midenginedcoupe

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by midenginedcoupe 3y ago
I resorted to a UserScript to fix the worst of the site's UI problems. https://github.com/mgladdish/website-customisations/tree/mai... I'm particularly pleased with the changes to how comments are r
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by midenginedcoupe 3y ago
Why on earth are most of these transposed? The written parts are a semitone out!? The first video is played at the same pitch as what's written, but the next two are a semitone out and Hey Jude is a whole tone away. Bizarre.
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
Reminds me of Lings Cars: https://www.lingscars.com/ Not a niche or hobbyist website, but a genuine car leasing company. Who's owner deliberately styled the site like this to act as a differentiator in a crowded market
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
I'd fold the function in to the team and spread the load. You have 7 people, so if you took a week each you'd have a schedule of 6 weeks of "regular" work and 1 week of support. And allocate some time to reducing that le
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
Well, nothing could possibly go wrong, eh? If your homepage is toadying up to Musk by claiming he has "limitless intellect" then I've already heard enough. We have a duty to consider how what we build can be used to harm othe
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
That looks nice. The one thing I don't get though is who leaves their documentation artifacts to a SaaS? You're a pricing change / company collapse / systems outage / unacceptable ts&cs change away from losing y
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
Sure. The network effect explains why it's the defacto standard now, but not necessarily how it got there. And, ironically, I use git for all my projects for exactly the same reasons. Pijul looks interesting though.
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
Isn't that just a reflection of its current status as the defacto standard, rather than an explanation for how it got there? I've been in two teams that spent time to evaluate revision control systems on their own merits and Mercu
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
Or we could get off the cargo-cult need to use git on every single project everywhere regardless of how suitable it is for that team's needs. If your tool of choice is so actively user-hostile that it needs another tool on top to under
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
I decided to run my startup's blog on Medium for two primary reasons: 1) Having someone else already put in the work to get a clean, readable design is a big win 2) The chief reason for blogging is to make people aware of the company.
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
Probably, yes. I don't remember which client I tried, but that's showing as a previously installed app that's no longer on my phone.
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
None of the docs I found said that. And we could get on to the network and join pubs. Only there was nothing in there. We should also have been able to invite each other and follow each other's posts, as we were both using devices on t
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
Seconded. The onboarding is so terrible we just gave up after failing in every possible direction. Nothing worked. It's such a shame as I really like the underlying ideas. But the implementation is hopeless and the way it's presen
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
This is offensive wibble. "The government" absolutely does care about protecting children, evidenced by the hard work done by children's services teams up and down the country. The government is only faceless if you don'
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
>The bill will force companies to remove any content promoting self-harm, depicting sexual violence or facilitating suicide. >The amendment [...] would allow Ofcom to prosecute individual executives if they were proved to have connive
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
I used to interview like this, until I hired the wrong person. They talked elequently about how to program, but just weren't very good at digging in to technical details of an existing codebase and understanding what was actually going
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
My 2p is understand what your target customers need from their suppliers in this area. Are they going to require ISO27001 certification before they even consider your product? Are you going to have to demonstrate robust business continuity
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
Yes they are absolutely still a thing. Albeit the amount of work available has been in decline for decades and it's now a fraction of what it used to be, but there's still enough work to keep a core of the very best working almost
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
Product pitch - an app that appends "now wash your hands" to the end of every article linked from HN. Subscribe by spending a penny whilst you, er, spend a penny.
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
Thanks. I've fixed the pointer issue. And yeah, HN's html and css is shocking .
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
It does set max-width of .comment and .toptext to 40em. Which means items on the page can nest across the screen, but each one will be no wider than that. I took my cue from https://design-system.service.gov.uk/ where the m
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
Uploaded. https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/456820-hacker-news I'll give Violentmonkey a go and make sure my script works in both.
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
I think so. Although I'm still new to TamperMonkey and figuring out its quirks. Whilst I've been putting this together I've asked Tampermonkey to check for updates and it's pulled in the newest version from my repo. So y
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
Ah, good idea. I'll take a look. Thanks.
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
Ah, I'll take a look at those. Thanks.
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Show HN: I built a Hacker News userscript to make this site more legible(github.com)
102 points by midenginedcoupe 4y ago|51 comments
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
I had this too. Google decided to block my company's domain for no good reason. I also couldn't reach anyone in Google to sort it out - I eventually had a response that "it's an automated system, there is noone who looks
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
I think we have very different understandings of the word "simple".
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
The way I've framed it is the cost of making the decision should be in proportion to that decision turning out to be wrong. It's extremely rare for decisions to be as binary as one-way or two-way, but there's always a point o
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
There's no such thing. And anyone who thinks there is shouldn't be trusted with making technology choices.

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