mchahn

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by mchahn 11y ago
> I thought I'd try Nuclide, which basically made Atom unusable that last time I tested it. I found the same. I just tried nuclide again, which I do once a month or so, and it basically rendered Atom useless. > I have some fait
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by mchahn 11y ago
> It's still unbelievably slow When was the last time you tried it? It is plenty fast for me now. Original load times were 7 to 10 secs and are now under 2 secs for me, with a zillion packages to load.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> but that's because it was novel (her sex provided that) I'm hoping I misunderstood this. If not it is one of the more sexist things I've seen on HN.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> might be handy to have a scale in my pocket sometimes. I would kill for that. I diet in a geeky way, weighing everything. I have often thought that some kind of foldable scale that fit in my shirt pocket would be nice.
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by mchahn 11y ago
That depends. The Oxford English Dictionary would agree with you. They are an "authoritative" dictionary that tells the reader what is right and what isn't. However, Webster's wouldn't. They document the common u
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by mchahn 11y ago
> My biggest complaint of using ChromeOS on a pixel 2 is that there are no good text editors on the level of Sublime Text (which works on linux). Atom works great in Crouton on my pixel 2. I've switched to that as my full-time dev
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by mchahn 11y ago
Almost all skin colors, e.g. black and white, have the same chroma. Only the brightness changes. I have worked on video projects that took advantage of this to have skin-color auto-adjustment.
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by mchahn 11y ago
I was at at a conference recently (codeconf for github Atom) and I noticed there were a number of women (30%?). I commented to a women next to me that it was happy that there was such a good turnout of women. (I have been to many conferenc
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by mchahn 11y ago
Stethoscopes did not improving listening. It has been easier to hear by placing your ear directly on the body. Stethoscopes were only invented because of modesty. (Edit: and because of convenience for the doctor). Of course new listening d
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by mchahn 11y ago
> “We’re not talking about a few kilobytes of data here, we’re talking about thousands of times that amount,” So we are talking about a few megabytes of data. This story told me very little about the industrial network. I'm not ev
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Show HN: Standard ES6 JavaScript with coffeescript-like syntax(github.com)
1 points by mchahn 11y ago|0 comments
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by mchahn 11y ago
Hai means neither true, yes, or no. It only means "I have heard you". This trips up many westerners.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> It's a DOM based editor According to google, javascript will soon be able to go around the DOM for situations like this. An example was shown at codeconf recently.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> And I suspect that GitHub Atom is running in a web-browser so they can effortlessly offer it online in the future. A note about atom ... It does not run in a web browser and it would be damn hard to port it to the web since it runs on
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by mchahn 12y ago
Last night I fired up a brand new HP stream desktop with windows 8.1 (only $179!). It had a Superfish icon on the desktop. When I get home I'll check for the cert. So maybe Lenovo isn't the only offender. Edit: Duh. It was snap
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by mchahn 12y ago
> Everything in moderation Including moderation.
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by mchahn 12y ago
> It makes sense to have each number to be a page. How else would you design it? I don't see how it makes any sense to waste an entire page for each number. A simple scrolling list, maybe with numbers that can expand to show more i
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by mchahn 12y ago
Imagine a balloon being blown up. Two points close to each other move apart much slower than points further apart.
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Ask HN: Whatever happened to the 3-strike ISP piracy scheme?
4 points by mchahn 12y ago|1 comments
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by mchahn 12y ago
I am retired so I know exactly what I'm doing. I'm devoting myself to the Atom editor for the foreseeable future. it is a hacker's dream.
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Rant: Why no commas?
1 points by mchahn 12y ago|2 comments
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Show HN: How to market promises
1 points by mchahn 12y ago|1 comments
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by mchahn 13y ago
I don't know what a pure continuation is so I'll have to do a bit of studying to find out what I have. I'll let you know when I have an answer. You've really gotten my curiosity up now. I don't know how long discussions work on old HN ite
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by mchahn 13y ago
I have created a new stack language for node and the browser called FJS. It is a stack language like FORTH but it uses javascript variables and functions. It is totally interoperable with Javascript. It can use any JS module and can create
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Show HN: A new language that merges FORTH and Javascript(github.com)
10 points by mchahn 13y ago|4 comments
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by mchahn 14y ago
But Soylent Green wasn't people. That was a hollywood fantasy to sell more tickets. It was actually an artificial meat product engineered to taste like people. The book was awesome, the movie sucked. I remember in the movie that a front
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by mchahn 14y ago
I don't care what it costs or whether it saves money or not. I just want to be able to walk into a medical office and not fill out all the damn forms over and over again.
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by mchahn 14y ago
If I read this correctly, then googles 8.8.8.8 dns service is an "open resolver". Are they used for dns reflection attacks?
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by mchahn 14y ago
I use `var x;` which transpiles exactly to var x; so there is no overhead. The backtick in CS lets JS pass through.
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by mchahn 14y ago
> It doesn't help that the shortest way of declaring a function in Javascript is function(){...}; -> is much shorter.

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