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pikzen

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About pikzen

I rant about Javascript being crap and stupid practices in software development.

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    Sweet! It's taken you some time. If you had the ability to entirely delete this account, too, that'd be nice.

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    Comment #14747303

    Your president is a mysoginistic, racist, bigoted, dangerous person, but as long as it benefits your precious economy, you're fine with it.

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    Comment #14747223

    Except that MDN isn't your hipster startup website with a 20MB hero image that needs to get its point across immediately. You're never going to end up on MDN and say "I have no ide…

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    Comment #14747173

    What a genius idea, design only for people with expensive screens, make software only people with a dual Xeon and a GTX1080 can run, and be sure to make the minimum resolution 2560…

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    Comment #14704548

    >Perhaps if government lowered taxes and relaxed the labor code Oh, Brian, we meet again, and we disagree once again. Taxes and the labor code are not what is making things expensi…

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    Comment #14680775

    One solution to the any typing problem is to use tslint with no-any. It's a bandaid, but it's better than nothing.

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    Comment #14680527

    Agreed upon tax deals have to be legal in the framework laid down by the European union if you're a member. Ireland made a deal that wasn't legal. The EU reminded Apple they had to…

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    Comment #14679206

    >Fight dictatorial control with dictatorial control. ...You do know that communism advocates for a society where control is something done in collaboration with others? Because Chi…

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    Comment #14679173

    *citation needed The congested road network still happens with Google cars.

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    Comment #14679143

    > Air routes are more flexible than rail routes. Except for having to build an, uh, entire airport.

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    Comment #14679130

    > as was Donald Trump >The notion of no longer blowing up the Middle East and treating Russia as a villain, was impossible for them to stomach re Trump, Ah, yes, which is why he's …

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    Comment #14674453

    It's actually pretty good. I have no idea how or why, but it's pleasant to the eye and very readable. ... It's probably not worth $200 though.

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    Comment #14672499

    A single m4.16xlarge on AWS is at the very least $2200 per month. That doesn't even include storage costs. Depending on your country, that definitely pays for an already trained sy…

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    Comment #14672387

    >But one server is barely enough for anything nontrivial nowadays If I facepalmed any harder, my hand would go through my face. A properly setup server, with caching and a backend …

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    Comment #14670912

    >Because they're not old enough to remember what '80s GUI code looked like when the "Global god object + functions" pattern was last popular? Funnily enough, React + Redux is "Glob…

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    Comment #14665238

    >Is trading one's labour for capital not enough? No? Capital is absolutely meaningless in a society. Capital doesn't give society anything. Actual, physical goods do, services do, …

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    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    Comment #14637408

    >It's genuinely horrifying how much you seem to enjoy the thought of imprisoning or humiliating those who disagree with you. It's genuinely hilarious how much you seem to take ever…

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    Comment #14636556

    >Your comment genuinely horrifies me. I presume you're saying you want people who don't comply to be put behind bars, for extended lengths of time. And their crime, that you insist…

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    Comment #14636486

    Yet those laws are mostly not there anymore. And we are pushing forward. We _are_ making a fairer society for everyone. And yes, the US is late on that. Look to Europe for better e…

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    Comment #14634638

    >the inability to control people. What's horrifying is people thinking like that. We live in societies with rules, with laws that we have agreed upon, and are, for the most part, f…

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    Comment #14605748

    > less greenhouse gas An estimated 160.000 cars driving for Uber in the US, many of which doing so as a full time job will pollute less. Right. Riiiiight.

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    Comment #14605686

    "Keep it in check" By allowing it to willfully break laws in dozens of countries, contributing to lowering standards of living and high stress at work, tracking users at all times,…

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    Comment #14591203

    Because clearly, when stealing a bike, you want the entire neighborhood hear you for ten minutes, emitting sparks everywhere, while you had to bring an angle grinder. You're suppos…