Zelphyr

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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Possibly not, but we have to at least recognize the importance of one of the chambers of Congress voting to legalize for the first time in 50 years.
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Correction: Submitting bug reports to Netscape.
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Among many other things, COVID is changing this industry rapidly. Fashion brands have been pummeled and are looking for looking for alternative revenue sources. A friend of mine started ReCircled ( https://recircled.com ) to offer
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Let's try to keep the conversation civil please.
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JavaScript was quite limited at that point but then, so was everything else. So by comparison, it actually gave a developer a lot of relative control and power over a page.
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I was just thinking the other day about how in late '95 I had just bought my first PC and was teaching myself web development and discovered JavaScript. I remember submitting bug reports to Sun. I hadn't realized until the other
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
My complaint isn't with Alamo Drafthouse, it's the modern moviegoer. In fact, I was surprised at how well the Alamo Drafthouse staff handled a ticketing problem prior to that.
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I stopped going to theaters after visiting Alamo Drafthouse and literally every person around me was carrying on entire conversations during the movie. My wife asked after the movie was over, "Why didn't you fill out the card and
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
My wife is a medical provider and she had a patient once ask her to write a release for her "emotional support chicken". Yeah; this was being abused. In case you're wondering; no, she didn't write the release. The peopl
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I wouldn't mind throwing HTML, CSS, and JS away and replacing it with a single language, perhaps something more functional. I'm imagining writing all my websites and web apps in something like Clojure: (html (head (
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I coined "Brogdon's Law" (probably not original to me by any stretch) several years ago: The answer to any technical problem will present itself within 30 seconds (sometimes minutes) of asking "Hey, can you take a look a
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
That's just adding yet another tool which itself requires a certain amount of context switching.
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And therein lies the problem. That context switching comes with a cost. It's like trying to identify the eggs, chocolate chips, and flour once you've started mixing. You can do it (up to a point of course--recognizing this is w
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
The 10% that succeed won't need that kind of scale on the day they launch though. Probably not even the first 12-24 months after they launch. There will be plenty of time to see what kinds of traffic they really can expect and then p
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
For me it's because I don't want to spend more time configuring a hosting environment than it took to write the utility web app. I can spin up a DigitalOcean droplet in two minutes and spend the other 58 minutes writing the code.
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I've mentioned this elsewhere but; I'm not arguing co-location over cloud. I'm arguing inexpensive cloud like DigitalOcean, Linode, or LightSail over a complex AWS configuration designed to scale with near infinite flexibili
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
For what it's worth; unlike OP, I'm not suggesting Co-Lo over cloud. Co-Lo still has its place but for most projects that I'm involved with, low-cost services like DigitalOcean, Linode, or LightSail is the best option.
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Right, but my argument is that most products--especially when the company is a startup--doesn't need that kind of scalability and won't for quite some time, if ever. They all start out starry-eyed thinking they're the next un
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Yes, this is the right way to approach it in my opinion. Use the right tool for the job. So many people in this industry see everything as a nail and the hammer they know is all that is needed for it.
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It sounds to me like you're describing a corporate environment with all the bureaucracy that comes with such an environment. That scenario likely has the traffic and revenue to justify a full AWS build out. I'm talking about new
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I don't know much about the NT kernel. Is it really as bad as the shell such that they should throw it away? I kinda don't want to see that happen for the same reason I lamented them switching Edge's rendering engine the sa
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I see so often developers state something along the lines of, "We need to go with AWS!" (sometimes substituting AWS with GCP or Azure) and the reason they always give is "scalability". 99% of the time, what they're
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I've been having to use Windows a lot more lately (after barely touching it for 15 years) and the word "nightmare" is an apt description. I think, though, I've come to realize why: backwards compatibility. I've see
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I really think penalizing someone for asking a question, even if it comes from an uninformed point of view, even if it's as simple as a down-vote, is the wrong way to go. All it does is cause most people to dig their heels into their
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I don’t think this deserves the amount of downvotes it’s getting. It’s a genuine inquiry and one I share. They’re a fascinating subject of study that I feel needs to continue. I sincerely hope the trend that we’ve been seeing where compound
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Somehow, after all the rewatches over the last 20 years, that show still has the ability to give me goosebumps during scenes like that. Masterful is the only word I can think to describe The West Wing. Masterful writing, acting, directing,
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
"blazing fast", "lightweight", etc... Buzzwords are abound in modern technology circles anymore. To your point; "modern" is especially insidious because it implies that older technology is bad. I'd take
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I've tried but haven't had any luck. I think my memory of the animation just isn't enough to be able to provide enough detail other than a girl standing on a cliff with the wind blowing her hair. I feel like flower pedals w
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Unfortunately, no. That one is quite nice as well, though.
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I'm glad to see The Internet Archive doing this. There's a flash animation I used to enjoy back around 2000 and I have been looking for it for almost as long. It was basically a showcase animation sequence done by what I think w

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