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by afavour 6y ago
This is really cool but I doubt this is now PICO8 works, since PNG lets you create arbitrary chunks of data that standard decoders will ignore: > All ancillary chunks are optional, in the sense that encoders need not write them and decod
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by afavour 6y ago
I knew someone that worked at Apple around the launch of the iPhone. They worked on the macOS (then OSX, I guess) team and said they had very little idea that the iPhone was coming, despite it heavily using OS work they’d done. They were ca
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by afavour 6y ago
Count me among those people. The U.K. is home to some absolutely wonderful people but those in power (and those who wish to be close to that power) are depressingly small thinkers, to me. Their vision is locked on a semi-fictional past wher
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by afavour 6y ago
Everyone says that Apple’s business is selling hardware but that’s changing. Apple Music, Apple TV, iCloud storage and their commission on app sales are all clear software incentives. Yes, they’re still dominated by hardware sales but it’s
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by afavour 6y ago
The situation you’re describing is one where trained professionals use one and only one UI. Web sites aren’t like that. They’re used by a vast number of people of differing technical ability, and different sites do incredibly different thin
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by afavour 6y ago
Why is keyboard use the pinnacle of UI? Pretty much every device has some kind of mouse-like device attached to it, and trackpads with good scrolling (e.g. Apple ones) are a wonderfully intuitive way to control movement. I get that HN likes
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by afavour 6y ago
Because there’s a very small defined set of actions a person can take in such games: backwards, forwards, left, right, etc. By comparison pages have dozens of links, form fields, menus, etc. It’s not that they can’t be navigated with the ke
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by afavour 6y ago
I think the biggest reason is simply that esbuild hasn’t been around for that long and isn’t as customisable as Webpack. The latter point is important: if esbuild wants to introduce more customisability it’ll need to use more JS, and be slo
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by afavour 6y ago
I think your comments have made that clear. Which is fair enough. But I imagine others feel differently.
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by afavour 6y ago
I think the OP was using examples from a different ecosystems to demonstrate how such a consensus could be reached, if people wished for it.
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by afavour 6y ago
Rust also lets you avoid atomics by using structs that implement Send. Having an async function return such a struct is a lot easier to map mentally (for me, at least)
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by afavour 6y ago
That isn’t a very helpful comment. Perhaps you could illuminate us?
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by afavour 6y ago
Ehhhh. Self driving cars have been just around the corner for a long time now. Not saying it won’t happen, but I wouldn’t buy a Tesla today on the assumption that it’ll happen within the lifetime of that car.
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by afavour 6y ago
> Integrates with my watch and phone in such a way that I don’t even have to pull it out to pay. That’s contactless payment. Entirely possible without any Apple anything. A more cynical person might say that one of Apple’s strengths is m
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by afavour 6y ago
> The parent argument was that the time spent differently would have the same effect. Again, no. The argument was that time spent focused on page performance would have the same effect. If Google punished slow pages in rankings that is
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by afavour 6y ago
...how do you think those AMP pages got made other than with valuable developer time? AMP versions of sites aren't just magicked out of thin air! Without "valuable developer time" there are no AMP sites. I think the point you
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by afavour 6y ago
> I like that AMP forced publishing companies to take a hard look at page performance, for the first time in a while. True and false. It forced companies to pay attention to page performance... and then create an entirely separate versio