Major tsunamis in Japan aren't rare at all, they've occured multiple times in the past century. They also don't happen to follow a fixed time schedule. If a built you a house, following all the protocols for safety,…
Aesthetics is a part of interface design. There can be no divorce here. Even if there could, aesthetics would still matter at another level.
His style is much closer to late 90s geocities websites. Even if that became fashionable again (in an ironic hipster way), there still would no intention behind it on his part. Maybe he's actually a master troll though,…
No, I'm not saying that. The context is startups. Design aesthetics matter, always. People care about aesthetics. Do you believe Apple is the highest valued company right now because of superior functionality? If Alan…
> Alan's not working on startups. Alan is lecturing startups, in this context. > The rest of your comment can be compressed to name-calling ('horrible', 'unacceptable'), and thence to nothing. I didn't "name call", I…
I was interested to hear the argument up until "Ruby on Rails" showed up. If "Ruby on Rails" does what you need, that's great, but then I'd say you're barely programming anymore, just like writing HTML/CSS barely is…
I was about to write the same comment. Since you beat me to it, I'll just point out that this guy really should put on a proper shirt.
data contained in an exe (or dll) is not necessarily in RAM at all time
If you read the article, you'll see that what Corral is right now (i.e. the supposed "next generation") is in fact being abandoned. It's a dead-end, at the very least.
I'm not doing your homework for you.
Many languages in use today don't even have a (first class) concept of unions or structures, at least not in the sense that you are talking about. If you're talking about about "bloat" those contexts, you might want to…
>> The downside is then if you just get a message without knowing what it is about it's difficult to figure out. You're saying that as if there was a clerk reading the message at the other end. If a computer program…
You're being completely disingenuous here. Nothing is competing with HTML on being what HTML is. Nothing is even close. All text encodings in common use build on top of ANSI. The de-facto standard (now) is UTF-8 and…
The manpower behind Linux is superior. Not sure if it's the "vast majority", but for many business cases following the GPL(v2) rules simply is not a problem. Both the PS4 and the Nintendo Switch run on FreeBSD, by the…
Some people care about privacy. Most probably may even care about it to some degree, but not to the degree where they sacrifice their convenience for it. Again, the media has done its best to scandalize the very real…
> What other game dev tools can a user on a Chromebook use? Or an Android device? Well, you're kinda making a point for me there. Why would a game developer use a Chromebook or an Android device? The second point…
Like you said, this is all theoretical. You can reach "the whole world" with the right browser. At that point, you might as well ship an Electron app. But that's not even the point of my question. What I actually meant…
This isn't a new problem. We "know" the common people don't care because all attempts at scandalizing this in the media, for years, have not found much resonance.
...even for a team of one developer! Look, I understand how one might like HTML imports. Once you've gone down the rabbit hole of Web technology, all the fancy experimental features make it look like HTML/CSS are now…
There are web applications that are way more demanding than this, that have run on more platforms for a while and that don't need any of these questionable experimental features. I could understand if you said you need…
> Those of us that do understand the technology have a duty to help the people without that knowledge and experience. No, we don't. The fact that the "common people" don't value privacy enough led to this whole…
Can't you just... program that stuff yourself? By relying on such "cutting-edge" features, you get all the drawbacks of web technology with none of the reach.
Does anybody ever actually want to do serious work "in the browser"? I can think of many drawbacks. Where's the benefit?
Second Line: "However, in practice, the short seller is required to post margin or collateral to cover losses, and inability to do so in a timely way would cause its broker or counterparty to liquidate the position."…
What you're talking about is a "naked short", which is of course very risky. No Bitcoin exchange allows for this. In fact, most exchanges don't allow for shorts or any sort of leverage. While what you're saying may be…
Major tsunamis in Japan aren't rare at all, they've occured multiple times in the past century. They also don't happen to follow a fixed time schedule. If a built you a house, following all the protocols for safety,…
Aesthetics is a part of interface design. There can be no divorce here. Even if there could, aesthetics would still matter at another level.
His style is much closer to late 90s geocities websites. Even if that became fashionable again (in an ironic hipster way), there still would no intention behind it on his part. Maybe he's actually a master troll though,…
No, I'm not saying that. The context is startups. Design aesthetics matter, always. People care about aesthetics. Do you believe Apple is the highest valued company right now because of superior functionality? If Alan…
> Alan's not working on startups. Alan is lecturing startups, in this context. > The rest of your comment can be compressed to name-calling ('horrible', 'unacceptable'), and thence to nothing. I didn't "name call", I…
I was interested to hear the argument up until "Ruby on Rails" showed up. If "Ruby on Rails" does what you need, that's great, but then I'd say you're barely programming anymore, just like writing HTML/CSS barely is…
I was about to write the same comment. Since you beat me to it, I'll just point out that this guy really should put on a proper shirt.
data contained in an exe (or dll) is not necessarily in RAM at all time
If you read the article, you'll see that what Corral is right now (i.e. the supposed "next generation") is in fact being abandoned. It's a dead-end, at the very least.
I'm not doing your homework for you.
Many languages in use today don't even have a (first class) concept of unions or structures, at least not in the sense that you are talking about. If you're talking about about "bloat" those contexts, you might want to…
>> The downside is then if you just get a message without knowing what it is about it's difficult to figure out. You're saying that as if there was a clerk reading the message at the other end. If a computer program…
You're being completely disingenuous here. Nothing is competing with HTML on being what HTML is. Nothing is even close. All text encodings in common use build on top of ANSI. The de-facto standard (now) is UTF-8 and…
The manpower behind Linux is superior. Not sure if it's the "vast majority", but for many business cases following the GPL(v2) rules simply is not a problem. Both the PS4 and the Nintendo Switch run on FreeBSD, by the…
Some people care about privacy. Most probably may even care about it to some degree, but not to the degree where they sacrifice their convenience for it. Again, the media has done its best to scandalize the very real…
> What other game dev tools can a user on a Chromebook use? Or an Android device? Well, you're kinda making a point for me there. Why would a game developer use a Chromebook or an Android device? The second point…
Like you said, this is all theoretical. You can reach "the whole world" with the right browser. At that point, you might as well ship an Electron app. But that's not even the point of my question. What I actually meant…
This isn't a new problem. We "know" the common people don't care because all attempts at scandalizing this in the media, for years, have not found much resonance.
...even for a team of one developer! Look, I understand how one might like HTML imports. Once you've gone down the rabbit hole of Web technology, all the fancy experimental features make it look like HTML/CSS are now…
There are web applications that are way more demanding than this, that have run on more platforms for a while and that don't need any of these questionable experimental features. I could understand if you said you need…
> Those of us that do understand the technology have a duty to help the people without that knowledge and experience. No, we don't. The fact that the "common people" don't value privacy enough led to this whole…
Can't you just... program that stuff yourself? By relying on such "cutting-edge" features, you get all the drawbacks of web technology with none of the reach.
Does anybody ever actually want to do serious work "in the browser"? I can think of many drawbacks. Where's the benefit?
Second Line: "However, in practice, the short seller is required to post margin or collateral to cover losses, and inability to do so in a timely way would cause its broker or counterparty to liquidate the position."…
What you're talking about is a "naked short", which is of course very risky. No Bitcoin exchange allows for this. In fact, most exchanges don't allow for shorts or any sort of leverage. While what you're saying may be…