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by alxlaz 7y ago
I think this doesn't account for what is, in my experience, the most common reason why engineering blogs fail: they have the wrong objective altogether. In a former life, back when printed magazines were still a thing, I used to do som
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Certainly. But even those can be routed so that the WR signal for a particular address also doubles as half of the AND input which causes a read from another range to always return zero, for example. (That's not an "undocumented o
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by alxlaz 7y ago
A modern CPU has a transistor count in the billions/low tens of billions. I haven't really thought about it but I'm tempted to say that looking at the decoder stage(s) alone won't do. Undocumented operation doesn't
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by alxlaz 7y ago
> The classic MacOS and Windows UIs didn't do that sort of stuff. Really? I very distinctly remember note/task pads that looked like spiral-bound pads of lined papers, CD players that looked like a real CD player, and calculato
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by alxlaz 7y ago
> Outside of very niche programs you didn't see skeuomorphic UIs much at all in the 90s or 00s. We must have lived in very different 1990s then. Everything was "files" and "folders" with icons that looked like f
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by alxlaz 7y ago
The author's interpretation seems to be that the spirit of "child-like playfulness" was already the dominating design paradigm at Google, as characterized by Saville in 2010, and the re-design of the logo was done in this spi
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by alxlaz 7y ago
I don't want to argue about the general idea but a lot of the things in your timeline don't really match with history: * The desktop metaphor with its files was not popular, and not successful on 8-bit machines. It was technically
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by alxlaz 7y ago
How is it "fairly unique"? The author cites several examples of designers and authors contemporary with this change this shift in aesthetics that characterized these designs as child-like. E.g.: "Already before the change, th
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by alxlaz 7y ago
We're in perfectly peaceful agreement, it's not even violent :-). As I mentioned in my post above: > Just to be clear, I am absolutely not arguing that severity shouldn't be tracked, I'm arguing against the idea that
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by alxlaz 7y ago
I'm not affiliated with Gitlab in any way, so I wouldn't know, but I'd speculate that the point of these questions is not to see if a candidate knows what MVC is or how a request is made, but to see if they can explain these
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Well, good, but if customer impact is the only metric that counts, what relevance does severity have? If you find a RCE vulnerability that never affects your customer, and how much it affects your customer is the only metric by which bugs
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> Your job is not to build the perfect/best product, it's to build the one your client want and is willing to pay money for. So why have severity and priority as two distinct dimensions then? If customer impact is the only rele
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And it does! Even when it's the only form of lag in existence, it's still noticeable -- see http://www.lofibucket.com/articles/dwm_latency.html for the notes of someone else who's noticed it. I usually d
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Most of the latency you see in modern Linux desktops comes from the tech stack, not the compositor. E.g. Plasma, and lots of other KDE components, are QML-based. You can see ths if you disable compositing. For example, you can run KDE with
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by alxlaz 7y ago
> Have you done much of this? I'm about 30% through such a project right now, and I have written C code for 6502-family CPUs in the past, although not specifically for the NES. I wouldn't say it's a lot of it, the way I wr
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Ah! Yes! Oh wow I love this! Many years ago, back when everyone was just discovering smartphones (we used to call them smartphone back then, now we just call them phones...) and figuring out that widgets need to be larger in order to be eas
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by alxlaz 7y ago
What FUD? And what aversion to "googling stuff"? The Start Menu Personalization is only one of the ad delivery channels, and only one about which I (literally) forgot. Do you still mean to say that there are no ads on a legitimate
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Fair enough, that one comes through the suggestions channel., which is opt-out
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by alxlaz 7y ago
> So to answer your question, I draw the line at opt-out functionality. Great! So any idea how you can opt out? Last time I've seen one of these "suggestions" was one or two weeks ago, when I ended up with a big red "
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Having worked with designers since back when Visual Studio .NET 2002 was pretty fresh, I think this is a very over-simplified assessment and I don't think it's fair. There are definitely cargo cult designers, just like there are c
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Far from me to defend every UI of every development tool out there but I think statements like these, and their illustration, could benefit from some explanation for those of us who are not designers: > We coders still put up with horri
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by alxlaz 7y ago
> And it looks like there's not too much to learn before writing basic programs for the NES (I could be wrong). You're not! The whole thing is very easy to pick up, and there's a lot more documentation nowadays than it us
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by alxlaz 7y ago
> You are deliberately conflating ads and suggestions. Really? What's the difference? When I see nice, red, highlighted text saying "Try out the new Edge browser", should I think of it as "just a suggestion"? How
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by alxlaz 7y ago
I'm sorry but really none of this makes any sense to me. How exactly did you reach the conclusion that "my actions don't really correspond to my words" based on how HN collectively treats Android? What actions are you ta
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Who said anything about not catering exactly to my particular interests? You said a legit copy of Windows 10 Pro doesn't show ads. It does. I see them. Ads were some of the first things I saw after I installed it, and I still see them
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Whataboutism is a logical fallacy even when the "what about" thing doesn't get enough attention. If Ubuntu got more criticism on HN, would the ads you see on Windows become less intrusive, or more appropriate? But FWIW, Ubunt
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by alxlaz 7y ago
I'm not sure how that's relevant here. Does my post say anything about what Ubuntu does being excusable in any way? Edit: also, FWIW, running apt-get upgrade doesn't re-enable the ads in the MOTD :-)
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by alxlaz 7y ago
This is not true. I have Win 10 Pro on my work laptop. It's very much "paid in full". Some of the things I paid in full for include Bubble Witch 3 Saga, Candy Crush Saga and Candy Crush Friends, and the Start menu came pre-po
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Why would you kick the poor thing? :( Not in America but terms I've heard include feeding the watchdog, keeping it alive, petting, greeting, barking at it, calling it and, my favourite, shushing it.
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by alxlaz 7y ago
There are hardware watchdog implementations that offer this feature natively. There are two configurable intervals, a "soft" and a "hard" watchdog deadline. If you miss the soft deadline, you get a NMI, and you make the

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