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by city41 5y ago
Over the years a fair number of people have contacted me through HN. Only one time did I feel like the person was trying to sell me something, all the other interactions were positive. So I'd recommend doing this.
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by city41 5y ago
I couldn't agree more. As far as I am concerned this problem remains completely unsolved. I've had very bad experiences with Angi, HomeAdvisor (which now looks to be owned by Angi), Yelp and NextDoor recommendations. Finding good
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by city41 5y ago
I haven't actually used Rome, but their installation guide mentions both yarn and npx, so that possibly means Rome is agnostic on them https://rome.tools/#installation-and-usage
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by city41 5y ago
I didn't really agree with anything in this article and to be honest it feels like the whole thing was written just to be contrarian. Its definition of "debt" is too strict. Sure if you take on a mortage or a bank loan, then
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by city41 5y ago
They do have Silk. It's a skinned Chromium, but that's par for the course these days. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/silk/latest/developerguide/what-...
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by city41 5y ago
Not saying this is a good or viable option, but just pointing out you technically can get one without a Facebook account: https://www.inputmag.com/tech/oculus-sells-a-quest-2-headset...
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by city41 5y ago
Not sure what the usage rate was. But the devices saw pretty wide support. For example the Roland was supported by 900 games, same with the Soundblaster Roland: https://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/dos/tic,1
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by city41 5y ago
Most PC games from this era supported the Ad Lib, Roland MT-32, Soundblaster, etc. Here is the game from the post running on DOS with various sound cards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr-84mjV3CI
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by city41 5y ago
I do think it is slowly deteriorating though. I've noticed it on indie gaming subreddits. A dev will announce a new game and I suspect a lot of the comments are fake. Maybe not bots just yet, probably more likely the dev gathered a lar
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by city41 5y ago
In my experience flagged comments are typically off topic or abusive. I don't recall ever seeing a flagged comment that was an honest attempt at discussion. As for grayed comments that are an honest attempt at discussion? Very common.
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by city41 5y ago
Sure, that may be technically correct and in practice people downvote for any reason they choose. Nothing can stop them. But if they were used to promote viewpoints and better discussion, the end result would be better communities. As for t
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by city41 5y ago
I was not only referring to HN but the many communities that employ up/down voting. And for the record, I disagree with pg's take. Here is Reddit's official stance on downvoting: >Think before you downvote and take a momen
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by city41 5y ago
HN's voting system is a bit complicated. They will remove the downvote button for various reasons. For example you can't downvote replies to your comments, only upvote. I think also if you are a newer user, you can't downvote
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by city41 5y ago
My main issue with downvotes is they are almost always used incorrectly. Including here at HN. They are not meant to be an "agree/disagree" button, but rather a way to filter out content that is not relevant to the discussion
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by city41 5y ago
"Several states ban the sale of high end desktop computers over power consumption"?
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by city41 5y ago
The page states "California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont or Washington", why the focus on California? Is this a recent law for California while the other states have had it for some time or something?
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by city41 5y ago
Potholes in Cupertino? Cupertino has the most pristine asphalt I think I've ever seen.
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by city41 5y ago
I've completely given up on promoting my stuff. It used to be very easy and straightforward. Like minded folks could find new stuff without a problem. Nowadays, there's just way too much content, the vast majority of very low effo
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by city41 5y ago
What bothers me is the only way I can support Safari is by buying a recent Mac. I have users who complain about Safari issues. But my 2012 Mac will only run Safari 12. It's unreasonable to expect me to pay $700 just so I can debug a cr
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by city41 5y ago
I felt similarly before Tailwind. I now put it pretty close to TypeScript on things I don't want to work without. I think Adam's quote on the front page of tailwindcss.com is spot on "...but the truth is you’re never going to
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by city41 5y ago
Over my career I've had private offices, cubicles and open offices. Of the three, I actually liked cubicles the best. They are far from perfect, but they offer the best balance between privacy and communication.
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I've also found atomic css, such as Tailwind, largely eliminates this problem. Yeah, a controversial opinion, but regardless of how you feel about utility classes, they do avoid this problem.
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by city41 5y ago
This is just the reality of sports in America today. As a non-cable subscriber who likes hockey, every year I have to jump through numerous hoops to watch the playoffs, not to mention blacked out games. I am hopeful that once revenue from c
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by city41 5y ago
Things like this move more and more of our data and usage of computers into centralized hands. I'd suspect your typical HN user prefers to maintain control over that.
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by city41 5y ago
According to this video[1], Compaq's portable also bested IBM. It was Compaq's first product, and everyone thought IBM's upcoming portable would wipe them out, but they held strong and counted on IBM to have production proble
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by city41 5y ago
Heck, my neighborhood is 21 years old and the trees are still too small to provide any meaningful shade.
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by city41 5y ago
In some ways this has been the case for a long time. Tools that generate code, such as Visual Studio's form designer as a simple example, often generate really bad code. But no one ever reads it, and if you need to make a change you ju
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by city41 5y ago
I was always under the impression a video with more comments does better in YouTube's algorithms, so those schemes seemed more about pumping up the comment count rather than attempting to artificially engage people.
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by city41 5y ago
> Even if you hire someone, that can be a massive hassle, you have to worry about being ripped off This is a huge problem with home ownership, at the very least where I've owned homes (California and Michigan). The quality of contra
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by city41 5y ago
I don't feel this particular example is very strong since MVC is a bit of a loose/spongy term, especially nowadays. But I've been in interviews - on both sides of the table - where the interviewer is just outright incorrect.

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