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Re:Elon Musk: ‘Too many smart people go into finance and law’ by Chyzwar on Saturday May 09, 2020 @02:32PM (#23127226)
The result is an extremely successful company.
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Re:Elon Musk: ‘Too many smart people go into finance and law’ by tarsinge on Saturday May 09, 2020 @02:58PM (#23127413)
We are talking specifically about the front-end, it was already successful in 2012 with basic AJAX and vanilla JS.
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Re:Elon Musk: ‘Too many smart people go into finance and law’ by nine_k on Saturday May 09, 2020 @10:41PM (#23129907)
Successful it might have been, but I heard it was a sea of pain to support and develop.

One-way bindings and isolation of effects help a lot.

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Re:Elon Musk: ‘Too many smart people go into finance and law’ by justapassenger on Saturday May 09, 2020 @04:09PM (#23127891)
Usenet was also already successful in the 80s.
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Re:Elon Musk: ‘Too many smart people go into finance and law’ by tarsinge on Saturday May 09, 2020 @06:32PM (#23128811)
Come on we are talking 2012, have a look at its history, nearly all major features already existed at the time. Of course the UI would be a bit dated but it’s irrelevant as it has nothing to do with the JS tooling.
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Re:Elon Musk: ‘Too many smart people go into finance and law’ by seba_dos1 on Saturday May 09, 2020 @02:54PM (#23127385)
...built on extremely unethical grounds. 10000 engineers working on it are the symptom, not the cause.
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