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by michaelpb 5y ago
I've been using PenPot[1] in lieu of Figma all this year, which is an free/libre Figma-clone. For my particular usage it's been great, I prefer it to the others I've tried recently. However, it's still in heavy deve
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by michaelpb 5y ago
Yeah, though unfortunately some companies are big enough now to change the laws they violate [1] [1] https://abc7.com/22-california-prop-2020-ca-what-is/7585005/
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by michaelpb 5y ago
Yeah, I think people have a very binary view of "criminal enterprises" vs "corporations", like they can only be people who dress in pin-stripe suits and carry tommy guns and say "lookee here, see" a lot, but a
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by michaelpb 5y ago
Right all these comments are just baffling me. This is premature optimization on steroids. For a random analogy, I really hope these people aren't in meetings arguing about how to design a DB schema to last for 50000000 years, when the
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by michaelpb 5y ago
I think you answered yourself with your choice of West Wing quotes: > And we crossed the ocean, and we pioneered the West You really, REALLY aren't selling this the way you think you are by calling it the natural continuation to Eur
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by michaelpb 5y ago
Huh, cool history, but I was mostly just poking fun at the idea of calling the Everglades "just a swamp" which is a great way to upset Everglades-enthusiasts hahah
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by michaelpb 5y ago
When Boss says "my idea is gonna be HUGE, so make this go fast", you can either spend 4 hours optimize some DB queries, or you can spend 40+ hours in a broadly scoped "conversion" project and have a new thing to add to y
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by michaelpb 5y ago
> No one [...] is using Kubernetes to run a simple LAMP stack. Au contraire! This is very common. Probably some combo of resume-driven devops and "new shiny" excitement.
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by michaelpb 5y ago
> It turned Florida from a useless swamp into Miami. ...I love poking at fun at the state of Florida as much as the next guy, but come on, "a useless swamp"? You really are asking for downvotes with that one lmao https:/&
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by michaelpb 5y ago
I brought up copyright as just one example, these platforms have many reasons (not always given) for deleting stuff, ranging from political content or activism to copyright. Most ToS's are quite arbitrary. People have been talking abou
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by michaelpb 5y ago
Huh, I never have tried this, but I'm pretty sure sharing hollywood films on drive has always violated their Terms of Service, although I could see them not being great at enforcement all the time. If Drive was that permissive, then up
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Using Tauri (instead of Electron) to build a desktop app with TypeScript and Elm(kickstartcoding.com)
44 points by michaelpb 5y ago|5 comments
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by michaelpb 5y ago
> How would my being mildly politically active on HN contradict my belief that it is rational for me to encourage the distribution of legal speech, without regard for agreement with the content? [...] I just don’t see what that has to do
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by michaelpb 5y ago
I'm not trying to equivocate here (or be combative, I hope this is an interesting discussion for both of us!). I'm being serious: I consider downvoting to be "opposing distribution" of a statement by definition, since it
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by michaelpb 5y ago
The thing is you are "promoting distribution of what you think is right" literally right now. Like, with this very comment right here, you are being politically active! So, assuming you are acting rationally, you are right now p
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by michaelpb 5y ago
> Between 2010-2016 was the golden age for these companies actually being free and open. Were they really though? I'm pretty sure there were plenty of things, especially things deemed to be "Intellectual Property violating&quot
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by michaelpb 5y ago
That is rational, yes. I think pretty much everyone thinks this way, with differing definitions of both "promote" and "oppose", and "wrong" and "right". Though I may be misunderstanding what you are g
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by michaelpb 5y ago
The biggest mistake of the ML field is its metaphorical naming. So many people seem to be taking Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Neural Networks etc literally. They don't do this for other concepts in coding (eg for an absur
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by michaelpb 5y ago
My point is that I'm not sure even how I would "address" these issues that you are insisting Linux Desktop evangelist "stop excusing". That is, 1) I'm not getting paid to work on Linux DEs or have the time (rig
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by michaelpb 5y ago
True, but if the goal is to no longer languish in a distant 3rd place, then the power-user features that we find lacking on Lin/Win are a red-herring, since we constitute a tiny fraction of computer users. From my experience, I don&#x2
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by michaelpb 5y ago
I believe you, but you also have to understand this is largely a preference thing. Which is okay: It's all just whatever gets the job done in the end! I'd say I have the opposite experience: I've had to use the Windows Deskto
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by michaelpb 5y ago
> Do I understand you correctly? Nope, the original question was if we should "abolish the idea", not the thing itself. I'm saying that the idea is a myth in the same way that "unbiased news" is a myth. Both soun
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by michaelpb 5y ago
> Should we just abolish the idea of a free market of ideas? Yes, please! This has never existed in the past, and continues to not exist in the present, and seems to me logically impossible to ever exist in the future. Just like many wou
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by michaelpb 5y ago
Not OP, but I like it! The piano roll interface is it's biggest weakness, but everything else is great IMO. My favorite feature is the mixer panel and effects stack interface. The mixer panel is a happy medium between powerful ("I
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by michaelpb 5y ago
Sure, perhaps they won't use it for training, but the fear is they would use it for corporate espionage, market research, etc. Compared to training, this would be both more useful and much easier to keep deniable / under wraps. I&
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by michaelpb 5y ago
If avoiding copyright violations was simply "I remembered it", then I don't think things like clean-room reverse engineering would be ever legally necessary [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_roo
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by michaelpb 5y ago
Hey all, a coworker made a very cool desktop app to "gamify" (is that still a thing?) strengthening our students' debugging skills, which I had the fun of helping to test. - It is intended for anyone learning to code for the
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Show HN: DebugTrainer – Interactively learn how to find errors in any code base(kickstartcoding.com)
3 points by michaelpb 5y ago|1 comments
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by michaelpb 5y ago
I dunno, I think I disagree. I have much higher expectations of software. I have these expectations simply because most of what we do these days we could do decades ago, and using orders of magnitude fewer CPU cycles than the "state of
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by michaelpb 5y ago
As a history buff, my understanding is there were no "White" or "Black" people then, since these races hadn't been invented yet. Black British actors would have been fine as well, since neither race existed. Creatio

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