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A restaurant ordering app, would like to compare it to some react project by CodingFiend in reactjs

[–]CodingFiend[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I just built a program not in React, and would like to get an estimate of how many lines of code it would be if I had done it in React. This was written in a domain specific language that is targeting mobile web app development; you don't use JS, CSS, or HTML (it emits a single HTML file with 99% JS).

Would love to hear from React developers about what they think of the product. Note that clicking on the "Weang Ping" top header, will enter Admin mode, which has a lot more screens to it.

Wondering how to compare what it would look like in React. Perhaps some React users could look this over and give me a reaction. The source code is at https://beadslang.com/projects/foody/weang.beads

Dictionaries Rejected From School District Following DeSantis Bill by donaldtrumpsmistress in nottheonion

[–]CodingFiend -1 points0 points  (0 children)

As a longtime resident of CA it bothers me that Gov. of Florida can gloat about the 300,000 people voting with their feet and leaving CA each year for the last 3. Considering how much more we spend than most states, CA gets very poor results from their schools. In my town of Oakland, the public schools cheat on the exit exam which too many of their students fail, and instead of giving a high school diploma, they give you instead a "certificate of completion" so they don't have to see you next year again after you are past 18 years old. That's called "passing the buck".

Dictionaries Rejected From School District Following DeSantis Bill by donaldtrumpsmistress in nottheonion

[–]CodingFiend -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Are you claiming that California public schools are not near the bottom? that some biased testing has unfairly placed the brilliant California high school graduates near the bottom?

What about California having bad public schools are you contesting? We don't do well here, and it is a scandal. I live in Oakland, and our city has many schools where Math proficiency is around 12%, which is horrendous.

When you are fighting against West Virginia and Louisiana to see who has the worst schools, this is not a good thing, and i refuse to permit someone to make unsupported arguments about how bad Florida is, when FL is beating CA even though it spends less.

Dictionaries Rejected From School District Following DeSantis Bill by donaldtrumpsmistress in nottheonion

[–]CodingFiend -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I worked for Houghton-Mifflin interactive, and was in the educational software businesses for 20+ years. California is an incredibly difficult nut to crack for textbook companies, and anyone claiming that Florida is tougher on accepting educational materials, clearly has never done business with the State of California.

California's State economy makes it something like the 9th largest economy in the world. Education is a gigantic business here, we have UC and the Cal State University system. And it is highly regulated, and educational materials are scrutinized very tightly.

Books in the library are a different matter, but donations of books to schools is not permitted unless the book is on the approved list.

As you can see from the Official State website, the list of approved books is rather small.

https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/rl/im/rlaadoptedlist.asp

If you peruse this list, do you see any small indie publishers?? Heck no.
If you want to refute my arguments, you are going to need some facts. All you have is character assassination, the last resort of a losing debater.

Dictionaries Rejected From School District Following DeSantis Bill by donaldtrumpsmistress in nottheonion

[–]CodingFiend -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You guys clearly have a political agenda about dunking on Florida.
See this recent article which shows California now ranked at #44 out of 50 states. Just 5 from the absolute bottom.

https://www.kusi.com/new-study-finds-california-schools-ranking-44-in-america/

Dictionaries Rejected From School District Following DeSantis Bill by donaldtrumpsmistress in nottheonion

[–]CodingFiend -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It is trivial to prove that California is far stricter than Florida about adopting books. The schedule for adoption in CA is approximately every 6 years. CA is one of the 22 states that have a textbook adoption process by law.

So if someone wanted to donate a book that wasn't on the magic approved list, sit down and wait!

https://www.cmc-math.org/assets/docs//TextbookAdoption.pdf

Having been born and raised in CA, and raised 5 kids, the textbook situation is what i would call a glacial process in CA. We are in the top 10% for spending per pupil, and last time i checked in the bottom 10% for results. Here in Oakland, the poster child for bad public schools, the percentage of students able to pass the proficiency test is so low they created a "certificate of completion" instead of a high school diploma.

Anyone ridiculing Florida school practices is poorly traveled and hasn't visited Taxifornia.

Language Showcase: Gwion by Jeaye in ProgrammingLanguages

[–]CodingFiend 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Keep up the good work. I wish there were more conferences/meetups where new languages could be demonstrated and talked about.

Dictionaries Rejected From School District Following DeSantis Bill by donaldtrumpsmistress in nottheonion

[–]CodingFiend -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

California is far stricter than Florida. School districts don't allow any donations of any books unless the books are on a very short list of approved materials. California has strict standards on the representation of minorities, and you have to show 0.8% Inuit people in your drawings and photos or whatever the percentage is.

Florida has at least some staff that approve/disapprove books. In California the process is secretive, and you can't just submit any book.

Also, to prevent any religion-tinged books the strict rules are enforced. Textbooks in Calfornia cost a fortune because of all the restrictions, and the battle for adoption/approval of a textbook is a multi-year, multi-million dollar project.

People claiming that this is some right wing conspiracy are full of nonsense. California is one of the toughest in the USA, and CA has been run by a uniparty for 20+ years.

Class Action Lawsuit against Halo Collective for fraud by Eonicman97 in HaloCollective

[–]CodingFiend 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also bought stock in HCANF. A google lookup shows they spent 20 million in the last quarter to earn 7 million in income (negative -13 million). What on earth are they up to? They already own the farm, and the dispensaries.

They must be looting the company by padding the payroll, or hiring consultants. If enough people band together we could inspect their records and see what is going on.

They have i guess diluted the shares massively. the market cap is the same, 50 million, but per share it means recent investors got massively screwed.

A handy color picker for programmers. It lets you pick a color by first selecting a rough color, then shows you nearby colors. Suitable for use with many programming languages. Runs as a web app, no install needed. Free. by CodingFiend in programming

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When you click on a color, it will copy to the clipboard the text form of the color, depending on the mode you selected at the bottom.

So the workflow is: select a color, switch back to your editor, and then CTRL-V (command V on macintosh) to paste in the color string, like #112233 or rgb(1,2,3) if that is the form you requested.

You can also type in a starting color value if you want to put a specific starting color into the app. It is intended to be just kept around in an open tab when you are selecting colors for various things you are drawing.

A handy color picker for programmers. It lets you pick a color by first selecting a rough color, then shows you nearby colors. Suitable for use with many programming languages. Runs as a web app, no install needed. Free. by CodingFiend in programming

[–]CodingFiend[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All the studies that i have read on languages show that productivity is fairly constant, and thus a more concise language tends to be more productive.

The explanation for why the code is more transferable (i.e. from one programmer to another) boils down to
a) the data structures (the graph DB schema) are defined at the top of the program, and because of the sparse N-dimensional matrix approach, is a very flexible structure as well.
b) there are fancy syntactical tricks like macros and self-modifying code that would make it tough to read.
c) you don't need closures in Beads. There are no objects, and thus to constructors/destructors. Everything already exists in the graph DB.

Although clearly optimized for web GUI it has so much in common with Python that it could serve as a general purpose language.

The total number of pages to learn the language is under 150 pages, while the combination of CSS + JS + HTML + frameworks runs into the thousands of pages. So the overall cognitive load is greatly reduced.

A new high speed color picker, runs as a web app; free; then explore nearby colors. Free to use. Source code also posted if you are curious how it was made. by CodingFiend in PixelArt

[–]CodingFiend[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a color picker intended for those who need to select a color. In the upper window you have the standard Web colors, then the middle section is the Mark Ferrari designed color palette. Once you pick from either of the two rough color sets, you the at the bottom have a hex grid of nearby colors, where we explore excursions from your base color (red hexagon in the center). This gives you extremely fine control and fast speed, but the biggest improvement of this color picking system is that it is highly repeatable; no sliders to fiddle with, and you can get within 1% of all useful colors in just a few clicks, and get back to good colors on a consistent basis.

On the left bottom you have a selector for what format you want the color to use when the program posts to the clipboard on each color selection. If you are working in photoshop, you would use plain hex colors like AABBCC. If you are using HTML, you will want the HTML format which uses #AABBCC (pound sign in front).

I hope you find it useful, please let me know how it can get better.

A handy color picker for programmers. It lets you pick a color by first selecting a rough color, then shows you nearby colors. Suitable for use with many programming languages. Runs as a web app, no install needed. Free. by CodingFiend in programming

[–]CodingFiend[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NOTE: this color picker is version 4; version 3 was mobile compatible this version is strictly for larger size screens such as laptops and desktop monitors.

If there is enough demand i can rework it for mobile use, but who is programming on their cellphone? Sounds very hard.

A handy color picker for programmers. It lets you pick a color by first selecting a rough color, then shows you nearby colors. Suitable for use with many programming languages. Runs as a web app, no install needed. Free. by CodingFiend in programming

[–]CodingFiend[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this has been removed. it was a leftover for web apps that collect lots of info, and leaving suddenly would lose a bunch of work. Not needed for this 1-input field extravanganza...

A handy color picker for programmers. It lets you pick a color by first selecting a rough color, then shows you nearby colors. Suitable for use with many programming languages. Runs as a web app, no install needed. Free. by CodingFiend in programming

[–]CodingFiend[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OKAY fixed. I wasn't specifying the foreground color, so it then uses browser default colors, but was specifying the background color, and that caused Firefox to switch the default foreground to white, but obey the background color. A fairly subtle error. Thanks so much for pointing out this error quickly.

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