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by handrous 5y ago
YouTube got huge largely due to rampant piracy, in the early days. Straight-up posting copyrighted material unmodified, and all kinds of use of media (songs, especially) in ways that aren't protected by fair use. All while copyright ca
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by handrous 5y ago
> you can write plain and readable code with prototypes. It's really far from being ergonomic, unless you're basically just using JS objects as structs. Otherwise you're dancing around its pitfalls and limitations—visibl
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by handrous 5y ago
> So, the solution? Uh, hmmmm...lemme get back to you on that. Third decree: no more... rich people... and poor people From now on, we will all be the same... ummm, I dunno I gotta think about that... — Tenacious D, "City Hall"
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by handrous 5y ago
Programming languages are tools. I don't like it when I find out I'm going to need yet another set of bits for some new type of screw head, either. Doubly so if it's at-best marginally better than the two next-best kinds I
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by handrous 5y ago
The more ways there are to write in a language, the harder it gets to read the code of someone else using a different style guide, or with different preferences, than you. This matters a whole lot in a language so completely dependent on
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by handrous 5y ago
> I don't know, why are there so many proposals trying to turn JS into an C#/Java like language? The class syntax, the private fields, TS with its interfaces and abstract classes. Javascript's very OO, deep down in its bon
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by handrous 5y ago
I hate that following assignment in the examples requires knowing precedence for the operator vs. the assignment operator. The = sign visually "points at" the first function call, but it's operating on the return value of t
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by handrous 5y ago
> The amount of "I don't get why this is wrong?" going on in this thread would seem to support the prosecutors' view that this is a widespread practice. I think it's because a lot of "hustle" culture an
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by handrous 5y ago
> Never heard of this writer [...] before. Oh my. Wow. That's... huge for you. How exciting! He's famous enough that IIRC The Simpsons once made a joke about "The ABCs of Science Fiction" where the gag was that the re
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by handrous 5y ago
> like an insulated label. I've had beer cans in the US that used these. They feel really, really weird. Can's been in the fridge for three hours, but feels barely under room temp (because you're touching the insulated la
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by handrous 5y ago
I think the answer might be that the lowest large portion of their society—aside from some marginalized groups and outliers, talking the broad base of their social pyramid— is their working class, not something else even lower. There'
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by handrous 5y ago
If you think a book review takes too long to get to the point, do I have some bad news for you about books....
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by handrous 5y ago
I didn't evaluate its sources, but thought the writing in Debt was excellent. The typical pattern throughout was for Graeber to introduce an idea in a paragraph, for me to think of several "what about..." and "hm, I du
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by handrous 5y ago
Yeah, I think it's more about CF hemming them in, curtailing growth opportunities. Especially since the line until recently had been "use Cloudflare and get free transit between CF and Backblaze B2!" Haha, so much for that. I
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by handrous 5y ago
I'm seeing "truck guys" giving a shit about Ford's upcoming all-electric truck in a way they didn't about the cyber truck, except as a curiosity. I think they screwed up the marketing on that in just about every pos
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by handrous 5y ago
Oh yeah, I forgot about routing Roku audio through phones. I've seen that on the remote app.
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by handrous 5y ago
I have Jabra bluetooth headphones (full-size, not earbuds) and have taken to turning off Bluetooth on my MacBook to get them to work on my Windows machine, which will connect but not play any audio through them otherwise. Some device pairs
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by handrous 5y ago
Playstation 4 (maybe also the 5? I can't get ahold of one, so I dunno) controllers have a headphone jack on them that can be used this way, I think. Route the audio through the (bluetooth) controller, to whatever you've plugged in
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by handrous 5y ago
Dandelion Wine is one I bounced off of during my initial Bradbury infatuation around age 11 or 12, but in my 30s have found to be excellent. It is, in part, about experiencing the world as a child, but is probably not something most (to p
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by handrous 5y ago
In an average city block, I'd expect that ~99% of displays—TVs, monitors, projectors—would support HDMI-in. Plus A/V receivers, for that matter. Maybe, maybe 5% would support DisplayPort over USB-C (or anything else that lets yo
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by handrous 5y ago
The place I worked when the USB-C MacBooks came out had a hell of a time with video output. This monitor only works with a DisplayPort dongle, this one won't work with a new MacBook at all , this one works but only if you use one spe
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by handrous 5y ago
Looking at the empty space in the center of whatever they call the top menu bar in MacOS, on my machine, I can kinda see why they'd think it was OK to claim some territory there. Will probably be annoying to people who use programs in
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by handrous 5y ago
The magic that originally brought me into the Mac ecosystem, after a decade and a half of Windows and Linux, was that the work MacBook I received was the first time I had an actual portable computer. The battery life ("you mean it st
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by handrous 5y ago
Having briefly had to use an old Pro from when they still had DVD drives in them (which I used way-back-when but hadn't touched in a long time), I can authoritatively say that the "former glory" is a solid two generations b
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by handrous 5y ago
I see them as documentation of what I think something means or is, which the computer can check for accuracy (more or less), both as I write and as the codebase changes. That legibility to the computer is what makes them much better tha
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by handrous 5y ago
> I hate having to waste time figuring out the type of every variable and hold it in my head every single time I read a piece of code. If a codebase doesn't have static types, it damn well better be set up to be highly grep-able.
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by handrous 5y ago
> I always know its type just by looking at its name. Is it enforced in ruby? Of course not. Ruby assumes I'm an adult and I know that I'm doing. TIL taking notes of things you want to be reminded of in the future is for childr
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by handrous 5y ago
I want type checking on pretty much anything that will ever exceed about two screenfuls of code. If I can't keep the whole thing in my head at once, I want the computer to do it for me. That's the point, right? Making computers
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by handrous 5y ago
> Honestly will never go back to languages without type checking, it prevents so many bugs and is a huge help in understanding code you haven’t worked with previously. I see static types as one of the most powerful communication tools ar
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by handrous 5y ago
I think I write for most of your readers: we're going to need to see your work if we're to have any hope of figuring out out what you mean.

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