fenomas

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by fenomas 7y ago
I can only speak for Japan, but all three major carriers here had app stores years before the iPhone launched. (Apple's may have been the first store operated by a hardware maker rather than a carrier though.)
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by fenomas 7y ago
Famously commented on by Damon Runyan: > The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
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by fenomas 7y ago
Bummer to see comments like this so high up the page after so many hours. HN guidelines: > Please don't post insinuations about .. shilling.. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email
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by fenomas 7y ago
I've read a number of times over the years that OG was 80s slang for "old guy" (or "an old G"), and that the 90s Ice T song was a play on the older usage. Don't know if there are any citations though.
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by fenomas 7y ago
> The meaning of words matters. Sure, and (unless wikipedia is lying) the words "debtor's prison" have for centuries included the imprisonment of people unable to pay court-ordered judgments, as well as private debts. Per
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by fenomas 7y ago
I first started out using Tone.js (and recommend it!), but later wound up rolling my own engine and so forth. So I'm just using WebAudio directly (or via libraries I wrote).
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by fenomas 7y ago
Huh? I do procedural music in JS/web audio, and my projects are set up so that changes to the logic and instruments all happen live, while the music continues to play. How is that different from what you're describing? What specif
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by fenomas 7y ago
It does today, and I could be crazy but I think it did even before event-stream. But of course some users will have been on old versions of npm, or not checking in their lockfiles, etc. I should add, I was probably wrong to talk about lockf
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by fenomas 7y ago
Well, he talks about reviewing when he upgrades a dependency, but the tricksy thing about event-stream was that people could get the malicious change without having intended to upgrade anything. The only thing that really prevents such is
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by fenomas 7y ago
Not sure about this bit: > This is quite a bit of work, but is necessary to avoid falling victim to attacks like _event-stream_. Reviewing dependencies is important, but I don't think anything the author mentions would have made a d
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by fenomas 7y ago
> that is even more relevant here Is it really? It doesn't comment on the article or its content in any way. (The same was true the first time you posted it, when it was also top comment and received plenty of discussion.)
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by fenomas 7y ago
The most detailed, nuanced account of Assange I've seen is this one[0] by Andrew O'Hagan (an author hired to ghostwrite Assange's autobiography who spent a year or so in and out of his orbit). And it's hard to square tha
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by fenomas 7y ago
It's not complicated, it's just implemented in such a way that it leads to bad UX! (One wonders: if the tab system didn't make two focuses, whether it wouldn't be intuitive enough to be on by default :D)
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by fenomas 7y ago
The rationale for why it works the way it does is orthogonal to whether it's bad UX.
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by fenomas 7y ago
Yeah, I think the existing UI is absolutely correct for that one. I'm not a heavy brew user, but if it works like other package managers then the "update" command is a fairly casual, frequently used, and typically reversible
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by fenomas 7y ago
I know the reason for it! But the fact remains that it's two actions that are superficially the same (press an affirmative sort of key to trigger a highlighted button), and users who choose wrong lose data. That's... pretty much a
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by fenomas 7y ago
Sure, I know that's the reason. There's a behind every UX decision, always, even the most stupendously bad ones. As such, the relevant question isn't "is it logical?", but rather "is having two UI focus targe
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by fenomas 7y ago
There's a setting for having multiple focus targets? Where? I know there's a setting to prevent the keyboard from affecting dialogs at all, but obviously that's not what my comment was about.
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by fenomas 7y ago
My all-time anti-favorite UI thing like this is Mac dialogs where two different buttons are focused. E.g. when closing a file with unsaved edits, you typically get a dialog with three buttons: [Don't save] Cancel
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by fenomas 7y ago
It shows up on individual post pages (click "hyperlink").
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by fenomas 7y ago
"They have" is already normal grammar for singular they. "Tell each programmer that they have to commit their code."
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by fenomas 7y ago
Every time? If a person never used it I think he or she might sound stilted, since he or she would need to alter his or her speech in order to avoid the pronoun he or she wanted to avoid. To each his or her own I suppose :)
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by fenomas 7y ago
I think this project is aimed more at Flash's authoring story. Haxe etc. are fine as frameworks, but what really made Flash popular and useful was the IDE.
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by fenomas 7y ago
Note that the "Historical Source" repo has LOTS of stuff - most (all?) Infocom titles, Leisure Suit Larry, Deluxe Paint, Descent, Hexen, several MUDs, and tons of games I've never heard of. (Many of the non-Infocom titles are
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by fenomas 7y ago
Assume good faith please.
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by fenomas 7y ago
Interesting story, though I wonder what the postscript would be if the original author was tracked down? For anyone checking comments first, the font in question is the script font most famously used in Mortal Kombat.
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by fenomas 7y ago
He's speaking at an Ableton user event; the audience is Ableton users.
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by fenomas 7y ago
I get errors like this from Google Translate all the time. I assume it's because the engine is fully ML (which seems to be good at getting larger grammatical structures but sometimes mistakes individual words), as opposed to some kind
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by fenomas 7y ago
I think one can overestimate how much care goes into background details like this. I recall there's a scene where an airship flies by, plastered in Japanese advertisements, and a fan figured out that the Japanese text was simply random
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by fenomas 7y ago
When one considers that the median experience of asking a question on stackoverflow is "immediately closed as a duplicate of a vaguely similar question from six years ago", this seems like a pretty superfluous change. A far more m

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