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by enw 6y ago
This gives nostalgia vibes of the 4chan from 10-ish years ago. Back then “memes” were fringe, but 9gag slowly took over with washed down normie memes.
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by enw 6y ago
Does anyone find Lisp readable? I haven't used Lisp professionally, but find the code terribly confusing to read (mostly due to the look of it, I assume), while I can usually follow code of an unknown language reasonably well.
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by enw 6y ago
For those curious, this is one screenshot I took of the UI that night: https://ibb.co/wzV8fQQ I fully expect sober and patient people to defend this UI, but it was utterly confusing at the time (and as a consequence sadly h
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by enw 6y ago
I remember being stoned out of my mind, trying to grab an Uber back home. I realized how terrible the Uber UI is. There's a shitton of confusing information and buttons competing for attention, all at an equally ambiguous grayish ton
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by enw 6y ago
Thankfully, if there's any large company on Earth that really cares about perfecting UX, it's Apple.
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by enw 6y ago
Honestly I’m so happy there’s a “mainstream” place on the Internet where people use the terms retarded and autistic affectionately. It feels like a breath of fresh air next to the language police of everywhere else.
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by enw 6y ago
I will speak how I wish to my friends; nobody will ever dictate otherwise.
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by enw 6y ago
The fact that you have to say "r-word" instead of "retarded" is embarrassing.
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by enw 6y ago
How long will people endure the censorship? Is it just me or am I seeing more subtle revolt against this persistent, opaque censorship on the Internet? I'm trying to stay down-to-Earth, but it honestly seems to be getting out of contro
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by enw 6y ago
> The question is if the positives out weight the negatives. Same for alcohol. Is there a more efficient stress reliever than alcohol? (No, exercise isn't always sustainable)
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by enw 6y ago
Every stoner I know agrees long-term use has somewhat negative effects. (I smoke occasionally and enjoy it)
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by enw 6y ago
What's the TL;DR? Who is this? Why are they important? Why would NYT write about them? And threaten them? Sorry there's just so much text I don't have time to read through it all, but I'm curious!
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by enw 6y ago
This sort of humor was/is very common on 4chan and similar imageboards such as Krautchan.
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by enw 6y ago
I'm surprised seeing these sort of comments on HN. Implying Republican == fascist is the exact type of thinking this world doesn't need, and prevents any kind of nuanced discussion.
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by enw 6y ago
Correction: bad devs make the web slower
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by enw 6y ago
Why would an API ever return a literal JavaScript statement?
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by enw 6y ago
I have to admit it's a shame there's no dark mode. Browsing HN in the bed at night feels like staring at the sun (yes I use Night Shift and lowest brightness).
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by enw 6y ago
Hey, sorry for being off-topic. Just wanted to say thanks for making Cydia! It feels very nostalgic to me.
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by enw 6y ago
Is it just me, or do some people have a fetish for catastrophe? Greatly overestimating security impacts, the impacts of COVID, aggressive "new normal" lockdown proponents, militant preppers, etc. Paradoxically, I think some might
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by enw 6y ago
I'm sad and disappointed at the response. This further increases the divide and makes it harder for us to have any non-extremist (whether left or right) and nuanced discussions.
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by enw 6y ago
I also find the weather example a bit funny. "Remember kids, if you want to ask for weather, don't forget to send the API key from the previous step in an HTTP header named x-rapidapi-key!"
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by enw 6y ago
How would you design the error handling? Personally I'm glad Go has stayed out of exceptions (panics don't count), at scale it's so much easier to reason about flow.
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by enw 6y ago
> Instead of saying "896m", return "<1km" or "1km-3km" etc. Can you still abuse the data to some extent? Wouldn't eventually samples of arbitrary precision have their "range donuts" overlap
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by enw 6y ago
I think this is much more common and crucial for success than we admit. Aesthetics have a very real impact on customers and observers, but we like to pretend it’s not that important.
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by enw 6y ago
> if old people (and therefore, old ideas, old prejudices) never die then there is no room for new Is that because there's no room? Or because we're unwilling to accommodate the new?
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by enw 6y ago
No rational person should want to live forever knowing the progressive deterioration of biological bodies.
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by enw 6y ago
How do accomplish all the tasks that Unix tools enable with minimal effort?
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Ask HN: Why did you switch from Mac to Windows?
4 points by enw 6y ago|6 comments
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by enw 6y ago
I don't think there's any genre of music that gets even close to the potential expressivity and depth of hip-hop. It's words on sick beats. And there are some amazing wordsmiths out there. RIP MF DOOM
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by enw 6y ago
> To opt-out from our anonymization of your personal information Doesn’t opting out from anonymization mean opting in for PII?

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