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One thing I do agree is the rant at the end about zoomers. We see stuff like tailwind popping up which really reflects the zoomer ethos of not wanting to learn fundamental stuff like CSS. "It's so easy to get started! Why would I learn anything else?"
I think gen Xers and late boomers will be the most tech developped generations because we had to use computers that were hard to use.
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“The orange site” is some weird euphemism twitter users use when complaining about HN. It’s also a great search term to chuck in to twitter for some entertainment.
It seems to always be said with disdain. Is there a reason these people don't want to use the name? Do they really dislike the color orange?
The author of this article also wrote the for me mind blowing things like MathBox2 [0], the Pixel Factory [1] and many more. The often mentioned clone of React in the article, described in "The GPU Banana Stand" [2] is something that wasn't heavily discussed here as I think the concepts are just very advanced. I mention this as I believe this is what the author is concerned about and what some might haven't experienc…
Yeah, give us millennials a shot! The oldest of us are just 42!
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Things used to require much more competency. For instance, I've been looking at old Byte Magazine issues on archive.org Let's take November 1982. Here's an article on building a video digitizer ( https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-11/page/n175/... ) complete with circuit diagrams, signal examples, and a control program in 6502 assembly. Hobbyist magazine. For enthusiasts. If I had a candidate that did thi…
Today would you look for someone who grew up doing Rasberry Pi builds? I haunted Radio Shack back in the day, but would have loved to grow up doing single board computer stuff.
Can any Web Dev framework survive long enough to be stable? If I learn some fancy framework today, I expect to use it for years to come else my knowledge and time is wasted.
No, it won't. Web is an ever changing platform, with a lot of churn. The most long lived framework currently is emberjs. But it is not the hottest, so you won't find it discussed much. The most "future proof" framework is "React" which is the one mentioned in Original article. It goes without saying but React is the cause of a lot of churn in js ecosystem, particularly due to its "no-battery included" approach. ## wh…
Didn't it? I recall it was called AngularJS when it was v1.
(Yes, I'm purposefully nitpicky here, you're still right a completely new name could have been helpful here)
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I thought windows had bad UX until I tried macOS. Maybe my taste is different than others but I found macOS UX to be really confusing. I particularly disliked the iconset. Interestingly this is not true for iOS and iPadOS, those are magnificent.
Did you ever try macOS (OS X) circa 2006–2014? It was really, really good and then they ruined it for the sake of having a (kind of) unified design language with iOS. I'm typing this on OS X 10.9 Mavericks.
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Things used to require much more competency. For instance, I've been looking at old Byte Magazine issues on archive.org Let's take November 1982. Here's an article on building a video digitizer ( https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-11/page/n175/... ) complete with circuit diagrams, signal examples, and a control program in 6502 assembly. Hobbyist magazine. For enthusiasts. If I had a candidate that did thi…
Was about to upvote then you said 6502 asm isn't useful in 2022... If anything, learning 6502 asm is instructive because it isn't very abstract but forces you to turn abstract thinking to explicit instructions.
(if it is, I would like to read your blog)
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As someone who has admittedly worked on approximately 0 user-facing programs, it seems like there are not many revolutionary ideas when it comes UI. I have some dream of a sort of user-interface system that exposes controls and data more directly to the user, independent of the author's stylistic choices. Sort of like semantic HTML with style-sheets that are configured on a per-user basis. It would be analogous to th…
That was the vision of OpenDoc, and the component based CyberDog web browser that Apple built with it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc >OpenDoc is a defunct multi-platform software componentry framework standard created by Apple in the 1990s for compound documents, intended as an alternative to Microsoft's proprietary Object Linking and Embedding (OLE).[1] It is one of Apple's earliest experiments with open sta…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFJdjk2rq4E
>Video clip from the original Apple OpenDoc: A Crucial breakthrough! CD
This one has a much funkier intro, and has more substantial down-to-earth information about OpenDoc. He's got HyperCard and AppleScript in their original boxes on the shelf behind him, so he knows what he's talking about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FSFvEIpm5o
>OpenDoc: A New Standard for Compound Documents, a lecture by Kurt Piersol. The video was recorded in March 1994.
>From University Video Communications' catalog:
>"OpenDoc represents a new standard method of building editors which support assembly and editing of compound documents on many computing platforms. Kurt Piersol discusses the need for compound document systems, their requirements, and OpenDoc's industrial and technical approach."
I've been doing front end since the late 90s and I disagree with many points here. One thing I do agree is the rant at the end about zoomers. We see stuff like tailwind popping up which really reflects the zoomer ethos of not wanting to learn fundamental stuff like CSS. "It's so easy to get started! Why would I learn anything else?" I think gen Xers and late boomers will be the most tech developped generations becaus…
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I'd say macOS actually is a lot more polished than Windows, but I agree with you that it is damn confusing. Try "closing" an app for example and you'll find that half the time it will not have closed properly, or maybe it did, who knows? It depends on the app. If it's vanilla you can bet it will have to be closed with CMD+Q
I think the convention is for apps where you can open multiple instances of it (document editors, web browsers, etc), closing window won't quit the app.
Conventions being different than what one is used to (in this case, Win9X) isn’t necessarily bad. Additionally, this particular convention has been on macOS for most of its existence, which means there’s longtime Mac users who find the Win9X way just as awkward.