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by mattbee 6y ago
There's no need but if someone straight-up registers your name before you do, you will have an expensive fight compared to the cost of registration. Happened to my last company, the new company didn't want to budge and it must h
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by mattbee 6y ago
I am _happier_ to chip into HN while it shows so little reverence for its senescent founder. It's one of the reasons HN stays relevant & influential (the other 95% is @dang).
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by mattbee 6y ago
Have children! They are great at enforcing "off" time.
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by mattbee 6y ago
Which is, of course, to immanentize the eschaton.
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by mattbee 6y ago
Well said. pg might be interesting again if he said what "unsayable" and "aggressively independent-minded" things he actually wants to say, and I wish he bloody would - we've got no choice but to read it. "inde
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by mattbee 6y ago
Oh that was Hugo Fiennes' company! He wrote the definitive BBS software for Acorns, then designed the Empeg Linux MP3 player for cars (in like 99), and the iPhone 1 hardware. applause
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by mattbee 6y ago
I'm a UK-based host & was mortified to hear they were going to ask guests for tips by default. I rushed to disable the checkbox before any guests got asked. Absolutely 100% what were they smoking.
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by mattbee 6y ago
Whoa. I much prefer finding my way around any "badly designed" UI that can respond in 20-100ms a "well designed" UI that responds in 500-5000ms. Most web software providers don't (can't!) deal with server laten
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by mattbee 6y ago
There's a new edition of the O'Reilly doorstop "Javascript: The Definitive Guide". I've learned a lot from it and started to use modules, promises and dropped all my horrible old 90s habits. It reads really well, e
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by mattbee 6y ago
The OS design was barely there, which made it easy to understand and hack. But the GUI had a lot to recommend it. e.g. both Windows and Mac OS came to the same "icon bar" design that RISC OS had in 1990. It had "magic&quo
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by mattbee 6y ago
Seconded! After years of ignoring Javascript, I'm relieved at how this book brings it all together - explains the whole language, modules, and puts the ugly/avoidable bits of language history in context. I agree it's only a
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by mattbee 6y ago
Memory protection in the old days: There are three memory mapped input/output areas and these are named FRED, JIM and SHEILA. SHEILA contains all the machine's internal memory mapped devices, such as the analogue to digital conve
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by mattbee 6y ago
Gandi have used the exact same slogan for years. It's a good slogan! (for a startup anyway)
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by mattbee 6y ago
I disagree, the detailed headline helped me to predict the story correctly. Her use of Facebook as a grandmother was very typical and the disagreement one I'd heard before. It'd be irrelevant if she was posting data she'd got
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by mattbee 6y ago
I'd think people are offended to know someone - even on a message board - who is happy to speak so publicly and callously about their intimate partners. It makes this place seem glum and regressive. It's the opposite path to ach
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by mattbee 6y ago
Yes! I always thought it was a weird joke that they give away the feature that makes you organise & focus your meetings, but charge for the one that lets people ramble on forever.
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by mattbee 6y ago
Give the lockdown a few more weeks, his hair is getting there ;)
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by mattbee 6y ago
If you ask my 7yo: Skip Tutorial. Become Super Saiyan.
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by mattbee 6y ago
Sure we can go out own ways! But I was challenging the Apple "not taking gaming seriously" accusation. Mobile gaming is gaming now, if you count where gamers spend their money. Apple sell the easiest, most powerful mobile platfo
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by mattbee 6y ago
Do you not suspect that the marketplace for "shallow" games is a lot bigger and more valuable than whatever section of the market you think they're missing?
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by mattbee 6y ago
Sooo this post is flagged, but patio11's conspiratorial epic gets a long day of front page discussion. I'd prefer hn flagged any amateur covid19 policy discussion, it's just a bit embarrassing.
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by mattbee 7y ago
My understanding was that there were some hard-to-impossible problems to solve to really accelerate the filesystem access from the Linux side under WSL1. That meant that people doing disk-intensive workloads on the Linux side noticed a big
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by mattbee 7y ago
This emulator enables a masochistic nostalgia meta-game - pick a grimy EGA port of a popular 1980s Amiga title. Pick an hateful, underpowered & obscure hardware combo that is the box claims to support. The game is just to work out the
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by mattbee 7y ago
Microsoft Defender. It gradually went from an invisible safety check to a massive tax on battery, I/O and productivity. I disabled it recently after it got into an incomprehensible endless CPU loop. It's suddenly like having a new
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by mattbee 7y ago
You would probably enjoy the Blue Remembered Earth sci-fi trilogy by Alistair Reynolds. It has quite a lot of enhanced-elephant drama. (I had a time Googling the real title because in my head it was just called "Elephants In Spaaaaaaac
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by mattbee 7y ago
Thanks, I didn't know at all. I can see you didn't want to talk about this, esp with the tedious conspiracists. But I'm glad you did, and appreciate your work in keeping HN interesting & fair. It surprised me because 1)
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by mattbee 7y ago
What alterations could HN make to the front page weighting algorithm that tries to spot and penalise voting rings? e.g. if you're someone who routinely upvotes posts within minutes, maybe your vote could count for less than an account
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by mattbee 7y ago
It was the first bailout they announced - rates (property tax for business) are free for 20/21, and then a £10,000 grant for the smallest of rate payers, rising for businesses with larger premises. That covers loads of smaller short le
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by mattbee 7y ago
I read my wife the headline and we both thought of the same thing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co_DNpTMKXk - which this article skips over completely. Disappointing.
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by mattbee 7y ago
Yes! That's what I thought too, and I was disappointed :)

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