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New comment by jhall1468 in "Vue.js 3"

jhall1468 — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 21:57:06 +0000

I don't know if "from scratch" is really a fair statement. React accepts HTML in the render function, so the only thing you'd need to do is modify the variables to match JSX's variable syntax, which is exactly what you'd have to do with Vue.

I think it's all pretty much the same deal. You might argue Vue's template syntax is closer to HTML than JSX is, but that doesn't really feel like the major issue when slowly refactoring a large application.

New comment by jhall1468 in "Google proposed Web Bundles could threaten the Web as we know it"

jhall1468 — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 15:47:44 +0000

I think you misunderstood the point you were replying to. The idea is that you can’t really have a discussion about what it enables or how it’s used unless you already understand the technical details. And that shows as a lot of the comments/blog posts about this topic are using underlying technical assumptions that are entirely incorrect.

New comment by jhall1468 in "Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch competing products"

jhall1468 — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 17:41:33 +0000

That's absolutely not the same thing lol. What Amazon did is unethical. What you are describing is illegal.

New comment by jhall1468 in "A Sad Day for Rust"

jhall1468 — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 18:26:23 +0000

Just because it's easy to fork in the UI, doesn't mean it's easy to get people to switch. Some people are actually concerned about the community as a whole, rather than their own projects.

New comment by jhall1468 in "A Sad Day for Rust"

jhall1468 — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 18:20:42 +0000

And when maintainers respond to a significant amount of work involved in a PR for a bug with a note that they aren't interested because it's "boring" then they can be critiqued for being a jerk, because they decided to be a jerk.

If the maintainer had said, "Hey, I don't have the time to review/test/verify this PR so I'm closing it for now," the backlash probably wouldn't have been quite so severe.

New comment by jhall1468 in "Spain planning on going ahead with ‘Google tax’ despite US tariff threats"

jhall1468 — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 23:40:12 +0000

You can't tax revenue when the business is losing money. No country in the world does that for a reason.

New comment by jhall1468 in "Spain planning on going ahead with ‘Google tax’ despite US tariff threats"

jhall1468 — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 23:36:59 +0000

Literally everything you mentioned isn't a loophole, it's tax fraud. Tax loopholes are what they do within a single jurisdiction to avoid taxes. What you're suggesting is transferring money from one jurisdiction to another, which can't be done tax-free.

New comment by jhall1468 in "Amazon CodeGuru – Preview"

jhall1468 — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 21:28:19 +0000

If you're discussing design and scaling at code review, you have a serious, SERIOUS, problem. That's what design docs are for.

New comment by jhall1468 in "I am no longer able to use Google with Lynx"

jhall1468 — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 22:27:54 +0000

Google shouldn't be restricted to a subset of the available technology because a niche browser isn't updating to available technology. Yes, a side-effect of this is that the blind community using Lynx can't use Google. While unfortunate, it's also a tiny, tiny, TINY community.

If you want to be upset, be upset with Lynx for falling behind. Or don't be upset and switch to JAWS, BRLTTY, Orca, etc. But the idea that anyone is supposed to support every possible browser is just silly.

New comment by jhall1468 in "Microsoft's “Love” of Linux"

jhall1468 — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 20:52:24 +0000

That was the point of this entire thread. That MS doesn't care about Linux Desktop, so it's no longer a threat. The browser is the new threat, so being buddies with Linux is fine.

There's no secret plan here. Priorities have changed since 2002...

New comment by jhall1468 in "Microsoft's “Love” of Linux"

jhall1468 — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 20:46:52 +0000

> So what are they going to do when they encounter a problem on windows? Pretty sure MS hasn't yet figured out how to directly install a Window manual into their userss brains, and the thousands of unanswered windows troubleshooting questions online can attest to that.

They call an 800 number to get help or send it back.

> your own technical ignorance and laziness?

That, right there, was exactly what the person was responding to. This attitude of "piss off and learn" is incredibly prevalent in the Linux community, which is exactly why it is (and will remain, for the foreseeable future) irrelevant on the desktop.

New comment by jhall1468 in "Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day"

jhall1468 — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 07:08:20 +0000

You can easily work 40 at tons of Amazon teams. AWS and parts of retail have the "crack the whip" culture, but it's not as bad as people think it is.

New comment by jhall1468 in "Amazon Is Accused of Forcing Up Prices in Antitrust Complaint"

jhall1468 — Sat, 09 Nov 2019 06:48:42 +0000

Walmart generates $500B in revenue compared to Amazon's $230B. While you aren't wrong that Walmart is doing well, comparing net profit between companies when one is 2x the size of the other is dishonest. It's especially dishonest when guidance from Amazon was a net decrease as they invested into 1 day shipping.

New comment by jhall1468 in "Amazon Is Accused of Forcing Up Prices in Antitrust Complaint"

jhall1468 — Sat, 09 Nov 2019 06:36:20 +0000

You can choose to not use Select, and just use standard KDP. This is an exclusivity agreement. You don't get to release your ebook elsewhere in exchange for higher royalties.

New comment by jhall1468 in "Congolese doctor discovered Ebola, but didn't get credit until now"

jhall1468 — Sat, 09 Nov 2019 00:20:48 +0000

I'm quite familiar with them. But the colloquial term "computer" isn't the same as the historical term, and that's the point here. We aren't talking about the job, or a design that wasn't implemented, or a mechanical computer because nobody means that when they say "computer".

New comment by jhall1468 in "Congolese doctor discovered Ebola, but didn't get credit until now"

jhall1468 — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 15:59:06 +0000

Turing is the easiest because he's the only one that makes any sense. You have to get incredibly philosophical to have Hopper or Lovelace on the list as they very obviously did not invented the computer.

New comment by jhall1468 in "Thank You, Guido"

jhall1468 — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:20:43 +0000

I mean, it seems like you are suggesting 3 incremental non-backwards compatible changes. I'm not sure how that's better. Nobody is going to sign on to the first two, so you end up with the exact same situation we have now, but took a more complex approach to get there.

New comment by jhall1468 in "Google’s Play Store gives a worse age rating to Fleksy, a Gboard rival"

jhall1468 — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 16:21:00 +0000

Gboard doesn't have in app purchases, the other one does. The rules are different because the apps are different.

New comment by jhall1468 in "Amazon is shipping expired food, customers say"

jhall1468 — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 01:34:17 +0000

I'm confused as to what you think is mail fraud? Amazon is just fulfillment in these cases. It's clearly marked in the same place on every page, and as such, avoidable. It's purely a profit motive for Amazon, but I don't see how it's mail fraud.

New comment by jhall1468 in "Bank of America's CEO says it's saved $2B per year by building its own cloud"

jhall1468 — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 18:01:10 +0000

The savings implies they saved $2B over AWS. I can't read the article since I don't have a BI account, but unless they saved $2B over AWS (rather than $2B over their previous infrastructure) it's definitely misleading.