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by cxr 2y ago
Here's the first of a three-part interview with Waldrop, the author of The Dream Machine[1] and semi-official Licklider biographer of sorts: < https://luminary.fm/episode/mitch-waldrop-on-the-dream-machi... >
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by cxr 2y ago
Previously: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32155067#32157109 >
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Larry wants to call you and discuss two corrections to this piece ("one minor, one major"). I've already passed on your email address for good measure, but you should reach out to him.
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Not really. git-scm.org is the de facto "official" site for the Git project in about the same way that French is the de facto "official" language of France. They meant exactly what they wrote: GitHub took over hosting d
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by cxr 2y ago
There's a screenshot purporting to be of GitHub from May 2008. There are tell-tale signs, though, that some or all of the CSS has failed to load, and that that's not really what the site would have looked like if you visited it a
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by cxr 2y ago
> It's not a mistake. Then that's worse. Because it means that the misleading way the article is written is deliberate. > This might be a shock to you that J2CL is actually good enough to get the same performance as hand-wr
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by cxr 2y ago
> Windows (MS) and OSX (Apple) need to agree on a GUI interoperability API. Either hammer something out, or adopt one/more of the OSS GUI framework specifications from QT and GTK. I've been saying for a while now that the open
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I have read it closely no fewer than three times. It's junk and filled with sleights of hand like I already mentioned, which you don't pick up on by not paying enough attention.
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by cxr 2y ago
You just wrote out a series of true statements. But you aren't engaging with the comment that I wrote. < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grice's_maxims > You're right: the article is comparing compi
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There's no way it doesn't fit.
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by cxr 2y ago
You can plug your interview.
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And by "the JS version", you mean the Java version—compiled to run in the browser by targeting its JS engine. There is no JavaScript version. This is a consistent mistake made throughout your article. It's not an especially
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by cxr 2y ago
> they had a core data structure in Sheets which was blurring the lines between arrays and maps. This is efficient in JavaScript, which automatically models sparse arrays as maps, but slow on other platforms. So they had to rewrite th
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> We have definitely need a term, more accurate than source-available I think you mean more marketable. "Source available" is extremely accurate and descriptive. It's not as sexy, though, and that's the real reason
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It doesn't have to be the same link or the same article be a dupe. > A duplicate means a copy On HN, if someone submits an article on Tuesday for some news that broke on Monday that received a substantial of comments, it's a du
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by cxr 2y ago
Dupe: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40759277 > "Andrew S. Tanenbaum Receives ACM Software System Award" 2024 June 22. 94 comments.
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by cxr 2y ago
> in practice simple formats have tendency to evolve into frankenstein monster with a mess of extensions and variations (see markdown for example) Compare to OPML, which is supposed to support other things—exactly the type of things yo
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> URLs generally have less protection than a password That's an understatement. Passwords are supposed to be private by design. URLs are not. > because that's how we design a lot of our systems (and this is a property of o
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> read some feed containing something relatively private, guess what, they're reading it too Everyone needs to accept the fact there's no such thing as a private URL. There are URLs that can be originally communicated to you p
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Artykul < https://artykul.org/ >
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What Is a File on a Phone? (2023)(dl.acm.org)
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by cxr 2y ago
Basic OPML is pretty well-supported, but text/uri-list is a better format for the most common use of OPML (a collection of RSS/Atom feeds). It's a little funny seeing projects pull in full-blown XML parsers just to not reall
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by cxr 2y ago
> Node's way of handling modules isn't the same as the way the browser works That's a Node problem. 100% foreseeable (and avoidable).* There's a reason why I compared NodeJS to Internet Explorer in my first comment—b
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by cxr 2y ago
But why male models?
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> The whole node npm ecosystemand tooling is so bad and broken. No other language is so frustrating. Neither Node nor NPM are languages. > when you try to use an external stylesheet you hit the wall of the modern js world: css can not
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The difference is the language/standard in question neither originated with NodeJS nor is NodeJS now nor has it ever been led by the people behind the language/standard (unlike Python)... When you hear "NodeJS", you real
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import "./foo_bar.js" (for FooBar)
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> There's no return on investment to convert Nothing except doing things the standard way so that standards-compliant language implementations (and other tools) can work with them instead of targetting IE^H^H NodeJS's non-stand
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I just went and took a look at the site based on this comment, and oh boy. > this elaborate public website to try to make their hobby project look really serious and professional and important You evidently have a very low bar for what

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