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by pwdisswordfish4 6y ago
How can HTML have APIs if it’s not a programming language?
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by pwdisswordfish4 6y ago
> If the Supreme Court rules for Oracle, Android is copyright-infringing You mean was copyright-infringing. Harmony was dropped years ago, and Android has been rebased onto Oracle's own anointed, conflict-free codebase. And you d
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by pwdisswordfish4 6y ago
What is the the relationship between "had to change the way FaceTime work[s]" and "never opening it"?
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by pwdisswordfish4 6y ago
Sciter's author has been thinking * about making it open source for years, but despite saying it, and so frequently, it's not clear that the author has ever been sincere. The real intent of those messages probably has more in co
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by pwdisswordfish4 6y ago
> I don't see how that's not a good characterization. For the reason just stated: "It's a matter of negative rights vs. positive rights." You're say the license prohibits certain things, which isn't tru
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by pwdisswordfish4 6y ago
> I took issue with saying that it was "common sense" to use a license that prohibited things you didn't like Not a good characterization of the argument. It's a matter of negative rights vs. positive rights. The or
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by pwdisswordfish4 6y ago
Indeed. That would also require CLAs unless they aren't taking in outside contributions.
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by pwdisswordfish4 6y ago
This is something to consider, although even the GPL has its detractors (people "allergic" to it). Personally, I'm a fan of GPL and copyleft, and I don't like that it's so maligned and misrepresented. A lot of the
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by pwdisswordfish4 6y ago
> I didn't realize at all that you were trying to only talk about JavaScript that runs client side Well, not just client-side JS; server-side, too, or anywhere that NPM is used, but even more than that: e.g. other package managers t
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by pwdisswordfish4 6y ago
I didn't say it was universal. OpenSSL and Chromium are outside the scope of "CDNs for external JavaScript libraries". (I actually included the appropriate hedging to clarify that my comments are scope-locked to that topic a
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by pwdisswordfish4 6y ago
Original commenter advocates for writing your own, presumably "from scratch", and mentions high-risk targets. Even if you don't take those for granted, though... Let's assume lower risk than a studio, and you relax the
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by pwdisswordfish4 6y ago
It's not. rustc + cargo + crates.io is bad, too.
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by pwdisswordfish4 6y ago
"Subversion used to say, 'CVS done right.' With that slogan there is nowhere you can go. There is no way to do CVS right."
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by pwdisswordfish4 6y ago
Sometimes the only reason is backwards compatibility.
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by pwdisswordfish4 6y ago
Not surprising that TCC is slower; Pascal is much easier to parse then C.
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by pwdisswordfish4 6y ago
The right solution is pervasive programming language support for interpolation inside XML/HTML code. Like there is in JavaScript now, known as JSX. Like HHVM has, in the form of XHP. (Interesting that both are Facebook innovations.) Th
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by pwdisswordfish4 6y ago
You mean, humans aren’t animals?
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by pwdisswordfish4 6y ago
Affirm the status quo, as in the currently elected US president?
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by pwdisswordfish4 6y ago
And my axe.
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by pwdisswordfish4 6y ago
"Lately" as in the last 5+ years?
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by pwdisswordfish4 6y ago
This is where the $50m marketing budget goes to.
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by pwdisswordfish4 6y ago
I’d suggest reporting this upstream, but, well… https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/885027 So instead I’ll suggest avoiding it altogether.
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by pwdisswordfish4 6y ago
The only reasonable application of "minimal" is for it to be a cross-cutting description. To describe something as "minimal" without qualification while focusing only on any single quality is not a good use of the term.
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by pwdisswordfish4 6y ago
BSD utils balk if you get the order of command-line switches "wrong" (an attribute shared with the Git CLI). The time wasted dealing with that alone is worth installing the GNU utils.
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by pwdisswordfish4 6y ago
> What Handshake is trying to achieve is in essence similar to trying to establish a new set of root servers. And just like that idea, it will never realistically happen. Yes, it will need to find a foothold in a parallel domain (no pu
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by pwdisswordfish4 6y ago
So I’ve been switching to desktop version, locating the language sidebar, then switching back to mobile for nothing all this time?!
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by pwdisswordfish4 6y ago
I wish this were more widely known, and not just for Wikipedia. There are too many local MediaWiki installations that stick with the dated default Vector theme. NB: it's not the theme's datedness that makes it bad; it's tha
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by pwdisswordfish4 6y ago
This. And it’s the one thing that annoys me to no end about the mobile version, that the list of language editions isn’t there at all.
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by pwdisswordfish4 6y ago
It is, actually. It just happens to be the same DOS that was running before Linux was started.
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by pwdisswordfish4 6y ago
Fair point — commenting on an article based on its title instead of the contents is a long HN tradition.

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