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by ashark 9y ago
I can't imagine I'm alone in wanting some more details about this, if you'd care to provide them.
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by ashark 9y ago
I'd say 95% of the code I've ever written hasn't done enough good for anyone to justify the money, time, and effort that went into its creation. Probably 25% was obviously doomed before I started writing it. Very little of th
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by ashark 9y ago
Everyone is. No-one wants to pay for what it takes to get a decent estimate, which incidentally also requires a near-perfect idea of what you're gonna do ahead of time which is also usually lacking and which no-one's interested in
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by ashark 9y ago
The most striking moment to me in my IPE class was when the professor, after we'd covered how governments and, in democracies (by proxy), We the People, bring modern economies into being and choose, to some degree (other governments an
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by ashark 9y ago
I've only had a perspective from the point of view of smaller businesses, I admit, but 100% of the hiring there I've seen has been driven by expected or actual demand, not "oh look we have extra cash, let's hire some peo
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by ashark 9y ago
Anyones else getting really strong vibes of "author doesn't understand what they're analyzing" from this? [edit] In particular, they seem to spend a lot of space marveling over marginal utility as if they'd never en
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by ashark 9y ago
My kids are very young and there are three of them. I struggle to find time when my brain's not already totally fried to finish even simple 1-2 hour projects, let alone re-housing a laptop to be kid proof and fiddling to get DOS driver
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by ashark 9y ago
I hope that this is because I have, over the years, become like Liezi's good judge of horses[1], but fear it's just that I have a bad memory for programming language details. Probably it's a bit of both. [1] https:/&#x2
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by ashark 9y ago
Mapping seems like a great candidate for a nation-state level project. Make the data open and free (or cheap) to download, add an API with a lowish fee. Governments at every level already collect tons of this data—satellite imagery, utility
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by ashark 9y ago
I'd pay $300 (maybe more) right now for a tiny, durably-housed (I'd be letting my kids use it) 486-alike machine with a smallish integrated-into-housing LCD and keyboard, and maaaaybe a mouse and an old-school joystick/pad
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by ashark 9y ago
Ahhhh, depth. How I miss you. Sigh. Well, back to my flat-everything-for-no-real-reason modern digital life.
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by ashark 9y ago
> 2. fatigue Do we know the (eye) health effects, yet, of looking at AR/VR screens an inch from your eyes for 6+ hours a day?
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by ashark 9y ago
Add an old-school word processor lcd screen for the current line you’re editing?
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by ashark 9y ago
I find I often forget basic language syntax when I don't have adjoining lines to crib from, say, when white boarding. And that's with languages I'm actively working in—I'm hopeless in anything I haven't used in a co
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by ashark 9y ago
I’ve been meaning to put together a music player for my kids that uses one of: qr codes, bar codes, or NFC tags to select the music to play (no screen). The first two having surprisingly expensive readers (you can buy a crappy smartphone fo
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by ashark 9y ago
I'd be OK with keeping both in the same client, with warnings when transitioning from one to the other (say, you follow a link on a web page to a web app), if that's what it took. It'd be like the HTTPS lock and content-origi
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by ashark 9y ago
HTML built-in elements—especially forms and tables—have atrophied badly, I guess because the Javascript crutch is right there. That's gotta be why things like the file picker are still awful, there's nothing like native UI date&#x
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by ashark 9y ago
We had working voting systems before AJAX (source: I have a high-but-now-considered-lowish Slashdot ID) so we can do it. Besides, visited link state seems like it'd resolve the problem, and it's been in HTML approximately foreve
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by ashark 9y ago
See discussion in this thread about the "204 No Content" response code. Not all successful HTTP requests trigger a page load. And that's without having to change anything about current HTTP/HTML—except maybe giving hyp
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by ashark 9y ago
Why?
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by ashark 9y ago
I submit that Tannhaeuser's vision is what can replace the current web in its cross-platform-app-distribution role, leaving the document-browsing side to mine :-) That addresses the core problem, as I see it, which is that when I want
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by ashark 9y ago
> I disagree with this completely. So much of what JS does is increase the (perceived) speed and sanity of the user experience. For example, in a scriptless world, your HN up/down vote can't be done without a full page load, wh
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by ashark 9y ago
> The problem with that approach is that you have to define all your possible use-cases up front. If the web had stayed as a simple document format, it wouldn't even be worth talking about now. Everything but web apps and spy-vertis
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by ashark 9y ago
> And without CSS we'll end up with Beige boxed web, all looking the same, behaving the same, and stuck in someone's idea of a sensible default. That'd be amazing. I wouldn't have to manually kill awful anti-user elem
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by ashark 9y ago
How does a mesh cope with most end-user Internet-connected devices (phones) running on battery power, especially in less developed areas? Would we be back to needing infrastructure nodes with wall power, or solar, or whatever? This is what
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by ashark 9y ago
There's a certain family of oft-posted-about-online economic/political ideologies that, as best I can tell, spread primarily by abusing language in this way, hoping the reader does not catch them sliding in a metaphorical, colloqu
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by ashark 9y ago
HTML with great default styles and better built-in form and interactive elements (date picker, sortable tables) would be ideal. Screw CSS, it slows everything down, just have good defaults and don't let pages mess with them much. If we
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by ashark 9y ago
What about wifi-only mode? Is Bluetooth fine? Those'd also affect tablets, laptops, and maybe eink readers, among other things. Gaming handhelds. Been kicking around going wifi-only anyway, with a crappy burner on a prepaid plan in the
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by ashark 9y ago
I just installed FF on my mom's new desktop yesterday, noticed this crap while installing ublock origin. Definitely didn't opt in to anything. Made me wonder whether I'd accidentally downloaded some malware from a look-alike
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by ashark 9y ago
Very new, "pre-seasoned" plus oven-seasoned once.

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