Minor49er

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by Minor49er 8mo ago
I created the data on my computer when I downloaded a copy of it from the web
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by Minor49er 8mo ago
CSS and JavaScript specialize in two very different areas and are commonly used in tandem
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by Minor49er 8mo ago
Fine, I'll have three
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by Minor49er 8mo ago
I hope you post it to HN once it's ready
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by Minor49er 9mo ago
I'm not sure but I thought it was funny that the "buy me a coffee" banner is the most prominent visual on the page, dwarfing the (typo'd) example text. At least that's how it appears to me on mobile.
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by Minor49er 9mo ago
I've seen a lot of the opposite, especially having done a lot of string parsing in PHP: some developers would nest half a dozen string functions just to prepare and extract a line of data while a simple regular expression would have ha
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by Minor49er 9mo ago
Not even modern vanilla JavaScript?
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by Minor49er 9mo ago
If it's for your children, why does it need to exist digitally for 100 years and not, say, 20? The solution is to print out your writing, put the pages in plastic sleeves, and clip them into binders. Keep the copies in filing cabinets
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by Minor49er 9mo ago
Reminds me of when Google's SEO spokesman Matt Cutts was around recommending that all sites have separate desktop and mobile versions, then Google started penalizing sites by tanking their pagerank shortly afterwards for not having jus
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by Minor49er 9mo ago
Do you two ever play friendly games of Tetris against one another?
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by Minor49er 9mo ago
...by a French waiter
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by Minor49er 9mo ago
To be fair, the author says it's the "_supposed_ difficulty of writing err != nil" and says that the verbosity isn't an issue here. But he also earlier says that he " [hates] having to write pub all the time in Rus
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by Minor49er 9mo ago
Hardly. Soulseek has been gaining interest in recent years, for one: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
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by Minor49er 10mo ago
Not GP, but I was expecting to read about a C64 on fire and was disappointed when it was just a post about an unoptimized fire demo
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by Minor49er 10mo ago
Well yeah. This snowman kicks butt!
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by Minor49er 10mo ago
A reader of Ernest L. Martin?
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by Minor49er 10mo ago
Excuse me, but what? Do you not know of the reputation Microsoft had with Bill Gates? Embrace, extend, extinguish?
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by Minor49er 10mo ago
My dad has been raving because he discovered that his Windows computer has been uploading all of his pictures to OneDrive. He doesn't remember an option to enable that behavior and can't find any ways to simply turn it off. This i
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by Minor49er 10mo ago
What is the normal experience for a famous person?
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by Minor49er 10mo ago
Why the name Minemizer instead of something like Minimizer?
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by Minor49er 10mo ago
I wonder if the author is responding to a developer who got confused and conflated hashes with UUIDs
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by Minor49er 10mo ago
"Gemini" seems to be the modern Phoenix
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by Minor49er 10mo ago
> When programming becomes repetitive, the odds of you creating something that makes people go “wow” are reduced quite a bit. Unless you're working on something with a lot of breadth, of course. A great example is yt-dlp which works
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by Minor49er 10mo ago
One of his designs was the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, actually within the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities campus. I remember a Minnesotan musician incorporating it in a music video years ago, but framing it as if it was a
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by Minor49er 10mo ago
What a bold suggestion (pun intended). Wouldn't this draw the ire of the people who are up in arms about AI art supposedly stealing from artists?
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by Minor49er 10mo ago
If by "cooler" you mean "way more difficult and awkward than just using a laptop" then you're right
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by Minor49er 10mo ago
I'm certainly thankful for Hacker News!
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by Minor49er 11mo ago
No way. There have been so many nice improvements to all of those languages over the last two decades that make development so much safer to implement, faster to code, and easier to test. I personally would lose my mind if I had to go back
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by Minor49er 11mo ago
I've seen at least one indie game (Ta*dQuest) use Midjourney to create pixel art sprites for some NPCs that appear in the dungeon. Extra art, like portraits for those NPCs, was drawn by hand to complement the sprites after they were ge
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by Minor49er 11mo ago
It doesn't count as giving up if you never even started :P

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