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by ken 7y ago
That’s a password field . Now just put it in a <dialog>.
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by ken 7y ago
> Code duplication is better than the wrong abstraction. The explanations of this statement that I’ve read make no sense to me. They amount to “using an abstraction for two things which just happen to be the same today” is bad. Well,
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by ken 7y ago
Planning and scheduling tools are weird. Everybody has their own system already. So software is either simple (and doesn’t work for most people) or incredibly complex (and requires massive customization). Or they say “just redesign your wh
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by ken 7y ago
15 years ago I loved Omni software. I hate the term “bloated” for software but I agree it’s gotten massively more complex for no benefit to me. I’d use my old version of OmniOutliner if I could (there’s no way to run PowerPC applications
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by ken 7y ago
Should I learn Verilog to understand “how the computer works”?
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by ken 7y ago
In the Seattle area, nearly every grocery store (except Whole Foods) employs workers represented by UFCW 21: https://www.ufcw21.org/shop-union
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by ken 7y ago
Those other systems don't have Reagent. Reagent is simply the best way to write user interfaces I've seen in 25 years, bar none. The only comparable jump in productivity that I can recall is moving from assembly language to a co
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by ken 7y ago
Sure, but the existence of GitHub has only helped Git grow, not hurt it.
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by ken 7y ago
That project looks like a command-line p2p file sharing system. There doesn't appear to be any branching. It also doesn't appear to be a database (like with a schema), but simply raw files being passed around. There's no d
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by ken 7y ago
That's Git Hub for data. It's a service, and they still haven't launched anything yet. This is Git for data. It's a program, and it appears to be an open-source one you can download and use today.
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by ken 7y ago
> still no one is wearing a mask (in America at least) In Seattle, I'd say around half of the people I've seen in public are wearing masks this week.
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by ken 7y ago
> At the same time, adult questions get longer and longer. Most of this length isn’t important for the question, it is meant to prevent the audience from thinking the questioner is stupid. On the contrary, I do it to prevent people from
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by ken 7y ago
If you're excited by live physical effects, they still exist: in theatre! Well, maybe not this year.
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by ken 7y ago
I see no contradiction. Their AF 'jokes' aren't funny. Maybe if they were, we wouldn't have so many people celebrating the cancellation. Besides, there's a big difference between a friend emailing you a joke and
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by ken 7y ago
e.g., "Intel reportedly expects Apple to start the Mac’s transition to ARM next year" -- Feb 2019 https://9to5mac.com/2019/02/21/mac-marzipan-arm-next-year-ma...
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by ken 7y ago
What occupation, I wonder, was the person who coined that joke? Compare: "It is not possible to justify the life of any genuine professional mathematician on the ground of the 'utility' of his work." (G. H. Hardy, 1940)
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by ken 7y ago
I feel like much of this century's computer folk wisdom is just taking "The Tao of Programming" and translating it into modern corporate jargon. s/Novice/Junior Dev/, s/Master/Senior Dev/
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by ken 7y ago
I don't think either word, "puzzle" or "problem", requires it to have a solution. I would say the distinction is that the purpose of a puzzle is in the act of solving, while the purpose of a (business) problem is t
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by ken 7y ago
One of my first computer science teachers pronounced "/" (in C) as "divide and throw away the remainder", which sounds awkward at first but turns out to be quite helpful. It's one of those operators which, unf
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by ken 7y ago
I never could figure out (2000's-era) Cray. Their office was in my neighborhood and a friend-of-a-friend worked there and it sounded like interesting work, so I checked out their jobs page. Almost all of the jobs were sales, and thei
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by ken 7y ago
Their presentation here explicitly talks about who they're targeting, and their very first target group is "recent graduates" who want "something similar to what I used in school: Python, Matlab, Java". If this fron
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by ken 7y ago
And yet, in the presentation slides linked to from their homepage, they brag that it aims to be "programmable as Python, fast as Fortran, scalable as MPI, SHMEM, or UPC, portable as C, flexible as C++, fun as [your favorite programming
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by ken 7y ago
I see two camps here. Microsoft has been calling anything with a GUI "visual" for a few decades (Basic, Studio, C++, FoxPro, ...), so people from industry often use that definition. For people from academia , "visual&quo
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by ken 7y ago
I don't know if it's the fonts, the icons, the controls, the monochromaticity, the blocky resolution, the tinkerability, or even just stupid nostalgia, but there's just something so darned cute about classic Mac OS. macOS t
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by ken 7y ago
> The big danger with card decks was that you’d drop the deck and the cards would get out of order At my first job, my boss told me the story of a colleague who was taking a box of cards out to the car. You had to drive your program to
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by ken 7y ago
I'd call Time Machine "2.5D", since it's really just layers. There's a million examples of useful user interfaces which use 2.5D layering. I wouldn't call Microsoft Bob "3D" at all. It didn't e
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by ken 7y ago
> Source code answers the how and what but it doesn't provide any answer to the most important question of all - why? The vast majority of technical documentation I read doesn't answer why , either. The closest examples I see
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by ken 7y ago
Is this down? I just get a black window and "Oops, something went wrong" popping up in the corner repeatedly.
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by ken 7y ago
Is Docbook dead? I see it mentioned here only as an output format, between HTML and PDF, which sounds strange because I don't know any way to view it without first converting it to something like HTML or PDF. Docbook is a bit verbose
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by ken 7y ago
Just as interesting, in hindsight, is the sidebar link: "Why The World Cares More About The New Coronavirus Than The Flu" -- February 3, 2020: > By contrast [with the flu], this new coronavirus has only just started circulating

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