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by frik 9y ago
Would be interested in your relaunch 2015+ - how have it got traction? Was it rebranding? How have you got the initial traction? Sending emails to closed real world community? Postings on FB?
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by frik 9y ago
PG wrote some essays about it: startups better spend their seed/series money on other things than software licenses. Then the unthinkable happened: after PG left, HN got MSFT PR-heavy in spring 2015. People should learn from the histor
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by frik 9y ago
How have you initially launched it so hat it got traction? Sending mails to your friends? at an event? posting in FB group?
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by frik 9y ago
Agree with you. (not sure about most recent version) The same with ID Tech, Unity, RAGE and CryTech/Dunia games. One can spot them "from 50 feets away", or at least when trying out the controls, the character physic gets rare
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by frik 9y ago
A forgotten concept is the Paternoster elevator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster A paternoster lift is a passenger elevator which consists of a chain of open compartments (each usually designed for two pers
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by frik 9y ago
Systemd is not good. It tries to solve too many things and tries to extend and replace more and more core functionality. So many security holes. In a year or two, we will look back and say it was a very bad timeframe and several bad decisio
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by frik 9y ago
I liked the Gedit from Gnome 2 and what shipped with Ubuntu 12, and 14. The Ubuntu 16/17 and Gnome 3 Gedit is crap. I hate the UI change. The removal of the menu, the ugly hamburger menu with few entries. Gnome 3 is like KDE 4/5 a
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by frik 9y ago
It just links to Archive.org, and spoofs the address bar. So the content is 100% loaded from Archive.org. A very trivial website, but interesting looking back for a few minutes nevertheless. You can do the same with a more complex interface
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by frik 9y ago
Reddit and HN look almost the same, only little web theme changes. Look how great the HN stories were, all around startups - no corporate PR nor offtopic - want it back :) http://web.archive.org/web/20070707020853/
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by frik 9y ago
Good idea, but it doesn't work for me. I can't understand the GOPATH restriction, I want to put the Go source code where I want. Think about the following projects (Win/Linux doesn't matter, I use both) One GOPATH doesn&
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by frik 9y ago
This demo was first shown on June 5th at Apple Conference: https://www.polygon.com/2017/6/5/15742310/peter-jacksons-ar-... Why is this on HN frontpage today? (and downvotes)
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by frik 9y ago
Well, technically PSC (Planet Source Code) isn't dead either. There still new VB6/etc code gets uploaded even in 2017. https://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/BrowseCategory... GitHub is the curren
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by frik 9y ago
Yeah and MSFT showed their stink finger to the community twice, first with C# Managed DirectX, then with end of life for C# XNA. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_XNA Who would be so stupid and learn-resistant
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by frik 9y ago
Why not use Lua, Squirrel or JavaScript as game programming language? Many game engines use one of these languages, especially Lua is very very popular in this niche, and LuaJIT is sooo fast. Also Java is used in several game engines. C# (M
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by frik 9y ago
"Golang drops GOPATH" - I am waiting for this headline. The biggest hurdle with Golang and working on different unrelated projects that are in their own GIT repo. Golang forces you to have one single path were all the code should
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by frik 9y ago
Jurors declared the beer flood an "unavoidable act of God," writes Tingle. Those whose houses were destroyed and whose loved ones were lost received nothing from the government or the company.
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by frik 9y ago
Apache foundation should donate the "OpenOffice" brand to LibreOffice!! The OpenOffice brand is still very well know, and unfortunately the current situation might trick average joes to download and outdated unsupported build, whi
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by frik 9y ago
I remember Planet Source Code, it was the Github of the late 1990s. Everything from VB, C++ and HTML samples were there. A one stop community platform. I remember I coded a Windows 98 shell replacement, a Frontpage WYSIWYG clone, an Paint c
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by frik 9y ago
I used Arachnophilia (old native application, not the Java based one), Frontpage and Dreamweaver. HTML 4 Transitional used to be very popular back in the 1999/2000. The XHTML movement was a weird hype, I tried it out but TinyMCE/W
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by frik 9y ago
Exactly. It's social media that especially started with MySpace and later Facebook (FB/FBChat/Instagram/WhatsApp). that is causing the issues. Not smartphones, they are just devices.
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by frik 9y ago
I have so many things that was paid by ads and now is behind a patreon-paywall. A plague. No thanks, bookmark deleted. Ads is a good business model, very unfortunate that greed created this current toxic ads crash browsers and waste way to
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by frik 9y ago
At first there was the AMD Mantel API and the game engine devs of EA Dice (Frostbite), from their experience Vulcan and the slightly different DirectX12 branched off. At the moment it seems Vulcan has more support than DirectX12. (OpenGL an
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by frik 9y ago
I have tried Win10, but all these new UWP based parts tacked on Win7 shell are so laggy. I mean click on start button, it takes several noticeable milliseconds to show up, the same for the windows clock pop up (calendar), etc. even the calc
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by frik 9y ago
No. A better comparison is the iPad. iPad 1 got little traction, it was slow, had no camera, couldn't play HD mp4, etc. iPad skyrocket with iPad 2 which was so much better in every regard. The same with Watch, the Watch 1 (series 0) on
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by frik 9y ago
And even with $10 million, SAP has a plain ugly UI - ASCII based controls from the 1980s coded with a COBOL inspired script language also from the 1980s.
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by frik 9y ago
Delphi and VB4-6 used to be the RAD tools. (RAD = rapid application developed) One could drag and drop controls and create an GUI application in WYSIWYG-style. Then in 1999 when Microsoft abdomen VB for their new dotNet vision, MSFT was abo
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by frik 9y ago
> Reddit is re-writing all of its code ... new design ... looks similar to Facebook News Feed ... Sounds like Digg.com v4. We all know the rewrite and new design didn't work out, people left for Reddit and back to /. and to HN.
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by frik 9y ago
> In an ideal world, where no one owns a car, everyone requests a ride through their phone. This means that the ride-sharing companies would own the cars themselve Who said people want such an disruption? They want electric cars. They wa
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by frik 9y ago
Why can't Debian switch back. This systemd is causing so many problems and is conceptually a train wreck.
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by frik 9y ago
It's just you. PHP.net documentation was always better than the rest, easy to read, some simple examples and with helpful comments. JavaDoc, MSDN had no comments for decades, little examples and the later one lacked lots of API parts.

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