> Thanks god. The days people kept inventing new JS frameworks or even dialects (coffeescript, remember?) every three months couldn't be gone fast enough.
Coffeescript helped Javascript to evolve the right way, so in retrospect, it was absolutely a good thing. It's like people here don't remember the days of ES3 or ES5...
And the days? Remember Typescript right now? Typescript is not Javascript.
One of the guiding principles of typescript is that its semantics should be consistent with ES. This was not the case for coffeescript. I think TS is doing it the right way.
I wouldn't be surprised if a few weeks later, Amazon was investing $38B in NVIDIA for new server processors... like nothing to see here folks, totally not a giant circular bubble...
Most people don't even know they exist (I do not count webapps in a native shell as PWA). that's the biggest issue with PWA in my experience. People aren't using them.
If someone could help me reverse engineer the Zoom ARQ96 firmware in order to fix the stupid LFO mod amount implementation (LFO is basically unusable), add velocity note control to the step sequencer, and why not, add basic USB MIDI Input recording support, and ideally, a chord mode, it would be great...
For the LFO mod amounts I imagine the values are hardcoded somewhere, so it shouldn't be that hard. Adding a new UI for velocity levels or a chord mode would be more complex though. Even better if there was a Zoom engineer around here who could guide me a bit...
The ARQ96 is an incredibly niche product all things considered, but especially compared to the DX7. It's also ~10 years old rather than ~40 years old. It's a completely different beast.
Zoom released few firmware updates, but v1.x to v2.x was a very significant change. Are you using the latest version?
Management thinks a crutch can effectively replace people massively in sensitive knowledge work. When that crutch starts making errors that cost those businesses millions, or billions, well, hopefully management who implemented all that will get fired...
Yes, LLM are useful, but they are even less trustworthy than real humans, and one needs actual people to verify their output, so when agents write 100K lines of code, they'll make mistakes, extremely subtle ones, and not the kind of mistake any human operator would make.
The article was all good until he started to use react for implementation. I would not have done that for an article about web standards, and I use react all the time.
> From a Latin American perspective, racism seems to be a rising thing in the "old world" (i.e. northern hemisphere, east of the Atlantic).
Plenty of racism in India, Pakistan, China, MENA (where slavery is common, Libya has open air black slave markets), and Africa itself. And let's not even get started how plenty of these places are ravaged by petty sectarian, ethnical violence, or straight out civil wars between communities.
You just don't hear about all that because most of these places don't have a free press, or people are too busy trying to survive another day to testify.
There are at least 4/5 genocides happening right now in Africa & MENA, and I don't include whatever is going on in Gaza, can you name them?
Coffeescript helped Javascript to evolve the right way, so in retrospect, it was absolutely a good thing. It's like people here don't remember the days of ES3 or ES5...
And the days? Remember Typescript right now? Typescript is not Javascript.
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