davidork

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by davidork 4y ago
so, speedcrunch, but on the web. got it.
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by davidork 4y ago
Adobe flash was like lead paint, irradiated water and asbestos insulation... at one point in time it seemed like a good idea, but in hindsight they were terrible ideas and should just be left behind.
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by davidork 4y ago
it would be a lot rmore interesting if they were hacked by an inside party.
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by davidork 4y ago
I started programming in high school, probably around 9th grade, I picked up a book on c at B&N, it was written with devC++ in mind as the IDE. The next year I took my first "formal" programming class. Programming 1 at my hig
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by davidork 4y ago
Whoever originally invented the wheel ultimately is responsible for all weapons of war. once the cat is out of the bag, it's not going back. This smells like someone inventing a moral dilemma because the FUD didn't work on the use
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by davidork 4y ago
Being that the vast majority of the public facing internet is ad driven there will always be some sort of leaning. Allowing the users to choose their own filters will allow advertisers to actually read the market based on the the sites that
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by davidork 4y ago
Pinterest is ad fueled zombie. Scrape the web, rehost thumbnails of other useful/interesting images, put up ads, pollute image search results until the heat death of the universe.
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by davidork 4y ago
so... don't get rid of search engine filter "bubbles" that turn the web into an echo chamber, let the people build their own echo chambers? I mean, its at least transparent, people are aware of it or have to opt in. It feels
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by davidork 5y ago
the way its communicated is crap, it feels self-help author/marketing guru. but, it's true. writing stuff down allows you to consolidate the various thought fragments and pieces of information, potentially elucidating things you
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by davidork 7y ago
dunno about windows, but in llinux its fairly simple. I've had to do do this a lot of this sort of thing on big disk images my friend made with some weird program that pads the start of everything with 512 bytes of some random crap. dd
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by davidork 8y ago
it used to be. Then the internet became a product. It became a storefront, and home to the advertising apocalypse that will probably wind up being the catalyst for the downfall of the human species. there's still funny/weird shit
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by davidork 8y ago
i just looked at the website, went to the main page and watched bits and pieces of the gameplay video. rogue-lite: check. metroidvania(gotta get that retro street cred) : check. Bland uninspired assets: check. post mortem blog post posted t
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by davidork 14y ago
I agree. Minimalism in the "unix" sense (Write programs that do one thing, and do that one thing well.) is beautiful. Minimalism to get rid of all this useless fluff that no one ever uses is practical. Minimalism in coding, not using overly
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by davidork 14y ago
One word comment. In a discussion about whether or not minimalism has gone too far. I lol'd.
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by davidork 14y ago
Agreed. I find yahoo especially very noisy, entirely too much going on. Its not ideal being that finding something specific on the yahoo homepage requires some ctrl+f for the unfamiliar user, but as you said it is functional enough for "p
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by davidork 14y ago
I have some sort of eye/brain issue when reading big blocks of text if the line spacing is too tight I'll start reading the next line down in the middle of a sentence, particularly when I'm tired. more text left to right (@~90% page width)
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Has minimalism gone too far?
6 points by davidork 14y ago|12 comments