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by frou_dh 4y ago
Agreed, JavaFX's font rendering on MacOS was like this for years : https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1413266/82507544-6... (Note not only the inconsistency between letters - all the specific colour values
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by frou_dh 4y ago
This year I've done 4-5 online chats with Amazon's Customer Service trying to resolve a single issue (still unresolved). I've definitely wondered what happened to the old "Customer Obsession" and "World&#x27
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by frou_dh 4y ago
Some developers (younger ones?) seem to think that the SemVer spec is a law of the universe, when in reality it's just something a GitHub guy put into the mix in the 2010s.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
Maybe I'm imagining it, but I vaguely recall reading something about Amazon workers being fired in a fully automated fashion. So there is not necessarily always a human manager reviewing all the automated warnings and pondering their v
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by frou_dh 4y ago
https://tinyclouds.org/javascript_containers
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by frou_dh 4y ago
As a tablet, you'd pick a mediocre tablet experience with a regular desktop experience over a good tablet experience? As a tablet?
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by frou_dh 4y ago
> Btw, iirc, SML doesn't have this: there you only have 1 parameter but it could be a tuple Nah, SML does also support automatically curried function definitions, it's just that by convention that feature didn't get used a
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by frou_dh 4y ago
SML definitely has a more tastefully designed syntax also, and not only because it's a smaller grammar. OCaml syntax is the "scuffed" version of SML syntax, as the kids say! Unfortunately to be a real-world SML user these day
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by frou_dh 4y ago
Doesn't hurt to ask, but just be prepared for there being a good chance that the answer is "Nah".
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by frou_dh 4y ago
I thought the @tailcall annotation in OCaml was cool. It's not essential to use it to receive the optimisation, but rather it's a way to tell the compiler "I need this call to be optimised, so let me know if you can't
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by frou_dh 4y ago
Thank you. I actually realised/remembered about the domain and already edited my comment. But the author of the project is a Deno employee.
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This obviously has some level of Deno officialness. But from looking at the TODO-ridden state of the docs, it doesn't seem like it's ready for its '#1 on HN' public launch moment.
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The way they are named and designed is rather juvenile, so just think of it like not being handed Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck badges at the fair because you are an adult.
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> the web development community that likes to pat itself on the back for being smart enough to use JavaScript's [relatively] new spread operator, but at the same time whinging about Elm because its syntax looks weird. It's prob
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by frou_dh 4y ago
TypeScript doesn't have a language specification so there's nothing to merge. If you tell browser vendor X that they need to start supporting TypeScript, what does that mean?
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Perhaps you'd still have to rotate your own people because of the concept of Regulatory Capture.
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There's an overused term, but in this case it could quite literally be classed as virtue-signalling?
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As seen on HN in the half a dozen "I'm a software developer and now I do all my work on my iPad*" blog posts over the years.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
Tap the ear icon ("Hearing") in Control Centre. I can't remember whether that icon is included by default though.
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Dunno about the overall ceiling of Emacs' syntax highlighting capabilities. But the few times in the past that I've had reason to look at the definition of the highlighting for specific languages, the Lisp code has looked like ho
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by frou_dh 4y ago
Dart had quite a long history before Flutter even came into the picture. Flutter is the answer to the question of why is Dart somewhat relevant today, but not to the question of why Dart didn't take off in general during its first 5 or
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by frou_dh 4y ago
OP, you should make a topic like this more interesting by outlining why you think that might be the case, and why it matters to you.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
Why is Lisp/Scheme a good candidate for something to implement oneself? Because it has hardly any syntax, so writing the parser is relatively easy compared to writing the parser for other languages. > What's at the heart of Lis
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It's a 2-in-1 like & bookmark.
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Wouldn't be surprised if no one quoted there has ever used Flutter. The Apple dev comment-sphere is quite insular.
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If I'm understanding you correctly, then this combination of two tools from the same author will get you that: https://github.com/cortesi/modd https://github.com/cortesi/devd
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by frou_dh 4y ago
I don't think it ever dawned on child me what the QBasic IDE actually was. I just thought of it as the strange place you had to go to launch Nibbles or Gorillas, and IIRC never wrote any code.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
There is no official migration path to a normal consumer Google/Gmail account. That's what they were indicating for quite a while that they would start offering around now, but with today's news it seems like they've had
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by frou_dh 4y ago
It seems like the subtext of the way this has gone over the last few months is that they tried to develop a process to migrate users in a Workspace to individual consumer Google accounts, but it turned out to be too difficult to do lossles
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by frou_dh 4y ago
Using a typical desktop operating system, but on an eInk screen, is one of those things that sounds cool, but I suspect the reality after using it for a while will be "Never mind, this sucks, because no software (including the OS itse

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