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If a frog is put suddenly into boiling water, it will jump out, but if the frog is put in tepid water which is then brought to a boil slowly, it will not perceive the danger and wi…

>> state passed around as props Context provides a way to pass data through the component tree without having to pass props down manually at every level. https://reactjs.org/docs/c…

What is it about React, that needs you to use a state management library? I have programmed in Servlets, JSP Model 2, ASP.NET, iOS, Android, Windows. None of these require a state …

There are tiny alternatives to React that support JSX syntax. This library is better when you want to be "closer to the metal": https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder

jQuery is a library of shortcuts. Everything you can do using jQuery you can do without jQuery, but that's like saying everything you can do in Excel you can do with just a Calcula…

I noticed many people have found flaws in my assumptions and estimates, but nobody wants to post an alternative estimate? Even if you increase taxes to 40% (in reality even in CA t…

If you buy a house that's an investment, not an expenditure, so it is not included in monthly expenses. 45% is your marginal tax rate, not effective tax rate.

S&P 500 actually returned 10% between 1988 and 2018. If you invested $10K in S&P 500 in 1988 it would be worth $205K today. If you use a compound interest calculator you can see th…

In the best case scenario, what net worth can a typical Google or Facebook engineer (not the highest paid, but the average engineer at Google or Facebook) expect to have if he/she …

Here's something few people know: Sun saw Telescript as a threat (because Sun was all about "the network is the computer" and now Telescript was invading this space) and started th…

I uninstalled all Google's apps from my iPhone and reinstalled them. Even after re-installation, Google Maps still knows the Google account you previously signed into. How do they …

>> React has nothing to do with styles That's one of its limitations. React is a component technology and doesn't solve the problem of clashing styles, element ids and so on. Web c…

Not a major framework, but UIBuilder lets you use Web Components using JSX, just like React: https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder

> I hope you're fine with the same thing happening to you when someone finds your views repugnant. This doesn't randomly happen to everyone.

Here's an expression parser, written in C#, that also has the ability to execute the parse tree: https://github.com/Rajeev-K/formula-parser

One problem not covered by this story: it takes too many years to acquire a medical degree. In India, you can go to medical college right after graduating from high school. It only…

>> MVC is easy for small apps but has a tendency towards spaghetti in larger codebases. Disagree. There is no reason to believe MVC tends towards spaghetti in large codebases. Cont…

That's because you used React Router, which makes the router a view component. Router should be independent of view technology. If you had used React in the MVC style you would not…

>> it appears hugely over complex and unnecessary Which it is, actually! Think about how MVC works in iOS, or ASP.NET MVC or JSP Model 2, etc. In the case of the latter two, your s…

The reason eye glasses cost so much is the multiple monopolies of Luxottica. Luxottica owns: (1) nearly all brand name frames including Ray-Ban, Oakley, Prada eyewear, Armani eyewe…

Sorry, to me that's an unsatisfying answer. You are not saying what problem redux is solving for you. "It is like functional programming" does not even attempt to explain what the …

No, if you get/set methods that doesn't imply javascript with jquery! I am using React, but not ReactRouter or Redux. I hold my application state in a tree, and the tree nodes have…

Holding application state in a tree is nothing new. It is as old as software development itself. You don't need Redux for that. Actions and reducers are not solving any problems. I…