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by pqb 5y ago
While metric vs imperial system can be discussed, the date format in American English is probably the worst thing. > In American English, the month always precedes the day. In British English, the month follows the date. This holds no ma
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by pqb 5y ago
Looks interesting! Reminds me impl[0], which comes bundled with `vscode-golang`. [0]: https://github.com/josharian/impl
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by pqb 5y ago
> Navigating to find content on the Kindle or Nook is poor, which would be ok if we would be happy with just having ebooks in our hands versus also having emagazines and enewspapers. Once you add the rest of the paper world of content na
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by pqb 5y ago
I also recommend acloudguru, they have very nice courses about Kubernetes and GCP, which provides a very good basis. I especially liked the certification courses - even if you do not pursue for a certification. For example, "Google Pro
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by pqb 5y ago
From my experience - a notable percent of all Dell laptops (especially Precision and Latitude series) has a decent Linux support. I have never been an owner of laptop from System76 or any other brand that is targeting Linux users. However,
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by pqb 5y ago
1) A lot of CI pipelines already do it by utilizing ldflags in go-build command. I don't think if few kilobytes more will matter much. 2): It will not be added (based on information provided in the article [0]). 3): Is it valid questio
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by pqb 5y ago
I think there isn't anything I could name as a close alternative to Django/RubyOnRails/Laravel/Symfony in the JS world. It would be even difficult to find an alternative in other programming languages like Go, Rust or af
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by pqb 5y ago
Recently, I found Tilt [0] to be a good partner of mine to run "all services locally". It can be compared to "webpack for backend" (live-reloading, a lot of configuration possibilities [1]). Tilt uses Titlfiles for conf
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by pqb 5y ago
Among flaws mentioned in the article was error handling in Odin, suggesting OP prefers Zig's way. It looks like Odin is actually experimenting with new approaches too [0]. [0]: https://www.gingerbill.org/article/20
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by pqb 5y ago
Funny you mention that, it reminds the post I have read few seconds ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26224197 I am person, who in last few days tried out to use VoiceOver and move responsibility on it to navigate m
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by pqb 5y ago
There are hundreds of "Linux requests" (most popular [0]) on their forums and they were very resistant to give although a small chance to make it happen. [0]: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic&
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by pqb 5y ago
> I'll buy all three Affinity apps again with a Linux or Proton version. Same here. I already own Affinity apps for Mac and on Windows but I don't see anything wrong with buying next Designer or Photo for Linux (with or without
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by pqb 5y ago
This is kind of a wow moment, when I see a real product made by someone else that is a kind of realization of my idea I have drown down on paper many (11+) years ago, while I was bored in school. Developer portal composed of widgets - just
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by pqb 5y ago
Maybe "likely new" is a bad word to describe it. Comparing to many email providers I know or used 7 years is a pity. It have matured enough to consider it will stay for longer and it won't disappear soon, what has happened to
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by pqb 5y ago
> Another point, which may matter to some people, is that while Migadu may be a Swiss company, the data centers where the mails are hosted were in France (this was the case at least a year ago). So the situation is somewhat comparable (n
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by pqb 5y ago
Funny, in last weekend I was playing with various projects [0][1][2] based on the idea from this article. It was impressive how long range Raspberry Pi achieved even without the cable antenna. They do work - transmit audio over the FM waves
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by pqb 5y ago
> I never became comfortable with doing object oriented programming with Go, which has not been the case with Rust. Ouch, OOP in Go is just asking for a trouble. "Inheritance" by embedding anonymous struct/interface should
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by pqb 5y ago
> Well here I am to deny it. I personally find Go super hard to write anything that is not a few lines of glue code (and in that case I just reach for Node). > I tried really hard to like Go. I just couldn't. I would expect somet
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by pqb 5y ago
Your reply has piqued my attention, because as a person who develops in Go (and in other programming languages) I cannot put any > or < between Rust and Go - they are clearly tools dedicated for other type of applications. I won'
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by pqb 5y ago
This submission is probably the first example of usage Phoenix Framework in big company that I know. I remember how many there were Elixir vs Go "battles" on HN in last three years but what I have noticed the Phoenix have worse tr
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by pqb 5y ago
Very interesting, however what I think you should take a look at is gRPC client. I don't know any good GUI for gRPC protocol.
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by pqb 5y ago
This, hundreds times this. I can't say how many years in a row I was experimenting with various GUI toolkits, libraries and concepts of an application like rxi/lite editor [0]. While I saw many good looking implementations but the
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by pqb 6y ago
> A lot of what people thought was true (that it would be stuck there for weeks, being dismissive of using tugboats to pull it out) didn't pan out as expected. That was what many investors thought - see crude oil market in last days
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by pqb 6y ago
I wish to see a satellite photos to see a traffic jam from the above. It is definitely not too common to see that many ships waiting in queue to entry the Suez canal [0]. [0]: https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/h
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by pqb 6y ago
> [...] Firefox. Version 86 Few days ago, there was new version released (87). In certain situations, when silent upgrade had been made during using the browser it displays an "Oops, something went wrong" notification with a bu
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by pqb 6y ago
Slate.js, even after change to Immer is slow. IMHO (as a person who actively observes the development, sometimes participate in their Slack) the "performance" is not taken seriously in this project. In last few months they provide
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by pqb 6y ago
There is a fork (rewrite) in the Vue.js [0]. [0]: https://github.com/marsprince/slate-vue
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by pqb 6y ago
@tonsky is right about the huge memory footprint (in terms of RAM) but 20MB for Hello World GUI program is totally fine today [0]. In my humble experience there is really hard to fit in below 10MB with a GUI app that only displays "He
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by pqb 6y ago
I don't know why you are downvoted, while you state correct viewpoint IMHO. The accessibility is not just about screen-reading but also options that make our contact with the virtual product be more pleasant (e.g. resizeable UI, non-tr
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by pqb 6y ago
I have no experience with assistive software but I suppose non-native UI libraries should be using native OS toolkit (e.g. [0][1]) or specific APIs libraries, which targets NVDA, JAWS, Orca and others (this is one of the same idea shared i

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