midenginedcoupe

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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
Wow, this is terrible. Why would you release this in this state? Edit: Wait, the Streams have had human involvement!? >streams are ”harvested” by human operators: after choosing some initial settings, the operator lets the engine run and
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
Please don't ignore accessibility. Docs that aren't accessible are a big no-no and a dealbreaker for my company. I've had a quick look at your own userguide and the results aren't good. https://www.accessibili
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
If you're pitching a managed platform for documentation, then the documentation for the product itself has to look and behave brilliantly. It's the showcase for your product. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to do that. The we
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
Putting aside the wild idea about your holiday home being more important than victims of war, that sounds like a steal. It would take ~175 years for your premiums to add up to $350k, so the insurance co is betting that your house is only li
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
Sounds a bit like https://kiva.org
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
Ah, yes, I think you're right. It was Flossbank. Thanks! No, I'm not sure an LLC would prevent me from using it, but I'd probably choose to go with a competing org given the choice. Siphoning off profit over and above operati
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
I was sure there was a similar service that folded recently-ish? I can't for the life of me remember its name :( My only hesitancy is how your company is structured. A charity/b-corp or similar would seem to align more with your d
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
Others have mentioned a lot of the problems already, so yeah, those. Perhaps the two most glaring are: 1) Auto-play previews. I'm browsing the unintelligble and randomly sorted lists of cover art trying to find something that looks int
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
They all are. Netflix's UX is garbage, as is Amazon Prime. And Now TV manages to be even worse than all of the rest put together. I'm convinced that nobody in any of these companies actually uses their own products.
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
This is like shitting in the swimming pool and asking search engines to just navigate around the floaters :( But hey, potential future returns for me are better than making everyone else's experience on the internet worse, right?
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
Strongly agree. Anyone who's worked in private orgs of comparable sizes can attest to their horrendous inefficiencies and waste. The idea that somehow the private sector is inherently more productive or efficient is simply not bourne o
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Even if playing with a fixed-pitch instrument, it only really sounds out of tune if they're playing the same notes. Which in the styles I play isn't an issue. So I guess how often this happens in pract
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
Are two competing programming languages Turing-complete? Can end-users of the program tell which one was used? Do we need more than the two questions above? If programmers thought like this HN would be empty!
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
Correct answer: they are. Not on a piano, but for all the other instruments with variable pitch (e.g. fretless strings, voice, trombones) they are. The enharmonic is useful information and we'll know whether to place that note just a l
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
Jazz musician and programmer here. I wish people held off postulating about improvisation until they understood the first thing about it. First off, modal jazz wasn't invented by Miles on the Kind of Blue sessions. He'd even used
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
Martin Odersky's hiring: https://contributors.scala-lang.org/t/looking-for-compiler-e...
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
Not really. Local gov doesn't have anything like the budget of central so they don't typically have the choice to build their own. Instead they're left with cobbling together behaviours from tens, maybe even hundreds, of disp
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
PS. Archer St's history is fascinating, too. I've heard so many stories from the old jazzers about what this was like: https://www.muhistory.com/from-the-archive-4-archer-street-l...
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
Well this is objectively awful, becuase of course it is. But let's not pretend _this_ is the end of Denmark St. It has been dead and irrelevant for decades.
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
I'm getting strong Temple OS vibes from this. Has anyone checked in on the creator of this site to see if they're OK?
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
https://celody.com/lifeTokens.html Check out the "editing people" section. Or > Because digital people have data which can be changed using tokens, they are capable of being unique entities. So you can interact
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
Ha! Thanks, I needed a laugh this morning. But seriously though, since when did Laissez-faire economics and legislation ever lead to sufficient safety not to kill people or burn down their homes willy-nilly? HN is the only place I visit tha
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
I presume this is a hobby / solo effort? Unfortunately there are grammar errors throughout this page. E.g. the heading "Your communities place to connect" should be "Your community's place to connect". In fact,
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
So hard that literally every jigsaw maker on the planet do exactly this. https://www.vistaprint.co.uk/photo-gifts/custom-jigsaw-puzzl... https://www.ravensburger.us/photo-puzzles/index.html
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
No independent pen test, no independent security audit or certification, no security standards certification. No thanks.
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
> We may revise our Terms, Conditions & Policies at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are legally binding on you. My first thought on
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
I second Scala. And the learning curve can be as gentle as you like, especially given you can leverage all the libs you've been using in Java land, too.
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
Are you Nadine Dorries in disguise? That toxic wart is precisely _becuase_ of Boris. We crashed out with no deal - how is that a good negotiation? And then the subsequent agreement he did manage to get he's now unilaterally pulling out
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
Nice. Looks very similar to https://unicode-org.github.io/icu/ One extension I had to do though was extend Java's Properties files to preserve order and allow duplicate keys. Then they can be used to populate drop
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by midenginedcoupe 4y ago
This is super-useful. Especially given I built and run a forms SaaS targetted at central gov in the UK. It's interesting how so many form products discount themselves from this space by either requiring javascript or not being able to

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