krishanath
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Comment · 8 years ago
If a frog is put suddenly into boiling water, it will jump out, but if the frog is put in tepid water which is then brought to a boil slowly, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death. So today you don't see a major problem. Even though every single purchase you made in your entire life is being logged in a central database that's out of your control. OK. You are slowly being brought to a boil, and you're not perceiving the danger.
Comment · 8 years ago
>> state passed around as props
Context provides a way to pass data through the component tree without having to pass props down manually at every level. https://reactjs.org/docs/context.html
>> single source of truth
Often, several components need to reflect the same changing data. We recommend lifting the shared state up to their closest common ancestor. https://reactjs.org/docs/lifting-state-up.html
Comment · 8 years ago
What is it about React, that needs you to use a state management library? I have programmed in Servlets, JSP Model 2, ASP.NET, iOS, Android, Windows. None of these require a state management library. But React developers seem to think a state management library is a must-have. Is this a cultural thing? Is it due to some limitation of React?
Comment · 8 years ago
There are tiny alternatives to React that support JSX syntax. This library is better when you want to be "closer to the metal":
https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder
Comment · 8 years ago
jQuery is a library of shortcuts. Everything you can do using jQuery you can do without jQuery, but that's like saying everything you can do in Excel you can do with just a Calculator app. Yes, it is possible, but why would you want to?
When you do things like drag & drop and interactive resize you have to query DOM to get position and sizes, and perform hit detection, and you have to manipulate DOM directly. jQuery is very convenient for these kinds of things.
Comment · 8 years ago
I noticed many people have found flaws in my assumptions and estimates, but nobody wants to post an alternative estimate?
Even if you increase taxes to 40% (in reality even in CA the effective tax rate as opposed to marginal is not that high) and increase expenses to $7K per month (excluding housing), the final net worth still falls in the range I estimated, i.e., north of $7 Million.
Any Facebook or Google engineer reading this, how much do you expect to have when you retire?
Comment · 8 years ago
If you buy a house that's an investment, not an expenditure, so it is not included in monthly expenses. 45% is your marginal tax rate, not effective tax rate.
Comment · 8 years ago
S&P 500 actually returned 10% between 1988 and 2018. If you invested $10K in S&P 500 in 1988 it would be worth $205K today. If you use a compound interest calculator you can see this corresponds to 10% growth per year.
Comment · 8 years ago
Here's something few people know: Sun saw Telescript as a threat (because Sun was all about "the network is the computer" and now Telescript was invading this space) and started the Java project in response. Microsoft saw General Magic's social interface and deemed it to be a threat to Windows. Their response was "Microsoft Bob".
Comment · 8 years ago
>> React has nothing to do with styles
That's one of its limitations.
React is a component technology and doesn't solve the problem of clashing styles, element ids and so on. Web components is a component technology that does.
Comment · 8 years ago
Not a major framework, but UIBuilder lets you use Web Components using JSX, just like React:
Comment · 8 years ago
> I hope you're fine with the same thing happening to you when someone finds your views repugnant.
This doesn't randomly happen to everyone.