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Nowadays many applications, and especially most big-name business application suites (G Suite, Microsoft Office online, etc), are converting all their web applications to Progressi…

"Walled garden" in what sense?

To be precise, similes are a type of analogy

Which is ironic, given that English developed as basically French + German (or some old versions of those languages).

Not sure what you mean, can you explain more? When I open my console, I get: > true == 1 -> true > false == 0 -> true Do you get something different? Or is the game claiming someth…

In that sort of case I like to use explicit type casting, e.g. if (Number(myNum) === 2) {} For me this also extends to using `Boolean(val)` instead of `!!val`, etc.; though I under…

Assuming you can include JS in the file, I imagine it would only run if the file was being parsed as HTML at the moment, not when parsed as a JPEG. That's the main point here: this…

This won't answer the question directly, but these sorts of discussions always bring to my mind the famous quote from Jeremy Bentham: "The question is not, Can they reason?, nor Ca…

Nah, I doubt it's actually a forgotten feature, it's probably got some known use cases. I bet it will stick around

I mean, if you think about it, any time you run any installer, whether via brew install, apt-get install, or an .exe or .msi, you're effectively running someone else's unknown code…

1/x as x -> 0 is a famously tricky expression because your statement that it "obviously increases exponentially as x approaches zero" is only true half the time, because it's only …

The OP didn't invent the definition of fields as defined by additional and multiplication, with division defined as the Inverse of multiplication. Even the Wikipedia article on fie…

Very good points. And thanks for the note about Object.getPrototypeOf(obj) and Object.setPrototypeOf(obj, newPrototype), I don't think I had ever actually looked that up!

Ah, I see. The special thing here is the `new` keyword. When an object is created using `new myconstructor()`, the following steps occur (among others): 1. create a new empty objec…

Can you rephrase? The "prototype chain" refers to the whole sequence of objects that link to each other by the `__proto__` property, e.g.: let vertebrate = {hasSpine: true}, mammal…

I love the idea of an x-height axis as demonstrated in Dunbar. Different x-heights can be used for really interesting effects in different design contexts.

I can't speak for the spec authors, but IMHO, tags should be deprecated and eventually removed when they are deemed to be useless, especially when their functions and/or semantics …

or, if you prefer, every point is a 'knee' in the curve with a huge speedup afterward

Hate to say it, but this is a rather naive perspective on human behavior and interaction. Like the GP said, the threat goes far beyond losing a job. For just one example, it is a v…

I really hope not; I can't count the number of times I've lost a bunch of data because I hit backspace when I thought I was focused on a text field. Alt+Left is plenty convenient, …

This is completely and totally true.

Depends on the use application. For observing especially large objects[1][2], I agree, it would be very hard to use for anything beyond a quick demo. But on the other hand, I think…

I don't agree with that description of what the brain does when you catch a ball, or with the principle it's proposing. I don't think the brain does any kind of calculations to fig…

I think the article is arguing that while age may not be necessary for quality, it is sufficient . A young(er) programmer may or may not have these qualities, but in order to survi…