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by barnabee 4y ago
I like Rust but I’d use this for so many things!
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by barnabee 4y ago
They can send whatever data they like but they have no right of control over what I do with it or how it’s rendered. Browsers would be better if they prioritised user preferences over website designers.
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by barnabee 4y ago
I’ll take the risk of extra crime or terrorism as a cost of privacy as a human right, thanks
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by barnabee 5y ago
I guess the interesting question is the ratio of “glue” and layout code to business logic and algorithms. There’s definitely too much glue (and somewhat relatedly, too much branding and unique “design”) in software, IMO.
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by barnabee 5y ago
"a shift in strategy that has made the company better known for offering TV shows and a credit card than introducing the kind of revolutionary new devices that once defined it" I nearly stopped reading here. Does anyone think th
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by barnabee 5y ago
I’ve had good experiences with age [1]: it’s relatively easy to use and has sane defaults. [1] https://github.com/FiloSottile/age
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by barnabee 5y ago
Agreed, but I'd still pay for Twitter _and_ Tweetbot (without which I'd probably have left the platform years ago)
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by barnabee 5y ago
Yes, multiple times. It went/is going great! Pros: - A single API server, no separate database to worry about, configure, and update. - Backups are as simple as backing up one file every so often. SQLite even has an API to do this from
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by barnabee 5y ago
And the alternative is what? The SEC is an altruistic, diligent protector of consumers and investors? lol It is hard to look at the SEC’s most public actions in the last few years and not believe Musk here.
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by barnabee 5y ago
They’d make more money from me (and I imagine at least a handful of others) if I could pay to have no ads, tracking, data sharing, or “algorithms” that I don’t explicitly control sorting and filtering content.
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by barnabee 5y ago
I haven’t come across this but I use only whatever versions of Python are provided by the python@3.10 and/or python@3.9 Homebrew packages and Debian testing or stable so am very likely not at the bleeding edge. That or I don’t have int
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by barnabee 5y ago
> Complexity never really goes away This is only true if the complexity comes from the underlying problem that must be solved or goal that must be achieved. Complexity that exists for historical reasons, derived from technology or platfo
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by barnabee 5y ago
I would use Python much less often if it weren’t for Poetry [1], but with it I’ve never had a colleague fail to get a script running. [1] https://python-poetry.org/
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by barnabee 5y ago
I have 1gbps fibre in central London and generally see >750mbps in real link speed, 900 on a good day. At my previous flat 150mbps was the fastest available. So it varies a lot in London on where exactly you are.
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by barnabee 5y ago
This is a fair point. I still feel that my criticism applies to where the money and development effort seem to be focused, even for Matrix, but I am a big fan of Matrix overall and agree that it does at least have a variety of better client
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by barnabee 5y ago
Absolutely. I miss having multiple windows, each with one or more tabs, all respectful of my screen real estate! With most IRC clients or multi protocol chat programs you could have a couple of important channels always visible on a second
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by barnabee 5y ago
I don’t need these results but I don’t want to support this behaviour/trend. Can anyone recommend a decent non-Google alternative.
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by barnabee 5y ago
Agreed, if you can’t read enough of the temporally sorted timeline the answer right now is unfollows not the algo timeline. I would totally use something to sort and filter my feed so I could proceed it quicker and follow more insightful
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by barnabee 5y ago
Twitter is where people who are or will be powerful, influential, or impactful get their information, form their opinions, and often debate really important topics. So I’d agree it’s undervalued in terms of utility if it’s not priced an ord
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by barnabee 5y ago
I feel like most people must use Twitter wrong. Despite how common a criticism it is, your description is not even remotely my experience. I don’t know why. Maybe most users follow people who they like or respect or think are good people no
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by barnabee 5y ago
Strange, I find the same idea immensely reassuring/satisfying…
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by barnabee 5y ago
Not all of us live there or want those rules
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by barnabee 5y ago
I still think technology is incredibly cool, especially if you follow your interests and curiousity rather than what's popular and going to make you money. That said, tech companies and most of the people on HN do seem a lot less coo
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by barnabee 5y ago
Hating ads and liking to pay for the content are two separate things. I can do both… 1. As long as they’re paying a reasonable amount, paying customers should be more motivating to the company than whoever’s buying ads (because they provid
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by barnabee 5y ago
If I was made to use Jira I’d be pretty happy about this
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by barnabee 5y ago
I don’t know about you but I hate ads and like to pay for my content, I also don’t see why I’d want to give money to intermediaries every time I pay for something. Why would I be against payments being built into browsers in a standardised
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by barnabee 5y ago
You shouldn’t necessarily want it built into the browser but you might want it built into the internet so that you can avoid the layers of fees, commissions and surveillance capitalism. For better or worse, for most people the browser is th
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by barnabee 5y ago
This is why companies must be forced to make their data available. The value that could be unleashed is insane.
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by barnabee 5y ago
Totally! I especially wish Titles With Every Word Capitalised would die
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by barnabee 5y ago
I miss many things about the Excel interface in early every web app: - editing many records as a table - formulae for calculating values - ability to paste from other tables or Excel sheets - information density! - arbitrary sort and filter

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