hkjgkjy · HackerTrans

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

The difference between front and backend web applications is nothing more but where the views are rendered - which on client side also means managing state and IO.

This means Rails and Angular are doing the same job - the main difference is where data keeping and rendering is done.

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vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

I don't think this is legal anywhere in Europe (is it?). I've also read that it's illegal in California, USA. In what regions is it allowed?

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vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

What I personally found is that the days when I go straight home, have some food and then get coding, I get nothing done at home. Instead I feel stressed and it's no fun. Not a good way.

When I instead pass the gym on the way home and work my body hard for an hour it works much better. Then I go home hungry like a wolf and devour a meal, and I feel more inspired for my projects than I did during the "regular" work day.

My conclusion is that sitting life isn't how we evolved - and when I fix my body-use deficiency I unlock all that potential.

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vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

If you are interested in following this idea even further, try Reagent in Clojurescript out. It works in the same way - it's all data.

An example:

    (let [greeting [:div {:style {:background "green"}} "hello"]]
      [:section#hi-there greeting])

Just a little bit of data!

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vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

I think it's more accessible - my designer friend felt sorry for me when working because I had "no pictures". Front end development usually means GUI programming, where graphics is the first world.

You don't need to learn about data structures, count in binary and you instantly see graphical, useable results. It's a gateway drug.

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vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

I think you have yourself a solid company idea right there. Go for it.

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vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

True. I don't understand why many of us programmers are not interested in tools that eliminate the possibility of errors?

* Why do we use memoy-unsafe languages (except when Rust or GC is unusable)? * Why do we use type-unsafe languages, at all? * Why do we use state-unsafe (mutable) languages, at all?

Of course there are exceptions to these - but they are few.

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vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

One of the reasons I prefer paying with Bitcoin over credit card, is that when using cryptocurrency I don't have to give them they key to my account - instead they give me an inbox that I send the value into.

Guessing a lot of credit card details are ripe for picking in the data they leaked.

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vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

HaveIBeenPwnd must be having a great day today!

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vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

For others who don't know how much an American ton is, 6 mil of them = (5.44 * (10^9)) kilograms.

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vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

Which is why I leave my door unlocked.

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vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

Personally, I fail to see how that would be (except for stock holders of arms companies etc). Surely the American state would save a ton of money by having their army shrunk by 1/3.

Population control? Is the US worried about there being too dense population of arabs in the world? I don't think that's true - and not for when they waged war in Korea or Vietnam either.

Seems to me war is only good for absolutely nothing.

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vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

War! What is it good for?

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vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

Cheers for the example. The Commons-Net library was where I ended up after some searching - so my experience is of someone who wants to get from 0 to 100 asap.

Cheers and have a good day!

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vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

Hi Mike! Big fan of your work! Have been for years, so it's a pleasure seeing you have replied to my comment.

My latest example of this is the Apache Commons-Net Java package [0]. I wanted to make a toy Telnet server as an example for a friend asking how to do so.

I gave trying to install the library a good 20 minutes in my evening at home. Couldn't find a simple Maven "this is how you install" and no "easy 1-2-3 get started with this library" text either.

After looking around for a while, I decided to check how to do it in Node. It's super easy, you just do

    require('net').createServer((socket) => socket.write('Hello from a toy telnet server!')).listen(8080)

And that is all! Got my task done in 5 minutes, and my friend learned something easy. My takeaway is that for software to be successful, being technically sound is only the first half of the marathon. You also need to make it accessible.

[0] https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-net/

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vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

Former node dev, currently Clojure here.

Npm has more abundance of good packages. They are typically better documented and easier to get started with, sadly :(.

JVM has some really great stuff - things which are lightyears ahead of what is there in NPM. Much of which started as university projects, as Java is popular at schools.

I wish JVM developers took a hint from others and started making very easy and fun documentation, but have no high hopes.

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vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

Just want to add that yeah, Thief is such a good game. If by chance the developers are reading this message board, thanks!

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vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

Yup. The invisible hand is ruthless in that regard.

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vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

It does, sadly!

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vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

As a user, I actually just want my browser to contain less features. Vendors add and add and add features. If I want different user profiles, I already have many users on my OS - I just switch between them.

When Chrome came out, I and many others switched to it just because it was lacking so many features. It was great!

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