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I don't really think it's useful as an actual web technology since you'd need to spawn a process, reserve a port, and keep a connection open for each and every user which seems like it wouldn't be workable.
It's a neat trick though.
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Try build a complex website with complex journeys and a component architecture and you'll be begging for React. It's probably because you haven't seen the light. I'd never ever go back to using jQuery unless it was for a basic marketing site - even then I'd probably think of using Vue if anything got more complex than a carousel on the page.
Keep the majority of the rendering server side and it isn't a problem at all. Jquery for some UI enhancement.
This website uses scatterplots instead of lists to display products: https://www.productchart.com So on Product Chart, you can for example say "Show me 300 smartphones and put the price on the x-axis and the size on the y-axis". It's a bit like you would lay out things on a table and then organize them by some criteria.
I'm glad to see this site making progress and gaining attention. I remember it used to be "GNOD": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7465980 Also similar, and by another HN user: https://diskprices.com/ https://battprices.com/
These do not compare things such as sequential read, sequential write, random read, random write, temperature, MTBF, Backblaze outage percentages (statistical relevant), type of storage (SLC, MLC, AMLC, QLC, TLC, etc), chipset used, and so on, and so forth.
I'm scared shitless to check or use the battprices.com as it probably does not do anything like the above either. Which, in case of batteries, can cause something arguably more severe than bad performance or data loss: fire.
Don't use websites like these. Instead, read reviews and support websites which release quality reviews.
This website uses scatterplots instead of lists to display products: https://www.productchart.com So on Product Chart, you can for example say "Show me 300 smartphones and put the price on the x-axis and the size on the y-axis". It's a bit like you would lay out things on a table and then organize them by some criteria.
I'm glad to see this site making progress and gaining attention. I remember it used to be "GNOD": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7465980 Also similar, and by another HN user: https://diskprices.com/ https://battprices.com/
I miss a page like this for Canada.
In Germany, where I'm originally from, we have geizhals.de for product and price comparison that works a lot like these pages you linked and has been around for ages.
They have an English version you can check out here: https://skinflint.co.uk/?cat=nb (this links directly to the Laptop section so you can check out their filtering capabilities).
Here's their listing of price per TB for SSDs which is very much alike the diskprices.com page you linked: https://skinflint.co.uk/?cat=hdssd&sort=r#productlist
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Wonderful story - thanks! I was at Chase Manhattan in London from 1997-2000, and remember the Lotus Notes system well. I had Win NT and Solaris desktop systems. There was an appalling timesheet system called Agresso, the most counterintuitive Windows GUI I ever encountered. I guess the lesson is that mgmt diktat in corp envs repeatedly inflicts crappy solutions on captive users. Plus ca change!
No! It cannot be that Agresso was already around at that time. I still have to work with that horrific system, even though it is webbased now. It's still a horrible experience.
I love the idea that there was a terrible timesheet system called Agresso. And that it's still around today!
Some things do change with time. If this system was created today, I imagine it would be named something like quiesso or daisy.
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They just hope that Google will keep pouring infinite money into making their JavaScript engine faster. And they never kept track of their dependencies in the first place. That's the job of some build tool. Whatever it pulls in is fine.
We target IE11 with angular1.6, React and Vue and it all runs very fast. The only time we ever had trouble were lists over a few hundred items long that our internal customers didn’t want paginated. But delivering those more demanding apps in react and vue solves all our IE11 is slow problems. On any other brothers the code might as well be native.
I’ve always liked the approach of http://intercoolerjs.org/ . But I’m not a web dev and I don’t know the real reasons why it didn’t get traction :)
I think the main reason is because you have to build your entire back-end based on the assumption that you are using intercooler. It requires the responses to be formatted HTML for anything more complex than changing the content text. It ends up making the whole approach much more complex than it is advertised.
The point is that you already have the infrastructure that is generating formatted HTML responses (partial views), and you are now re-using it. If you were trying to write a client-side application from scratch while avoiding the easy path of writing a server-side MVC app, then yeah, I can see how it would be more complex than advertised.
Source: I've built a couple of web apps using intercooler.
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They just hope that Google will keep pouring infinite money into making their JavaScript engine faster. And they never kept track of their dependencies in the first place. That's the job of some build tool. Whatever it pulls in is fine.
We target IE11 with angular1.6, React and Vue and it all runs very fast. The only time we ever had trouble were lists over a few hundred items long that our internal customers didn’t want paginated. But delivering those more demanding apps in react and vue solves all our IE11 is slow problems. On any other brothers the code might as well be native.
Does it not bother you that a machine that can do at least a billion computations in a second struggles with a list that short?
An impressive implementation of a web UI is Figma: Figma is written in C++ code then run in the browser by cross-compiling it to a subset of JavaScript known as asm.js. The asm.js subset is basically JavaScript where you can only use numbers (no strings, objects, etc.). This is all you need to run C++ code since everything in C++ is either a number or a pointer to a number, and pointers are also numbers. The C++ addr…
That's fantastic- have you used the Ligma fork?
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Hacker News is pretty minimal in terms of UI. I like it for that.
It is, but unfortunately the HTML structure is quite horrible. It is built less like a web page and more like an Excel spreadsheet. Makes it terribly hard to parse automatically.