Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?

Post by mikhailfranco » Tue, Feb 07, 2017, 11:13 AM UTC

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Interesting. Do you know anything about agent modelling? Any ideas how if/it ties to it?

The agent modelling that I'm aware of is in simulation. I have a feeling that there would be a lot of interesting duality between the fields of agent based simulation and monte-carlo based probabilistic modelling, but I don't know enough about the former to say off hand.

Post by jMyles » Tue, Feb 07, 2017, 5:06 PM UTC

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I live full-time on a school bus with a family. Flexible solar panels, LED lighting with open source drivers, and the new generation of DC refrigerators are all incredibly exciting and are allowing us to experiment with living without grid electricity.

whats new in DC fridges?

Post by subpixel » Wed, Feb 08, 2017, 2:49 AM UTC

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As a web dev, the most exciting development I see is the rise of progressive web apps and a shift away from native apps in situations where web-like experince is more appropriate. That said, I'll be thrilled if React Native gives rise to higher quality apps in situations where a native app is unavoidable (e.g. my bank's app).

What kinds of situations do you think are more appropriate for web or web-like apps?

Post by aminorex » Wed, Feb 08, 2017, 5:10 AM UTC

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Post by romanovcode » Wed, Feb 08, 2017, 10:39 AM UTC

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I think the most exciting trend in web development is the rise in popularity of functional programming styles in front-end frameworks. This makes the complexity problem much easier to solve, as the code is (should be) less likely to cause an unanticipated mutated state which can't be easily tested for.

I remember this same "rise in popularity" in 2005. Every few years functional advocates get all excited (last time was F# support in Visual Studio, all C# programmers were going to switch, naturally). I suspect the reality is a small subset of programmers think functional programming is amazing and everyone else hates it. You might think it reduces complexity, but a lot of people feel it reduces comprehensibility.