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Post by rishav_sharan »

StandardFuture wrote: post #80
approxim8ion wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Author belongs to the special class of people who think sounding like a dick makes them more authoritative. All their posts are like that.

> class of people who think sounding like a dick makes them more authoritative It's a writing style. Like it or hate it. Nonetheless, criticisms of writing style are far too cheap and shallow for HN. Be better.

If the "writing style" consists of calling a random woman, one who has no connection to the topic at hand, cheap and nasty names - then it's better that such drivel is not even submitted on HN. We are better than this.

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Post by clarge1120 »

dogman123 wrote: post #2

“He would be hailed as a Jobs-like technical innovator if he had some of his slaves do this, and he would be remembered with gratitude, rather than as the sperdo who dumped his wife for sexorz with lip filler Cthulhu.” Misogyny is really cool! Thanks Scott Locklin!

It was a joke about Bezo’s bad judgment re: life choices, not hatred of women. Let a guy make a joke about someone doing an ugly thing to his wife. Bezos became King of the World and then left his wife for a TV personality.

I give the guy credit for humor.

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Post by clarge1120 »

ajarmst wrote: post #60
ajarmst wrote: post #44

If they're so easy and obvious, why hasn't the author done it, at least as a demo? The article also reeks of "this doesn't work for me, therefore it won't work for anyone" I doubt I'm the only one who absolutely does not concede that everything should have a GUI interface. "Why does shit like DPDK exist?" I don't know, but I bet you could find out with a little investigation, which might make this sound more like a w…

The author's about page reports that he is a former physicist with experience in automotives and law enforcement. It also contains the statement "I have a particular dislike of self-anointed 'experts';" with no apparent irony. And my personal favourite: "People may think I’m fighting above my weight class, because many of the people I label as clowns are on television and in important newspapers, much like the stars…

The guy has a sense of humor that is both effective and rubs The Offended the wrong way.

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Post by clarge1120 »

piyush_soni wrote: post #56

Re: Point 4: I think C# Windows Forms are a great example of that (drag and drop GUI for creating GUI forms), and I wonder why no one is making things that easy in a cross-platform manner anymore!

It would take the resources of a Microsoft, with their decades of language and OS experience to create such a thing. And, Microsoft has no interest whatsoever in encouraging a cross platform desktop ecosystem.

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Post by hulitu »

ironmagma wrote: post #109
Aeolun wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are those building a GUI? Or just a website? As far as I know they’re mostly about markup.

That's a strange distinction to make. Websites are a type of GUIs. You can build some pretty complicated things without JavaScript, but if you need JS, then yes, most of them support it in some form or another, Plasmic probably being the most sophisticated.

Calling websites GUI is a bit streched. A phone can be called a computer but the computations it does are limited to data collecting. Websites also could have good UI (even GUI) but most are limited to (again) data collection and the UI is the same like the one between Ice age humans and first domesticated animals.

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Post by hulitu »

Aeolun wrote: post #102
Santosh83 wrote: post #51

> Engineers are a defeated tribe; it’s cheaper to hire an “AI” (Alien or Immigrant) slave to write the terraform or electron front end rather than paying clever engineers well enough to build themselves useful tooling to make them more productive and the world a better place. Offensive passage that subtly implies immigrants from the developing world are slavish (and dehumanising them as well, using the word alien), i…

> I'm astonished that hordes of people are still ready to sell their first born if they can get a citizenship amid such a culture of passive racism and superiority complex. Can you imagine how bad it is where they come from?

No. He is just astonished. I am also astonished that a so called good manager will outsource a project to a "third world" country because he thinks this is cheaper and the poor guy in the third world country must reinvent the wheel and be "creative" because he is denied money (for equipment) and knowledge. ("just take this code and continue").

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Post by hulitu »

Aeolun wrote: post #105
andrewflnr wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The size of the final package is not very important You can only install so many packages with this philosophy before size starts to be important after. More to the point, you can only run a few of them at a time, on machines with gigabytes of RAM. This is a profound embarrassment to our industry. If by "responsive" you're referring to input latency, Electron apps are at best on par with native, usually worse IME.…

I can start building in React today, and style literally everything without really thinking about it. I can start with Qt5 today, and give up screaming in rage tomorrow because I can’t get my select dropdown to display what I want.

> I can start building in React today, and style literally everything without really thinking about it.

And be cursed into oblivion by the first user.

> I can start with Qt5 today, and give up screaming in rage tomorrow because I can’t get my select dropdown to display what I want.

File a bug report. Oh, i forgot, developers want to develop, not to fix bugs.

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Post by hulitu »

bigiain wrote: post #87
JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #5

> Cloud providers should admit they’re basically mainframes and write an operating system instead of the ad-hoc collection of horse shit they foist on developers. Oh I like this one so much. I love the era and idea of the mainframe. I caught the tail end of it in college. Our research professors would send their statistics jobs over to the mainframe and get the dot matrix printouts back showing what treatments showed…

> I just love the idea of one big central computer doing all the processing. And yet at the same time, having a super computer in my pocket is spectacularly cool!

Which can only siphon your data and play games.

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Post by hulitu »

Animats wrote: post #104

Front ends could be drag and drop native GUIs instead of electron apps We had Visual Basic. We had Dreamweaver. We had Microsoft FrontPage. What went wrong? Most web pages really aren't doing anything that exciting.

> Front ends could be drag and drop native GUIs instead of electron apps

> We had Visual Basic. We had Dreamweaver. We had Microsoft FrontPage. What went wrong?

Visual basic was only used to run macros in Office documents. And then viruses. And then MS killed it. Dreamweaver ? Hello Adobe. Frontpage ? Was broken by design.

SW is only about inovations. It does not need to last. It must be new.

> Most web pages really aren't doing anything that exciting.

Data collection is a very exciting thing, so I heard.

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