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This. People do not understand the implications of the most basic facts of modern science. Gravitation is instantaneous action at a distance via an "occult" force (to quote Newton'…

It maps state to a set of reasonably efficient DOM updates that you generally don't have to manage or think about. Go play around with Angular 1, or BackboneJS, or try building a w…

This. Lean on less. I use react and a SQL driver. I have many massive react projects in production.

React is not responsible for the stack of poorly maintained third party packages one chooses to use alongside it. You don't actually need a router, or redux, or other "state manage…

As a former high end audio/video salesperson, I just want to state for accuracy that local dimming, as a feature, is not dynamic contrast. Dynamic contrast is terrible. By having a…

Took my 7 year old daughter to a dentist. 8 cavities. Gotta get em right away! Went to another one. All good - zero cavities. Many dentists are criminals willing to drill holes in …

Except that Google and MS search dominate and they can disprefer those not using WEI to "protect" users.

Yes, as usual, our pop science writer with a dim understanding of the issue quotes critics of the Chomskyan paradigm (the study aims to falsify Chomsky’s suspicion that a symbolic …

Forgive me for having chosen pseudo js for the example - and npm. That conflates the issue. I meant to convey an attitude - let some random package do the work, who cares whether i…

No no you're so right. Let's have 500 packages installed to do multiplication. Zero performance impact, I'm sure.

Why is modern software slow? Because Joe developer's solution to a given problem is to Google up a package that solves the problem, check the license, and then run: > { packageMgr …

I lol'd at this. :D

In 2008 or so, Steve Abney (Michigan, linguistics) suggested this book to me while we were discussing a meaning-is-use theory of semantic content. I went straight to the library to…

I agree with OP 100%. I once went through multiple rounds, got an offer only to discover they wanted to pay me tens of thousands less than I was already making. I'll never engage a…

It's weird to say 'her' once and then switch pronouns. But I hear you. You're picturing me with a peg leg. :)

That was my immediate impression as to what was going on. This guy doesn't know about service workers...

Uh, is that intended as a shot at Michigan? Maybe that's not what you meant. I don't know. When I sit on my break wall with friends, sipping scotch and enjoying a half decent cigar…

I'm a Michigander - across the water from Amherstburg and a tick south.

I'm deeply blessed to live on and own ~100ft of Lake Erie's shoreline. I can hear her waves now. Like all the Great Lakes, she is an inland ocean, enormous, inviting the misapprehe…

How did this make it to the top of HN?

I live on Lake Erie, and I've seen this effect before. There will be a point between the shore and the horizon at which the water takes on exactly the hue and luminance of the sky,…

Suppose I want to expand/contract a row view - toggle to see the details. The data is on the client and the HTML is already printed to the page; it just needs to be shown/hidden. Y…

It has an alert at the top that says, "Irony Detected".

> but the post contradicts itself in presenting it as a product of our time. No. It doesn't. Nope. It presents the phenomenon as something that's always true - recall the discussio…