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New comment by positivecomment in "XS7 – A compact JavaScript engine for embedded applications"

positivecomment — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 20:41:07 +0000

I meant in the context of the GUI, then all data would be exchanged through the native bindings.

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positivecomment — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 19:42:26 +0000

This is very cool. I hope one day someone creates a basic DOM for this with good CSS support and then we'd have the mini-electron. I hope that a very limited subset of the features of a browser (no downloads, tabs, networking, security contexts and everything else which would be irrelevant for desktop apps) can be implemented with few orders of magnitude less lines of code.

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positivecomment — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 13:37:39 +0000

The funny thing is, many people there believe that Turkey is one of the most advanced economies. The propaganda machine is amazingly successful. The person you are replying to has access to all the information to see how wrong those arguments are, yet simply ignores everything. I said funny but I mean more like a tragicomedy.

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positivecomment — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 13:18:44 +0000

That would not be allowed in Islam.

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positivecomment — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 13:12:56 +0000

Does it still look wonderful:

https://www.google.de/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&m...

Also, I searched for the Kurdish support: https://i.imgur.com/bWnm5Sb.png

I can say that I wasn't surprised.

New comment by positivecomment in "Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser"

positivecomment — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 14:24:54 +0000

Could you please be more clear? I disabled all my extensions and still don't see anything there that is based on feelings?

New comment by positivecomment in "Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser"

positivecomment — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 14:22:17 +0000

Out of literally all the software vendors I know, including the one I'm working for, Mozilla is the one I'd have least expected to allow such a thing. I'm very surprised (Negatively, needless to say)

New comment by positivecomment in "Ask HN: Best tech for a web site 2018? (PHP, Rails, Django, Node, Go, etc.)?"

positivecomment — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 19:32:01 +0000

I think everything was beta-quality until 2.0 - so yeah it wasn't easy. Nowadays it's smooth sailing.

New comment by positivecomment in "Couple Proves Facebook Listens in on Conversations with Simple Experiment"

positivecomment — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 13:04:07 +0000

Custom CAs being ignored for the applications makes it a bit difficult so not trivial but possible by modifying the app.

New comment by positivecomment in "Face ID beaten by mask"

positivecomment — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 12:52:40 +0000

This is the infamous "nothing to hide" argument in a different form.

New comment by positivecomment in "Ask HN: Best tech for a web site 2018? (PHP, Rails, Django, Node, Go, etc.)?"

positivecomment — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 12:47:34 +0000

I made a prototype using .NET Core MVC + Entity Framework + Npgsql + Autofac (Probably better IoC containers available out there but I'm used to Autofac open to suggestions btw).

It was very easy to develop, test and deploy. Npgsql has support for most of the postgres features (except complex types but that's planned).

I deployed everything on Ubuntu servers and runs like a champ. (I'm saying prototype and it is indeed, but it has 100-something users across the globe testing their workflows continuously and it has a lot of CPU-intensive stuff which is child's play with .NET to manage asynchronously. A production app would have two orders of magnitude more users but I think I'll be able to get away with a single server if it comes to that).

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positivecomment — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:34:11 +0000

> Because... we are the leading cyber security firm ;)

But you don't even use HTTPS. Why?

New comment by positivecomment in "Show HN: Orange Forum – Web 1.0 style forum written in Go"

positivecomment — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 10:09:09 +0000

Here is one:

https://nodejs.org/en/about/

My point is, you can write any kind of app with almost any kind of server-side tech. If you don't like the culture, you may be right, but please be explicit about it.

New comment by positivecomment in "Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-orientation (2014)"

positivecomment — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 10:07:44 +0000

I didn't say better. I said "more powerful" and I said that in terms of expressive power.

C#'s type system is usually better except from the times that I feel creative. Works perfectly for large codebases with many changes. Not fun for side-projects.

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positivecomment — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 12:39:25 +0000

Couldn't agree more. And if you need to make it more concrete, Typescript gives you that and more. Well except the variadic generic types which they are planning to have.

I don't like node.js, but I occasionally use Typescript like a more powerful C#.

New comment by positivecomment in "Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration"

positivecomment — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 15:19:59 +0000

That would suck, on the other hand, the extension methods make people create huge chains continuations of which comes from who knows where.

Best solution would have been a pipe operator if you ask me.

New comment by positivecomment in "Netflix: Removing client-side React.js improved performance by 50%"

positivecomment — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 14:21:32 +0000

A butterfly is way more complex than React.js.

New comment by positivecomment in "Netflix: Removing client-side React.js improved performance by 50%"

positivecomment — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 14:20:22 +0000

You would be right but they mean the damn landing page :)

New comment by positivecomment in "Netflix: Removing client-side React.js improved performance by 50%"

positivecomment — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 13:04:28 +0000

Today we learned: Removing an advanced library from a simple project increases performance.

Sorry for being sarcastic but don't you also find this too obvious?

New comment by positivecomment in "Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration"

positivecomment — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 10:02:19 +0000

> Shoot the reviewer

Duly noted! Although I'll try talking to her first, I'm sure there's more behind the decision :)

One of the methods that was inside takes a request, extracts the body and returns the parsed graph from the body. It's used by many controllers from many projects. I don't know where to put such a thing, hence the request extension.