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What betamax effect? Didn't it fail since the cartridge design was worse and also held less tape than vhs?
No. It failed because JVC saturated the market with incompatible and inferior VHS before Beta could get there.
Porn companies have decided basically every format war (including pioneering streaming).
Just wish it had some more host-level access to get to web cameras/usb devices and serial ports.
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Alert doesn't lock your browser. The developer can spend a lot of time and effort to make an even more intrusive and annoying custom alert. Why should I as a user have to endure instagram and twitter blocking content with a delayed login prompt that cannot be canceled? Because they can. Browser APIs or not malicious developers will be malicious.
Yes it does. You can't click on the URL bar and just navigate to a different site in chrome while an alert is displayed.
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A standard library, a proper date/time/timezone implementation, and robust number support (all sizes of integers and for the love of god Decimal). Every time I get excited about Deno and Typescript and all of that, I get so frustrated that 0.1 + 0.2 != 0.3 and that I need to find and vet a community Decimal library. (I know BigInt is a thing and Temporal is coming.)
I agree a standard library for JS would be great, but .1 + .2 != .3 is the case in several languages and is not anything to do with JS. This also is or can be the case in C, C++, Clojure, Python, and many other languages [1]. [1] https://0.30000000000000004.com
This is nice, until its not. I have spent a fair amount of time over the last several years trying to make node act like the browser, or vice versa. It's doubly confusing to juniors who don't understand the difference between a language and a runtime. alert() looks like a standard function and should be specified by the ECMAScript Language Specification. But its actually specified by the HTML standard, because its Wi…
This has also unfortunately been my experience, even when working with developers that have several years of experience writing JS. There seems to be a big gap in knowledge when it comes to boundaries between the language specification, runtimes, and innate abilities. People consistently confused about why they can't use JSX without a build-step, not understanding that JSX isn't "real", why doesn't fetch() work in No…
They wouldn't dream of this with C, Java or even python (even though these probably work exactly like other languages they know -- unlike JS), but for some reason perfectly smart developers make this crazy decision all the time.
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This has also unfortunately been my experience, even when working with developers that have several years of experience writing JS. There seems to be a big gap in knowledge when it comes to boundaries between the language specification, runtimes, and innate abilities. People consistently confused about why they can't use JSX without a build-step, not understanding that JSX isn't "real", why doesn't fetch() work in No…
Thus makes me feel less junior than I sometimes feel. I may not have a CS degree but at least I understand a good amount of this stuff.
The things that make JS unique aren't even mentioned in a lot of degree programs.
Larry Wall famously said the three virtues of a programmer are impatience, laziness, and hubris. Not learning JS is at the exact intersection where people do all of these at the same time and meet with epic failure. People seem to think to themselves, "I learned Java and this looks like Java, so it must act like java" and so they run down the completely wrong path.
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It's so good I worry about the Betamax effect
What betamax effect? Didn't it fail since the cartridge design was worse and also held less tape than vhs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyKRubB5N60&list=PLU_9ndwi4C...
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I agree a standard library for JS would be great, but .1 + .2 != .3 is the case in several languages and is not anything to do with JS. This also is or can be the case in C, C++, Clojure, Python, and many other languages [1]. [1] https://0.30000000000000004.com
Yes... It's an artifact of floating points. My issue is that JS only has floating points and not Ints and Decimal.
It's also possible to make length 1 typed arrays of integers and operate on them if you really need. Then, as you mention there's BigInt numbers which are supported on the last few versions of every major browser except IE11.
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I agree a standard library for JS would be great, but .1 + .2 != .3 is the case in several languages and is not anything to do with JS. This also is or can be the case in C, C++, Clojure, Python, and many other languages [1]. [1] https://0.30000000000000004.com
Yes... It's an artifact of floating points. My issue is that JS only has floating points and not Ints and Decimal.