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Would love to know which cultures are mature and which aren’t, just so I can keep it in mind when I’m deciding how much I have to push rules and regulations onto users from different cultures.
This is neat - maybe move the example section higher up; it looks great and gives a much better idea of what the system looks like visually, which to me is key in node-based envs.
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So, do you care because of: a) Load times? b) Accessibility on different devices? c) Philosophical grounds?
Because based on what you're saying (the 10 mile high abstraction level), it's about developer experience, which is not about text?
Text being what the end-user will ultimately see despite the underlying framework being React or a guy manually typing out the thing over TCP on every request.
Don't get me wrong, I despise it as much as you do, but I think it's important to recognize that ultimately the hate is only valid in the real world if it's about the user and not the developer experience.
I thought the article was going to go in a totally different direction and advocate for a return to simpler tools and the importance of content over tool obsession. I mean, who actually cares if you use React for your blog? If the content is good enough and you’re not fixated on proselytizing the framework, does it even really matter to anyone?
Using google earth on a tablet along with a zoom slider as a way of measuring cognition is the most HN take I’ve seen in a while.
You might consider merging the landing page with the "features" page - it takes a second or two to realize there's nothing to really see when you first get to the page, and you have to look around to kind of get a feel for what the thing really is. Pretty cool otherwise.
Great art ≠ pretty pictures
I agree with you in a very broad sense, but I also feel that stripping an issue of its complexity results in apathetic or impossible stances. Where do you even start to craft solutions when this is your understanding of the matter?
Yes, “they” might be fighting for absurd reasons but everyone does, to one extent or another. At some point there has to be a concerted effort to minimize casualties and suffering, and that effort usually comes hand in hand with picking a side - as long as your goal is a reduction in harm and violence, that side is often the weakest (in many senses). But pick any side for all I care, if your intentions are holistically sane.
This is inherently a political effort, one that necessitates impartiality in order to sway public opinion, political weight, budgets, etc. And so these weird “holier than thou” moments arise - yes, sometimes for the sole sake of claiming superiority, but more often than not because “impartial” action is necessary to move the issue forward.
Mind you I don’t agree with Wikipedia on this one, given its nature, but still - embrace the hypercomplexity and patterns and nuance will both emerge and you’ll have something to work with, at the risk of maybe realizing that often to play a part in reality is to pick a side, even if it’s somewhere on the spectrum between two insane positions.
Nothing about this or any other conflict is simple.
Regardless, what’s your point?
Thank you, that's very kind of you - excited to try it out.
How should we get in touch? I’m very curious about this, would love to get the chance to try it for a while.
Thank you. A lot of the questions in this thread have me seriously doubting myself.
A similar, and fantastic resource is the book Morphing Architecture [1].
A while back I made an interactive REPL for the book, building out it's DSL, where you can play with the different examples interactively [2]. From what I can tell, a lot of the examples overlap.
[1] https://www.archdaily.com/612210/morphing-mathematical-trans...
Love the concept, and could see myself really benefitting from this as a self-taught developer.
That said, I agree with most everyone's assessment that the price-point is a bit too high.
Is providing different pricing schemes for companies/hobbyists/students something you're looking into?
Does anyone have a non-paywalled link?