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by galonk 9y ago
I would say __only__ usable and readable with styles turned off.
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by galonk 9y ago
"Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor, if you didn’t know." Let me just say thank you very much for adding this sentence :) I feel like 50% of headlines on HN are written like "New version of qx58g" and somehow none of th
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by galonk 9y ago
This drives me crazy. Most of the things that pop up on HN that I haven't heard of, I click the link and there's nothing there explaining what they do or what the product is. There's a company called Deekit that was on HN rec
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by galonk 9y ago
I always assumed the answer was "because Sony is a hardware company that has never understood the first thing about software." Turns out I was right.
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by galonk 9y ago
Off topic, but yet another startup where the main page (which is actually labelled "Product"!!!) is blank and doesn't tell you anything about the product.
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by galonk 9y ago
The reaction from the troops is a rumour. The fact that almost everyone has to work in open space is not. It's well documented fact.
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by galonk 9y ago
Finding out the whole thing is open-plan-only cured me of most of my jealousy.
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by galonk 9y ago
What an incredibly stupid article. The author is supposed to be talking about card catalogues, but then keeps talking about books and libraries. We're not getting rid of those, we're getting rid of card catalogues. Somehow I don&#
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by galonk 9y ago
I got excited but then read that it's some kind of cloud-based web application thing. Is there something like this (show memory use and call times for a Python process) that just runs on my computer to help me profile a long-running Py
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by galonk 9y ago
Non-clickbait headline for this article: "Canadian housing prices will continue to go up until they don't"
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by galonk 10y ago
It used to be that something with pretensions of brainyness like this article would be reviewed by at least one editor before publication, so they could catch the glaring grammatical error in the title. Everyone can argue as much as they wa
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by galonk 10y ago
Epilepsy trigger warning.
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20 years ago, Apple bought NeXT(512pixels.net)
359 points by galonk 10y ago|254 comments
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by galonk 10y ago
For some reason, the string around the folder icon seemed brilliant to me. It was the kind of thing you could only do in the kind of giant icons they had on NeXT.
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Stop screaming in my home(medium.com)
1 points by galonk 10y ago|0 comments
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What do all the controls in an airplane cockpit do?(quora.com)
11 points by galonk 10y ago|0 comments
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by galonk 10y ago
Finland is a western, capitalist culture. Most western, capitalist countries have more compassionate cultures than the United States.
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by galonk 10y ago
Not quite -- the FAA is a classic example of "regulatory capture". Originally they policed the airlines, but now they explicitly state their mission is to assist the business interests of the corps they're supposed to regulat
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by galonk 10y ago
Someone here tried it but we quickly gave up on it. - It's ugly and borderline impossible to write by hand because it's JSON. To document something complex your JSON objects get 20 layers deep and you don't get any decent com
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by galonk 10y ago
Hey, they didn't immediately cover the article I came to read with a full-screen ad to get me to subscribe to something completely unrelated. On the modern web, that's deserves an award!
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by galonk 10y ago
"Or it's very Linux specific" Bingo. One of their design goals was to re-use as much existing Linux code as possible. It seems like if they succeeded it would be very hard to port it to another OS.
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by galonk 10y ago
The author seems to believe that REYES-type rasterization algorithms are still the state of the art, but these days everybody does physically-based raytracing (thank $deity, so much simpler!). This may or may not be a useful optimization fo
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by galonk 11y ago
Why did they implement the "blink your LED" function as a web service that passes its input directly to `system()`?
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by galonk 11y ago
It certainly is _confusing_ if not _wrong_. You silently add "move" to the closure without any mention or explanation (then later say "note that we're copying i" without explaining that you're talking about the
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by galonk 11y ago
This was covered ad-nauseam when Apple release Swift. I guess Apple was thinking the same thing as Google was thinking when they named Go? That the existence of a very obscure language with the same name shouldn't be an impediment?
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by galonk 11y ago
With all due respect, a book is nothing like technical documentation. The biggest issue with documentation is that it needs a lot of structure. To do interesting things you need to be able to mark certain passages of text as special (e.g. t
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by galonk 11y ago
It seems rather that the spec allows, but doesn't require, lenience in what data the encoder accepts. If you want to write an encoder that always errors when given invalid data (that is always "strict"), that's fine. But
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by galonk 11y ago
"We are SUPER EXCITED to share this thing with you that you can't access because it's in private beta! If you’re as excited about this as we are, we’d love to welcome you aboard! Aboard, I must stress this again, this thing w
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by galonk 11y ago
As the author also points out, subprocess DOESN'T shell out. It starts the external process directly.
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by galonk 11y ago
Or documentation.

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