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by naiyt 9y ago
If people can be productive and efficient with VSCode or Atom then it's not the wrong tool at all.
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by naiyt 9y ago
> There's a serious lack of engineering accumen among the users of Electron I'm not a fan of Electron, but I don't see this correlation at all.
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by naiyt 9y ago
The distinction is absolutely significant. It's all about expectations. The originally promised "HL2:Episode 3" didn't need to be some huge revolutionary product, just a satisfying conclusion to HL2 and its episodes, whi
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by naiyt 9y ago
Yeah, I'm at the part where he's implementing lag compensation before even building a fun prototype for the game. Seems very backwards. (This problem may very well be addressed later in the post, still working my way through it. I
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by naiyt 9y ago
> All these kids want to do a bunch of busy work and for no good reason. It makes the feel productive. This is pretty patronizing. Not everybody who uses these tools are "kids who just want to do busy work". In fact, I'd a
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by naiyt 9y ago
Gotcha, I could see how that could be confusing. I typically just use multi cursors to find/replace when in a single file.
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by naiyt 9y ago
What is it that confuses you? There's a "Find" box, a "Replace" box, and then a "Replace" button.
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by naiyt 9y ago
In contrast, I worked in tech support and had no end of terrible experiences with customers.
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by naiyt 9y ago
Because Slack is a chat system and you typically just care about the most recent messages (which are always displayed). I find scrolling back in Slack to actually be very irritating, when I have to do it. It's slow and the view jumps
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by naiyt 10y ago
Hm, "simple changes" are almost never simple. To get it done, the following would likely need to happen: Project managers would need to write a proposal and use cases. UX/design would need to meet and make wireframes and mock
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by naiyt 10y ago
Yes, he's a skilled coder as well. He just seems to get overshadowed by Carmack.
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Ask HN: What is the state of self hosted file syncing services?
3 points by naiyt 10y ago|2 comments
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by naiyt 10y ago
True, I guess it's seemed cheap to me because I store relatively little data on Tarsnap. (In fact, I don't think I've added any funds to my Tarsnap account in like 2 years.) If you're dealing with larger quantities of da
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by naiyt 10y ago
Or you could just use Tarsnap, where you can trust the math and have private backups for cheap.
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by naiyt 10y ago
Have there been any studies done that link social media and a decreased attention span?
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by naiyt 10y ago
> Maybe I don't get what's better about React Native over a native app that is just a web view. It's better because React Native is actually rendering native components. Stuff like PhoneGap never feels or works quite right
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by naiyt 10y ago
React Native is getting there. It's still early software with a lot of problems but it has a lot of promise. My anecdotal experience as someone learning mobile development was that React Native was a lot easier to pick up and learn tha
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by naiyt 10y ago
Current dev of Mugenmonkey here - didn't expect to see the site posted here of all places. The site has been around since 2012, but I took over in 2014 and added the DS2, Bloodborne, and Dark Souls 3 planners. It's been popular am
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by naiyt 11y ago
> You cannot connect if you isolate yourself—or if you only connect online where many people present a non-authentic self. I agree that you shouldn't only connect with people online, but people can be just as non-authentic in real l
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Mruby makefiles in devops, a HOWTO(mavengineering.com)
3 points by naiyt 11y ago|2 comments
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by naiyt 11y ago
Yeah, it's very popular in the US. Or at least the "road less traveled by" part. People rarely recite the entire poem, but I've heard phrases from it hundreds of times. I've heard it so many times that it really jus
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by naiyt 12y ago
I remember reading some advice like this around the time I started programming. It was something along the lines of "every dev has XXXXX lines of bad code in them, so write a lot of code to get them done with!". (I think it was fr
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by naiyt 12y ago
For the last couple years I've consciously tried to remove "so" from writing as much as I can. It rarely seems to add anything to what I'm trying to say. Avoiding it in speech, though, has been a bit more difficult.
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by naiyt 12y ago
Have you tried Seafile? It supports client side encryption.
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by naiyt 12y ago
No, I think it was just to emphasize how much Reddit is growing. HN is targeted at a specific audience and is more like a subreddit for a particular topic. It wouldn't make sense to compare them directly.
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by naiyt 12y ago
Isn't the biggest hurdle for replacing JavaScript how ubiquitous it is? Getting all browsers to support a runtime for a different language would be a huge (and controversial) industry wide endeavor...I don't see how a KickStarter
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by naiyt 12y ago
Yeah, I'd also be interested in some resources on outbound filtering your network.
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by naiyt 12y ago
> haven't we always known that twitter is just an anechoic chamber to stick narcissists in? That's an incredibly broad generalization of ~300 million users.
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by naiyt 12y ago
Exactly what I came here to say. Syncing services can be great, but should not be a replacement for proper backups.
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by naiyt 12y ago
Cool, much appreciated!

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