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by nathcd 6y ago
I somewhat agree with your point, but I think it's pretty important that they said "It does absolutely nothing for me" - calling this as a '"doesn't work" criticism' is dishonest.
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by nathcd 6y ago
Ah, this is great. I haven't done a ton of interaction fiction (mainly just this and a couple from itch.io) but each time I find it a lot more enjoyable than I would've imagined. <side track> I'm usually of the persuasi
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by nathcd 6y ago
> HN can be an echo chamber of JavaScript is the devil, websites should only serve html. It's a reaction to the reality of the web, which is that Javascript is commonly used when it's entirely unnecessary, much more of it is
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by nathcd 6y ago
I switched text editors and window managers! kakoune to textadept (which has been great) and i3 to awesome (which I'm still getting the hang of). I'm thinking about switching from chromium to luakit, too.
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by nathcd 6y ago
> which makes the code hard to read and edit IMO. Languages like Haskell and OCaml suffer from a similar problem too. That's interesting, I've always really loved the "return last expression in a block" syntax. (Ruby
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by nathcd 6y ago
> stuff I'd like to see [...] Pattern matching support It looks like it does have a match macro, and it does destructuring and _: https://janet-lang.org/api/index.html#match
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by nathcd 6y ago
https://protonmail.com/about indicates they're funded to some extent by Charles River Ventures ( https://www.crv.com/ ). They were initially crowdfunded, and also get funding from a Swiss nonprofit found
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by nathcd 6y ago
Anybody else having trouble deleting their account? When I go to /account/delete_me, I get redirected to /?next=%2Faccount%2Fdelete_me, which is just the home page. Also, I get the logged out navigation bar even after logging
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by nathcd 6y ago
Mergers and acquisitions make me so sad :/ I need to stop letting myself get excited about VC funded companies, because it always ends in disappointment. I really should know better by now!
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by nathcd 6y ago
keys.pub: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22995792 https://keys.pub/
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by nathcd 6y ago
> What's the benefit of Syncthing? Not needing a service/server is probably the main benefit, compared to stuff like Dropbox or Nextcloud.
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ble.sh: Bash Line Editor(github.com)
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by nathcd 7y ago
A summary of the reason for their change is here: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Historic/We_Are_... Also worth noting is that OSM was on CC-BY-SA version 2 prior to the change. If I'm remem
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In Blackbeard Pirate Ship Case, Supreme Court Scuttles Copyright Claims(text.npr.org)
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by nathcd 7y ago
Oh, I love this. That UI is wonderful! I really just love text menu UIs in general. They're just so lightweight, fast, easy to understand, ugh. It's like the best parts of GUIs and CLIs. I also love how his password is clearly eit
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by nathcd 7y ago
I mean, what would normally happen is employees look for new jobs, equipment is sold, and tech is thrown away (or open sourced in rare cases). Doesn't this already happen all the time?
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by nathcd 7y ago
<tangent> Sometimes I wonder what the business world (and the internet) would be like if mergers and acquisitions weren't allowed. Like, if businesses had to be sustainable or they'd just die, rather than capturing a whole m
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IBM WorkPad 20X: The 1998 Palm PDA Experience [video](youtube.com)
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by nathcd 7y ago
> There's nothing 'punk' about it. To state the obvious, others disagree. Here's how the "manifesto" page linked from the OP [1] puts it: > The “punk” in Solarpunk is about rebellion, counterculture, post
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by nathcd 7y ago
> Due to our stability policy, `description` will never be removed .. Can this sort of removal not happen as part of an edition? Is it because it's part of std, rather than core, or something like that? It's a bummer, but the c
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by nathcd 7y ago
Side note: I really enjoy browsing wikipedia's portals. The sections on them (like on the Main Page) like 'Did you know...', 'Selected article', 'Selected quote', 'On this day...' are really nice
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by nathcd 7y ago
What do you think about Zulip's format?
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OCaml: compilation of pattern matching(github.com)
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by nathcd 7y ago
That's interesting. The opposite is true for me, but I can see (in the specific circumstance of C vs C++, at least) how you would see it that way. For me to find C++ easier (or equally easy) to read or write than C, it has to be a very
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by nathcd 7y ago
If that were the case, would you also say that surely c++ code is simple and easy to hold in one's head, since c++ itself is comparatively large and complex?
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by nathcd 7y ago
I can (obviously) only speak for myself, but the reason I use and like lua isn't because I particularly love lua-the-language; it's because lua's syntax/semantics/implementations are tiny. I can easily hold it in my
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by nathcd 7y ago
Dupe of "Take action to save .org" with some discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21677533
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by nathcd 7y ago
Alright now everybody, please, resist the urge to post the shitty copycat sites that are always posted after motherfuckingwebsite.com. You can do it!
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by nathcd 7y ago
The extent to which visiting amazon.com is like walking into a shop is the extent to which Amazon puts up a facade to make it feel like that. That we're exchanging messages is not just what's happening behind the scenes, it's
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by nathcd 7y ago
Cool, likewise! I appreciate the conversation.

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