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1. 511.▲
   by endgame 6y ago

   Let nobody ever again say, "we'll ship it now and fix it once it's in prod".
2. 512.▲
   by endgame 6y ago

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
3. 513.▲
   by endgame 6y ago

   M:TG is an interesting example, because these days everything spawns so many tokens or adds so many counters that it's not just the cardboard. If you want real elegance, look at the core of the old Star Wars Customizable Card Game. Eac
4. 514.▲
   by endgame 6y ago

   The problem with this is that it's very easy to get stuck with a useless board game if the app doesn't get updated. If you're selling physical product that needs an app to run, there is no reason for the app not to be Free So
5. 515.▲
   by endgame 6y ago

   Warms my heart to see the old ways kept alive.
6. 516.▲
   by endgame 6y ago

   a Sure, if you want. I learned it as a party trick and it's been useful here and there (mostly when a remote system gets so confused that ncurses doesn't work properly). Certainly, it starts quickly and is more responsive than edi
7. 517.▲
   by endgame 6y ago

   Can't you close over the state, so the library doesn't need to see and pass around the extra parameters?
8. 518.▲
   by endgame 6y ago

   Dunno if you know, but the ZZT community had a revival of sorts with the release of the reconstructed source code. Unfortunately it's on discord, but a few mzx people hang around too.
9. 519.▲
   by endgame 6y ago

   No, I didn't, because emacs is what I use and like. Pick an editor that's over 40 years old and not built out of a web browser. I'm not that fussed which one.
10. 520.▲
    by endgame 6y ago

    Reminds me of Stacker and Doublespace, back in the MS-DOS 6.0 days.
11. 521.▲
    by endgame 6y ago

    GitHub -> Sourcehut VSCode -> GNU Emacs
12. 522.▲
    by endgame 6y ago

    .sucks is one such example. Everyone feels obliged to buy their own .sucks, lest someone else use it to stand up a hatepage. A whole bunch of money changes hands, but nobody is better off. gTLDs were a mistake.
13. 523.▲
    by endgame 6y ago

    Buried in that issue is a workaround, although GitHub's UI hides it from you: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2925#issuecomment-604501...
14. 524.▲
    by endgame 6y ago

    There is a way to deal with the latest round of developer-hostile changes from Apple: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2925#issuecomment-604501... documents the workaround but if you don't have a dire
15. 525.▲
    by endgame 6y ago

    Bink Video is another common obstacle for games from the mid-to-late-'90s.
16. 526.▲
    by endgame 6y ago

    In Australia, the "consumer data right" is about giving fintechs (and probably AUSTRAC too) standardised access to banking data, but if you go and say "I'm a consumer and want to access my data", the banks are all &
17. 527.▲
    by endgame 6y ago

    Here's another one: "some of our old tweets were wrong so we just quietly deleted them lol": https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1242537366620966912
18. 528.▲
    by endgame 6y ago

    Also many of us argue about the principle of free speech, not the literal text of the First Amendment.
19. 529.▲
    by endgame 6y ago

    One thing I really noticed when 98.css did the rounds the other day: Old UIs were _discoverable_ in a way that modern UIs are not. It's clear what's clickable, what's grouped together, where you can grab and drag.
20. 530.▲
    by endgame 6y ago

    I see no way that this power, first applied to uncontroversially-bad information, will ever be misused. What happened to "organise _the world's_ information, and make it _accessible_ and useful"?
21. 531.▲
    by endgame 6y ago

    A pleasant surprise from Australia: https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2020L00480 Coercing the use of COVIDSafe (1) A person must not require that another person: (a) download COVIDSafe to a mobile telecommunica
22. 532.▲
    by endgame 6y ago

    To those who support YouTube removing these vids: Without remarking on the quality of the video in this specific instance I will note that Dr. John Campbell's videos were contradicting WHO advice while WHO was asleep at the wheel. By t
23. 533.▲
    by endgame 6y ago

    Buzz off, Google. Stop making the web worse.
24. 534.▲
    by endgame 6y ago

    I have been to briefings about source code licensing that specifically call that book out as "do not open".
25. 535.▲
    by endgame 6y ago

    Don't forget censusfail and robodebt. This government does not have a good history with tech. I will say that this determination from the Health Minister was a breath of fresh air, but it needs to be made law when Parliament sits: htt
26. 536.▲
    by endgame 7y ago

    And so continues this disgustingly paternal approach of "nudging" people to do things instead of presenting clear information and empowering citizens to take correct action.
27. 537.▲
    by endgame 7y ago

    History and culture is under-taught and under-appreciated. Maybe students can have a big debate in their third year about whether or not worse really is better?
28. 538.▲
    by endgame 7y ago

    Trello's the one that rolls random people's personal accounts into the account of the business they work for, right? And refuses to give them back when asked?
29. 539.▲
    by endgame 7y ago

    I don't believe that you will get any traction in your current company. Not when you have proof that the company is willing and able to lie to you. While not easy in the current environment, line up a new job. Sort IP assignment out du
30. 540.▲
    by endgame 7y ago

    Amazing that you got downvoted for this. I pay for code hosting precisely because I want to see an ecosystem of code hosts, and monocultures are dangerous.