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by eludwig 8y ago
The 68K was such a glorious processor to program, especially after coming from the 6502. Hardware multiply and divide? Sign me up! :D The assembly code looked like poetry.
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by eludwig 8y ago
When you are this great, I think you can cast some stones. I find his prose achingly beautiful.
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by eludwig 8y ago
I don't remember the author off hand (maybe John Varley?) but there is a science fiction novel where people are kept as heads with all of their nerves hooked up in such a way that ANY sensation could be perfectly created. Needless to s
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by eludwig 8y ago
>>Did you experience this, and how did you push through it? Apologies for chiming in, but the simple answer is that "you" can't. That is, if you believe that there is a "you" that can push past this barrier, t
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by eludwig 9y ago
I own the first 12.9 iPad Pro and it has no Apple Pencil lag that I can detect. It also does not have the Pro Motion 120Hz display. I think Apple did something along the lines of doubling the sampling rate (not sure of the exact number) of
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by eludwig 9y ago
What a great game! I played this for hours back when it was released and I did finally make it to (and beat!) the Black Knight level. So many good memories. IMO, the difficulty level was much closer to today's tougher indy games.. Not
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by eludwig 9y ago
I'd also like to recommend the Ken Burns "The Vietnam War," which can be found on PBS. It is amazingly well done and the depth of it is beyond most documentaries. For example, there is one episode (1.5+ hours) that covers a s
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by eludwig 9y ago
I think this is a totally fair point of view. It is the flip side of optimism. Forgive me for bashing the obvious in the head here, but this point of view is entirely necessary and right within its purview. You can't have optimism with
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by eludwig 9y ago
What would you be inclined to do if you were making something truly unique, something that required amazing attention to detail and custom effort? Make two.
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by eludwig 9y ago
Yeah, this was going to be my suggestion, but again, i think it depends on usage. I have a 12.9 inch (first gen) iPad Pro. Using it in portrait to read is completely amazing. It is actually almost too tall for my lap like this (I am not a l
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by eludwig 9y ago
>>Two cashiers working out of 8 or so possible registers And the worst part about this is that each cashier seems determined to relentlessly pester me with annoying questions at the register! Did I want to join this loyalty program? D
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by eludwig 9y ago
Yes, not screwing up your children is a an excellent goal for a parent, if not a moral imperative. But the truth is that parenting is a huge messy business that never goes according to plan. You will screw up your kids in subtle ways, eve
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by eludwig 9y ago
>>What stops people voting multiple times or stops illegal immigrants from voting? Let's face it. In the US the problem is getting people to vote at all -- not stopping them from voting multiple times. But, to answer your questio
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Why Ageism Never Gets Old(newyorker.com)
212 points by eludwig 9y ago|262 comments
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by eludwig 9y ago
Of course, the reason is that we wouldn't be talking about an article that described using your laptop to do something that its been doing since the 1990s! ;D But seriously, I think these kinds of articles are great. I love to hear abo
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by eludwig 9y ago
No, not really, or at least, not comfortably. I tried this with my 12.9 (with the same keyboard, the foldable one) for a few days on the train and it is possible to balance it on your lap while sitting nicely with your legs bent at the kn
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by eludwig 9y ago
A thousand times yes! I have to back this up sentiment 100%. Text selection on an iPad for mousers like myself is so frustrating that it's absolutely a show stopper. I understand that there are lots of gesture/touch target reasons
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by eludwig 9y ago
I wrote a wysiwyg, memory-based rich text editor from scratch on the Mac back in the 90s called Scorpio. It had support for fonts, colors, styles, inline pictures, etc. It used a single buffer for text and I had no problem with insert/
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by eludwig 9y ago
>>I don't think this feeling will ever go away. Relax! This is called a good "work-life balance." ;) Life is not some sprint. No one is going anywhere. There is no finish line unless you construct it.
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by eludwig 9y ago
About a year ago, I switched from full-time Java development (15 years, mostly server side -- some Swing) to full-time Javascript development (React at first, then Angular) with all of the mental anguish that the amazingly arcane world of m
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by eludwig 9y ago
So um, where do you work again? (jk) But seriously, great answer. I am in a similar situation time-wise. 30+ years as a dev. My situation is a little different. I am currently working at an international bank out of NYC. The people I work
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by eludwig 9y ago
>>I don't really see how our approach can survive first contact with grade school. I hear you. Best of luck. This whole subject is hard to find "reasonable parental balance" around. I'm really not sure what we woul
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by eludwig 9y ago
I totally agree with you. My kids are in their 30s so I avoided this whole question through timing. I am fascinated to see what the others here think, especially those with kids that are in the affected cohort. There was a very tragic event
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Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?(theatlantic.com)
128 points by eludwig 9y ago|85 comments
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by eludwig 9y ago
What always come through for me in Jane's writing is the love she has for humanity in general and her main characters in particular. Yes, I get that her writing is consider by some to be about spoiled, stupid, privileged white people a
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by eludwig 9y ago
As a parent who's was "Why"ed to death by two curious kids in the pre-google era, I can tell you that I would have killed for "someone" to take on a part of that burden! ;) >>I couldn't help but think it
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by eludwig 9y ago
Agreed. A lot of this has to do with where you came from and what you were used to previously. I initially switched to Java in the late 90's from C++. At that time, C++ was just achieving (imo) its densest, most arcane features that we
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by eludwig 9y ago
I would definitely agree that my mousing is not as efficient as an expert-level keyboard only approach. But it's what I do and what is comfortable to me. Random text selection in big bodies of text is always easier (for me) with a mous
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by eludwig 9y ago
When the article says: "because for all the multitouch gestures Apple can add, there’s just no beating a good old mouse when it comes to selecting text." I have to wholeheartedly agree. I am a heavy mouse (and trackpad) user and h
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by eludwig 9y ago
A nicely laid out and illustrated article that's well written. That's about the best I can say. The worst is why? Who is the audience for this? I firmly believe that if you found this article by clicking on a link on the HN homepa

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