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by pjettter 6y ago
I suppose what I mean is that there are many idioms that we have learned and gotten used to. For example, actions like copy and paste, or click and drag (touch gestures). Formats, like a table, grid, matrix, cells. Text is also universal an
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by pjettter 6y ago
the problem is that in schools, kids learn not science, but examples of science, without understanding what science is. They don't learn biology, but examples of biology, without understanding any context, history, aims. They don&#x27
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by pjettter 6y ago
It's not the web, it's computing in general that has not evolved in the right direction. A grid is not a grid is not a grid. An image is not an image is not an image. Etc. So rather than fixing the web, fix computing. It will fix
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by pjettter 6y ago
Interesting! I do this on paper a lot because that's how I learned in college. Thinking of it. It's composing converters. That should be fairly easy to automate!
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by pjettter 6y ago
Thanks. That partly confirms my feelings. Now with Covid here in Sweden at my company, everyone is remote. It works (equally bad and equally good) for everyone. I think if a company is serious about a mix, there needs to be optimization aro
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by pjettter 6y ago
I like Elixir, Erlang. There is Lumen, an OS initiative to bring the BEAM to the browser (WASM). Does Pony have such ambitions (I mean, the Pony team)? My UC is an actor system in the browser and the ability to create a DSL created using th
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by pjettter 6y ago
For some, WFH is more attractive and more productive than for others. But why does it have to be an either or? There are advantages with sitting next to colleagues. There are advantages with being able to skip the commute and being able to
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by pjettter 6y ago
But what if their workers are more productive those days when they are working remotely? That should pay down on the investment sooner! I never understand shortsightedness...
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by pjettter 6y ago
I wish I'd had a mentor ever since I was a teenager (80's). The reason I answer is because I just had an idea. This doesn't help you, personally, right now, I suppose. Google had a 10% rule (not sure if they still do) where 1
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by pjettter 6y ago
Perhaps some day we can just present from our phones and even use them as a pointer at the same time.
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by pjettter 6y ago
I wish this was available on PlayStation!
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by pjettter 6y ago
I'd be at school, creating levels on graph paper and playing them in my head. Then at home, with the level editor test them out. Some levels really took an hour to play. This was on a C64 with a digital joystick, which I found more pl
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by pjettter 6y ago
This is how it works (or at least used to work) in The Netherlands. If you receive Stock options, you pay taxes over the gains, i.e. the money you would have made if you exercised on that date. Even if you have not exercised. So the option
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by pjettter 6y ago
A domain name can help you keep focus. Then when you need to pivot, you can just buy another one, ad nauseum.
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by pjettter 6y ago
Hm. Cool. Expensive. What about a projector that shoots an image to a persistent sensitive surface. That would be reinvention of photography! Let's say, reset with one frequency of light, then flash with an image that holds for > 24
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by pjettter 6y ago
I spent $10k on a computer in 2008 to get rid of latencies. Now computers are so much faster and some latencies just get greater? It's Windows that is broken. I don't see the same thing happening often on my Mac or iOS.
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by pjettter 6y ago
Plus they iterate faster than anyone else out there and upgrading is painless (VSCode, not Windows)
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by pjettter 6y ago
Yes, 646 it was. Now I won't forget again!
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by pjettter 6y ago
Wasn't POKE 686,0 something?
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by pjettter 6y ago
So what. I invented half of the patents being submitted by Apple, all in one short story I wrote in 1994.
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by pjettter 6y ago
I recommend Domain Modeling Made Functional by Scott Wlaschin. It's analaysis first, DDD, then coding (in F#) Best intro to functional programming imo.
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by pjettter 6y ago
In our system, contracts have an expiration date/time. The only actors are Swedish. 12:59:59 must always be 12:59:59 on a certain date. It may never become 6:59:59 when someone in the company traveled to NY and prints out the contract.
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by pjettter 6y ago
You must like running Doom on Windows 95 inside Minecraft: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23960028
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by pjettter 6y ago
I once reduced the amount of code for a client by ~75% and added usability and fault-tolerance. I wasn't even half done and they thought it was good enough. LoC is no measure.
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by pjettter 6y ago
Webassembly
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by pjettter 6y ago
Get burned once... When you pet a snake and get bitten, you don't pet snakes anymore. But since you already were afraid of snakes (who isn't), you don't have to test petting it to find out it bites. So the author doesn't
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by pjettter 6y ago
I dunno. Lately I've been into static sites based on Blazor with json files in blob storage. Fast, C#, no server. And no JS. Just C# to WebAssembly. In VSCode I can do dotnet new blazorwasm, then dotnet publish then publish to Azure
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by pjettter 6y ago
I'm writing an actor system in Webassembly (C#/Blazor). Once it's in place, it can be used with a rendering backplane (SVG). The ultimate goal is to make the actors be able to move to where they are needed (moving the code t
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by pjettter 6y ago
Hm. Maybe. In my experience, tests is just more code, more bugs, more maintenance. If you need to write many tests, you're writing your code wrong. "Just my opinion, man" ;)
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by pjettter 6y ago
I always write "front-to-back". I write the code that uses a module, abstraction, api, etc. Then I write that layer until the code works. This goes on layer to layer. To make it not become a tour-de-force, I start with a golden pa

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