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by 90s_dev 1y ago
> Python Funny you make that analogy. I remember back when the two contending C alternatives were Zig and Nim, with Nim being syntactically almost a Python clone. It seems Nim has gone the way of Crystal (Ruby version of Nim) and is just
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
> we've lost the art of software engineering Yes! This is what all my projects are geared towards restoring. The big one is not quite ready to announce yet, but I am very proud of it, and extremely excited to release it, to solv
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
> cultural focus on "identity" (as in, "who am I") has been kind of negative for people > many become miserable because they got mired in their identity sexual and otherwise I think one factor is that we're al
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
> The question of our continuity has an empirical side that can be answered scientifically. Wait, what? Doesn't the Ship of Thesseus apply to our character just as much as to our body? And if so, doesn't that make it a philoso
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
> we are now a culture built on lying. Are now ? I mentioned Thomas More to show that this exact same thing happened 500 years ago. The whole point of the movie A Man For All Seasons is to show that this is always how it has been th
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
The 1988 one stars Charlton Heston as Thomas More and was a made for TV movie based on the original 1965 play by Robert Bolt. Very, very good. Different from the 1966 movie. But both good in different ways. Neither is better.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Generally none, the DA must choose to pursue perjury charges, which basically never happens. In reality, nearly everyone commits perjury. Thomas More would not approve. Both versions (1966 and 1988) of A Man For All Seasons are highly worth
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
My memory is not great, as implied by that very comment.
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Ask HN: Is there a list of projects that will *not* adopt AI?
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Yes, I have the same history customizing everything! From Windows 3.11 to XP to Linux, and then giving up because life gets busy. On the note of programming not being fun anymore, that's exactly why I'm making my secret project
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Most of the time, yes. I maintained my vimrc for maybe 10-15 years before I gave up on it. The hard part of maintaining a config is that there's no such thing as cost-free usage, it always takes a mental toll to change a config, to lea
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
> Also, I tend to stick with default configurations because it makes bug filing easier. I've learned to use default configurations pretty much everywhere. It's far too much of a hassle to maintain customizations, so it's e
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
I have a certain nostalgia for bb4win, which I learned about during college, and was my first introduction to linux. Nostalgia is a powerful drug.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
We are always reinventing wheels. If we didn't, they'd all still be made of wood.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
I vaguely remember using it about 10 years ago for work, can't remember what for, or anything about that situation, but the one takeaway that I do remember is that it was neat and innovative, but ultimately not good enough to overthrow
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Luau is gradually typed and has intellisense support? That was my biggest gripe with Love2d, and a huge motivation for why I created the project I haven't yet released! Oh man, I have to check this out.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
I got a nice wooden Wordsworth fountain pen off Amazon last year. It was fun for a bit.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
You have no idea how many times I typed clojure when I meant to type closure throughout my career. Bizarrely backwards.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
It's not just the web, native apps have always had free open source clones that technically render them useless, often just as good quality, yet they didn't go out of business. There are other considerations people make when decid
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Honestly a little bit hesitant to say anything yet. There are a few more features to add, and a whole lot more work to be done to showcase just how cool it is. But the short version is, I'm working on a sort of meta-pico8, a game maker
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
The CSS community's promise was always that structure and presentation can be separated. After my 30 years of writing GUIs, I'm now convinced that this is the wrong place to draw a dividing line. Instead, we should be isolating i
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Not to mention that early on, CSS was very lacking compared to today. We didn't even have `border-radius` until something like 2011! Consider that this relatively simple site design[1] takes about 420 lines of modern CSS[2]. And th
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
I had the same problem, I made a 3x4 font that was just barely servicable for the initial project to show text on screen. It was my first (and only) font I ever made! Eventually I needed lower-case, so I turned those into lower-case and mad
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
I'm not sure it's a bad thing to not necessarily have a plan. Intuition is the hidden sister of logic, both children of reason, and we don't always see her because she's often behind the scenes doing all the work. Techni
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
I like how I can click-drag one of the CSS text fields and still move the box.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
If you notice from the last tc39 conversation about the types proposal, there's a bit of tension where people are reasonably asking, should we really be stuffing more and more compilation into the browser? At what point do they push ba
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Ask HN: Could Go become a first class web citizen?
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by 90s_dev 2y ago
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