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by cannam 6y ago
Are Teams and Slack competitors at all? I thought one was targeted document sharing, calendaring, and video meetings, and the other was general group chat and asynchronous communication? I haven't used either to an enormous extent - I&
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by cannam 6y ago
Lovely app, I like that a lot. I for one would positively crave an option to seek out hills. I've always found London far too flat for my taste.
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by cannam 6y ago
In case anyone else is like me in wondering why the name of Bir-Hakeim is so familiar - there is a Paris Metro stop named for the battle. South bank, just west of the Eiffel tower.
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by cannam 6y ago
The industry response to GDPR is continually fascinating. The idea of the GDPR was, presumably, to suggest that publishers and other industry actors might like to change their ways. If they were to keep doing what they had been doing, in te
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by cannam 7y ago
F# uses significant whitespace? I didn't know that. What does it use it for? SML and (I think) Ocaml don't, and I had assumed F# was like Ocaml, since its syntax is largely the same. In the tiny bit of F# I tried writing once I do
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by cannam 7y ago
I actually almost mentioned the Nokia phones - the Lumia 620 with its exchangeable double-shot rounded plastic backs (and near-perfect form factor in hand, with a 3.8" screen) may be the nicest phone I've ever used, as a pure phys
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by cannam 7y ago
> What strikes me about Nintendo is that their hardware quality is rather lacking. Maybe I'm spoiled by Apple et al., but my Switch feels quite the opposite of premium in the hand. The Switch is neat and tidy rather than premium exa
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by cannam 7y ago
> It seems to me that the use of the term in the headline was deliberately obfuscating clickbait I think this (mis)translation was fairly widely recognised before this article was written, so it's probably just using the familiar ve
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by cannam 7y ago
This may be actually the first useful comment on this subject (including my own!) - I know Windy well enough to know that for all its quality it's not a direct replacement, but will be glad to have a look at the others. Thanks.
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by cannam 7y ago
Same here. I'm afraid my first, vocalised reaction was not a charitable one.
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by cannam 7y ago
> With the exception of rare uses of git blame (hate that name) I do too, so it's worth noting that you don't have to call it that. I think it was a mistake for Subversion to introduce blame as a cute alias for annotate, but it
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by cannam 7y ago
> For someone reasonably fluent in bash/zsh (and Python, etc.) already, could someone give examples of where they might use PowerShell? My experience as a regular bash user and very occasional PowerShell one has been that I can writ
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by cannam 7y ago
A wise practice. As a young egotist I would often omit parens in complicated C expressions. I did this intentionally and in a very self-satisfied way - writing multi-line conditionals and lining them up neatly without parens with a metaphor
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by cannam 7y ago
That tells me that AOL paid a lot for the company, but it doesn't tell me why, unless I'm missing something obvious (which is quite possible, sorry if so). Did they do anything interesting on the internet, either then or later, or
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by cannam 7y ago
I've never heard of Moviefone - can anyone explain why a phone and dialup service is a "relic of the high-flying dotcom days"? Was there an internet component? The article offered me plenty of ads, autoplaying video, and cook
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by cannam 7y ago
Jamba certainly takes me back. I'd heard of Bobcat, De La Rue, Embraer, McIlhenny, Petzl, Tandberg (famous for reel-to-reel tape-recorders). I do think it's wonderful that the list includes a company known for "wristwatch han
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by cannam 7y ago
> That's how you turn on DND... For anyone else who wondered what DND stood for: it's "Do Not Disturb". Now that I know that, I see there is a subthread about it elsewhere in this HN page - but I couldn't find an
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by cannam 7y ago
So behind the scenes is a utility that scans the #included headers, runs the C preprocessor on them, then uses Clang code to pick out the declarations, wraps them for calling from D, and redefines any C macro values as D constants? Do I und
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by cannam 7y ago
My god, the rudeness of some of the defensive replies on there. If I was in that situation, with an expensively broken computer and no help from anyone, and someone with no experience of it kept harrying me in that way, well... I'd be
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by cannam 7y ago
"Why the iPhone's screen is 3.5″ and will most likely never be bigger than 4″" https://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/10/07/why-the-iphones-scre... From 2011, of course. I had to look this up,
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by cannam 7y ago
Bjarne Stroustrup's "A Tour of C++" ( http://www.stroustrup.com/Tour.html ) is close. It's a slim volume that is roughly a survey of the language as if it had begun with C++11.
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by cannam 7y ago
Git is already an insulting term where I come from - I remember one of our children, years ago when they were young, looking at my screen and saying "why are you typing git ??" in a shocked sort of tone. They're much less c
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by cannam 7y ago
Yep - this comes up as soon as you open Firefox, each time you install a macOS update. I've just finished updating a Mac to macOS 10.15.3, so I saw this loathsome dialog not five minutes ago. Without having seen what MS are doing in ac
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by cannam 7y ago
Andreas Rossberg's 1ML is (was?) an effort to unify the module syntax with that of functions and values ( https://people.mpi-sws.org/~rossberg/papers/Rossberg%20-%201... , https://github.com/ros
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by cannam 7y ago
I'd like to speak in support of Schoenberg's (only) piano concerto as a genuinely enjoyable piece of music to listen to. Although strictly atonal using a tone-row method, it uses quite traditional phrasings that are fairly easy to
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by cannam 7y ago
> To be fair, anyone buying that likely knows what they're getting into. True, I'm just dwelling on the possible consequences. I have some Silbersalz film myself that I haven't used yet, and I'm actively imagining eve
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by cannam 7y ago
There are companies like Silbersalz ( https://silbersalz35.com/ ) selling ECN-2 cinefilm stock in 35mm cartridges. You have to return the film to them for processing, rather than take it to a C-41 lab - and they warn that if
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by cannam 7y ago
Oof! Especially cruel is the "andalso" in the closing sentence.
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by cannam 7y ago
Well, what would you suggest? "A Tour of Standard Meta-Language" is nonsense. If there's one really unfortunate thing about ML, it's that the expanded (original? source?) name of the language is so meaningless that nobod
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by cannam 7y ago
Yep, I guess it doesn't quite reflect the modern reality for memory and cache access there - although at least primitive types are unboxed, inlined in arrays and records, and represented as machine types. There are probably more opport

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