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by cxr 3y ago
I've been collecting notes about this file for a few years. Some of the information in this post was previously covered right here in the comments on HN a few years back: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1279315
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by cxr 3y ago
It's Willison.
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by cxr 3y ago
The author doesn't grok cool URIs. > But Cloudflare’s redirect is permanent and has been public for a few weeks, therefore all Google search results were pointing to the cleaned up URLs. If I wanted to move to a different static si
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by cxr 3y ago
Not quite. The previous commenter was referring to how the FSF handles contributions—copyright assignment—not a CLA. Your conventional CLA doesn't transfer copyright ownership to the upstream project. It just permits them to do a
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by cxr 3y ago
And there's not a single mention of Charlie Gordon in your comment about QuickJS. Would have been nice.
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by cxr 3y ago
The browser^desktop thing is a false dichotomy. You can write browser-based programs that nonetheless aren't Web apps . < https://wiki.triplescripts.org/wiki/NOT#Not_a_cloud_IDE > The trick is to untangle
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by cxr 3y ago
Okay?
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by cxr 3y ago
[flagged]
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by cxr 3y ago
> If it’s okay for you to drive 10mph over the speed limit That's not what they said.
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by cxr 3y ago
I don't know what you think that link shows (I don't know what John thought it showed, either—it's a classic "talking to one's own head, instead of who you're trying to communicate with" situation, and Dav
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by cxr 3y ago
It's a great example of someone thoughtlessly dumping energy into a system in a way that (a) frustrates the people working towards the same thing you are and (b) leaves those you oppose unscathed. I.e. not just annoyingly unproductive
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by cxr 3y ago
> Wikipedia is not perfect, but their process is quite mature and robust. Wikipedia's processes are anything but. It almost feels like it's less mature now than it was 10 years ago. I've seen this with other communities
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by cxr 3y ago
Why have you posted this as a reply to me? Do you think you're going to get an answer from me to the questions you're asking—and the people you have an issue with? I would have rather not had my comment here at all if I knew it w
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by cxr 3y ago
Some people oppose solar panels (and wind farms) purely for aesthetic reasons. Buildings with flat roofs render this a non-issue, but then the lack of a sloped roof means you have to deal with water runoff. I wonder why we don't do r
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by cxr 3y ago
Pocket Casts is open source. (I know you didn't say otherwise, but there's potential for misunderstanding given the wording.)
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by cxr 3y ago
You get the gist of the benefits—to get to a point where you can "implement JavaScript-style RegEx literals" without too much effort by removing some barriers to implementation—but some of the conceptual specifics in your understa
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by cxr 3y ago
Ken Jennings has a podcast. It's excellent. (PS: Ken is hilarious. PPS: Ken says some pretty dumb stuff in the episode I'm about to mention. It's still excellent—both the podcast and the episode.) Ken's cohost broug
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by cxr 3y ago
There is no misunderstanding. You're not talking about a requirement.
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by cxr 3y ago
Yes—a bug, even. Still doesn't change the meaning of "requirement".
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by cxr 3y ago
It sounds like when you say "requirement" and that you "can't share code" and the result would be "unacceptable", you mean something else. Something like, "I just don't want it like this (even t
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by cxr 3y ago
See bdcravens's response: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39158003 > (Note though that you aren't limited to Ctrl-clicking. There's Shift-clicking, too, as well as mouse lassoing. Assuming your U
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by cxr 3y ago
> I do not really understand what is the problem with flexible <select> implementation in browser. There isn't a problem. Your flexibility is just in the wrong place—the flexibility is on the side of the user and user agent,
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by cxr 3y ago
> One could argue that C's success is largely because[...] Why do so many ignore the obvious? Ergonomics matters. At a time when most programmers didn't touch type (even the big stars), the economy of being able to type `int
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by cxr 3y ago
> I'd shy away from features which require crazy parser shenanigans like[...] RegEx literals Note to aspiring language designers: you don't have to shy away; you can 80/20 your way there even in extremely early versions of
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by cxr 3y ago
> Unless you're talking about some[...] restricted subset Are you familiar with what the "/A" part signifies in PDF/A? Or what the words "archive-quality HTML" implies about an analog? > writing a H
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by cxr 3y ago
> We could add new reference locations after some fixed amount of content such that they're never too far away, and we could even print these references at the bottom of each section for ease of use! How does HTML hinder this?
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by cxr 3y ago
You think you're making a case about the shortcomings of HTML. You're really just demonstrating how crummy page numbers are as a citation format. If you want to cite a figure X from chapter Y, then cite figure X from chapter Y.
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by cxr 3y ago
> PDF's spec prioritizes long-term preservation (or whatever term they use), especially in PDF/A format. HTML does not. Uh, okay. HTML is a dead simple plain text format that has been around for 30+ years. PDF hasn't been
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by cxr 3y ago
Refer to the place in the linked article where the part I quoted appears in a section called "Limitations"—the bookmarklet is stopped in its tracks when it encounters style sheets that are loaded from off-site (but that are still
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by cxr 3y ago
Again, not true. But discussion with you? About this? Here? Bang on—I can't see any upsides.

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