AnkhMorporkian

I didn't mean to refer to blurred images, but the unblurred outline SVGs in this article. I think the blurred ones are somewhat pointless too. The unblurred versions give you actual information as to what the image is. For instance, the sneakers image; if I didn't care about sneakers, I'd be likely to just scroll past it. In the blurred version, I might not be able to tell that they're sneakers.

I disagree. If you have a user on a very slow connection on an image heavy site, the user experience will be enhanced significantly. Depending on how you implement it, you might even save them bandwidth. No interesting content for them in the current viewport and they scroll past the placeholders/go to the next page? Cancel the XHR requests you made for the full-size thumbnails/images and start anew.

When the new Pixi version is dropped into place (I finished coding that recently) it performs much better on Firefox. I agree that with the current version it's definitely not great.

Edit: Just to be clear, when I say much better, I don't mean much better than chrome, just better than it performs now. When I drop RAF and just run the rendering loop as fast as possible, they get roughly the same FPS on my cheapo laptop.

Apologies, I'm a few glasses of wine in, and your elucidation made it much clearer. Thank you for your response!

> at least he did something.

I mean no offense, because I do sorta appreciate what you're going for, but this is almost the most philosophically, semantically, and most sillily empty sentence that exists.

Everyone does something. People who do 'nothing' do something. We only praise people whom succeed publicly or fail publicly. Even then, we only praise the people who fail when we ideologically align with them. We don't praise people who go out there and try to start a hate group, nor the ones who succeed.

Trying isn't really something that should count to other people. I won't say it shouldn't count to the person who tried it; self-esteem is a very personal thing. Failure shouldn't necessarily be a bad thing personally either, but let's not pretend that it's usually a good thing. The vast majority of failures are just failures. Starting a bead store in 2017 isn't a good idea, and we shouldn't congratulate my mother-in-law for doing it and wasting 30k in investments, nor should we congratulate her investors.

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Also, can anyone tell me if I should have used 'who' or 'whom' here? I don't 'think' it's the direct object, but I will defer to someone else:

'We don't praise people who go out there and try to start a hate group'

Plenty of us dorks complain about Stallman's worldview and philosophy. I won't complain about the contributions he's made to computing, or even the world in general, but striking it lucky doesn't make you philosophically pure.

> It's so rare to see people brag about being reckless, irresonsible, and wasteful of resources they cannot afford to waste.

I hate being sardonic, but we are on hacker news.

That's a fascinating fact as an Irish descendant in America of emigrants who left because of the famine, but I have to wonder if it's cherry picked. Is the same true of any number smaller than 100?

If I don't get an answer, I'll try to find some demographics numbers and figure it out tomorrow.

I mean, I've worked for several companies and left months before they actually launched. Any contractor who works with startups have been through similar situations.

Can't speak for OP's situation though.

I think #1 is the most realistic. Intel does some very significant work with Numpy as it is with MKL. #2 seems like dark voodoo magic that'd be neat, but pretty much impossible.

I honestly can't tell if you mean Trump or Torvalds.

I'm not sure how familiar with it you are, but that's kinda a result of flux/redux architecture. There's a global state that things are passed props to. If there is some change triggered as the result of a component being mounted, say a globalish "there's now a tooltip active", that may modify components including the component that triggered the change.

That's probably a simplistic example, but it really does happen.

I mildly disagree. componentWillMount() is slightly superior to the constructor, though only for very specific situations[0]. I would agree that for the vast majority of people who use ES6, the difference basically doesn't exist, but there is a real reason to use componentWillMount instead of the constructor.

0: https://github.com/reactjs/react-redux/issues/129

Edit: You might call dispatching in a constructor an anti-pattern (or having any side-effects at all), but quite a few people do it and it can cause very subtle bugs that aren't entirely reproducible.

I believe the OP was saying that JSX is transformed into pure javascript, not that it's literally javascript.

I hate saying it, but that actually seems fair in a way. If I was interviewing for a company at 66, I could see why they wouldn't want to hire me. There's a solid chance I'd leave the next year when I get social security.

That being said, I have no idea how that problem should be addressed.

I think ageism (in software) is largely a problem in startup culture. I've never seen a trace of it, but a few of my older friends with beaucoup experience have tried to join startups and told they weren't a "fit for the culture." Really sounds like code for "you can't hang with us old man."

I like Pantry, but I live in a small town where Fresh isn't available. Thanks for the warning though.

Wait, 550 to one house? That's... amazing. I had 43 this year and I thought I was a hopeless case.

I'm curious, why wouldn't sqlite cut it? Granted, I'm not a blockchain afficiando, but I have several sqlite DBs that run a couple hundred gigabytes a piece that work quite well.

I don't mean to be a naysayer, but if you want to program a real game, Elm really isn't the language to do it in. Perhaps at some point in the future it'll be a language to watch, but there are far better options available right now, even if you want to stay functional.

I cannot confirm this in any way, but one of my Russian friends told me he had Cirrhosis and was being treated for it.

I... well, I kinda expected it. Facebook wanted their products to be used, but it was obviously their legal department that made them put the patent clause in. The more people who develop using their libraries, the more contributions they get back, and the more benefit they get from it.

I almost guarantee you none of the devs wanted that weird-ass patent clause in there, but I'm guessing that none of them thought that it was a big deal in the long run, just CYA shit you'd expect from a legal department.

They were proven wrong, and it impacted their market share, they raised a stink about it and they got it changed.

I think you probably are fairly special. Most people I know have had some pretty intense infections that could have been fatal, though only two of them would have certainly been fatal. As for myself, I've had a jaw infection that actually got into the bone, meningitis, lyme disease, and walking pneumonia twice. Compared to some of my peers, I actually consider myself pretty healthy.

That being said, I have definitely been prescribed antibiotics a few times that it wasn't necessary.

I'm having a hard time finding much about the visual language, but does it happen to convert into a proper text-based scripting language? I love the idea of my designer being able to piece some stuff together with next to no programming knowledge, and me coming in later and editing it in a text form.

For someone with no real interest in cryptography, do elliptic curves have any other interesting applications in computer science?

Interesting, I truly had no idea women produced any amount of testosterone. Maybe it would be possible to ramp that up, and that would be a big development!

Re: Males producing estrogen, that's why I focused on the FtM in my previous reply. I knew it was possible for men to produce estrogen pretty easily, and I figured that's a much quicker path than the other way around.

Thanks for the information! It was truly informative.

I will take you word for it. As I said, IANAB, but I thought testosterone production in XX individuals was near 0.

IANAB = I am not a biologist.

I know there's SRY, and that does kick things off, but I also know there's a disorder where SRY translocates to the X chromosome. It causes otherwise XX individuals to develop as a male, but they don't produce testosterone and they require augmentation. That makes me believe that the testosterone producing genes are probably on the Y chromosome as well.

I'm not sure if that's a realistic hope. IANAB, but FtM individuals don't have a Y chromosome to work with, so I don't see how they could get the genetic coding to make testes work. You could use a biological male's DNA, but then you're trading hormones for anti-rejection pills.

I was definitely exaggerating, and I'm sorry for that. That being said, it should be illegal simply to avoid the conflict that exists.