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by jaylittle 3y ago
It will never cease to amaze me how out of touch some technical people are... including the author of this markdown rant.
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by jaylittle 3y ago
My summary of this rant: Ivory Tower bullshit Markdown is phenomenal. It gives end users simple and easy to remember ways to perform the most common formatting operations but leaves the text in a state that it was be parsed by humans witho
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by jaylittle 3y ago
Can confirm, that blog appears to be completely broken. No javascript errors in the console and turning off ad blocking in Brave doesn't help. /shrug
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by jaylittle 3y ago
I love this post. This perfectly lays out why I have operated my own blog for over 20 years now. I liking having my own space where I can say what I want. There is also real value in me going back and reading what I said a year, five years
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by jaylittle 3y ago
Yeah so just wanted to chime in here. I 100% agree. I have worked at both extremes. My current gig is basically the first one. Nobody has the big picture. Nobody wants to discuss the big picture. They are only interested in checking of
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by jaylittle 3y ago
It's a shame that more here don't realize that. Being able to communicate is paramount.
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by jaylittle 3y ago
Years ago this would've been interesting to me. But it took too long. Given that the Fairphone 4 has been out everywhere else for years now and there wasn't even a peep of it coming to the US, I decided to jump ship for an iPhon
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by jaylittle 3y ago
I got three BlueSky invite codes, in case anybody wants em: Edit: All gone, thanks for playing!
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Developer Brethren, Its Time to Embrace Boring(jaylittle.com)
2 points by jaylittle 3y ago|0 comments
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by jaylittle 3y ago
Wow. Redhat / IBM is no longer going to publicly make the source code to RHEL releases available. Alma and Rocky Linux literally just died. Screw you IBM... and the creepy Linux kids coattails that ya rode in on.
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by jaylittle 3y ago
A proper CSS implementation of this would respect your browser preferences, so everybody could have it work as they'd like ;) I apologize for the implication, it was not on purpose.
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by jaylittle 3y ago
Okay I'm a glutton for punishment so I added support to news.css and created a patch for it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36344178
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by jaylittle 3y ago
Thank you all for your enthusiastic responses! I was sorry to learn that this feature request hasn't seen much traction. However @ksec gave me an idea by linking me to an earlier thread on this very same topic in which somebody sugges
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by jaylittle 3y ago
That's actually very helpful, thank you for that. I'm going to work on implementing the CSS changes when I get bored. If that's the only thing standing between a bunch of hackers and dark mode on the hacker news website, I&#
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Hacker News needs a Dark Mode
126 points by jaylittle 3y ago|88 comments
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by jaylittle 4y ago
As a Linux loving .NET developer, this is very sad to see. Goddamit MS.
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by jaylittle 6y ago
Based on the fact GPT-3 seems capable of producing flowery language that is confusing and ultimately nonsensical, it seems to me that GPT-3 has a future writing speeches for politicians ;)
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by jaylittle 6y ago
I have to say, I strongly disagree with this. As a professional software developer I've watched legions of clients fall into the trap of customizing tools to adapt to their specific sacred workflow. It always ends up being expensive
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by jaylittle 6y ago
I'm utterly shocked at how many people assume that "The Cloud" is both run by people infinitely more intelligent and more competent than they are and that everything there is backed up. What a crock of shit.
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by jaylittle 6y ago
Whats got me bent out of shape is that your bosses fired the entire threat management team. That's why I'm spending hours switching to UnGoogled Chromium today. So long Firefox and thanks for all the fish!
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by jaylittle 6y ago
TLDR: Stupid is as stupid does.
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by jaylittle 7y ago
I was hoping somebody would share the news about this addon and I'm glad that I wasn't disappointed!
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by jaylittle 7y ago
Wow. Didn't realize this story was getting so much play over here. It has essentially failed to have an impact on reddit as nobody there apparently wants to be told that they are likely part of a Ponzi scheme. Regarding the 502s: I w
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by jaylittle 7y ago
Should be resolved, sorry ;)
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by jaylittle 7y ago
Should be resolved, sorry ;)
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by jaylittle 7y ago
Should be resolved, sorry ;)
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by jaylittle 7y ago
My apologies. My posts have been largely ignored on reddit and I don't frequent ycombinator so I didn't realize that it was getting such play over here. Thus when some fellow nerd emailed me a few hours ago asking if I'd en