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hashbig··on Swift 5.2
I am a huge Elm fan, and I have used it in many contexts. It is fair to say that in the last 10 years React has most influenced the way we write our UI and Elm has most influenced the way we manage our state on the frontend.
hashbig··on Swift 5.2
All I want is official Swift support for an http server, and a web frontend framework using SwiftUI.
hashbig··on Apple is looking for engineers to convert its code from C to Rust
That is nice. I think many inside Canada wouldn't mind relocating for a role like this, but I doubt someone would be willing to trade California's winter for Alberta's, regardless of the job.
hashbig··on Apple is looking for engineers to convert its code from C to Rust
Usually it means you graduated with an accredited Engineering degree from university, and you are licensed by the regulatory body in your province to practice engineering. The laws differ from one province to another regarding what constitutes an Engineer.
hashbig··on Apple is looking for engineers to convert its code from C to Rust
I am like many others here surprised that this is in Camrose, Alberta. I didn't think big American companies would open an office here outside of the typical tech hubs (Vancouver, Toronto, Waterloo, and Montreal).
hashbig··on Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says
Singapore is 1/10th the size and population of most countries. Scale changes everything.
hashbig··on WHO: COVID-19 in 29 countries last Monday, now 56
https://www.businessinsider.com/nassim-taleb-heres-what-peop...
hashbig··on Google Plots Course to Overtake Cloud Rivals
How hard is it to turn this into a checkbox in their billing page?
hashbig··on Google Plots Course to Overtake Cloud Rivals
if a cloud provider out of the big 3 adds hard limit budget (taking down the service) so I don't have to worry about getting a 100k bill if I fuck up and not turn off some service before I go to a 2 month vacation, they can take all my money.
hashbig··on Mint: A programming language for writing single page applications
VueJS and Elm are not the same thing. Vue is just a JS library. Elm is a an entire language with its own tools and ecosystem.
hashbig··on When XML Beats JSON: UI Layouts
This reminds me a lot of Elm's syntax.
hashbig··on Apple Music Web Client
I think every team at Apple uses what makes more sense for the project. The official SwiftUI docs and tutorials use Vue.js for example: https://developer.apple.com/tutorials/swiftui/creating-and-c...
hashbig··on TypeScript vs. ReasonML
Anything declared in Elm is immutable so types on constants become way less relevant.
hashbig··on Show HN: I built a service to discover rapidly growing Google search topics
I wouldn't call React a framework, it's more like a library.
hashbig··on World’s top bicycle maker is moving U.S. orders to Taiwan factory
May I ask, why are you specifically looking for a spoon that isn't made in China?
hashbig··on FizzBuzz in ten languages
How have I not seen this before. It made my day.
hashbig··on Stories of Steve Jobs in Safari Design Reviews (2014)
view > show status bar
hashbig··on Long-Awaited Study Results on Vitamin D and Fish Oil Supplements
I would much rather have a "if you aren't in extreme pain then it's not a problem" doctor, than one who would over diagnose every minor issue.
hashbig··on 450 Amazon employees tell Bezos to kick Palantir off AWS
We went quickly from "The government should protect us from these private cooperations" to "Private cooperations should protect us from the government".
hashbig··on Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node
If you would start a channel where you review code of random public repos I would definitely subscribe. Well done.
hashbig··on NTSB: Autopilot steered Tesla car toward traffic barrier before deadly crash
> It's the same term as in aviation and does the same thing.

Except in aviation trained pilots with at least a decade of experience flying planes get to use it, understanding well the limitations and purpose of the technology. A teenager can use Tesla's "Autopilot".

hashbig··on Go's New Brand
> Go is a programming language whose dominant demographic is nerds.

Hence why we need a new logo to attract developers from other demographics. A good language without a diverse and wide set of users is worthless.

hashbig··on Tesla issues strongest statement yet blaming driver for deadly crash
Autopilot is a miss-leading product name. It implies automation of the process of driving.

It doesn't function like an autopilot and requires no co-pilot. Taking a technical term used in aviation is meaningless and dangerous.

hashbig··on React v16.3.0: New lifecycles and context API
People that keep comparing FB to Myspace simply don't understand scale.

Having 2 billion users is not a 1000x better than having 2 million ones. It's more like a million times. The network effect compounds non-linearly.

Facebook (the company) is here to stay. Even if the product is gone, they own 2 other multibillion dollar social networks: Instagram and WhatsApp.

hashbig··on Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design Standards
It's Agile!
hashbig··on Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design Standards
The solution is not stop encouraging people to take extreme risks, it's to stop encouraging them to take risk that put others, and not them, at risk (and punish them if they do so).

All of the great services and products we use today came from extreme risk taking, it's the corner stone of entrepreneurship.

hashbig··on Show HN: Hacker News Classics
Looking at the source code, it only considers titles from 1900 to 2010 as classics.
hashbig··on Statistics, we have a problem
After reading about yet another sexual accusation every other day, I am not sure Pence's view is that crazy after all.
hashbig··on macOS lock screen: “I just sent my session pass to my whole team”
I would be much happier if Apple didn't "force" me to update my iPad with a pop up message every day. It was running smooth like butter, even with an older version of iOS.
hashbig··on macOS lock screen: “I just sent my session pass to my whole team”
Wouldn't be surprised if it was intentional. Apple is known for planned obsolescence for their products, especially iPhones.
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