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by alan_n 8y ago
I'm assuming you mean like current events news? I don't. If something important happens, I'll probably find out through osmosis. I'm stressed enough by things I can't control, why would I willingly subject myself to
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by alan_n 8y ago
I've never liked Corel Painter, I've always used Photoshop, but for painting I can at least tell you Krita beats Photoshop in almost every way. It feels like it's built by digital painters for digital painters. I've stop
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by alan_n 8y ago
I don't want to be harsh, but most of these are awful ideas and just feel like designing for designs sake and not usability (in fact usability is removed: I like it's easy to edit the file description, file information is actuall
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by alan_n 8y ago
That's true, I just feel the example is a bit dangerous. It could be really good advice in one context and really bad in another. Also sorting a table is rarely more complex than filtering the data by some property, and although I avoi
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by alan_n 8y ago
I don't really agree about the merging of information (the rest is fine). In the example, what happens if you want to sort by state or zip (assuming they are sortable)? The upgrade is really just a downgrade functionality wise in that
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by alan_n 8y ago
Those are two different problems, imo, one is you don't know the language, and the other is design. I'm an artist and I've always understood design (not to say I was great at it, it still took experience, but I can see a site
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by alan_n 8y ago
Right, but sometimes that's just not possible, what then? The only option is to abstract the check into a function which just moves the problem. Or to use a third party library to do exactly what optional chaining does. When I see this
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by alan_n 8y ago
I was scrolling through this and I was like, where is optional chaining? Then when he gets to it, he's a bit against it because it's easy to write bad code. What? People still do nested checks like this all the time! It's not
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by alan_n 8y ago
I think the problem is they're using machine learning on something where it's hard to know when to reward the AI. Do you reward it for max minutes the users watch, max clicks, etc? None of them imo really measure whether the user
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by alan_n 8y ago
This is true but I've also find myself at the other extreme more and more where I can't understand how to put together two or more pieces of technology and every article just goes over only the basics. For learning single technolo
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by alan_n 8y ago
For just jotting down ideas, a notebook, or I try to at least have a scrap piece of paper on me. I also ALWAYS have a pen on me. If I have no paper I will write on my forearm. You don't need to write the whole idea usually (unless you&
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by alan_n 8y ago
Oops, my wires got crossed or something. Fixed.
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by alan_n 8y ago
- Rust - I had tried learning C++ before but I found it confusing, especially the ecosystem. I have not built anything serious with Rust but it was easy to learn imo compared to C++, especially since it has a package manager and also the Ru
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by alan_n 8y ago
I don't think anyone has mentioned it apart from the fact most people would find these confusing, but these types of layouts look like accessibility nightmares, and for what benefit? Making something look a bit nicer? I mean, it's
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by alan_n 8y ago
I don't actually log into tumblr itself. It's just I'll often stumble upon a blog through a search or a link, and every time I see a tumblr infinite scrolling theme (i think it's the default one?) I want to scream. The w
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by alan_n 8y ago
I like most things about discourse except the scrolling/loading. If you skip around with the bar on the side it's always loading where you skip to, which is fine, except it only loads what's in the viewport, no posts before&#
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by alan_n 8y ago
I don't like infinite scroll but for another reason not mentioned here. If you're browsing something that's content heavy (lots of pictures/videos) there's usually a point after a certain number of "pages"
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by alan_n 8y ago
Great analysis of comment types. I tend to do all the first six, including the guide comments. I can't understand people who think code should be completely self-documenting. There's always so many edge cases. Are they seriously n
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by alan_n 8y ago
So glad now I turned off Window's updates (because no matter what I did they kept installing when they shouldn't have). I have been considering moving to linux for a while now because there's finally good alternatives for som
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by alan_n 8y ago
My problem is the mirroring itself. I don't want, taking your example, /posts/post1 just because post1 is under posts. You can get around this with some SSGs but this doesn't change the fact that they're path orient
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by alan_n 8y ago
I tried Hugo a long time ago. I believe some of the features you mentioned did not exist at the time. Also if I remember correctly, I did find workarounds for most of what I mentioned with Hugo, but the workarounds felt really messy and inf
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by alan_n 8y ago
So you got me to look more into Gatsby because it's good they're interested in performance, and what's interesting is it seems to automate the pre-fetching and lazy-prefetch based on if the link is visible (that I can get mor
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by alan_n 8y ago
Technically, yes it's non-blocking, that's not the problem. For something like, for example, a store front, I agree, these framework renderers are great because/when: - You have little data that needs to be pre-loaded (e.g. i
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by alan_n 8y ago
This looks interesting for making SPAs and more app-like things, but then I haven't found things like Nuxt to be inflexible for that (never actually created a SPA with it though, just attempted to use it as an SSG). Doesn't look l
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by alan_n 8y ago
> What do you mean by adding images? Exactly what cmroanirgo describes, also see my reply to epage ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17961353 ) for that and my problems with rss, and some other things I didn't me
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by alan_n 8y ago
Never tried Nikola, but I'm painfully aware of the problem. I think I've tried and migrated through enough SSGs at this point though that I think I can write something better. The main problem IS the config imo. That and plugins (
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by alan_n 8y ago
No, I don't really like react, and it's probably bound to have the same problem as Nuxt. The issue is that the site, at least with Nuxt, is pre-rendered to HTML, right, but it still needs to have Vue (because usually you would wan
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by alan_n 8y ago
Well just off the top of my head, here's what I remember from most to least painful. Some of these are not 100% fixable though or I'm not sure the best way to fix them yet without adding more complexity or some sort of editor to m
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by alan_n 8y ago
I've tried so many static generators, but they just all fail miserably past a certain point. For a simple blog, just text, etc, they're great. But once you get into adding images, rss, or any sort of complex layout and routing, no
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by alan_n 8y ago
I have a large collection (it's 1000+ articles, pdfs, photos, notes, etc) of mostly "research" for several fiction books I'm writing as a hobby and also random ideas and DIY inspiration, etc. and although nothing has sol

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