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by kluck 11y ago
This leads me to another thing that is really annoying: during page load stuff bounces around and changes its size and position. It freqently happens that while I want to click on something it moves away and I click some advert - really stu
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by kluck 11y ago
It should be possible to create visually appealing websites without JavaScript and using standard system fonts.
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by kluck 11y ago
I try to create fast websites as well. For that reason I really use no javascript. At all. None. With all the new HTML5 media tags there is really no reason. Another problem is a typical website these days contains a lot other stuff around
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by kluck 11y ago
That guy [1] used search engine autocomplete to find out that many people search for phrases like "why is facebook so slow". This is really just another indication of something beeing terribly wrong here... [1] http://c
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by kluck 11y ago
I just came across this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6825557 where another user expresses his/her feeling about the perceived performance of websites these days. And I myself also feel that it is a real p
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The web feels slower and more broken each day(nngroup.com)
19 points by kluck 11y ago|15 comments
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by kluck 11y ago
Thanks for the find!
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by kluck 11y ago
> Sometimes it's okay to choose the latest framework. Choose what works.
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by kluck 11y ago
I think you are underestimating the sheer magnitude of writing that is that piece of literature.
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by kluck 11y ago
I was just filtering for C projects and almost all of the results were JavaScript or Ruby. Is there a way I actually get C projects when I filter for them?
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by kluck 11y ago
I like the analogy. > ...will your having ignored that sign make a difference in their interactions with you? For sure. > How about if you've both ignored that sign and come in wearing a disguise? Not if he finds out. But the dis
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by kluck 11y ago
Good advice, but when you give "correct" estimates (not pessimistic but realistic) you may be perceived as beeing a slow programmer.
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Ask HN: What Open Source software is needed that does not exist yet?
7 points by kluck 11y ago|5 comments
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by kluck 11y ago
> You can get in touch with very interesting people and explore the world in a way you never did before. Suppose you get a response from this nice girl near you and when you meet "her" she is actually an ugly man who wants to e
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Generally Recognized as Mature (GRAM) OSS/FS Programs(dwheeler.com)
1 points by kluck 11y ago|0 comments
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by kluck 11y ago
I also guess only Open Source Software really qualifies, because after a certain point, you need to inspect the source code to write better testsuites.
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by kluck 11y ago
Found another link: http://www.dwheeler.com/gram.html
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Ask HN: Looking for mature software directory with 10+ years production usage
1 points by kluck 11y ago|2 comments
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by kluck 11y ago
I am looking for an online directory that is human maintained and contains software development libraries and utilities that are considered stable and are actively used in production environments for at least 10 years. Any programming envir
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by kluck 11y ago
Add a note on the front page that states from which places the information used to generate the developer profiles is gathered and that a developer's profile is likely to be incomplete due to the fact that there might be non-public cod
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by kluck 11y ago
What if one does not have any public code repositories?
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by kluck 11y ago
At least I found a kind of starting point (although I am not sure what the criteria for a debian stable package are to be put in that list): https://packages.debian.org/stable/
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Ask HN: Directory of stable mature software
2 points by kluck 11y ago|1 comments
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by kluck 11y ago
Thank You for the Wikipedia link - I was looking for the name of the "thing" people are doing when they write all those WebGL JavaScript frameworks and such. Now I know that they are creating poor replicas of things that normally
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by kluck 11y ago
I like to believe the trend goes away from large scale apps/services that cost nothing for the end user (and are financed by trading user data and/or showing adverts) towards small/medium sized apps/services that cost a
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by kluck 11y ago
Before I clicked the link I thought: That is going to be a short read ... and it was ;)
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by kluck 11y ago
I love this article. It had to be said. Some may say: Its not the guns that are dangerous, but the people using them. Thats wrong, guns themselves are dangerous, because they make it easy to kill people.
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by kluck 11y ago
Sorry, seems that I can not edit the post anymore.
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by kluck 11y ago
I agree. A good VC is in for the long term and building knowledge (the kind you can base a consulting business on) is definitely a long-term goal. Also I am all for bootstrapping and not beeing dependent on VCs at all.
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by kluck 11y ago
This could be simplified: A company needs something that cannot be dublicated using a significant effort. A company that releases their source code to the public really _has_ to build up some knowledge in their domain (because the public so

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