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by fexecve 4y ago
I disagree with everything in this article post-2000. There were no "software gatekeepers" preventing Japanese software from flourishing on the PC or Mac. I'm not sure what the author is talking about there. So there's s
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by fexecve 4y ago
Baby, meet bathwater. "Names are hard to change" is supposedly the reason to give things meaningless random names. Great, now you get the worst of both worlds, the meaningless name is now synonymous with a purpose (the very thing
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by fexecve 4y ago
The Linux philosophy was NEVER about supporting computers from 30 years ago. It was about supporting cool new architectures. Big-endian systems are ancient history now. No new cool bendian systems are being made. The kernel still supports t
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by fexecve 4y ago
It's how I was taught that the progression of embryonic growth goes, I guess. Easy to skip the little sidebar in the book that shows the stages.
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by fexecve 4y ago
I don't really like Ruby, but sounds cool.
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by fexecve 4y ago
Having graduated from high school, this isn't surprising to me. Why would it be? So I'm left to wonder what's going on with this story. Either Smithsonian magazine is read by people to whom basic biology is a mystery, or the
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by fexecve 4y ago
This is already a solved problem. If I block every anti-vaxxer I see on Twitter, eventually Twitter will stop showing them to me. But if I view the tweet replies to President Biden, I see the anti-vaxxer replies right at the top. So they ju
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by fexecve 4y ago
That's true, battery consumption is an issue.
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by fexecve 4y ago
More importantly, not voting sends a message. A very important message. When no one votes (as is the case in Russia), it makes it clear to everyone that everyone else thinks that the system is corrupt. The government can still say "99%
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by fexecve 4y ago
If you were already going to get what you didn't vote for, what's the difference?
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by fexecve 4y ago
The bill originally was going to make available to customers and independent service centers the same parts and manuals that manufacturer repair centers have. The governor edited the bill slightly in a way that makes it almost useless now.
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by fexecve 4y ago
A selection of the best Scott McNealy quotes: "When Steve Ballmer calls me wacko, I consider that a compliment." "The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred an
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by fexecve 4y ago
Well, I am. Hacky workarounds like this might be ugly and slow, but modern chips are really fast, and I don't expect an RTOS graphics display to be the fastest thing in the world.
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by fexecve 4y ago
I think we agree. WFH itself can work with the right environment, but I question wether certain kinds of companies are realistically capable of fostering that environment. Personally I think that if a company finds that it can't do WFH
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by fexecve 4y ago
This is just "works on my machine" applied to businesses. If most businesses are struggling with remote work, saying "just get good at it" won't help - they would if they could. Fact is a lot of companies are going
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by fexecve 4y ago
But at what cost? Not drinking water or eating food leads to lower risk of choking to death, but...
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by fexecve 4y ago
If anyone from StackExchange is reading this, please actually ask the question in 2023! You know the one. The one the headlines keep implying. "What OS do you write most of your code on?"
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by fexecve 4y ago
Specifically which UNIX/NeXTSTEP/OSX components are you missing in the current MacOS? It seems like everything is still there to me.
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by fexecve 4y ago
Well, yes, but new developers need to learn to always delve one layer beneath any abstraction they're using, and understand it. Usually they learn this the hard way by fighting with some abstraction until in a fit of insanity they dig
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by fexecve 4y ago
> This "3rd party library by default" bullshit is killing me I've noticed that new developers tend to think of libraries are indivisible units. They never stop to think what React Query uses, it's an atomic unit that
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by fexecve 4y ago
In the native GUI world, this would never be a problem. The system gives you a native components, but it's expected that you'll potentially extend it with custom code. So native GUIs support, by default, use cases that the framewo
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by fexecve 4y ago
> Other reason is that kernel requires some minimal level of code quality and many of the closed source ones are basically "the minimum to make the customer use case work" I think this is the real, actual reason. Having worked
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by fexecve 4y ago
Everyone has good things to say about Sun, but let's not forget that they tried to monetize Java (even trying to take money from open-source communities like FreeBSD) long before they were acquired by Oracle.
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by fexecve 4y ago
It's unfair to put 100% of the blame for this on Stanford. A lot of the things they're doing are responses to the current political climate in the world today. Any discrimination, or even perception of discrimination, is likely to
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by fexecve 4y ago
I agree with this. If someone has put in the work to become good at programming, and perhaps has some innate intelligence required to become good at programming, then I think it's reasonable to assume that they might be able to put in
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by fexecve 4y ago
Tiktok will still work in a browser, and will work on PCs and laptops. So I'm okay with this. Go ahead, try to keep me off of tiktok, mom and dad.
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by fexecve 4y ago
So until we do 100% of what China does, it's fine. Got it.
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by fexecve 4y ago
I wish HN had a way to mute submissions by certain users. That way I could be blissfully unaware of certain categories of tabloid news stories in here.
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by fexecve 4y ago
You're technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.