While I would love to endorse these comments they come across as pretentious posturing, no more than a 4chan LARP session.
None of what you just said is going to happen.
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None of what you just said is going to happen.
Effectively a form of information dropshipping.
It also speaks to the fact that over the last handful of years HN has been reduced, in a significant way, from people discussing tech-as-a-means-of-business, to something akin to those “business forums” where people share how they made money doing Whatever, But Online (tm). As if just about any way at all to scrape a bit of money from an online presence is a viable way to create a sustaining business that can generate good profits YoY.
But I digress, here we are.
Now you know.
In particular Blazor offers two interesting approaches (“hosting models”):
1) a websocket-based HTML sync layer, basically shipping over the smallest amounts of render state from the back-end. This is as close as you get to having, essentially, a server-side rendered page that is then updated in real time.
2) a wasm based approach where the whole application is delivered to the browser and you make the API calls.
Both have you writing majority of the code in C# and Razor templating syntax. Yes, you make an argument that well it’s technically still JS running it. But this becomes an implementation detail that will be ironed out, because technically the browser is written in C++, but we look beyond all that. And so on and so forth.
Now, I’m not saying I expect the world to move to .NET. Far from it. I have been preaching for a language agnostic browser execution engine so that I can write not only my logic, but my layout and styling in whatever language I want to, whether it’s Ruby or F# or Lisp, and have the browser execute it via its own internal “assembly code”. Except I’ve been parroting this idea since mid-2000s and we have at last finally started down that road.
I think this is where we are headed, and I don’t think it’s far fetched.
As the article’s interviewees quip, the way this is being handled is for the most part an abysmal failure due to a lack of leadership.
You might wonder what leadership means in this case. It doesn’t mean lockdown or making sure there’s adequate masks or scolding people who don’t stay at home. It means not jet-setting across the country non stop to hang out with your in crowd while you’re telling the populace to stay at home, which is exactly what politicians are doing.
Hypocrisy from the top that is visible to everyone is one of the worst things to come out of this. Could ignorance truly be blissful? There’s an argument to be made.
Like most of the other people here, I have zero faith in that company running a project for any reasonable amount of time.
All the “Googlers” here should stop hiding behind their monitors every time a bad story comes out, and show some spine once in awhile.
It’s all fun and games when a product is launched. How about you show some initiative when we tell you to quit shutting shit down. Or is that suddenly not your problem?
This article first puts up a straw man and then switches gears halfway into a different subject. See if you can spot it.
There is no exaggeration. Some people are just far more in tune with the mental models required to do good software work at both a micro and macro level, that any time I see someone trying to play it down I have to ask if these individuals have worked with one of these precocious talented folks.
I also sometimes struggle to understand why anyone would write an article like this. You obviously want to hire the best you can for the best price you can. Anything else is a silly coping mechanism that you can’t face with honesty.
I want to read an article that’s straightforward about how much good work 10x’ers can do and how influential they can be for rest of the team. But this isn’t an article anyone would bother writing because they’re too busy making money to have dick measuring competitions on an online news board.
And I feel like today we are back to some kind of a point of having to shoehorn FE/BE tech together unless we use some isomorphic approach which, predominantly, forces the use of JS.
And I remember DHH commenting on this regarding Java and saying something to the tune of "Why would I write Java when Ruby is so much better?". Back then I thought such a statement was too indignant, like someone getting on their high horse about a particular kind of building material that is better above all else. But nowadays, I see the wisdom behind it all the same.
I just want simple bloody tech that treats the browser as a layout and input handling engine and lets me write code in any language I see fit, whether it's Ruby, F#, C#, Clojure, whatever. I'm hoping Blazor or something like it can deliver on that vision.
"The left eating itself" is a trope that goes back a number of years to JRE and others.
What a platform like Parler does is that it gives a voice to "the right" and unites it, regardless of whether they are stoking the flames of conspiracy, or are simply "conservative" in whichever way. Having your own turf is a powerful thing. After all, see Twitter and the blue checkmarks. I'm sure more of this is to come in various forms. There is also the reddit alternative Voat but I'm not sure if it took off properly at all.
I don't have a dog in this race but it's fascinating to watch it all the same.
Edit: Thanks to perardi for corrections.
He can ask the same question about who is financing majority of shitty start-ups, why is he picking on Parler? Sounds like he has an axe to grind and is behaving like a little child about it.
Not affiliated with Parler in any way.
What FE tech would your company use nowadays for new projects? What would you use nowadays for new projects?
Another one: "women rate an incredible 80% of guys as worse-looking than medium" - https://archive.is/ZJymw
>Darwin's generation was around the last who could have a full understanding of all branches of science
And
>Not really no. A single person can no longer know, grok even the whole of biology, or even the whole of molecular biology.
have always struck me as odd statements to make.
Not to get pedantic, but that's more of a commentary of our classification of knowledge than the kind of tasks they had to deal with. They were presented with the same living beings that we have today (well, those that aren't extinct anyway). No more, no less.
They had plenty of chances to get overwhelmed with what was in front of them, regardless of what their contemporary science had figured out already.
Put another way, not knowing how things work didn't make their jobs any easier. The way things work doesn't change no matter how many branches of science you throw at it.
And these are people looking down upon someone turning an idea into recurring revenue on their own accord?
So much for the hacker and start up culture there fellas.
These are the comments that should be downvoted for being obnoxiously unhelpful, but they’re propped up as “God”-like.
I guess this is why a lot of quality old timers left HN.
Today, you can expect a product that launches to be extremely polished and have a very calculated marketing strategy from the original pitch, to some kind of an invitation list of early adopters, a lot of blogging time invested, and lastly, a sales team of some sort. A lot of them will have some kind of financial backing. And best of all, you won't even know to what degree their image and branding is curated to sell one story ("We're a small shop") vs reality ("We are very well connected with decision makers at important companies", etc).
Basically, it was taken from a fun side project and perfected to a business science on an industry-wide scale when the sharks smelled how much money was on the table.