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It is true that I don’t this publication. I also don’t know the author or what The Manhattan Institute is. In general unless a piece of text is asking me to take something on faith or I am unable to reason with it I don’t care in the slightest who wrote it, where it was published or what their affiliations are.

I haven't tried Remix but I can relate to Next.js being too much magic. I've had errors in `getServerSideProps` that happen on the server and then again in the client, causing a client side error instead of simply rendering the 500 page. I've accidentally bundled server code in the client because there's no clear separation. The automagical client side navigation with <Link> has caused scroll position to be forgotten when navigating back.

I recently tried Deno Fresh and it has made many different choices that I resonate with:

- "When you create a route, all of the components used are rendered on the server. No javascript is sent to the client, unless you specifically include something from the /islands/ folder."

- "For stronger resiliency and user experience, Fresh relies on native browser support for form submissions with the HTML <form> element."

For example a route that renders a form and accepts a `POST` with that form is trivial, which amazingly can not be said for many server side React frameworks.

This whole thing would have been much better if they’d positioned it as a work and personal entertainment machine

Honestly most of the presentation had this exact vibe for me. That the Vision Pro is directly positioned as a device for deep immersion, like movies, gaming, and engrossing work. The two exceptions I remember were those moments where a person plopped their Vision Pro on to take a 3D moment of their children and the one where a person answered a FaceTime call with the Vision Pro while packing their suitcase. I don't see those moments happening in reality with this sort of device.

If you're talking about coverage in the usual sense (% of lines that were executed), it's pretty much useless. Here's an example of 100% test coverage in that sense:

  add a b = 2
  test_add = assert_equals (add 1 1) 2
A more useful definition of coverage would be the entire possible state of the program, but this is tantamount to a proof, which is a really hard problem for programs in general. Property based testing, e.g. QuickCheck[1], gets us close, but it is often hard to come up with the right properties.

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck

This is a recommendation for another Apple Arcade game. The only gain for Apple if you click this notification is if you get the game, like it, and continue to pay for Arcade. This is like taking a screenshot of Netflix's "Top Picks for You" list and saying they are ads. This notification is not from the game you're playing but directly from Apple. There's no way to ship a game for Apple Arcade if it includes ads, interstitials or in-app purchases, that's the whole point.

the decision not to include various MLs, OCaml, Scala, or F# in the chart of functional languages seems controversial

I don't know why that would be controversial. There's a very clear distinction between (MLs, OCaml, Scala, F#) and (Haskell, Elm, PureScript, etc.).

How Does This End? 4 years ago

Without this expansionist step from our side the situation would have never escalated.

Where do you put the annexation of Crimea in this timeline?

You might later find that something that took you 5 lines is a standard abstraction ready to be re-used.

Such a great point and perhaps one of the biggest challenges as languages allow increasingly reusable and powerful abstractions. I would love to have GHC tell me something like "this piece of code here has a signature that is familiar, you could probably make this fit into {list of abstractions}".

This is one of the best qualities of languages like Haskell, the type system promotes discovery and true reuse of code. There has even been research into specifying dependencies as 'something that implements this signature' rather than specific packages.

This really isn't that complicated, he had views that the community was overwhelmingly against, hence he was not qualified to serve as CEO. The community did not fire him.

Also, there's a fundamental difference between the two views you juxtaposed. One suppresses the freedom of others, while the other promotes it. You can't really be intolerant by being against intolerance.

Angular 2.0 12 years ago

They mention annotations, presumably type annotations? Is that actually a part of ES6? I can't find any mention of it.

[dead] 13 years ago

I don't recall any other incident. By the way the only armed police force in Iceland are the special forces. Regular police officers and agents are not armed.

> Sounds like a niche to me.

The Nexus devices have been very popular outside of the USA, also in part because they have defaulted to being unlocked.

I've been wondering if I should get the Nexus 7 as my main and only development device. I imagine it could be great to test both mobile and tablet layouts on the same device.

Are there any Clojure web frameworks that really embrace ClojureScript and blur the line between the server and the client like Meteor recently demonstrated? Sorry to be off-topic.

[dead] 14 years ago

The source is 130 lines, if nothing it's at least a teaching example of how easily one can play with canvas.

The key part here is that it is tailored for any kind of content as opposed to just text, everything you'd like to "view later".

Spool (http://getspool.com/) did this as well, with the twist that they actually scrape content (videos and all) to save to your devices to view offline. For some reason it doesn't seem like Spool ever took off.

> and not shipping OS X with Java

That won't help the people who actually use Java on OS X. It would be better to allow Oracle to manage the updates for Java on OS X, the vulnerability that Flashback abused was patched by Oracle back in February.

Have you worked with him or do you know him?

I'd have to guess that he is in fact a very skilled software developer. Minecraft is a fairly complex project, as is emulating a 16-bit CPU within the constraints of a game environment.

And I'm curious, what wouldn't you hire him for?