Eric_WVGG

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by Eric_WVGG 10mo ago
…yes? I like RSS clients because they're not web browsers.
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by Eric_WVGG 10mo ago
I would be so into the ReMarkable if it has an "app store", if I could write an RSS client.
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by Eric_WVGG 11mo ago
Speaking of Apple platforms, yeah, this was my big problem with Interface Builder. I couldn’t get anywhere with serious Apple platforms development until SwiftUI came along.
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by Eric_WVGG 11mo ago
how could they not title this article GIT FORK ZORK
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by Eric_WVGG 11mo ago
IMO anything with unnecessary digital interfaces is already down the path. I have a Vornado fan that I would love to automate with a simple wifi-enabled plug, but due to the digital on/off/speed button, when you cut-off and rest
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by Eric_WVGG 11mo ago
I use a similar app called Name That Color — https://chir.ag/projects/name-that-color/#6195ED I like sharing descriptive names with designers instead of naming everything "light blue" "dark blue&quo
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
speaking of classic databases: can anyone explain to me, a dummy, why any syntax like this or even GraphQL is preferable to "select a.name, a.age from friends a where a.city = 'New York' order by a.age asc"?
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
I spent about half an hour trying to figure out why some JSON in my browser was rendering è incorrectly, despite the output code and downloaded files being seemingly perfect. I came to the conclusion that the browsers (Safari and Chrome) do
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
We need better server support first. I’ve got a friend who’s been pitching me on building a new email client for years. “I’ll do it if we exclusively use JMAP.” “okay does that include Gmail and Apple/iCloud accounts?” “Nope.” I could
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
Future-of-work stuff aside, I’m always confused when I see bipedal robots. Doesn't make any sense unless one is dealing with rough terrain — and there, four or six legs would probably be better. I guess they're cool for Boston Dyn
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
I believe his point is that, even if you expand the available pool of developers outside of the US, that pool is still exhaustible.
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
> Hooks are only 5 years old. That is a long damn time in this industry, and class-based components still work just fine.
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
EA is about as successful as it is possible for a videogame company to get. There's a finite number of gamers, hours in the day, and cash that those gamers can spend, and EA is getting a healthy chunk of it. If the point of a corporati
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
unpatched include Asana, Bitwarden, Dropbox… some pretty high-profile apps
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
oh wow, that’s pretty sick. Too big, but on the right track. Thanks!
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
This is sort of a pipe dream, but imagine taking an Android smartwatch, disassembling the chassis, adding a larger battery, and embedding it in a threadless headset cap. GPS tracking, maps in a 1.5" screen, bluetooth reports of speed&#
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
I used to run an RSS feed consolidator, badly formed XML was the bane of my life for a very long time. If devs couldn't even get RSS right, a web built on XHTML was a nonstarter.
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
+1 Copland BeOS. I like to daydream about an alternate reality where it was acquired by Sony, and used as the foundation for PlayStation, Sony smartphones, and eventually a viable alternative to Windows on their Vaio line. Neal Stephenson,
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
My understanding was that self-professed gambling addicts — unlike casual gambers — were discovered to get the same shot of dopamine to their system when losing as the do when winning. Why would that not qualify as “medically addicted”? (IA
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
Last summer a friend needed help building a huge home backup system, and though I had no real experience with Synology, it was the only brand I was familiar with and some Googling indicated that no other commercial product seems close. A DI
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AltStore State of the Union(daringfireball.net)
10 points by Eric_WVGG 1y ago|1 comments
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
“Apple’s cowardly abandonment of ICEBlock in the face of the first whiff of pressure from the Trump administration is the best example yet that Apple’s arguments in favor of their App Store… do not hold water.”
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
also see the private equity takeover of hospitals
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
:) (“Snow Crash”, Neal Stephenson, 1992)
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
You're right. The iOS app store would currently be flooded with newcomers in niche spaces — workout apps, notes, reminders, etc. And games, my god, there would be vibed clones of every game imaginable. It's simply not happening.
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
yeah, kids scarfing down the same cheeto’s minus synthetic orange is probably worth a polio epidemic
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
Legally, no. But it was written in the spirit of Infocom games — all the gameplay is designed around text narrative, with the classic text parser to drive the action — and Effinger had connections with the actual Infocom team (he wrote thei
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
Hm. I have to challenge a list that doesn’t include George Alec Effinger’s Circuit’s Edge . I get that it was written after the hayday of Infocom, but it was completely within the spirit and craft.
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
Apple documentation reminds me of an argument I got in with an elementary school teacher over a textbook… it went on for weeks > A prepositional phrase is a phrase with a preposition in it. > A preposition is a word in a prepositional
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by Eric_WVGG 1y ago
I ran an RSS aggregator ~15 years ago. All these things were still problems back then… also FeedBurner was a complete plague, at least that’s mostly gone away. I’ve been trying to work out a new approach to newsreaders for a couple years no

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