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by byuu 11y ago
If you were going to bypass the character limit, I'd go with using URL encode on your message with a special domain. URLs can be substantially longer (2083 characters), and Twitter is happy to only count that as ~10 characters against
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by byuu 11y ago
The point was that reasoned, articulate debate is possible (or at least, substantially easier) on sites without character limits such as Facebook (and I'm sure it's happened a few times); not that it'll suddenly be the norm
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by byuu 11y ago
I think Twitter's popularity in Japan, despite the fact that 140 characters there can convey a message that's 3-4x larger than in English, is indicative that increasing the English character count to somewhere between 280-560 (or
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by byuu 11y ago
Snark aside, I do sympathize. It isn't Twitter's fault that it became so popular that very important people have taken to it to post things that really do not belong on a 140-character-per-message service. I also can't enti
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by byuu 11y ago
> what if they eventually decide they want to remove the 140-character limit from tweets? I get that the charm of Twitter to many is brevity. But it might do wonders for intelligent discourse. Twitter has popularized spelling abortions (
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by byuu 11y ago
I'm very happy to see people are still doing this sort of thing! I've always wanted to see something of a truly 'barebones' OS; but one that could at least get you 64-bit mode, OpenGL ES, audio output, USB polling and ne
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by byuu 11y ago
In addition, it's also more consistent with lambda syntax, lets you use decltype on parameter arguments, allows your function names to line up nicely in header files, and my favorite feature, is scoped for member functions. Ex: M
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by byuu 11y ago
Neat, thank you for trying it! It's in a bad state right now with zero examples/documentation. Plus the move to shared ownership was done this year, and has required massive rewrites (Windows/GTK finished, Qt underway, Cocoa
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by byuu 11y ago
> I kind of wonder why nobody has written a library that acts as a thin layer around and abstraction of native UI toolkits That's what I'm working on. Targeting C++, calling it hiro. So far, I have Windows, GTK, Qt and a dorman
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by byuu 11y ago
I tried for a few years to use Qt. This is kind of old now, from 4.5-4.9 or so, but I think a lot of the points are still valid: https://web.archive.org/web/20120429043003/http://byuu.org/a... These
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by byuu 11y ago
> it's done because most users are incredibly lazy and ignorant. I don't know why it's acceptable for software to treat all of its users as lazy and ignorant, even if most actually are. All that's going to do is encou
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by byuu 11y ago
Honestly with everything becoming web apps these days, I'm starting to feel it's more dangerous for the browser than for the OS. So many zero-day exploits like the recent Microsoft OpenType bug. And of course, Flash. Enough said t
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by byuu 11y ago
I haven't contributed directly to Mozilla, no. As a software dev that's received plenty of criticism as well, I'll just say that when I post detailed complaints about things I don't like, it's not because I want to
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by byuu 11y ago
Nope, I used Firefox LTS 24 as long as I could. But by LTS 31 (which wasn't very long), we were back to Australis. And Firefox 24 is missing a whole lot of really critical functionality. You really have no choice but to trust the rando
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by byuu 11y ago
> The Pocket and Hello case could at least have a disable option I really don't think burying an opt-out option justifies these things. This is the same tactic used to push malware in installers, Ubuntu's farming your search re
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by byuu 11y ago
Australis wasn't necessary at all, though. It broke my ability to keep tabs on the bottom, it forced the refresh button into my URL bar (the opposite end of my other navigation buttons ... making it much more annoying to use), it kille
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by byuu 11y ago
Yeah, this is the most "pot calling the kettle black" article I've seen all month. Let's see: * no opt-out for Australis * removal of tabs on bottom * forced signed extensions * removing option to not retain download his
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by byuu 11y ago
> Cassette tapes were bullshit, and I can't believe people can't see it. Just your typical hipster trendiness nonsense. Anyone who grew up using cassette tapes knows exactly how awful they are, and are glad to be rid of them. A
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by byuu 11y ago
I think the way to go is for the site author to offer their own content style. Then the user has the choice to use that, or to use their own style. They can default to whatever they want (theirs or sites'), and override on a case-by-ca
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by byuu 11y ago
> I could be wrong, but I see the HTTP/2 ploy as a proposed way to deliver more cruft, faster. Could not possibly agree more. I tried my own HTTP/1 site in that site-tester, and it has a 105ms response time for entire pages. An
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by byuu 11y ago
Going to about:config and setting media.peerconnection.enabled to false seems to work, without the need for an extension. Now to find out how many sites break in fun and exciting ways for having done this ;)
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by byuu 11y ago
Not everything has to be RFC approved. If I had the need for a new protocol, I'd just use one of the dead protocol ports anyway. I suspect firewalls blocking everything but ports 80 and 443 has a lot more to do with why so many service
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by byuu 11y ago
> I don't think there's much of a difference in practice between the two. If you admit "bad data" into your language, you very quickly spiral into true undefined behavior. Well, by your definition, it would indeed be
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by byuu 11y ago
> Including undefined behavior around memory allocation, in particular use-after-free? There are obviously going to be limits to what can be done. If you access beyond memory, you get "bad data" if the address is mapped by the
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by byuu 11y ago
I understand that in some cases, these heroic compiler optimizations can offer significant performance increases. We should keep C around as it is for when said performance is critical. But surely, we can design a language that has no undef
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by byuu 11y ago
This may just be me, but I feel like 2D ages so much more gracefully than 3D. Especially the PS1 era. I can look at a game like Tales of Phantasia and bask in how beautiful everything looks, even at 256x224 on that limited hardware. I can e
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by byuu 11y ago
> Banning snake oil is never a part of a free society. The problem is parents forcing it on their kids. Set the minimum age to 22 or so (where most kids will be finished with college, since most kids are dependent on their parents for th
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by byuu 11y ago
I've been there five years, and really have no attachment to it whatsoever. You can say, "why go back?", but I'd just say, "why not?" It's pretty much because it's there. Either way, I imagine a lot o
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by byuu 11y ago
> I'd imagine if you got Victoria on board Very doubtful she'd work for free, so that rules out owners that can't afford at least a full-time salary. Find someone willing to risk ~$50-100K just on the IAmA coordinator alon
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by byuu 11y ago
Yep, didn't want to seem like I was advertising. It's a bit pricey, and annoying that we have to use such tricks to unmask private callers.

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