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by parasti 2y ago
Come on, Mozilla. I just want a browser. I type in an address, the browser shows me the page. You need money? Let me donate to Firefox so I don't have to continuously opt out of crap like this.
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by parasti 2y ago
Never said that. I'm a web developer. People ask me to add their emails to web pages. Comment quality on here seems to have taken a dive.
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by parasti 2y ago
This is appropriate advice for the average HN reader. For everyone else, probably not. I've seen first hand otherwise intelligent people being unable to discern an obvious (to me) online scam from a legitimate business. These are the p
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by parasti 2y ago
That's besides the point. You can do whatever with the software, but it gets muddy when you then release it under the same name as the original. That name may not be trademarked, but it is still not yours to use.
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by parasti 2y ago
It's crazy the amount of power maintainers hold over someone else's software. This reminds me of the time when Fedora maintainers disabled GLES1 support in Mesa because "nobody should be using it anymore (there are newer Open
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by parasti 2y ago
We use time tracking at work and I have a daily goal that I need to meet. I wrote a small Vite React app to visualize how well am I doing on a given day, week, month, how many hours I need to make up, how many I'm missing, etc. The coo
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by parasti 2y ago
Thanks, this was a good read. To me, this puts a finger on a fear of mine that probably many programmers have. How do you show someone else the thing that you've built, how do you show them the work that you do and the value that it cr
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by parasti 2y ago
I use JSDoc instead of TypeScript on a codebase where I am the sole developer. It skyrockets autocompletion, helps memory recall after off time and helps prevent stupid human errors that I am bound to make unconsciously. That's IMO wha
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by parasti 2y ago
There's something really powerful about taking the tools that you know very well and just making something cool with them. Really enjoyed this writeup, thanks.
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by parasti 2y ago
These are commonly referred to as "turn-based" (like chess).
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by parasti 3y ago
I largely credit my spatial awareness to studying maps and also learning levels in Nexuiz (the original Nexuiz, a Quake-like video game) and how teleport entrances/exits are oriented. That felt like learning a skill that at one moment
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by parasti 3y ago
I'm definitely not trying to be helpful. Just openly annoyed by yet another clickbait headline in a sea of clickbait headlines that somehow survived HN scrutiny.
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by parasti 3y ago
What an absurd headline. If the island somehow disappeared, they would soon find out that the "entire island" was not in fact backed up.
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by parasti 3y ago
That's a valid use case. Your users operate in their own diverse environments and you explicitly want to support them where they are.
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by parasti 3y ago
Autoconf has never really made sense to me in the last twenty years or so. At what point does a Makefile-based project start thinking "hmm, we should upgrade to autoconf to solve this"? And what is "this" that they can&#
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by parasti 3y ago
"In the browser" - it's Chrome only.
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by parasti 3y ago
Finally, after many years of procrastination, learning to track my time correctly. Paradoxically, I am clocking in more hours while spending less real time at work.
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by parasti 3y ago
What a crazy story. The comments here are crazier, though.
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by parasti 3y ago
> Why optimize my rail network when I can optimize the code that makes it possible? As a maintainer of an open-source game, this resonates with me. I still play the game and enjoy it a lot, but being able to dive in and change it or add
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by parasti 3y ago
This is very well written. Aside from the topic at hand, I had a realization that an essay written in this manner (from the context I assume with input from at least two people) feels as if written by superhuman, combining the individual in
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by parasti 3y ago
I often find myself marvelling at the fractal of businesses and public spaces (shops, museums, cafes, galleries, hotels, etc) that exists around me as I'm walking down the street - some are obvious and easily discoverable, others I wil
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by parasti 3y ago
As a mostly happy Spotify Premium user I expected to disagree, but OP is actually on point. I realize I only use "search" and "like" and basically ignore the rest of the app. Spotify on mobile probably has the worst UX o
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by parasti 3y ago
When I see "WebGPU" I have to translate it in my head from a "web standard" to "Chrome-only".
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by parasti 3y ago
And on top of that, flexbox has been widely supported for over a decade! The comments here are a wild ride.
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by parasti 3y ago
That sucks, Spec Ops The Line is a hidden gem disguised as a generic shooter.
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by parasti 3y ago
Also not to be confused with the interactive fiction creation tool.
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by parasti 3y ago
We (community for a video game) lost over a decade of accumulated community content due to an unreachable owner. This happened as I was considering scraping, but did not get a chance to implement it. Internet Archive has been a godsend - a
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by parasti 3y ago
Focusing on Git seems like completely the wrong pitch. Git is a distributed VCS - in all your examples you were clearly trying to use Git in a centralized manner with no backups. I suggest focusing more on your own product than on Git.
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by parasti 3y ago
Sorry, but this looks like opinionated nonsense. There's an underlined and bolded "PNG is a forbidden file format" that is in fact not a link, without explaining how and why it is forbidden.
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by parasti 3y ago
The screenshot section single-handedly breaks mobile UX due to overflow.

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