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by hnzix 9y ago
As much as everyone loved to hate on Flash, it was brutally effective as a web motion design tool and has yet to be surpassed when visually building interactive experiences. I've seen designers with almost zero coding skills build incr
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> if I need static typing And that's when the Static Typing Is The One True Way person parachutes in. :)
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Looks like it's been fixed in ES5. From memory I was performing an operation on a html color string and if you clicked a color with a certain prefix it would crash. I could easily reproduce the bug but it took me forever to work out wh
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by hnzix 9y ago
Wait, did you just call me racist for not liking JavaScript?
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"Fortunately, praise Providence, I was found out and stopped forty-five minutes short of my own vile apocalypse." Wait, what? Am I reading this right, JPB tried a suicide bombing?
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by hnzix 9y ago
But XSLT is functional so that makes it awesome right? XSLT 2 was actually usable. 1 on the other hand... it really did feel like a twilight zone sick joke.
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by hnzix 9y ago
I've spent days tracking down a bug around a color picker widget, turns out JS was implicitly casting my string value to octal. I've worked with heaps of toy languages like Lingo, vbscript and ActionScript, and nothing has made me
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by hnzix 9y ago
I'm looking for a language for cross-platform mobile app development using React/Expo. Can anyone give their opinion on ReasonReact vs Clojurescript Reframe? I like the familiar syntax of ReasonML, but Clojurescript has LISP mojo
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by hnzix 9y ago
> refutes the claim that the lamp oil market is a toy. GP never made that claim. The point is that lamp oil was perceived as a toy before people realized the (blindingly obvious in hindsight) utility for indoor lighting.
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Not all bodybuilders juice. I experiment with my diet and regime all the time. Intermittent Fasting & Keto at the moment, and lots of protein.
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by hnzix 9y ago
What I miss most about CRTs are accurate light gun video games. I tried Overkill on PS3 and while it was fun, the crosshair positioning was terrible. Rail shooters seem to have vanished into history (much like Ruby on Rails) (I kid! I kid!)
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by hnzix 9y ago
"People with careers need to learn to shut the fuck up around people with jobs. Don't let your happiness make somebody sad. [...] When you got a career, there ain't enough time. When you got a job, there's too much time.
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by hnzix 9y ago
For some reason it really bothers me that there's no pejorative for a person who spouts Scientism, eg that one Facebook friend who constantly posts euphoric Atheist memes taglined 'SCIENCE!' I humbly propose "tizzer&quot
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> But VISA didn't kill them. Why not? Because Visa don't own the whole credit card platform, there's also Mastercard, Amex, etc. And Visa are still trying with their "Visa Checkout" tech (whose value propositio
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>The question is, where IS the innovation? Get ready for a tidal wave of blockchain apps, most of which don't really need blockchain. But I'm sure some innovative new products will shake out of the cruft.
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> My teeth, which are already damaged by years of nightly gnashing My dentist made me a slimfit mouthguard for teeth grinding. It cost $500 but it's the best dental investment I ever made as it prevents further expensive damage to
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This needs blockchain GPU mining!
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Symbolic logic / truth tables is the single most useful subject I have ever taken wrt programming. It provides an intuitive understanding of conditionals so they can be expressed simply and clearly.
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From what I've seen of Tokyo, the Japanese seem to have a crush on France in general. Tokyo is littered with French-themed spaces, and Paris Syndrome is particularly noted among Japanese travelers. [0] [0] https://en.wikiped
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> Never to accomplish lucid dreaming Two easy techniques - 1. Ask yourself continually through the day "Am I dreaming?", which primes you to become self-aware while dreaming. 2. Wake up two hours before you normally get up fo
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Why should they disclose their identity and leave a permanent digital footprint? Some of us are private people by nature. Some of us have stalkers, sensitive employment situations etc. I miss the pseudonym era of the internet. Uploading my
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by hnzix 9y ago
This assumes that code should be read as prose. I posit that code should be skimmed, then the eye can track right if the code is relevant to the task at hand. This is all subjective, which is why I feel soft-wrapping is appropriate as it al
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Where high externalized cost is a long-term negative impact on a community, which ranges from undesirable to unethical depending on context. "Kicking the can down the road" should be called out and minimized. The HN hivemind usu
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by hnzix 9y ago
"To be fair just dumping your waste into rivers is a cheap and immediate solution. Lots of companies don't have the money for safe disposal."
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「四腳爬爬，背朝天，人皆可食之。」 Four legs and back to the sky, ok to eat.
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Interesting. Could you use the mouse to interact with scrollback using your workflow? I mostly use keyboard but sometimes I just want to flick upwards and copy a block of scrollback text using the mouse.
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tmux has geek appeal and I can see the use case for remote sessions, but for local macos dev I've changed to just use iTerm for splits (I tried byobu as well). tmux seems to need extra yak shaving to get vim integration, copy/past
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> white elephants Or perhaps elephant-sized yaks with small shaving blades next to each. (I kid! I kid!)
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Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is the only novel I've read which deeply explores the cultural impact of pervasive social media coupled with machine learning and post-scarcity. I found it far more thought-provo
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> systematic abuse for profit Autogenerating content targeted at kids is "systematic abuse for profit" in the same way that Disney holding focus groups is "abuse". The content is clearly entertaining to kids, or els

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