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I also suffer from the paradox of choice... the more options I have, the more skeptical I am of the choice I make and how it negatively affects my experience. When I pull out a record and play it through, I usually love the experience. I can't say that about playing something on Apple Music or Spotify. Same reason why I can't find a game (one of over a thousand) to play on Steam, but loved every minute of the terrible NES games I owned as a kid.

I clearly did something wrong, but the process was so confusing that I couldn't tell you what it was. It probably had to do with running the server at sub-optimal times when rates were higher, but I don't remember reading anything about that. It was a Windows-based game server, so the extra cpu overhead might have had something to do with it.

Im not sure how much I care about browsers being proprietary as long as the engine is open source (I really like safari). If there’s evidence that Vivaldi is doing terrible things with my usage data then I’ll likely change back to FF.

That's some serious spin there. The chatter has been that Intel has had poor focus, poor working conditions, poor investments, poor communication within the company and a plethora of hubris. They need a culture overhaul and that seems to be what's happening. The jury is out to where they take this. I would bet on their competitors at this point.

JS is interpreted by the browser, but we compile locally so that the code produced implements workarounds for missing language features. The code produced is typically minified so that the payload sent to the browser is much smaller than it would otherwise be.

Node is analogous to Python, Ruby and PHP... they all can run webservices, power desktop apps and compile/build projects.

When you just sling jQuery on a page and try to use spread syntax or async/await, shit's gonna break.

If you have a use case as simple as the author is advocating, this only take about 15 minutes to grok. If it takes longer then you probably don't have enough front-end experience to productively contribute to this conversation. That is a little harsh, but the FUD in the JS world is incredible, mainly by people that have very little experience and understanding.

You also don't need to include packages that are poorly engineered and maintained. For what you do decide to use, you are getting visibility into the warts that you may have blissfully ignored in the past.

The issues you are describing are not really problems anymore unless you let your app get woefully out of date. The web and browsers are a moving target, so it's critical that you minimize running legacy code wherever possible. Npm/Yarn and Webpack is a huge step in making that manageable. jQuery has been on autopilot for years because it has limited usefulness. We've collectively moved on except for a few holdouts.

The problem is jQuery has no business being used today unless you have to maintain legacy code. Even then I would deprecate jQuery wherever possible. Using jQuery for a "quick and dirty" application today is just terrible and it sends the message to green devs that jQuery code slinging is a skill worth having.

If you like quick and dirty, just make sure you have a working Node.js environment and generate a simple project that supports Webpack or Parcel. You will get all the advantages of Babel and Polyfills (if you need them) with little to no effort.

jQuery has no value except for maintaining legacy code. jQuery was useful back in the day (and John Resig had the best solution), but I don't love it anymore. In fact, I have serious judgements of the devs that use it that should know better.

Edit: I should note that jQuery is bad because it has no state management and you cannot easily track side-effects. I would much rather see someone use something like Svelte and construct the functionality with modern best practices while keeping a very small footprint.

My NES games are instant and that preceded Flash by decades. In fact, I think the 8-bit era inspires game devs today far more than the early-mid 2000's browser games.

This is why we have crackpots like Trump, chants of "lock her up", skepticism of established institutions, and skepticism of science moving to the forefront. Assange isn't the only one doing this, but he was a big part of it.

I took an accelerated Calculus class one summer. My parents spent hundreds of dollars on a VHS calculus set to supplement the class because it was moving too fast for me. That was the difference maker in me passing. Today, getting that info is trivial and available to everyone.

In these poor communities I'm seeing a tendency to stigmatize education... that's the biggest problem. The educational resources available to anyone today obliterates what we had in the 80's. You don't need to be an elite to have access to the critical material, you just need the desire to pursue it.

Also, I never use that icon and exclusively use the shortcut. I'm curious if that can be spoofed somehow. But again, they can only get your master password. In the case of 1password, I'm pretty sure they would need direct access to the computer to gain access to your vault.

Apple is using user behaviors for advertising within Apple's ecosystem, but that's not something I really mind. Once my data/behavior exists the company I've entrusted it too, I get very uncomfortable.