This makes sense, but seems like a(n unspoken?) pivot...? Electron doesn't call itself a UI framework after all, but an application framework.
I thought most of the excitement was about getting away from manual memory management into higher level languages and building something that works across the web and desktop, not just simplifying desktop busy work with native UIs.
Their tagline is "Build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS"--if you need C++ to truly get the app you want, it seems like the value proposition is severely diminished.
Am I confused or is it not the case that the whole argument for Electron is "write once in Javascript, have a native app for all platforms"? If this is what a flagship Electron app has to do to be performant, is there a real future in Electron?
> When people were freaking out about "Russia hacking the DNC", they scoured the news and put all the evidence on the table, which turns out there wasn't much.
Why would this be surprising for a covert operation? Does this make the story a fabrication?
A "debunking" style of news is interesting provided it's not the only mode of reporting. But if you are always looking for holes in the story, you may miss out on what's actually there.
If you were outraged by Trumps "locker room talk," I don't see how you can stand by an entire company culture dedicated to protecting serial harassers and silencing their victims. Gross, this company is just gross.
That article for the Chronicle of Higher Education is so wrongheaded it's hilarious.
""Keep related words together" is further explained in these terms: "The subject of a sentence and the principal verb should not, as a rule, be separated by a phrase or clause that can be transferred to the beginning." That is a negative passive, containing an adjective, with the subject separated from the principal verb by a phrase ("as a rule") that could easily have been transferred to the beginning."
Yes. That's the joke, dear Geoffrey. They are showing the violation to demonstrate its effect on a sentence. You have to be truly humorless if not willfully obtuse to read this as Strunk & White having no idea what they're talking about.
Strunk & White is self-critiquing, which is part of what makes it great—it's not nearly so prescriptive as the author seems to think.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-two-cracks-in-the-r...
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/06/12/polarized-po...
https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/888904322326638592