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by nobody271 8y ago
That's what I thought, lol.
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Ask HN: What's the longest you spent on a personal project that you gave up on?
34 points by nobody271 8y ago|44 comments
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by nobody271 8y ago
Same, as a user I like the feel of going to a separate page.
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by nobody271 8y ago
Will do and thanks for the thoughtful reply.
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by nobody271 8y ago
np amigo. Yours did with me too.
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by nobody271 8y ago
As information about people will be easier to access (think Google Glass) it will be natural to start grouping strangers together based on various scores. So when you see someone in the store their profile gets pulled up and you see an asse
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by nobody271 8y ago
Okay but please understand you're asking me to spend a half an hour decompressing and interleaving several different ideas I have into one. I don't mind if you really are interested but this is the internet and it wouldn't be
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by nobody271 8y ago
In the future identities will belong to groups of people, not individuals. It will be like that episode of cracked where everyone is one of the characters on friends. Something weird is happening with society where as the internet connects
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by nobody271 8y ago
Thanks for clarifying that. Much respect to anyone that understands this stuff.
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by nobody271 8y ago
It's funny how you learn about colors in Kindergarten and think you pretty much go it. Then you go to program with them and instantly get hit with intense math.
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by nobody271 8y ago
That only works if it's the exact color. If you're one bit off it won't know.
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by nobody271 8y ago
Oh dang, I wish I had seen that, lol. It doesn't look like theirs does named colors though *clings to relevance. Thanks for posting that.
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by nobody271 8y ago
This is mostly a port of the code on https://www.easyrgb.com/en/math.php but I have added a few extras. What I use it for is: * RGB - easy to guess what values to use to make a color * HSL - easy to change the hue of a
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Show HN: C# Color Space Converter(github.com)
17 points by nobody271 8y ago|16 comments
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by nobody271 8y ago
I'm stretching? So all printers, scanners, wifi cards, webcams, wireless headphones, fancy keyboards, etc. just work out of the box in your experience with Linux? I was literally installing a third party driver that had to be manually
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by nobody271 8y ago
I hadn't until you mentioned it. It's possible. But even then there are endless issues with drivers. Like research your chipset, find a repository on github, and then clone and build it yourself kind of issues. Trust me, I like th
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by nobody271 8y ago
It makes no sense to you that a user might want to install something that's not in their operating systems store/repo?
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by nobody271 8y ago
Sigh, well maybe we could have a real discussion about this if you would admit that you're wrong and stop downvoting every single one of my comments. You're wrong twice in your first sentence. Normal users need to be able to insta
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by nobody271 8y ago
Tor Browser. There is no right click > unpack on some distributions. But my main point is that it takes a massive effort to make Linux easy. Anything short of that is just another reskin.
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by nobody271 8y ago
Between installing software, editing configuration files as sudo in vim, partitioning drives, mounting drives, copying files to a directory where you need sudo, etc. any user on a Linux system will spend plenty of time at the command line.
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by nobody271 8y ago
Fair enough but this is definitely not the first project to try and make Linux easy. Without significant internal and third party resources it's still just Linux and you will still run into Linux problems, of which there are many.
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by nobody271 8y ago
Right now I'm using several different distros on a fairly regular basis (all debian based but I'd like to do an Arch Linux build just to learn more). I still have to open the command line constantly, even on Ubuntu. Just the other
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by nobody271 8y ago
I don't think Linux will e... okay, probably ever, be a replacement for Windows or MacOS. Linux is Linux no matter how you dress it up. The first time a non-crazy person has to decompress and unpack a .tar.gz to install a program that
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by nobody271 8y ago
What if the oracle stops working or gives inconsistent results? Do you think having to rely on oracles is a major flaw in that they will become trust authorities?
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by nobody271 8y ago
Well there are smart contracts which can act as an escrow service. I don't know how that works in reality, though. If smart contracts have to be deterministic how can they be used to guarantee that, say, a delivery was made? I want to
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by nobody271 8y ago
This one might take the cake. Thanks for sharing.
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Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ever seen work?
428 points by nobody271 8y ago|578 comments
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by nobody271 8y ago
var copy = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(myObj)); Anything beyond this and you are begging for trouble because there's always context-specific gotchas.
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by nobody271 8y ago
Should you use your turn signal in the turn lane when it's already implied? If yes, what about a two lane when you are in the outside lane? Did you know when you turn you are supposed to go into the closest lane and then change lanes a
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by nobody271 8y ago
Those are some really good points. As for being motivated a good one that isn't mentioned is determination not to fail. That one has the effect of cutting the fat and going down higher yield paths. What I need, on an individual level,

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