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by ken 7y ago
The fundamental problem I see is that CSS is far too weak for proper separation of concerns. You can't make a nice structure in HTML, and then style it with CSS. You have to structure your HTML from the start in a way that it's
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by ken 7y ago
That’s called hardware. The whole point of software is that it’s soft.
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by ken 7y ago
I don’t understand why some areas would warrant the response of “sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t”. What if we left other areas examined? “Let’s not bother to research sorting algorithms further. Some people write a sort and it
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by ken 7y ago
There’s 5 or 10 more things I want from a keyboard. But I know Apple (and every other manufacturer) is never going to give them to us.
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by ken 7y ago
We already have a term for that: “low level”. I assume that people are trying to attach it to the term “simple” because that word has a much more positive connotation, but the meaning isn’t the same.
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by ken 7y ago
> Apart from function calls, you can tell exactly what it does without looking up anything else, like a macro definition for example. It sounds like you’re splitting hairs here. In my experience, macros aren’t any more mysterious than fu
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by ken 7y ago
Boeing tried this a lot back when I worked there. Our managers would talk about how their airplanes enabled people to trade with people across the globe, and brought people together. It's hard to see the high-level talk as anything bu
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by ken 7y ago
Joel Spolsky talked years ago about how software companies are doing it by letting them use the latest cool toys -- Erlang or whatever is hot these days. I'd ask why you need an "enterprise CRUD app". Programmers tend to lik
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by ken 7y ago
> Most mainstream languages, however, seem to be verbose to approximately the same order of magnitude. My experience is mostly with C#, so I'll use that (and similar languages like Java) as a starting point. I see this, too. For a
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by ken 7y ago
Mods (dang?): the actual title (and content) is "Ohio House passes bill ...". The current HN title, "Ohio passes bill ...", makes it sound like this is already law.
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by ken 7y ago
The covering of every surface with advertising is not indicative of more 'commerce being done'. People are still buying and selling even when there isn't a giant garish billboard 30 feet over their heads. And plenty of adve
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by ken 7y ago
99% of the advertising I see is for products and services which are already household names. Advertising is not some democratizer which enables the little guy to pay a few bucks and stand on equal footing with the big guy. It's yet a
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by ken 7y ago
Good point. “Are we to believe that boiling water soaks into a grit faster in your kitchen than on any place on the face of the earth?” It’s simply Occam’s Razor. Which is more likely in 2019: a webpage is fast, or a webpage has a JavaScrip
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by ken 7y ago
A database is a server. Your malloc isn't deterministic, either. According to the Go Wikipedia article, as of 2017: > Garbage collection pauses should be significantly shorter than they were in Go 1.7, usually under 100 microseco
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by ken 7y ago
Isn't this just stack ranking? Hasn't that always been a terrible way to measure quality? Every car, especially American makes, are drastically improved from even just a few years ago. Being in the bottom half in 2019 is a com
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by ken 7y ago
> Apple hasn't sold a computer with a 32 bit CPU in what, 8-9 years? The Mini was the last Mac to make the switch to 64-bit, in "Mid 2007". So a little over 12 years. For comparison, the Macintosh was on M68K from 1984 to
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by ken 7y ago
A go (囲碁, not ~lang) master once taught me how to get my subconscious to reveal moves it knew were bad. We played a quick game, cleared the board, and then played the same game over again. The moves I remembered immediately were the right
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by ken 7y ago
Japan raised comics to an art form long before Instagram. Akira volume 1 was published before Instagram's founders were even born. This isn't generational.
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by ken 7y ago
Weren't they just as unsafe before the FAA grounded them? The FAA are the agency that originally certified them to fly. The FAA was actually one of the last regulators in the world to ground the 737-MAX [1]. [1]: https://
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by ken 7y ago
Would you also say that about the 787, 747-8, EA-18G Growler, T-7 Red Hawk, MQ-25 Stingray, and GPS Block IIF? All of those were developed in the time after the MD merger. I agree Boeing isn't the engineering company it used to be, in
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by ken 7y ago
How about at least a video of the company offices, as seen by a typical employee? Those recruitment page photos of your ping-pong table and people laughing while eating salad are not helpful in telling me what the other 98% of my day will l
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by ken 7y ago
I would say the problem here is that Firefox needs to use the system spell checker. They can't just "expand" it. It needs to support per-user custom dictionaries. That's the same complaint I have, BTW, with every par
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by ken 7y ago
On the Mac, at least, it's painfully obvious that nothing matches. The look is a little off, but the behavior is way off. The scrolling doesn't work the same as native scrolling, nor do the context menus, the toolbars, the tabs,
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by ken 7y ago
This is one of those "Turing tar-pit" scenarios. As you point out, it's technically possible, but in most languages, it would drastically increase the verbosity of the code. None of the built-in control structures will work
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by ken 7y ago
True, but you don't need a marathon to tell you that. Just go anywhere downtown at rush hour on a weekday. Every 5 minutes, some driver will enter the box before it's clear, and block the intersection both ways for everybody. A
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by ken 7y ago
This is my #1 complaint with static type systems. Static typing advocates say they allow the compiler to check for correctness, but all these type systems are only the thinnest possible wrappers on machine types. An HTML-escaped string is
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by ken 7y ago
How do these usernames / public displays work for people without two names? When you sort by "last name" do you really mean "surname"? Are you going to add more fields for searching and sorting keys, so when 鈴木一朗
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by ken 7y ago
The edge cases in this example are trivial to generate: length 1, or empty string. ("Ends with the letters MR" isn't on this list, and is awfully specific.) If you do nothing but have a text field that can contain anything
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by ken 7y ago
Sure, that’s all true. So don’t use the C stack for parsing. It’s not difficult.
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by ken 7y ago
Most of these libraries are for HLLs.

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