rvense · HackerTrans

2 года назадdiscuss

Right, JSX is not the only way of accomplishing a better syntax for dynamic HTML.

I was just saying that I do occasionally do things entirely by hand in Javascript with createElement, and it works for a quick thing but it is actually definitely a thing that warrents bringing in some alternative.

rvense

2 года назадdiscuss

My time is currently divided between an Angular project and a "no framework" project, so it's been some time since I touched JSX but we are talking about the difference between:

    <MyThing><div class="thing--contents">"Hello"</div></MyThing>

versus

    const div = document.createElement("div");
    div.innerText = "Hello";
    div.classList.add("thing-contents");
    const wrapper = thingFactory(div);

Aren't we? It just adds up very quickly is what I'm saying.

rvense

2 года назадdiscuss

IME "I'll just use createElement" leads to "Oh dear, I have to add another createElement" which leads to "I really don't like reading this code". But of course it's a trade off.

rvense

2 года назадdiscuss

The Taliban might be keeping more of an eye on the border than the previous Afghan government did, though, for that reason.

rvense

2 года назадdiscuss

The people are friendly and welcoming, and the scenery is amazing. As a tourist, I don't much mind paying a few bribes to policemen (who barely get paid a wage), and I can stand to keep my mouth shut about their president when I'm there (even though he's obviously a bastard). But it's painful to think what it must be like to live there and have nowhere else to go.

rvense

2 года назадdiscuss

Have the Taliban ever conducted any operations in Tajikistan? I know people go back and forth over the river (I went to Badakshan once and saw them swim across!), so there's contact, but I don't think the Taliban have a habit of going to Tajikistan to take hostages or anything like that?

rvense

2 года назадdiscuss

There has been, as far as I know, one single case of tourists being attacked (and killed) by militant Islamists, which happened a few years ago. So statistically it's probably safer than a lot of places. There is significant resistance to the regime under the surface, but everything is still held together by an aging, kleptocratic authoritarian. So in some sense it's a volatile place, and the situation could obviously change significantly in a matter of hours or days in a way that's unlikely to happen in, say, Europe. (Or at least Europe of five years ago...)

I think it is still a very safe place to visit, and many tourists, including Americans, visit every year. Extreme things can happen anywhere. The likelihood of getting mugged I'd say is effectively zero, at least compared to London or Barcelona.

rvense

2 года назадdiscuss

Islam is extremely important to Tajik identity. But Tajikistan is making the same mistake many other Muslim dictatorships and authocracies did. By not having a real open political system, the only place for dissent to take root is in Islamist circles, and then that's the opposition you get.

rvense

2 года назадdiscuss

An amazing place. I visited twice about 15 years ago and have many fond memories of it, but mostly when I think about it I'm filled with sadness, because the people there deserve so much better. They're constantly knee-deep in corruption, both street level and just the very blatant kleptocratic presidential family. There's a lot of ethnic Russians, both expat workers and ones that didn't manage to leave after the collapse of the Soviet Union, that are very openly racist towards ethnic Tajiks but were usually allowed to run free. The people were hospitable and open and very happy to have guests in their country, but it also seemed like a very bleak place, with few good prospects for the future.

rvense

2 года назадdiscuss

Doesn't it mandate it for everyone? I don't use it anymore and haven't logged in since forever, but I think I got a series of e-mails that it was being made mandatory.

rvense

2 года назадdiscuss

Yeah, and in some sense it actually is Orientalism - a vague exotic reference. And crucially it will have registered completely different for the original audience than it would today - most people in the 60's in western Europe and America had never seen a Muslim, and their knowledge of Islam and Middle Eastern culture could probably be summed up in less than a paragraph. Especially a word like jihad is infinitely more loaded than it was 50 years ago to western ears. (I'd actually wager most people who read it in the first decade or two learned that word from the book.)

Personally I read Dune in my first year of university, when I was doing a course on the Middle East, so it all hits very different to me, and the Arabic in Dune is very important to my personal appreciation of it - but I can see how it's hard to introduce to a contemporary audience due to all the regrettable events of recent decades, so perhaps it makes sense. It seems impossible to make neutral references to Muslim/Arabic culture or history these days, everything becomes some grand political statement for or against Bin Laden or Salman Rushdie...

rvense

3 года назадdiscuss

That was only the very first model. Most NeXT machines shipped with floppy and HD.

rvense

3 года назадdiscuss

Also a fact: Steve Jobs spent the first half of the 90's trying to sell NeXT machines specifically on their dev tools for quickly making custom applications. From the late 1980's on, whenever he spoke of his visits to Xerox PARC he would mention the GUI, networking, and object-oriented programming as the three equally world-changing technologies shown to him.

rvense

3 года назадdiscuss

> 19th century anarchist essay

I think primitivism is a later invention. Certainly Kropotkin is very pro-mechanization. If there is a point of contention, it's to do with ownership, not technology itself.

rvense

3 года назадdiscuss

Have you considered just hosting mp4s in <video> tags on a simple web host? I think it'll work a lot better than you'd think.

rvense

4 года назадdiscuss

I switched from Mac to Linux (in 2008-2009) because I could understand it and make it my own, among other things with theming.

rvense

5 лет назадdiscuss

*hourly

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5 лет назадdiscuss

Certainly in my country you have to accept our own currency. Cash is mandatory too, although that's just a matter of a years.

rvense

5 лет назадdiscuss

I have a 50 lira bill from 2011 - I think was it about 20 euros at the time? Should have exchanged it sooner.

rvense

5 лет назадdiscuss

It is a strange phenomenon, in that it is so nonsensical, yet so ingrained and self-perpetuating in a way. I can actually agree that it qualifies as a "duty", because it's something the people who make up the corporation honestly feel morally bound to. The idea seems to have become sort of a load-bearing neurosis in the Modern Yuppie. If and when we, by some act of cultural psychiatry, remove it entirely, that's a lot of personalities that are going to just crumble, and I don't know if there are enough hiking trails in California for the finance dude(tte)s in sillycon valley set to all find themselves again...

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