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by mikl 6y ago
> For decades, developers were able to create and distribute their software, whether free or for a fee, to anyone with a PC or laptop. But if you wanted to get paid, whether by going through a distributor or building your own payment- an
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by mikl 6y ago
Yep, it is very uncommon to see IDNs used in Denmark, even though æøå are very common in words. As you say, they’re usually transposed to avoid dealing with IDN pain. It’s bad enough in web browsers, if you try to use IDNs in e-mail, it’s a
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by mikl 6y ago
Hmm, I thought it was `p` for `parent`, though not sure where I got that idea.
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by mikl 6y ago
Wow, that is hideous. Well done, sir.
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by mikl 6y ago
Sure, but if you have any custom JavaScript that needs to load before the page can render, using a CDN for just the JS libraries does not really help. If you want the benefit of a CDN, you need to put your own code up there. And if you’re d
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by mikl 6y ago
Sure, but there’s different degrees, from a little inspiration to an outright copy. In this case, I think it’s far towards the copy-end. If you presented a case of OnePlus Buds to the average consumer as Apple AirPods, would they know the d
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by mikl 6y ago
The smart-phone form factor is largely determined by the rectangular screen, and for the cameras to be useful, they have to be on the back and/or front. The keyboards are very different in design between Google and Apple, and many phon
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by mikl 6y ago
To be fair, OnePlus Buds appear to be counterfeit AirPods in everything but the name. Same shape, same white plastic, same metal endcaps, same black dots, even the same case design. In other words, a straight-up rip-off of Apple’s design wi
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by mikl 6y ago
From my understanding, to adopt Smalltalk, I’d have to give up my editor, my SCM, my code review practises, my deployment strategies, my whole way of working. Learning a new language is already a big ask. If you then also require the would-
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by mikl 6y ago
… or “How to make your software unusable with questionable legalese”. Not a lawyer, but I can easily imagine how “An organization of people that seeks shared profit for all its members and does not exploit the labor of non-members” could be
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by mikl 6y ago
Hard to interpret this as anything but petty spite from Apple’s side. There’s no need to terminate their developer accounts for a violation of the App Store policy, nor does Apple usually do so. I don’t generally like Epic, and used to be
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by mikl 6y ago
Getting an application to the state where you can use feature flags for any new functionality is a massive and continuous effort. Any change in data structures or APIs become a huge pain. Whether this is worth it, depends a lot on the parti
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by mikl 6y ago
All that “bloat” enables us to do (much) more with less developer hours. The balance is the same as ever, developer time vs. compute power. As compute power gets ever cheaper, and developer time still costs the same, we put bigger burdens o
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by mikl 6y ago
I wonder what Quora’s staff spend their time on. The site is a simple Q&A app, and appears essentially unchanged the last many years and the content is all user generated. Not a huge productivity loss to go all-remote if you’re not prod
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by mikl 6y ago
Using x.y.z version numbers does not imply semver. I agree that semver as defined only really makes sense for libraries. When working on internal code, “breaking changes” are rarely a concern. We instead use it to mean <major overhaul&gt
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by mikl 6y ago
Yep, the author publicly shared a 14GiB file from his own S3 bucket. AWS would be completely justified in charging him for it. He can just thank his lucky stars that they decided to let it slide. As for Cloudflare, hosting multi-gigabyte fi
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by mikl 6y ago
An efficient spam cannon? What’s good about that?
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by mikl 6y ago
Such an interesting machine.
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by mikl 6y ago
1. HTML is read by parsers 99.9% of the time. Rare is the human who cares to “View Source” on a site. 2. If you have a decent editor, those quotes are inserted automatically, so no busywork required.
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by mikl 6y ago
Yep, I can imagine lots of dev-tools choking on the missing quotes. Plus if you have a good editor, you don’t generally need to type the quotes yourself. And +1 on the “stop using”. Ordering people around is not a good way to convince anyon
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by mikl 6y ago
Nope. I’d much rather keep my code uniform, than have to think about when to use quotes or not. And if other people following the specs bother you so much, maybe seek OCD treatment.
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by mikl 6y ago
By whom? Compared to what?
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by mikl 6y ago
Using software covered by a license like this is the legal equivalent of Russian roulette. Without precedence, nobody knows how “The Software may not be used in applications and services that are used for or aid in the exploration, extracti
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by mikl 6y ago
> While TypeScript is sometimes seen as an improved version of JavaScript, this case is showing that in fact, it’s not. It has flaws like any other language. This is not a language flaw. It is a tooling problem.
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by mikl 6y ago
A postulated paradox, usually cited by people desiring to suppress their political opposition. Problem is, suppression does not make people change their minds, it only makes them more radical.
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by mikl 6y ago
At least people are willing to pay for that stuff with their own money, instead of having it imposed on them.
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by mikl 6y ago
Yeah, never heard of this person before, but seeing what useless nonsense he managed to waste millions of dollars on, it is at least good that he won’t be wasting anymore art grants.
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by mikl 6y ago
> People say it's a grave The remains of the people that died on board are still there, so technically it is a grave. For land or air-based accidents, the remains are easily gathered together and buried. Ships that sink are a litt
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by mikl 6y ago
I think this really overstates the importance of domain names. Owning CameraBag.com isn’t going to do anything for you until you have a competitive product to sell and getting that lined up is what you should be focusing your talents on. Su
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by mikl 6y ago
I have my own e-mail addresses at rhabarberbarbarabarbarbarenbartbarbierbierbar.com that I use for fun and testing form validation. It is surprisingly rare that I find sites that break over it.

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