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by fouric 6y ago
...and, since many (not all) profitable activities turn out to be useful, financial incentives still end up incentivizing useful activities. For instance: [IDE company] employees are incentivized to develop [IDE], I buy [IDE], [company] mak
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by fouric 6y ago
"Should"? I don't know. Anecdotally, I've been reading The New Paper[1] for a year or so now. They're concise, factual, and convenient, with extremely little (if any) bias. Their downsides are that they don't d
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by fouric 6y ago
> my goodness, scroll a little That's an anti-solution. Scrolling is bad for your brain and reduces comprehension - it makes it harder for your brain to figure out what's going on. There's a continuum between "every
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by fouric 6y ago
> programming languages are really easy to learn > For evidence of how easy it is to learn programming languages, one of the authors of the current paper has, over the course of his life, learned 18 distinct programming languages. H
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by fouric 6y ago
Isn't Signal both secure and centralized?
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If you could configure the common shells (bash, zsh, fish) to run a custom command on submitted shell input before executing, you could build a heuristic function that would attempt to recognize when you were pasting in a prompt. Unfortunat
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by fouric 6y ago
Most web sites aren't accessible. A capability is irrelevant if it's never used. Meanwhile, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The modern webtech trends are offensive to my eyes - in addition to being ridiculously compute- and
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> SQL makes it easy to write and read simple queries, and ridiculously complicated and arcane to write slightly more complex logic. This is consistent with my experience, and exactly backward of what you want a language to be - which is
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by fouric 6y ago
Meanwhile, you can fit 100 20MB apps into 2GB. I've never seen a normal desktop user use more than 10 graphical applications at once. I've never used more than 20 at once myself. It's pretty clear that 2O MB of RAM as baselin
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by fouric 6y ago
> don't run too many app once from people who think unused RAM is wasted RAM The baseline memory usage of Svelte NodeGUI is 20 MB. 400 instances of that can fit into 8 GB of RAM. Don't you even try to tell me that you've r
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by fouric 6y ago
This is ridiculous. 20 MB is so far from "all of it" on any modern computer that it makes me question if you're using something from the 90's. How are you even on Hacker News? The reduction of the complex trade-off betwe
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by fouric 6y ago
Fine, "What does Electron offer in terms of easy portability that SDL2 doesn't have?"
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> the previous ones have been shown to be mostly or entirely fraudulent years later ...they said, while providing no evidence to the public.
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by fouric 6y ago
20 MB is less than 0.25% of my desktop machine's memory, and 2% of a 2010-era netbook. 20 MB, while much larger than what it has to be, is tiny even by the standards of decade-old computers. RAM is cheap and plentiful. If you don'
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by fouric 6y ago
What does Electron offer in terms of portability that SDL2 doesn't have?
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I'm not even OK with this. I have very little trust in the average small business' ability to protect my information, on a technical level. I have more trust in their desire to protect my information - but that's not suff
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by fouric 6y ago
Alright, I'll add a caveat: "assembly language is the most general for a particular architecture". > It's the higher-level languages that are more general. This is still false. Rust, for instance, is higher-level than
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by fouric 6y ago
As a programmer with no ML/GPU experience, this reminds me of the Spiral language: https://github.com/mrakgr/The-Spiral-Language I wonder if Nx will succeed due being "just" a library for a popular langu
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by fouric 6y ago
The author seems to be arguing that "most general" = "best" - because text is the most general communication format, it's the best. This argument is pretty trivially false. By this logic, the best programming langua
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by fouric 6y ago
> Apple has the right to create the software ecosystem they want to create. So say you. I say that consumers have the right to run whatever software they want on the hardware that they have purchased. Apple can create whatever software p
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by fouric 6y ago
> Backspace is one of the top three most used keys for common computer usage Where did you get this from? I'm trying to come up with a good layout for my Dactyl-Manuform, so it would be very helpful to know which keys are the most c
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by fouric 6y ago
I'm slightly confused by this wording in the docs: "This allows it to reload code that is followed by blocking instructions such as the infinite loops you can find in the examples." The examples just have loops where the relo
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by fouric 6y ago
Well, the main benefit is going to be for complex things where you don't want to restart a large program in order to test a small change, but in terms of simple things, programs with event loops (like games or interactive tools) are a
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by fouric 6y ago
As a not-currently-webdev, it seems to me like making a good website, on a technical level, is closer to an engineering trade-space (as opposed to "just do it better") than I had thought. Splitting static content into smaller file
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by fouric 6y ago
One of the things that I really like about this course is that it teaches both raytracing and rasterization. Usually, computer graphics tutorials are either the practical, higher-level, rasterization-focused kind (oftentimes around half &
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The Pinocchio Problem – characteristics of successful systems (2007)(steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
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by fouric 6y ago
> if debuggers took less time to start than a full "add print -> recompile -> relaunch app" cycle as is my experience with C++, they would certainly get more use. This is a really good point - programmers seem to prefer m
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by fouric 6y ago
What if you do, though? Flexbox is a CSS 3 feature. Support appears to have been implemented in FF and Chrome around 2012-2014 and still doesn't fully work in IE[1]. The fact that a site uses CSS and HTML instead of Javascript does not
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> Elitism, again. This is not elitism - this is a statement of fact . You should know the definitions of words before you use them: "The belief that certain persons or members of certain groups deserve favored treatment by virtue o
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I don't understand the point you're trying to make here. > We all are mostly average users. If by "we" you mean the population of HN - that is blatantly false. The average HN user is far more technically sophisticat

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