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by neilpanchal 4y ago
> Please don't design your own eye-melting garbage, for my sake. I think there is still so much room to experiment with Grotesk typefaces. Perhaps the frustration is caused by everygoing going Druk in Magazine design and custom Corp
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by neilpanchal 4y ago
I designed a typeface and while small, the impact of bringing joy and productivity to people is greatly satisfying: https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berkeley-mono/
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by neilpanchal 4y ago
Something that converts abstract glyphs to bezier curves and projects that to your eyes deserves attention and care. Typefaces bring the abstract idea of what a glyph is semiologically, to the physical 2D space. Made up of bezier curves, th
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by neilpanchal 4y ago
Feedback noted, I don't think the new JetBrains UI is out for testing. I need to find time to write an extremely detailed post mortem of a user interface gone wrong. I did one for Apple a while ago although not as detailed as I'd
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by neilpanchal 4y ago
I think these are reasons why UI has regressed continually in last 10-15 years. No one speaks up. Usually casted as “UI always changes, get used to it. Grumpy people will complain for any change. See Gmail.” I can understand why Apple chang
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by neilpanchal 4y ago
The central point of the article missed right over you. The critique is about the culture that surrounds: changes in UI for no real reason other than subjectivist opinions, design trends, fashion or what-others-are-doing, unoriginality, hom
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by neilpanchal 4y ago
I use dozens of keyboard shortcuts in PyCharm. Most editing takes place without reaching for the mouse (vim plugin). GUI is still an integral part of Jetbrains IDEs regardless of how good you're with shortcuts. There are 10,000 things
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by neilpanchal 4y ago
Me too, I don't think I can function without JetBrain products as an engineer. It is ridiculously powerful. PyCharm + Database tab + Debugger + Little calculator icon for impromptu interpreter + long tail of features that totally make
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by neilpanchal 4y ago
We need to apply Chesterton's fence [1] in situations like this. [1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chesterton%27s_fence
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Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI(neil.computer)
469 points by neilpanchal 4y ago|401 comments
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by neilpanchal 4y ago
I interned at the GE Wind division in Greenville, South Carolina. It's under GE Energy, and it was a complete and utter disaster. This was around 2005 and the entire GE Wind division was recently acquired from the Enron meltdown. Part
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by neilpanchal 4y ago
Yea we used Cognex cameras to read millions of chips, trays, heat sinks, carriers, wafers, etc. Datamatrix is industrial grade. Cognex also has proprietary decoding algorithms which would detect the faintest and half damaged codes.
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by neilpanchal 4y ago
For those who are curious, these are 2DID Datamatrix codes, also used in the semiconductor industry extensively to mark wafers and chips. If you pick up an Intel CPU, its going to have a couple of tiny datamatrix codes: https://e
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by neilpanchal 4y ago
A friend of mine suggested this and I didn't like the idea of putting the OS on there especially that it is a virtual machine. There are a couple of things that made this setup nice though: PCIe bifurcation (4x4x4x4) lanes straight to
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by neilpanchal 4y ago
Right, what was not clear to me was that raid configuration and snapshots are also part of the file system. Usually, that's done through hardware cards or software raid where the configuration sits not on the file system (?) (Intel VRO
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by neilpanchal 4y ago
Yea, TrueNAS comes with a jails manager which has nothing to do with NAS. It's incredibly feature rich: https://static.ixsystems.co/uploads/2020/04/image-4.png Plus the setup now gets intricately coupled
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by neilpanchal 4y ago
Hnggg.... this thing looks cool. A handful of .rs files in the /src folder. Sold.
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by neilpanchal 4y ago
I use zfs-auto-snapshot for snapshots, it works great. I think the only thing I would want is early warning for a disk failure. I'll probably automate that. TrueNAS feels extremely heavy with too many features I don't need. There
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by neilpanchal 4y ago
I build a zfs based NAS last year[1], after 10 months of usage, I have nothing but positive things to say. One thing I didn't understand conceptually at first is that ZFS is standalone and not dependent on the host OS. This was not cle
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by neilpanchal 4y ago
The War by Ken Burns, a WWII documentary. My favorite documentary of all time. It is so exceptionally made. https://imdb.com/title/tt0996994/
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LaritOS(github.com)
4 points by neilpanchal 4y ago|0 comments
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by neilpanchal 4y ago
+1. Also, I like your username.
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by neilpanchal 4y ago
Essential Scalia: https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Scalia-Constitution-Courts-... On the last few chapters about private property. Justice Scalia's jurisprudence and his views on what the role of SCOTUS ought to be is
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by neilpanchal 4y ago
Technically, the nozzle provides thrust in the hot gas path. Point taken though. In jet engines, you're correct, most of the power is robbed by the turbine. :-)
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by neilpanchal 4y ago
> In a turbofan, the turbine mostly rotates the various stages and creates very little thrust. That undersells the turbine. Turbine powers not only the various compressor stages, but also the turbofan itself. All power comes from the tur
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by neilpanchal 4y ago
I bitch about stuff that resonates with most HN'ers and the comments here release pent up frustrations in engineering/design. Both the writing part and the reaction on HN is a fun activity. My favorite aspect is getting emails fro
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by neilpanchal 4y ago
Monodraw is awesome, best $10 I've ever spent: https://berkeleygraphics.com/static/images/marketing/box-dra... Also its fun to use wrong tools for the right job, like using an overkill $8k/seat lice
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by neilpanchal 4y ago
Similarly, I wish I could design typefaces for a living, but it is simply not realistic. It would be a dream to do it full time; ecstasy to me.
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by neilpanchal 4y ago
Yes. > In terms of trading volume, it is by far the largest market in the world, followed by the credit market. Furthermore: > Trades between foreign exchange dealers can be very large, involving hundreds of millions of dollars. Becau
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by neilpanchal 4y ago
Thanks. We'll do ligatures, but it won't be like anything else out there. > There is an unspoken expectation that 1 key press = 1 symbol printed on the screen. That shouldn't be violated in our view. A lot of our customers

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