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Re:Ask HN: Go-to web stack today? on Saturday January 05, 2019 @09:04AM (#18831674)

If the app is MVC-structured you can store global state in the application object. Here's a simple example: https://github.com/edman3d/mvc-router/blob/master/DemoApp/Co... Some frameworks provide session state and cache to store global state. No need for actions, reducers etc.

Re:Ask HN: Which tool do you use to create beautiful diagrams? on Sunday December 30, 2018 @08:59AM (#18789190)

I use http://mayura.com/ It is tiny, doesn't need installation (just unzip and run the .exe) and it creates PDF (suitable for latex) and SVG (suitable for web) files.

Re:Tesla Adds Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson as Board Dire... on Saturday December 29, 2018 @05:50AM (#18783043)

>I think you'll find that Ellison's "vision" of network computing was literally acquired when Oracle bought Sun Microsystems.

That’s incorrect. Acquisition of Sun cane much later. “Network is the computer” is very different from Ellison’s Network Computing because in Ellison’s vision complexity is centralized and end-user devices are glorified dumb terminals which is very different from Sun’s “Network is the computer”

Re:Tesla Adds Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson as Board Dire... on Friday December 28, 2018 @11:49PM (#18781903)

Where should I start? Ellison made the first commercial implementation of SQL. (Granted, Ellison didn't invent SQL, but he instantly recognized the importance of it and made it commercially successful, just like Steve Jobs didn't invent graphical interfaces, but instantly recognized its importance when he saw it Xerox Parc.)

Ellison has been talking about what he called "Network Computing" since the mid 1990s. He said "We need computers that do less not more". He was laughed at and ridiculed, but today Chromebooks are the implementation of his "Network Computer" vision. "Computers that do less" are now a reality.

What we know today as "cloud computing" was first envisioned by Ellison in the mid 1990s. He called it "network computing". He talked about why it is important to "centralize complexity" and keep the end-user devices simple. Meanwhile Steve Ballmer was touting the "power of the local hard drive". Ellison's vision seems like commonsense today, but it wasn't back then.

There are lots of other things. For example he was the first to move Enterprise applications to the Web when web-based applications weren't a thing yet. Oracle Parallel Server was his idea. He even wrote the first implementation himself.

Re:Tesla Adds Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson as Board Dire... on Friday December 28, 2018 @08:45PM (#18781149)

Larry Ellison is a visionary. Seems like all visionaries have been called liars by some. Steve Jobs is said to have had a “reality distortion field”. Elon Musk is a visionary. Are they all “liars” or do “visions” seem like stretching of the truth to us? Are visions simply extensions of the “truth”?