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by galonk 6y ago
I want to echo this, it's disappointing, but I'm thankful to Raph and the team for all the work they put into it. I had dreams of being able to write an editor where I could concentrate on making a cool UI in a different language&
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Could we make encrypted text look like some random unencrypted text?
1 points by galonk 6y ago|2 comments
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Google is shutting down Zync rendering in the cloud(reddit.com)
2 points by galonk 6y ago|1 comments
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by galonk 6y ago
Luckily there is a "community" fork on GitHub, and I've offered to help them with questions :)
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by galonk 6y ago
I wrote a Python library that was pretty popular at one time. I gave a talk on it at PyCon, at one point it was in the top 200 most downloaded packages on PyPI. Since my employer told me I was no longer allowed to work on it at work, I have
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by galonk 7y ago
Since "pick up" should not be hyphenated , as a native English speaker I don't think I would have ever guessed it!
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by galonk 7y ago
Note that the instructions say you can have either the normal install ISO or the Install-Dev ISO in the optical drive, but this does not seem to be correct -- using the Install-Dev ISO causes an error trying to read /etc/init.
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by galonk 7y ago
"SapphireDb also supports running in an NLB with multiple instances and scales very good." In English, when speaking of actions you must say "well" instead of "good", ie. "scales very well". While the
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by galonk 7y ago
Mac equivalent is Cmd + Ctrl + Space (Edit > Emoji and Symbols).
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by galonk 7y ago
So, like... does EVERYONE think it looks too much like the Firefox logo, or...
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by galonk 7y ago
None of the things BV has worked on -- smart tiles or putting pieces of paper under a camera/projector -- do ANYTHING AT ALL like what he's talking about here. They don't change their size, shape, weight, feel etc. in respons
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by galonk 7y ago
Seems pretty easy to write an essay saying "screens are old news, let's use our hands!" containing not a single word about how that would work, technically or design-wise. I'm going to write an essay saying "screens
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by galonk 7y ago
"For a number of years now, work has been proceeding in order to bring perfection to the crudely conceived idea of a transmission that would not only supply inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors, but would als
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by galonk 7y ago
I know SW is famous for his arrogance/egotism, but it still kills me how he always discusses everything in terms of Mathematica's programming language, instead of mathematical notation or pseudo-code. It's like giving a lingu
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by galonk 7y ago
It's not reflected in OP's screenshot, but there was a period where Encarta (and a companion product called Microsoft Bookshelf) used a very flat, Swiss-design aesthetic that was catnip to graphic-designer-wanna-be kid me. You can
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Ask HN: How to I restart work on my OSS project?
3 points by galonk 7y ago|2 comments
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by galonk 7y ago
My first walkman was a WM-22, not that much smaller than the first model. My last was a WM-150, which was just a few mm larger than the actual tape in each direction. It felt amazingly elegant. (Took me a while to find out the model numbers
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by galonk 7y ago
I don’t think it’s a Minivan, could be a Vortex. If you search for “split spacebar 40 keyboard” you can see similar commercial and custom boards. It’s what’s called a 40% layout (as in 40% of the keys of a standard 104 key board). To save s
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by galonk 7y ago
Also at the end it says "not non-zero cost". Assuming the double-negative is a mistake, they should delete either the "not" or the "non-".
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by galonk 7y ago
You don’t get to freely acknowledge counter-examples and then magically say they “prove the rule” as if they don’t contradict your argument. THAT’S NOT WHAT THAT MEANS. And it’s quite all right for me to respect the elderly in general while
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by galonk 7y ago
"The London Olympics cost $19 billion, three times the original $6.5 billion budget, while the Tokyo Olympics are estimated to cost over $25 billion, four times the originally announced budget. There are similar stories from the Games
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by galonk 7y ago
Thanks! It could be what I've been looking for!
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by galonk 7y ago
It doesn't even do email, so you'd still be paying a known provider :)
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by galonk 7y ago
These home server boxes never include self-hosting email. Is it because anyone running their own SMTP is assumed to be a spammer? It's annoying because hosted email services are strangely expensive. Oh, they'll let you have multip
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by galonk 8y ago
I checked out of Amiga news after (I think) 3.5... long after most, but before some it seems. It's interesting that at some point someone redrew my "GlowIcons"... the upgraded version of the icon set that was included in the
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by galonk 8y ago
That's actually interesting, I wonder where you are, because I was in freakin' NYC last year and every store STILL didn't even take chip cards, much less tap. Don't even get me started on having to deal with pennies ;)
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by galonk 8y ago
Oh, you mean you didn't see the last sub-clause of the last paragraph of the third section of the announcement page linked to from the page above? /s "a new link-aggregator-style community site that's starting its invite
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by galonk 8y ago
Reeder is awesome.
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by galonk 8y ago
Anyone know how this project's capabilities compare the the PEP-484 checking built-in to IDEA/PyCharm? That implementation goes "above and beyond" inferring types based on use when there's no explicit annotations. I
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by galonk 9y ago
So even open source projects are doing that thing where they immediately cover the page you're trying to read with an annoying spam box?

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