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by SCdF 8y ago
(nearly?) Every time I've entered the US I've seen basically this. It's gross. The last time a guy was screaming "do you want to go to prison for 40 years!? do you!?!?!" to a confused and scared looking chinese lady
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by SCdF 8y ago
That's not a perspective I expected someone to argue, and I'd argue directly the opposite. I find the older the book, the slower and more waffly (if you want to be uncharitable) its prose. I haven't looked into this at all, b
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by SCdF 8y ago
I find it runs faster and is more stable in the desktop client, but I switched a couple of years ago so that may no longer matter (also ymmv etc).
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by SCdF 8y ago
> when I told other software people I’m a web developer, I got treated like shit. I was a lower class of coder because I wasn’t “solving cool problems” because making web sites is easy. Of all the stupid arrogant awfulness in tech that h
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by SCdF 8y ago
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bach_%28New_Zealand%29 People have thought this, but they are usually family holiday homes so it doesn't really make any sense. However, no one really knows where it came from at
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by SCdF 8y ago
> I'd probably be confused with "bach" (NZ slang for a small apartment, Which part of NZ did you grow up in? To me (Auckland, ext. family from various places on the South Island), bach doesn't mean small apartment, i
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by SCdF 8y ago
> Subpixel antialiasing is obnoxious to implement Totally, but > there's no denying that subpixel-AA text looks better on 1x displays. I get that it's hard, but at the end of the day what users are going to notice is, when t
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by SCdF 8y ago
I hope we are all somehow misunderstanding how terrible this is. The idea that they would downgrade the display support so that non-retina monitors--- and let's be serious, that is nearly all monitors that people dock into at work or
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by SCdF 8y ago
OK so I know that emergency care not being free is madness, and _you_ know that emergency care not being free is madness, but what are the arguments from people who don't think this sound like? Also, I wonder how feasible it would be f
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by SCdF 8y ago
I know a lot of people don't like n-gate and webshit weekly, but I think their slice on this was particularly relevant: > Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub > A near-monopoly closed-source software company, fed up
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by SCdF 8y ago
> I think this is a form of branding, it "feels" like a better product when you have a video with expensive production values. I'm only familiar with Air New Zealand's productions, but they are totally marketing &#x2F
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by SCdF 8y ago
Fair enough, Snow Leopard marketing was before my time noticing Apple's existence. I've just noticed that in general they never admit that they've done anything wrong or made any mistakes, and it seems hard to market a releas
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by SCdF 8y ago
The indie gaming community[1] would have me believe different. https://mobile.twitter.com/EvilBachus/status/100372239162797... https://mobile.twitter.com/tha_rami/status/10037287912173649
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by SCdF 8y ago
I don't think they'd ever admit to focussing on stability because that would imply the OS isn't already stable.
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by SCdF 8y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by asserted, but the article does say this: > the six partners have also been promised the Standard will carry “money-can’t-buy” positive news and “favourable” comment pieces that will appear to readers a
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by SCdF 8y ago
It does sound a bit silly, but the alternative is to keep them in your brain, and AFAICT it's impossible to do that these days. I have hundreds of accounts in my password manager, I couldn't possibly remember secure passwords for
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by SCdF 8y ago
How is this specific to blockchains compared to any other kind of append-only book-keeping?
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by SCdF 8y ago
Where do you go to complain about twitter being down when twitter is down? To HN, apparently!
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by SCdF 8y ago
We've built an offline first webapp that is basically a PWA (it's one manifest file away from being one IIRC), but instead of relying on Google to have something installable[1] we also create an Android app which is just[1] a web
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by SCdF 8y ago
Bits are a way of donating where Twitch gets a cut. They can’t get rid of 3rd party donations because they’ve been there forever, but they can continue to incentivise every other kind of revenue except them. Anecdotally 3rd party donations
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by SCdF 8y ago
> And because the livestreaming platforms [obviously referring to Twitch] take an egregious chunk of the money people tip streamers, even after they've ground their way to "partnered" status. > The application has lots
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by SCdF 8y ago
There appears to be a list of 'sanctioned' apps. I like everything else about the design except this (finger print to show colour is awesome). Why Uber and not Lyft? Why Google Maps and not CityMapper? Why spotify and not google p
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by SCdF 8y ago
> Links to websites not supported in posts. That seems, with all due respect, bananas. There are loads of reasons to have a link in your post, not least because you may use a third party photo host and you want to link to your holiday s
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by SCdF 8y ago
> Facebook generates about $9 a month per user in the U.S. by targeting you with ads. That is so much higher than I thought it would be.
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Wasn't that memo a rhetorical device by the author to raise that kind of opinion (one he does not agree with) as a conversation point inside Facebook? I don't like Facebook as much as the next person, but being willing to write th
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by SCdF 9y ago
Next week's headline: priceless 200yr old coat is no more water resistant than $70 coat. Strads aren't expensive because they are good instruments[1], they are expensive because they are old and rare and symbolic to people who car
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The original Common Lisp version of Reddit(github.com)
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by SCdF 9y ago
I think this blog and the linked documentation[1] is about the current build system in the main release, not the dev channel (ie the best channel :-). I believe[2] in the dev release the system is very different, and I don't think ther
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by SCdF 9y ago
This is cool! One suggestion: 7 days ahead is pretty grim, at in London tickets sell out fast. I presume it's to keep the queries low? Maybe it could be a date range with a max of 7 days instead? Defaulting to a month from now + 7 days
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by SCdF 9y ago
FWIW I find the book very easy to follow and understand, but the auto-generated docs to be kind of confusing. I think because: a) the general layout feels a bit weird to me. I can't work out which bits are important and which bits ar

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