Sevaris

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by Sevaris 6y ago
This seems like terrible advice and a terrible clickbait title. His conclusion is even this: > Coming full circle, I must admit, the DRY principle is a pretty important piece of advice after all So DRY is fine. Just be sure you're d
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by Sevaris 6y ago
> While obviously Podcast Addict does not deserve a ban, the sheer number of people in this thread advocating unrestricted speech around COVID-19 is thoroughly disturbing. This despite the carnage that the disease is wreaking in the US a
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by Sevaris 6y ago
> Never in my life have I found these totally generic advice collations useful. I only check the HN comments for posts like this. That's where the real meaty content is where actual programmers/engineers talk about what may or
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by Sevaris 6y ago
> PCVR is an evolutionary dead end a very small percentage of people who can afford them want a gaming PC tower in their home, PCVR is a fraction of a fraction of percentage. PCVR is no more niche than the demographics for Far Cry 5. If
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by Sevaris 6y ago
> vr video content. The ability to "stand" on a stage while the orchestra plays Mozart all around you is mind blowing. So, uh, I've only watched porn so far. Got a link of that orchestra? Sounds cool.
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by Sevaris 6y ago
Man, it sounds like it was in development hell. I wish we could get somebody to talk about what it was like developing the 64DD and what problems they ran into. Probably won't ever happen, but I can dream.
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by Sevaris 6y ago
The other side of this is that app developers are screwed when it comes to compensation. Providing the ability to sideload doesn't mean anything if developers can't be compensated and can't continue developing their app (as I
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by Sevaris 6y ago
See, I said anti-trust. Not anti-monopoly. Anti-trust was, traditionally, about preventing market distortions by market actors that are becoming too big and powerful. It wasn't solely about monopolies. The whole "we're not a
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by Sevaris 6y ago
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/application-managem... This seems totally unsuited to desktop non-enterprise use.
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by Sevaris 6y ago
One of the many reasons why I hate modern websites. They try to be too clever and try to guess what language I want, despite my OS and browser being set to en-US. And then make it particularly difficult to change the language manually in a
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by Sevaris 6y ago
No need to use something as cancerous as AMP: http://archive.is/Da3iS
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by Sevaris 6y ago
I always really liked the idea of Sandboxie ( https://www.sandboxie.com/ ) where you can run any and every application in its own sandbox, but I was never convinced that its security was as strong as it promised to be. I wish
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by Sevaris 6y ago
And the inexorable march towards tech companies owning everything continues. I wish anti-trust law wasn't such a joke across the globe.
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by Sevaris 6y ago
I don't think level 4 exists. There is no code for problems of sufficient complexity that are self-explanatory. There are too many hidden assumptions and foreknowledge and tradeoffs and decisions baked into a block of code that, unless
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by Sevaris 6y ago
When you know a piece and play it, it can be fun. But the way there can be frustrating and tedious. You'll make mistakes. You'll learn slower than you'd like. You might repeat the same section a hundred times before you feel