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How many of you actually built a React/Redux stack SPA that actually came anywhere near what Sapper offers?

The file size problem is underrated. Not everybody walks around with 5G like in South Korea. Not everybody has the latest and greatest Samsung or Apple phone.

It's a big problem when you advertise PWA as quick and fast but then in tiny letters mention its using the best case on best network and best phone. If you design without worst case in mind, you've discriminated people based on whether they can afford the best or not.

The vast majority of users don't. It's only recently that Android phones have gotten cheap that its seeing widespread usage. These people are not going to wait around for the React/Redux stack to load AND still wait on more data coming through their 2g/3g connection. Oh, and there's slow rendering on older Android phones and now you have a laggy Javascript app experience that Lighthouse tells you everything is okay.

Let's not be so quick to judge. It's not as if Sapper has deviated from the trend that even React team is acknowledging. This is a fresh approach to a quickly monopolizing space, from an organization that has other agendas in seeing their tech stack flourish.

I'm gonna definitely be watching Sapper.js in 2018 and if they deliver on most of the 11 criterias, I know my customers and their customers will be happy.
How does the hashing power give it value?

AFAICT it's the other way around - the value makes more hashing economically viable.
That's quite the victim blaming you're doing there. I'll make sure to never play an FPS against a twelve year old again, just to make sure a cop doesn't shoot me for no reason
People are overthinking this.

In practice inheritance is a very special case of composition that is only advantageous in a very narrow set of usecases. Basically almost never.

In fact the number of usecases is so low that I would prefer that modern languages just omit it entirely because the added value is incredibly tiny compared to the cost of confused developers.

The primary difference between an interface and inheritance is that with inheritance you do not have to implement every method and can use the default implementation of the base class.

Example:

class Piece {
int x
int y
boolean validMove(int newX, int newY) {
return false;
}
}

class Queen extends Piece {
boolean validMove(int newX, int newY)
//we use the default implementation
}

Is equivalent to this

interface IPiece {
boolean validMove(int newX, int newY);
}

class Piece() implements IPiece {
int x
int y
boolean validMove(int newX, int newY) {
return false;
}
}

class Queen implements IPiece {
Piece piece;
boolean validMove(int newX, int newY) {
//we use the default implementation
return piece.validMove(newX, newY);
}
}

Inheritance doesn't actually offer any code reuse. All it does is choose the default implementation of the parent class. If you have dozens of polymorphic functions in a class and only want to change 3 it might be convenient. I would question why you need so much polymorphism to warrant a special language feature. C and Rust developers are fine without it. Functional programmers are fine without it. But for some reason in OOP you need it everywhere and are actually worse off because it's overused.

Modern language designers, please do not implement inheritance of classes in your new languages!
Once the segwit update has been adopted widely (in a few months), transaction cost won't be an issue.

Use case is an advantage that Ripple has. However, then again, Ripple is pretty much owned by the banks, so that's a downer.
Start a blog about a topic that you want to become an expert in. The continuous push to publish is a great motivator for self-improvement.
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This is the view from MMT perspective. I highly recommend looking into it, e.g. this lecture is great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1SMjeuyF-Y

Treatment of debt is at around minute 54.
Even without a requirement to stay particularly up to date, the size of the datasets makes working with OpenStreetMap reasonably complicated.

I needed tiles in non-web-standard projections: equirectangular and polar (EPSG:4326, 3575 and 3031). ESRI used to provide equirectangular tiles[0], but have deprecated the service. Polarmap have an Arctic map, but only at standard resolution [1]. I couldn't find an Antarctic map.

With a fair amount of fiddling, and building on the work OpenMapTiles.org have done, it was possible to generate the tiles, but I now realise why few people have attempted this: it requires a lot of processing power, technical ability to get everything working properly, and cartography to have a map that looks good (not just the final styling, but the choice of what data is present in each layer of vector tiles).

I met the minimum of what we needed [2], but I need to find more time to do the rest -- like contours.

[0] http://server.arcgisonline.com/arcgis/rest/services/ESRI_Str...

[1] https://webmap.arcticconnect.org/polarmap.js/examples/PolarM...

[2a] Small demo: https://api.gbif.org/v2/map/demo7.html (shows northern fulmar seabirds)

[2b] An overview of the tiles: https://tile.gbif.org/ui/

[2c] In production https://www.gbif.org/species/2481433 (click to change the projection)
Nobel economist Angus Deaton: we're asking wrong questions about inequality
That's extraordinarly retarded.
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Isn't there supposed to be someone in charge of the situation? What you are describing is a large # of cops showed up and each one took matters in their own hands. What I would expect in a situation like this is some kind of senior officer who directs the operation (whose first responsibility is accessing the situation before even putting his officers in a potentially dangerous situation).
> I have been thinking about why we have ended up here, and why not just native apps.

That's what Java was supposed to be.
You would jail someone for life for a prank call... when policemen are running around shooting innocent people?
Same here. Must have a good leather sole as well. Finding that is hard. But I had a pair of shoes from a Spanish (Spain) brand whos name escapes me - but best shoes I have ever had. I had them re-soled twice as I loved them so much.

Also, watching vids of bespoke shoemaking is satisfying

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs3EJmuzAoA

Edit: I recall the shoe company:

Mezlan.com - they don’t make the shoe I had any longer, but the quality of their shoes is top notch for the price.
I also have concerns about distribution of coins. I get the feeling that there is a cartel that own 90% of the coins and is keeping them off the market to inflate prices.
> The key is to keep managers out of the admin section

Works as a general rule, too.
Is it really a currency if there isn't inflation? What prevents hyperdeflation and the inevitable death of the "currency" without inflation?
Wasn't this the idea behind Microsoft's Singularity project?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_%28operating_syste...
Kind of an asinine comment. Based on his statements he's at a level far above those of "soccer moms" and has done far more than "make coffee".
That was Chew's original motivation, explaining the hadron/meson zoo without quarks and gluons, but it's not likely to happen any time soon. The conformal bootstrap program is about analyzing _conformal_ QFTs, those which look the same at every magnification setting. (The theory of hadrons is not conformal; if you zoom in, the particles get bigger.) In conformal QFTs, it turns out something like Chew's vision does hold. This implies a huge set of constraints, and it turns out you can use these constraints to find solutions to the equations of motion of these theories. This is a bit of a miracle, since it's extremely hard to solve these equations directly. It's also rather valuable, since conformal QFTs describe a lot of natural physical system (like the triple point phase of water). Being able to solve these theories with sufficiently good approximations means that you can compare theoretical and experimental predictions.
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Do you know of any resources that explore this potential in depth (books, articles, etc..)? I'd be very curious. It's one thing to just say "building machines that can do the work for us" but what are all of the implications of this? Will the machines self maintain? Will they build themselves? How would we avoid needing massive teams of people to maintain all of this technology? How would power management and costs work? Even if it is semi-fiction I'd love to read others thoughts on the subject.
Why not? Jesus never said anything about borders
I.e. indian captcha solving shops.
IMHO making the payment every year would start to get onerous. Maybe it's premature optimization but I was thinking that keeping the timeline to once per decade would fall roughly in line with the pace at which Copyright systems normally move.

It's also a "big government" idea, but having a central database for copywritten works would be a boon IMHO. It could have the year of creation, author, and a price with a contact/payment system for using the work instead of the huge hodgepodge we have now. I don't think anybody would disagree that finding the actual rights holders and negotiating licenses is anything but a nightmare on older works. It could also keep a copy of the original work for release when the copyright expires, the same way the Library of Congress keeps a copy of every book. Storage requirements would be high, but they could be paid through the fees people pay to keep their stuff in copyright. This would also mean a return to explicitly registering for copyright on a work, but IMHO that's a good thing. If you don't care enough to register why should the government care enough to protect your work? Registration should be dead simple, upload a copy/good description of the work to your copyright account and bam, you're registered. The only requirement on the upload is that the format must not be locked or proprietary, there must be an open/free viewer available.

Downside of this system is that it's massive. Just absolutely enormous. Makes healthcare.gov look like a Geocities page. Huge number of man hours to maintain it every year. It ends up being the cultural database of the US very quickly.
I actually like JIRA, but I'm also an admin in it and have taken ownership of the workflow (and really push back on any change requests to it).

One thing I definitely don't have is any managers living in it. It has all kinds of (useless, IMHO) reports it can spit out, but we don't spit them out, other one for time tracking some particularly-tagged issues (for the SR&ED tax credit program).

What is really awesome though is looking back through issues (and in general, JQL). For example, finding any re-opened bugs:

type = bug and (status changed to reopened after 2017-01-01) and project in (PROD1, PROD2)

or building release notes (and excluding bugs that were found internally only):

project = PROD1 and fixVersion = "2.0" and affectsVersion != "2.0"

We generally just look at these in the UI (though I suppose you could consider this a 'report' of sorts).
Thank you for the kind words about intercooler.js. :)

If you are interested in some reading on the theory behind it, I recommend these two blog posts that explain how HTML and REST/HATEOAS hang together better than Javascript with JSON:

http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/01/18/rescuing-rest.html

http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.ht...
I can buy pork on amazon, or in any store. Transaction costs: maybe $2.50 for shipping. The SEC's categorisation is among the most insane arguments I've heard. If you seriously believe it (which I doubt) you're engaging in some mind-bending motivated reasoning.
It's not a real war. LBJ noted that war seems to get heaps of money shoveled on it while basic domestic stuff goes unfunded. So declaring a war on poverty is a way to anchor the amount of money spent up where people think of funding wars instead of down where they think of funding welfare programs.
That's my concern about RaiBlocks too. I love that it's zero-fee and instant transfer with no proof of work or mining, but the fact that it's only on a few exchanges with a daily volume of 0.003% of the total supply is... dubious.
The more likely outcome here is that AI and Big Data will be used to extract some of the remaining funds that poor people have by tweaking business models and marketing to become just that much more efficient.
Here, argue with the Economic Policy Institute regarding this very basic and widely recognized economic fact: http://www.epi.org/publication/minimum-wage-workers-poverty-...
That’s the thing bitcoin is the safe crypto investment.
This has been exactly my experience as well.
-""I was in a "trophy girlfriend" relationship when I was young and my entire life revolved around "keeping" this guy""

It's absolutely a job. Why wouldn't it be? My point is that it's always an option for an even marginally attractive women that average dudes don't have, (which may be the reason the homeless population of women is such a minority.)

Not a lot of plump hairy average dudes wearing yoga pants with the word sexy and a midriff shirt trying to keep their rich man happy(gay or straight).

So my point remains....it's an extra option always available to women.

I don't understand how that could be considered "keeping women down". It's more like women always have an option available to them that the rest of us don't.
Do you really think enough people care about the ME / control of hardware in general / hardware that spies on you or is out of your control to influence the stock price of a company the size of Intel?
Bitcoin has the advantages of being the natural shelling point (the first big cryptocurrency), having a proven (if suboptimal) improvement / decision making process (many smaller ccs have not made significant changes to their tech, and so one can't know how they would handle that), not having an overly powerful scripting language.

Many weaknesses in tech can be fixed or built around. Adoption, community, and trust are hard to get.
This is just for the US North East. Football and basketballs fields are never shared because basketball fields are always paved.
It’s true that mining is mostly done for ROI; if you can’t make a profit by running your ASIC miner, or your GPU miner, or whatever else, then you won’t run it.

That doesn’t mean, though, that Bitcoin would lose its network robustness; before BTC had any value at all, people were mining it “altruistically”, purely for the sake of adding auditing strength to the network so that they could use BTC to make transactions. The Bitcoin mainnet has far more of those plain-old CPU miner nodes than any other network, and they’d still be there even if the profit-mining operations cashed out.

On the other hand, if the ASIC and GPU mining pools “went dark”, it’d always be a worry that someone would pay to start them up again just for long enough to execute a Sybil attack. But Bitcoin has been “steered” away from such attacks before with community forks, and I doubt such a future would be any different.
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Observability: the new wave or another buzzword?
They are not representative of science in general or of climate science specifically.

Citation needed. By the way, attributing wickedness is unnecessary; bias, incompetence and naivety seems sufficient for what's being described by OP.
Why don't we employ the NSA to provide value here, by tracing back the few swatters that are responsible for the majority of these events? We know they have the capability.
The work is for the past.

The moment the transaction fees and block rewards go down, the very expensive Prof of Work mechanism will weaken and future transactions are unprotected.

Proof of Stake can offer the same protection mechanism without needing to finance a huge value destruction operation.

And to those saying that the electricity is not wasted because it protects the block chain: If a mechanism exists that works without throwing away electricity, then that's definitely wasted.

It's like saying my monster truck doesn't waste gas because it carries a child to school.
I only wish that companies also accepted that you need a ton of consultant time before you can actually use it like it's known for SAP. The out-of-the-box experience of JIRA is pretty poor.
I think anecdotally that may work, but I'm not convinced that dev teams are that much better than "managers" are at creating or managing process (nor are they often very interested in doing it)...

But I think this does get to the core issue with JIRA. Whether you "like" JIRA or not is more a reflection of your organization than it is a reflection of JIRA as a tool.
> Bitcoin was not designed to be a high-throughput currency. It's a store of value.

Could've fooled me with the whitepaper title "A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System".

Before a store of value it was also billed as a mechanism to high-fee trans-border remittances, a solution for micropayments on the Web, currency replacement for countries with high local currency volatility, etc.
I don't have the time to dive into it right now, but I gotta say I dig the layout.
Especially compared to GitLab and Phabricator, which both offer open source versions that are way better IMO all around.
Some people might have ethical or technical problems with Ripple, but personally I don't care, as long as it makes some money for me. I own some Ripple, but not much at this moment. In the future I would like to add more to my portfolio, as I believe Ripple will be much less volatile compared to Bitcoin, so that would give more ease of mind. Of course, the profits are likely less as well.
Sure thing. Let me switch industries, learn a completely new skillset, and rise to a point of power where I can affect such widespread (cross-state and company) changes. Shouldn't take more than a few months.

/s
I certainly don't encourage it, but an organized group calling in a huge amount of swattings, so much so that it becomes a regular occurrence, might actually be a way of reducing the danger in swattings and reduce police aggressiveness.

If each police force responds several times to this kind of prank call, it would hopefully demonstrate to them the need to change their operating procedures.

Unfortunately several dozen or more innocent people might be killed or wounded before they realize their rules of engagement etc. need updating.
Also, just throwing something else out there... But I wonder, at what point, do we stop building tools that can work for 99% of the use cases and start actually having opinions on which specific use cases are "good" or should be encouraged? Because, like some of the other comments have said, a lot of those workflows that "only use 20% of the functionality" aren't exactly appealin

The "tool" doesn't need to be overly "opinionated" just like a programming language, I want a tool to be flexible. It's my responsibility as the architect to constrain the tool/language for my environment.
This is Lifestyle Creep and you have to take responsibility for your own decisions.
I think those people are OK with Visa, MasterCard and PayPal.
> I've never seen a manager use it well.

This is very anecdotal. To see JIRA used well, you need both management which is willing to invest the time and effort necessary to learn the ins and outs of configuring JIRA, as well as competent and flexible stewardship by the admin team to enable desired configuration in a way which fits in with the rest of the instance and doesn't pollute it. If you pay attention to recent JIRA releases, Atlassian is trying to enable management to make the changes it wants to make without resulting in global pollution, but either way, you still need management to personally buy in.

I've seen everything from managers who refuse to customize workflows beyond "todo-in progress-done" to managers who use post-it notes on the wall for their "real" agile board, and then copy the changes by hand into JIRA issues to communicate status up the ladder. If your company's management isn't buying in, your company needs to either replace the managers or replace the tool, instead of trying to fit round pegs into square holes.
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> Bitcoin was not designed to be a high-throughput currency. It's a store of value.

I think you should spend some time reading https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf before making factually incorrect statements. Bitcoin is only viewed as a store of value today because it no longer can be utilized for its original purpose. It's a complete failure in that regard.
I don't think it's controversial at all. Nobody gets out of life alive. If I make it to 65 or so, I feel I've had my share. It's all downhill after that point anyway, why would I want to prolong the misery?
Indeed. But as the file is encrypted beyond what Apple implements, it is probably at least as safe as if it were on 1Password's own cloud.
We're not reproducing the Web, we're improving it. The Web is well-known by devs and users, has lots of tooling, and has all the features I'd want from a p2p applications platform. It just needs the p2p. The question to ask is, why would abandon something that is already so close to what we want?
That's what happens when you build things in Java.