manxman

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by manxman 3y ago
Noooo… you mean there’s a Mac OS Bonnydoon floating around the Apple O-ring?
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by manxman 3y ago
Why the heck Apple kill Aperture anyway?
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by manxman 3y ago
Look at the leadership’s connection with google and this becomes easier to understand. Then again we walk about touching things, leaving convenient DNA samples for anyone to collect throughout the day. It’s only because sequencing is relati
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by manxman 3y ago
Have a fake profile or two for that problem ;)
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by manxman 3y ago
Yup. Figured as much. Always those pesky edge cases that the no-code stuff never handles well.
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by manxman 3y ago
Curious to know how well this supports hybrid designs. No-code “IP block” composition is great for some stuff but there’s going to be customisations that aren’t on the standard “blocks”. That said, cool to see this emerge.
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by manxman 3y ago
Update the malware too perhaps?
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by manxman 3y ago
Let me pour myself a martini while I ponder this.
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by manxman 3y ago
Whatsapp was <50 people when it got acquired for ~$19bn and they had the ability to turn on $150million in revenue at the drop of a hat. It's interesting people are talking about bloated software in this thread and their love of lea
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by manxman 3y ago
I think there are very real dangers of assuming parents know what is right for their children or what their children will go on to value. I know we live in a very weird era where Operant Conditioning (if you don't know what that is loo
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by manxman 3y ago
More unrestricted autobahns I hope! ;)
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by manxman 3y ago
> In Japan, for example, roads are abandoned due to lack of use. A trend that seems to be happening in other countries such as China and Korea. From what I saw on my recent travels in Japan, I'd suggest it was more a case of governm
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by manxman 3y ago
From what I saw of the mindset I don’t think it works that way there. In London “oyster” contactless cards replaced cash/paper tickets for buses and the tube. It was then incremented to contactless bank payment cards as soon as the ban
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by manxman 3y ago
International contactless cards don’t work period - you need SUICA or PASMO for the metro. Buses outside of the cities are cash based. I travelled in Hokkaido, Rishiri, Okinawa, Ishigaki, Iriomote etc. They simply did not take cards at all.
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by manxman 3y ago
It’s interesting you say this. There’s something cultural in Japan that optimises the hell out of something even after it becomes obsolete everywhere else and then cannot let go of that investment. Or perhaps the people involved in the proc
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by manxman 3y ago
So there’s clearly stuff being done to train a younger generation to speak English better than was the case previously. The problem is that even with that, the mindset still appears to preserve the notion of Japanese supremacy over everythi
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by manxman 3y ago
I’m deeply cautious of the argument that modern capitalism is reliant on an ever increasing population. I think this perceived requirement is the result of efforts to undermine or corrupt capitalism to preserve the interests of incumbents a
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by manxman 3y ago
There’s niche players that are very successful. But the success that once was Japan was about being competitive in more than just niche markets. Not sure transitioning from hybrid to EV is just a case of drop in a bigger battery. That was k
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by manxman 3y ago
Some interesting points. He's my rebuttal... On (a), depends on whether you subscribe to the view the Modern Monetary Theory(MMT) is sustainable or a dangerous experiment that has unknowable consequences. (b) Japan lacks natural resour
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by manxman 3y ago
Near highest... you sure about that? https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/JPN/japan/gdp-per-capi...
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by manxman 3y ago
Just visited Japan for a couple of months. The big tech retailer there is "BIC Camera" which contrary to the name sells everything from Cameras to Macs/PCs to drones and pretty much all consumer electronics. 20 years ago it h
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by manxman 3y ago
You sure about that? Like really sure? Like you have definitive evidence that this assertion is true. Or are you placing faith in the news you read?
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by manxman 4y ago
I’ll post a link to an evidence bundle on HN soon. It will connect some dots linked to this.
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by manxman 4y ago
Bets on the cops involved being Freemasons?
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by manxman 4y ago
I'm not advocating for vanilla CSS and I agree BEM isn't really a solution. But CSS in JS, SCSS/SASS etc. take the things that work about CSS and add variables etc. to give you something that's useful in the modern world
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by manxman 4y ago
It depends on how your components get reused. In most organizations I’ve been in components are used in applications that share a brand identity/style. Even if there are different brands consistency matters for each brand’s look/f
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by manxman 4y ago
I agree it has a place for rapidly prototyping a design. But it pukes in the face of the “DRY” principle and wouldn’t keep it around in production. Use it to get the look right, take the styles and abstract to a sensible place in the design
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by manxman 4y ago
Yea I’ve used and I think it’s cool for prototyping quickly but the idea of coming back and making edits to it in production code a year from now terrifies the bejeezus out of me.
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by manxman 4y ago
I don’t think it’s about “documents” versus “components”. It’s about consistency and maintainability. Keep the local styling for the component local to its place in your repository - absolutely. Give it sensible defaults - for sure. But if
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by manxman 4y ago
Is it just me or has the underlying purpose and value of “cascading” in CSS been lost within these abstractions. The only real limitations with CSS imho was just lack of variable support for easily passing in variables to set color schemes

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