite frankly so manipulable it becomes scary. But go on ahead and blame "the globalists" and "the deep state" (which, intended or not, is very much an InfoWars term, not exactly a reputable source), I am certain that'll do a lot of good.

It's actually pretty good. I have no idea how or why, but it's pleasant to the eye and very readable.

... It's probably not worth $200 though.

A single m4.16xlarge on AWS is at the very least $2200 per month. That doesn't even include storage costs. Depending on your country, that definitely pays for an already trained sysadmin. Also, some stuff just cannot be put onto AWS. I worked with financial, medical data, it just doesn't go on AWS. Especially since the datacenters are very likely not in your country.

But one server is barely enough for anything nontrivial nowadays

If I facepalmed any harder, my hand would go through my face. A properly setup server, with caching and a backend not written in node, will go a hell of a long way. You can scale to tens of thousands of concurrent users with a single server.

Spoiler: your startup will most likely not even scale up to that level.

These posts are stuck in a tiny little world, made up of hackernews and what is currently hyped on hackernoon and smashing magazine. In the reality, JS still hasn't won, IIS is still powering half of the servers, and Java is still winning. Javascript has gotten better, and if you use Typescript it even becomes a good language. There are certainly some very good things that came out of it (and some very, very dumb wheel reinvention), and I dare say there is not a single UI toolkit that gets close to Vue/React, thanks to the composability and CSS being good enough for theming. Animations are still a major pain point. Serverless will cost you an awful lot past the beginning point, much more so than renting servers, or even having them on-place and paying sysadmins when you are at that stage between medium and big.

While being optimist and non-flamey, which is a good read, it is also a sad state of affairs. The backend, database and "native" side of things boils down to "I don't understand servers, I don't understand databases, I don't understand that bringing a browser along with my application is a bad thing.". I get it. We are asked to push ot feature after feature after feature. But it is genuinely holding everyone back. It's making our software worse. Electron applications are a 15 years jump back in the past, except that they look pretty.

Because they're not old enough to remember what '80s GUI code looked like when the "Global god object + functions" pattern was last popular?

Funnily enough, React + Redux is "Global god state + functions", with a bit of dispatch sprinkled in. Not too far away really.

I definitely see the benefits of having a functional approach to defining UIs. My code is _somewhat_ clear, clearer than what it would have been with say, WinForms or something of the like. Going purely functional everywhere is just devs cargo culting.

Is trading one's labour for capital not enough?

No? Capital is absolutely meaningless in a society. Capital doesn't give society anything. Actual, physical goods do, services do, a healthy population that protects us through the herd effect do. Capital in itself? It is on the brink of being nefarious for society.

There are plenty of places throughout the United States where the only viable means of transportation is the automobile (or a motorcycle, as you point out). The consequences of not having auto insurance is also bankruptcy. Would you characterize the auto insurance market in those locales as similarly coercive?

Aside from the fact that you will rarely suddenly end up in such a place without warning (which cannot be said when it comes to health), I would say that it's a problem of society. Why is there no public transport that could do most of the job of your car?

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It's genuinely horrifying how much you seem to enjoy the thought of imprisoning or humiliating those who disagree with you.

It's genuinely hilarious how much you seem to take everything at face value. Better keep my gulag jokes then. To be completely fair, ideally, I wouldn't wish that on anyone. If we could have a perfectly functioning society, where everyone understands the value of collaborating, I would not want to have to do that. I really don't.

Unfortunately, privation of freedom, is in 99% of the cases the only thing that works with this kind of people. You could try explaining, in depth, the value of contributing to a greater purpose than just amassing wealth for you and your family, but in the end, you're very likely to just end up facing a brick wall. The choices are either waiting until they leave your society (which they won't, because they enjoy the benefits it brings while still wanting to not contribute), or making them respect the rules.

I suspect that this is a result of cognitive dissonance: you realise that you cannot rebut their arguments rationally, and thus wish to 'rebut' them physically, by appeals to the majority.

I could suspect you're full of shit, but that doesn't get us very far. You seem to be believing that only your (or their) arguments are rational. Mine, however, are not because... it goes against your view of the world, I guess ?

51% of the people can vote to piss in the cornflakes of the other 49%. That doesn't make it right.

Since you want to start making parallels, let's take these at face value too then. This implies that:

a) Only a 51% percent majority wishes our society to be this way. Which is blatantly false. b) You are part of this enlightened 49%. And dear God, if that isn't the mother of all cognitive dissonances.

When it comes to this subject, you are a minority. You are a blip on the radar. Worse yet, this is nefarious and actively harming society.

I impatiently await the inevitable "So it is okay to harm minorities as long as the majority wants it? What about slavery?" argument, which can be so easily refuted that it's not even fun.

I also impatiently await the "but rules are not fair right now, look at imprisonment of black people in the US" argument, which is already answered by the previous "Fix your damn system, don't burn it down" answer. Yes, it isn't fair. Yet people fought for things before. People fought against laws that were unjust. And when they were truly unjust, these people usually won. Do the same thing with your convictions. Maybe in fifteen years, you'll have won.

Your comment genuinely horrifies me. I presume you're saying you want people who don't comply to be put behind bars, for extended lengths of time. And their crime, that you insist is harming the rest us, is to not comply with a plan that the majority imposed on them. You've justified it in your mind by arguing that these people accepted a bargain, and are now not holding up their end of it.

If your desire is to go live in Libertopia, please do so. Renounce your citizenship. There's no justification in my mind, you have the choice. Unhappy with paying your taxes, or having to give away some of your money for the good of society? Then leave behind _everything_ this society has brought you. Let's see how you do. The amount of selfishness behind those comments is astounding. You are perfectly happy with reaping the benefits of said society, while not wanting to contribute back through the rules that have been established.

Yes, it's tyranny of the majority. Do you know why? Because it is the best system we have, for now. Do you want to live in a society where taxes are a thing of the past? Then educate. Educate your fellow man, try to make him understand why this is (according to you), a good thing. And maybe you'll convince him. And maybe you'll convince more. And maybe, one day, your grand-grandchild will live in such a world.

In the mean time, we have agreed upon these rules for decades, and since it hasn't changed, it seems like your ideology isn't what people want.

When seemingly intelligent and articulate people so easily rationalize imprisoning their fellow man and woman, it's horrifying to witness.

I mean, if you want the punishment to be rubbing your face in the dirt until you understand _why_ things are the way they are and why this is better than your idea now, I'm down for it. But since the two things you seem to value are wealth and freedom, and you're not willing to give up your wealth when you have to be punished, we can only act on the latter.

Yet those laws are mostly not there anymore. And we are pushing forward. We _are_ making a fairer society for everyone. And yes, the US is late on that. Look to Europe for better examples.

You're advocating for throwing down all that's on the table and burning everything, because you want your money. I'm trying to make society go forward and improve life for everyone.

Please review the highlights of what an organised society has brought us. If you need a very long list of examples of how selfish, greedy people has damaged our world, just look outside your window.

less greenhouse gas

An estimated 160.000 cars driving for Uber in the US, many of which doing so as a full time job will pollute less. Right. Riiiiight.

"Keep it in check"

By allowing it to willfully break laws in dozens of countries, contributing to lowering standards of living and high stress at work, tracking users at all times, having a hostile workplace, then becoming the most important provider of such services in the world?

Yeah, that's totally capitalism doing its work, and not the painfully obvious "throw VC money at it until it works" scheme, right

Because clearly, when stealing a bike, you want the entire neighborhood hear you for ten minutes, emitting sparks everywhere, while you had to bring an angle grinder.

You're supposed to be somewhat discreet when doing that, not warning everyone.

Most people's locks can be cut with a strong set of shears. The other ones are usually not worth spending your time on unless it's everything there is. In which case, like @jacquesm said, freezing temperatures are an excellent solution. More of a middle of the night thing though. Shears work 24/7.

Yup. Backend development is cancelled, apparently.

So fair it makes the whole architecture serverless!

The hard fork was simply an abandonment of an obviously unjust law, a revolution really.

This is what Ethereum users actually believe.

Want it or not, Ethereum is very much led by a small group of people, and when those people lose their money, they ask the community to hard fork because really it would be a shame if the cryptocurrency they invested in lost value and became worthless. After all, it's not as if every cryptocurreency was nothing more than just a way to speculate.

Ask a thousand people if they want to lose money or win some, they'll all answer win. Even if lose is the normal (and in Etheureum's case, codified and agreed on by everyone) course of action.

By the way, the vote was at a default 'yes' and had to be explicitly disabled.

You do not seem to understand. Customer has an implicit meaning of having your services sold by a company. Citizens do not have services sold to them. They're bound by a social contract, and have agreed to go ahead, together. The services they benefiot from are the consequences of their choices. The nation and the state are an extension of this social contract. I do not care for borders and walls, and would gladly see them disappear. But not if it's at the cost of becoming a "customer".

... Then make an endpoint where you can get a task's status through its ID (your post to sendmail would then return a task ID), and poll repeatedly until it's marked as done, wasting bandwidth, your architecture, your choices ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Or you can let the server notify you when it's done, and carry on with your work. As a bonus, most clients able to receive SSE already include automatic reconnection to the feed if it ever gets cut.

We've already established REST has crippling limitations. Introducing RPC in it makes up for those.

You can also make it a long lived connection, that waits for a proper confirmation, which means you might be waiting ten seconds. Or you can make it a fire-and-forget operation, and have a resource to check if it was properly sent. Which is back to polling. Or you can use server-sent events to have the server notify you back when it's done.

But yes, unless you explicitly need to be able to send emails from clientside, I wouldn't expose a sendmail resource, and would leave that to the server. (I say as I recently implemented a resource that allows me to post an event from client side to allow the server to send it back. :| )

Ultimately, do what works. The pure REST cargo cult is dangerous. As long as what you do is clean, maintainable and ideally idempotent, you're good.

/api/sendmail, data passed in POST as JSON. POSTing doesn't have to be uniquely identified.

A citizen isn't a customer of a nation.

As much as it pains me to say so, we brought it on ourselves. Noone made any GUI toolkit that works as painlessly as React. I despise Electron and my hatred for JS can be seen throughout my comments. Yet I am forced to admit that there is no other UI library that is as good and cross-platform. What alternatives do you have?

Dear imgui ? I want something that looks good and is themeable in a reasonable way. Out of the list, it's probably the best.

Qt ? If I could build a project without bringing along all of Qmake and the shitty signal hack it's based on, maybe.

Qt-QML ? Hey, it's actually pretty close to React... If not for the crippling limitations of it.

GTK ? Yeah, I love passing GObjects around and looking like crap on every platform.

XAML ? Windows only.

Win32? Windows mostly.

wxWidgets ? Tkinter? Swing ? JavaFX ? Tcl/Tk ? They all have their massive problems.

What matters to users is that their software looks good. I'm guilty of that too, even as a developer, I'm willing to use an app that takes a small performance hit provided it looks good.

Yes, the DOM sucks. Yes, React + Redux is reimplementing the Windows message passing loop, something that is 30 years old, reinventing the wheel, but now on the web. Yes, the entire stack is a terrible hack, and we're reinventing CSS through things such as styled-components. Yes, React needs to implement a shadow DOM and diff-rendering to have something that performs well enough. But it benefits from the amazing theming abilities of the browser. Layout with flex is no longer completely batshit insane (only slightly mad). And, eventually, software like Servo will make rendering faster, leaving only the issue of the DOM being slow to update.

Maybe if we native developers stopped, took a good look at what developers wanted and needed, maybe this wouldn't be our situation.

Shadows near the neck area, very similar to what most ambient occlusion algorithms would give.

Hair has a shine that would almost never happen unless you dumped an entire bottle of shampoo on your head for a week straight. It also just sinks right in, no pores, nothing.

Texture quality is still a bit low,especially on the forehead. Normal maps are off (or not there at all), so there's no bumps and crevices there. Skin is blurred (but that may be a compression artifact)

And of course, the blur feels extremely unnatural. Especially knowing the shitty photomatons 99% of people use to get their pictures taken for official purposes, they'll never have such a focus on the face and blur everything out.