bmuon's comments

This makes me very happy.

As a frontend engineer who started 15 years ago, learning the box model required a lot of knowledge of the internals of the browser. The times of having to know things like quirks mode, abusing overflow hidden [1], how to break the behavior of float, etc are long gone. This is great both for us having to struggle less, and for the newer generations to be able to tackle harder problems than just layout and build cooler stuff.

[1]: https://css-tricks.com/clearfix-a-lesson-in-web-development-...

> I am convinced that if react really wanted to, they could make optimizations to make it really close to svelte

Facebook has been working for a while on Ahead-Of-Time compilation for React. Interestingly, it looks like they thought the problem was too complicated and they gave up:

> To address this challenge we initially experimented with one approach to ahead-of-time (AOT) optimization — Prepack — but ultimately that direction did not pan out. Specifically, we realized that many AOT optimizations don’t work because they either don’t have enough global knowledge or they have too little. For example, a component might be static in practice because it always receive a constant string from its parent, but the compiler can’t see that far and thinks the component is dynamic. Even when we could make optimizations work, we found that they were unpredictable to the developer. Without predictability it was hard for developers to rely on them.

Instead they're now experimenting with moving the virtual DOM resolution to the server and avoiding sending all the "templating" code to the client, which achieves a similar result. See https://reactjs.org/blog/2020/12/21/data-fetching-with-react....

Yes and no.

Browser differences are mostly disappearing, they have gained some very good APIs are CSS has gained significant layout capabilities with grids and flex. So the need for libraries like jQuery for dealing with DOM differences is disappearing. New standard libraries like Intl and now Temporal make libraries like Moment obsolete.

The web is also gaining a component model with Web Components that will help you get some level of sanity when building some mildly complex reusable stuff. This is probably very good for content heavy sites, which make the majority of the web.

The other part of the web is applications running on top of the Web platform. Those still heavily benefit from frameworks. Having some amount of sanity when managing state is very much welcome. And functional programming models have proven that a declarative way of approaching UIs is much better than dealing with browser APIs imperatively.

So for some years frameworks will still be useful for certain use cases. For the others, we should be embracing Web technologies. Maybe with some light libraries like Stencil and Catalyst.

You don't need a zoned date. You can invert the question and ask if a zoned datetime falls within a plain date.

Temporal is very well designed thanks to building on years of prior art. Give it a try and you'll realize that it leads you to ask those questions the right way.

If you're getting muscle spams, are you really "supplementing"?

The industry is definitely dropping the ball on offline. To give us credit, legal/privacy issues don't make it easy.

I've been using this small library inspired by Elm/Swift decoders [1]. It works, but it's not low boilerplate.

I'm gravitating towards GraphQL now because strict parsing is built into it, so there is no need for all this boilerplate.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@mojotech/json-type-validation

Highly debatable. In fact, trying to classify it as a dark pattern may derail the very valid discussion that the FTC is trying to have. There are significantly worse patterns out there. See [1].

What the push notification pattern is, is annoying. And it is specially annoying because of a prevalence of confirmation dialogs all over the Web with GDPR/CCPA, paid subscriptions, etc. But does it cause harm or monetary loss as the sneak into basket pattern? Or the opt-out unnecessary "insurance" that airlines continue to put in the checkout flow?

We do a disservice to ourselves littering the web with these constant asks. But it's not what needs regulation and enforcement.

[1] https://www.darkpatterns.org/types-of-dark-pattern

Is this really a dark pattern? There's tons of truly deceptive practices but this is one where websites are plainly asking for permissions.

It's not just about security. It's also about democracy. Who can verify that a voting system is secure? Only software engineers. And to be honest, only a small subset of them. Your own comment hints at that. Paper ballots allow anyone to verify the results of an election. It's supposed to be a universal process that everyone can be a part of.

The parent-child problem you mention can be addressed with names. Children can say "grid-name: footer". This is just a hint for the parent to decide where to place it in the grid. Then the parent can use grid-template-areas to arrange its children. You no longer need to change the children if you're adding columns to the layout.

(I agree with you on this simple layout)

I'm surprised there's so many comments here about demographic data while that's only a really basic view into current ad tech. Since the late 2000s ad networks have invested heavily in retargeting [1]. It's quite common that people end up in a vendor, add something to the cart and never finish the transaction. Retargeting attempts to catch behaviors like that and adjust to display the items that the user showed interest in. I haven't been in that industry in years, but in the 2020s I can only expect much more nuanced systems based on ML. And everything falls apart without being able to keep a history of what you do and who you are.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_retargeting

For $150 you get the console and 12 games. That's not too bad.

I was also a bit disappointed to find basic arithmetic. There is more. I was expecting something like an algorithm for a tile layout like https://masonry.desandro.com/ or https://github.com/d3/d3-hierarchy#treemap. In terms of animations, understanding linear algebra can help you take full advantage of CSS matrix and matrix3d transforms. Certain parallax effects can be done done better with trigonometry...

If I learned anything working at large companies is that hardware is never close to being as expensive as headcount.

Jana is doing this by building a browser (mCent) that shows people ads in exchange for tokens that they can use to buy mobile data. It's becoming really popular in India. http://www.mcentbrowser.com/

I feel like your site is better than the OP site at what the OP site tries to do.

I thought they had confirmed LIGO's detection of gravitational waves coming from a certain pulsar that Fermi saw independently. The article you link to seems to be about gravitational waves from the background. I'm also curious now.

While it might be true that the temperatures of rocket fuel burning are enough to create plasma and some reactions that lead to mass turning into energy, I think Jabavu is right in that the energy comes from the chemical reaction, not from E=mc2.

Here ya go https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/