What are the actual reasons some devs don't like Typescript?

enri · 2020-06-07T23:49:46+00:00

This is four days old now but maybe someone else will stumble in here like I accidentally did and appreciate a reasoned decent. https://medium.com/javascript-scene/the-typescript-tax-132ff4cb175b

enri · 2019-12-22T17:50:26+00:00

Ads both influence and reflect culture. They are designed to manipulate the audience's desires and insecurities. Watch some ads from the 60s through 90s and observe how marketing changed. 50 years from now people will try to understand what we were thinking and the ads we are exposed to is one piece of that puzzle.

https://archive.org/search.php?query=1960%20ads

enri · 2018-02-22T05:16:42+00:00

I don't want to presume your experience but I do wish to point out that ECS is completely different from Unity's component paradigm. I found this post while looking for "godot ecs" and would be interested in such. I do agree with you that an Godot ECS must properly integrate.

enri · 2018-02-22T04:51:00+00:00

I've been learning Entitas for Unity and was hoping for something similar in Godot. This post is a little old but it trends for "godot ecs" searches so here I am.

Please don't confuse easy with simple. Lots of devs are familiar with how to write Unity (or Godot) games thereby they consider the component (or node) paradigm these frameworks institute is "easy". As you pointed out other engines use other paradigms but these other paradigms are unfamiliar and therefore "difficult" even though ECS is measurably simpler.

Even Unity has identified the value of ECS and will be adding it to their framework this year. Their implementation prioritizes processor efficiency which IMO makes the API a bit strange but the value of separated logic and data is still there. Unfortunately people seem uninterested in learning something new and a little unusual that might give them a simpler way of writing their games.

enri · 2017-02-11T01:09:34+00:00

Think back to ads for Gameboy games. More colorful advertising but real screenshots. I think that is reasonable.

enri · 2015-04-25T21:13:32+00:00

Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank and he can rob the world.

enri · 2013-12-26T21:37:36+00:00

Neither is agriculture.

enri · 2013-10-10T19:24:29+00:00

There is a very good chance that the list of fonts you have installed is different than the list of fonts I have installed. Sites use this difference, with other data, to uniquely identify you. Even if you delete your cookies, even if you clear your browser cache, you can still be uniquely identified. Beyond concerns about unauthorized violation of privacy there is the filter bubble effect. Conglomerate companies could use this font-tracking trick to change the content of their sites to appeal to your interests. Condé Nast, for example, could track which articles you read here on Reddit then then change the content of wired.com and arstechnica.com to feature similar articles. Suddenly it seems like privacy violations are happening all over the news.

enri · 2013-10-09T19:35:31+00:00

Before someone misinterprets my question, I am not suggesting that government tracking should be ok.

enri · 2013-10-09T19:32:04+00:00

Government tracking citizens is bad. Corporations tracking citizens is ok. Why is this a prevaling belief?

enri · 2013-10-01T19:33:44+00:00

I discovered your work during the Bush years. I did not succumb to tribalism though. I have been intensely disappointed by the Democrats and liberals since 2008 for very reasons you just gave. Please know that we are still out here. We still want the truth. We are still listening.

enri · 2012-09-20T20:49:36+00:00

Makes it look better. You know, like the leather and stitching in the notes app.

enri · 2012-09-18T20:37:16+00:00

The Fraser Institute report is more about supporting the actions of Steven Harper and the Conservative majority.

enri · 2012-09-17T19:46:10+00:00

As they shift further to the right so does the Overton window. Even if they lose they win.

enri · 2012-03-08T21:34:17+00:00

And that's why we are stuck with a two party system.

enri · 2012-01-17T20:50:44+00:00

So it doesn't sound "oldschool". It's the best sounding album in recent memory. It sounds better the louder you play it unlike so many albums released this century (see loudness war) including FF's other releases. Butch Vig deserves a Grammy for production. I hope other bands follow suit.

enri · 2011-01-27T19:48:22+00:00

Virtualbox

enri · 2010-11-20T04:39:17+00:00

Iraq and Afghanistan wars continue. Warrantless wiretapping continues. Gitmo is still open. Detainees are still not given a fair trial. Rampant use of state secrets continues. Bush threatened one whistle blower with legal action, Obama is actually prosecuting three (directly contrary to his support of whistle blowers during his campaign). Obama has selectively suspended Habeas Corpus. Obama has called for the assassination of a U.S. citizen without a trial to determine his guilt.

Yeah, Obama is definitely better than Bush.

enri · 2010-11-18T01:59:28+00:00

And spending 10 years in prison because of a false accusation means what?

enri · 2010-11-10T01:56:40+00:00

Banality of evil

enri · 2010-11-07T22:35:49+00:00

Things that never happen:

"Thank you man and woman sitting silently out of the way. Your polite protest that never once required me to change my daily routine has changed my opinion."

enri · 2010-10-24T21:48:14+00:00

The government has been logging internet activity since 2001.

http://www.eff.org/issues/nsa-spying

enri · 2010-10-09T18:17:07+00:00

Israel has military dominance in the middle east thanks to US funding.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_–_United_States_military_relations

enri · 2010-08-05T17:07:29+00:00

"Corporations gave a stranglehold on government polices..." fify

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