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by bla2 8y ago
(it's "crescendo", an Italian word I believe)
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by bla2 8y ago
When I was 19, I did use this option a few times. Success rate was about 50%, not awesome.
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by bla2 8y ago
Or older parents == better circumstances for kid, and better chances for kid with autism to be successful.
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by bla2 8y ago
I get what you're saying, but I'm not sure if planning trips to the other side of the globe qualifies as "daily use" either :-) I think it's neat to see that the route is along a great circle -- that wasn't cle
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by bla2 8y ago
Remember the link recently that predicted Tesla shorts are about to unleash lots of negative press to make money? That's part of that. Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17521946
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by bla2 8y ago
How is Android funded by advertising? The google services running on it are funded by advertising, but you don't have to use those.
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by bla2 8y ago
It's so weird to me that Google gets all this flack when they made Android open source, while Apple gets none of it and kept iOS closed source and super locked down. Given that, it's somewhat understandable that they're movin
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by bla2 8y ago
Sure, electron apps get this very wrong. App makers are free to write software that prioritizes something else than being a good Mac app. But Apple's own apps should be good Mac apps.
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by bla2 8y ago
Consistent UI, simple and fast built-in apps for common tasks, good unix subsystem, fast file system, pretty text rendering, system libraries that make it fairly easy to write good native apps, etc. macOS has all this, but it had all this f
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by bla2 8y ago
For Macs, in my opinion they used to build high quality products, but they're losing their lead. macOS hasn't improved in ways that matter to me in years and some things got worse. The hardware used to be untouchably good, but the
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by bla2 8y ago
https://security.googleblog.com/2018/07/mitigating-spectre-w... says that they've been working on site isolation (one process per domain, so potentially several per tab) for many years. chrome has been multip
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by bla2 8y ago
The nytimes publishes an article like this every few months. It's not like they're impartial in this area -- tech took news's audience. Don't give this attention it doesn't deserve.
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by bla2 8y ago
> I don't ever want to have to fight so hard for a PEP and find that so many people despise my decisions. Leading a large open source project must be terrible in this age of constant outrage :-(
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by bla2 8y ago
Blink (the HTML engine) is still going to push the same drawing commands to all the backends. Winding rule order stuff might be different if a backend is buggy, but things like this shouldn't be different.
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by bla2 8y ago
Meh, to look outside your filter bubble you can just open google in an incognito window. I do that from time to time, and for web search, filter bubbles don't have much of an impact imho. I mostly search for technical things though.
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by bla2 8y ago
I don't get why people recommend DDG. It's mostly a different skin on bing search results. Why is relying on bing better than relying on google? If DDG had its own engine, I could see the "they're the small underdog focu
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by bla2 8y ago
BEAM (the Erlang VM) + Erlang, Elixir, hipe-llvm seems like a good addition to the graph.
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by bla2 8y ago
Almost all compilers producing machine code can instead also produce assembly. In fact, many compilers internally produce assembly and then run an assembler to produce machine code. So the Assembly node is missing many in arrows.
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by bla2 8y ago
Thanks for sharing!
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by bla2 8y ago
> it wasn’t until I was 30 that my wife and I had enough for a downpayment for a house. Not sure if that's meant to evoke sympathy, but to me that sounds extremely entitled. I'd be grateful if I had a house at 30. Is it common
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by bla2 8y ago
The "What problems do Bitcode introduce?" section is a bit silly too: Production binaries you ship don't contain bitcode. For store apps, the app store will strip it, for non-store apps you strip it yourself. It's like s
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by bla2 8y ago
I only skimmed, but I found several mistakes. With bitcode, you still get one bitcode slice per arch since LLVM bitcode isn't platform-independent. Pointers are for example sized differently, which causes the same C file to compile to
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by bla2 8y ago
Weird it lists Firefox but not Chromium. Firefox on Windows is great, but on Mac it's just ok.
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by bla2 8y ago
A simple build system fits the tools listed here and covers graphs. An NFA regex matcher would cover it too.
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by bla2 8y ago
The usual play is "when behind, join up with others and promote openness". That's what Google and Microsoft are doing vs AWS in cloud, its what browsers did during IE 6.0's reign, it's what Apple did with it's
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by bla2 8y ago
This surprised me at first: > having difficult conversations with individuals is never fun But apparently "difficult conversations" is a Valley euphemism for "firing people" and doesn't mean "discussing diff
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by bla2 8y ago
I am pretty disillusioned with them too, and they do push an agenda in many areas (pro-military, anti-tech, etc). I loathe their opinion pages, they're a weird mix of bland and constantly pseudo-outraged. But I still like lots of stuff
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by bla2 8y ago
A bit easier but also more expensive than the other options mentioned: Pay for a NY times subscription.
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by bla2 8y ago
> GTK+ 3 stopped changing in drastic ways, which was well-received, and we are finally seeing applications moving from GTK+ 2. It's almost as if devs care more about stable APIs than about endless churn for minor features!
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by bla2 8y ago
I don't think that's true. You can have a profile per window, the windows live in the same process.

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