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by rikroots 6y ago
I really like the idea behind this feature. Being able to add a discussions 'forum' to my main project could be an excellent way to start building a community around the project. Looking at the Discussions issue page - https:&#x2
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by rikroots 6y ago
I found this Usenet Historical Collection link - https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical - in a previous HN thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16667796 ). I have no idea how useful the co
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by rikroots 6y ago
I suffered a brain freeze at an interview once. My brain freeze was not caused by anxiety, but rather the Office Dog wandering into the interview room, sitting down on my feet and shoving its snout firmly between my legs.
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by rikroots 6y ago
Do they? I don't. In fact when I was last employed (I'm now freelance, or at least trying to be freelance) I very much did not work on my OSS project, or use it in client work, because while I had verbal assurances that the compan
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by rikroots 6y ago
I have a Facebook addiction. I post something; I crave feedback. When I get feedback, it's like a little jab of oxytocin to my system. Twitter, Linkedin - I don't have the same problem. I post something (when I remember, which isn
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by rikroots 6y ago
Question: how do these engines address accessibility issues for, say, a holiday booking site that uses the canvas element for its entire UI?
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by rikroots 6y ago
My problem with CSS is not so much with its idiosyncrasies - though I still find myself getting tripped up by ::pseudo-elements when they're used for anything more than show-off quote marks. Rather, it's with the way people use it
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by rikroots 6y ago
I don't know what degree courses are like elsewhere in the world, but in the UK they tend to be single-subject (eg "Applied Biology") studied over 3 years. Depth, in the UK, is more important than breadth - a view I strongly
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by rikroots 6y ago
First: please don't abandon sharing your code on GitHub because of this issue. Other people may find your code useful; some may raise issues that help you further develop the code. Second: my approach to receiving bad feedback - and, a
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I completely bombed an interview because they gave me a laptop but refused to supply a mouse. Plus the laptop touchpad scrolled in the opposite direction to what I was used to. I felt quite sorry for the interviewers who had to sit silent f
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by rikroots 6y ago
Thank you for creating this site - it looks like an excellent piece of work. I hope you find a way to make some money from the work, enough at least to pay the hosting bills. A couple of questions: 1. I found a way to add a tutorial link to
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by rikroots 6y ago
When Docker for Desktop came out, I refused to move from Docker Toolbox. My reasoning was probably illogical but my view was that if you're maintaining a number of projects, each of which runs in their own Docker environment and some o
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I know where you're coming from. I'm far more comfortable working on my library's codebase - fixing, improving, etc - than I am with planning/writing/creating "promotional" stuff about the stuff I've
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> We used to make fun of the practice of hiring based on firmness of handshake True anecdote time. A few months after starting my first full time job, I asked my boss why he chose me over the other candidates. "You had the driest ha
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by rikroots 6y ago
Also Bermuda, now the most populous of the British Overseas Territories - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda
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by rikroots 6y ago
You asked for "weird", yes? I've got a problem that's driving me crazy: find a way to present a huge amount of written (and some visual) content, through a website[1], in an interesting and accessible way. One of my hobb
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by rikroots 6y ago
I'm glad they're building Gemini - a monoculture of anything is an unhealthy environment and projects like Gemini can help break up our current HTML/CSS/JS monoculture. But it is also a distribution channel: a method for
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by rikroots 6y ago
Hah! Do you have insurance? Are your vaccinations up-to-date?? https://rikverse2020.rikweb.org.uk/
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by rikroots 6y ago
> I have really come to hate the World Wide Web. It is bloated at every level! I have to admit that this opening statement almost stopped me reading the rest of the article. Which is a pity, because Gemini does sound like an interesting
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by rikroots 6y ago
I managed to get a verbal assurance from my MD that they wouldn't try to claim the IP for my side projects. Even so, when invited to use my JS canvas library on a client's project, I chose not to do so - just in case.
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> Webpack and other module bundlers are just tools to automate things like transpiling, code-transformation, bundle-splitting, minification which are not all that essential actually. I wish this were true. My experience to illustrate the
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by rikroots 6y ago
My "Show HN" post was in the bottom half of the HN home page for less than an hour. Traffic to the site was roughly 100 times greater than its current levels (by bandwidth): https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rik-
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by rikroots 6y ago
> you need to dedicate time to a project. I do this through predefined 2-hour slots each day or week where I have to work on a project. I'm glad this system works for you; it wouldn't work for me - my professional coding life i
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by rikroots 6y ago
M. Lionet has resurfaced in recent years and is busy working on a new BASIC. Given that he wrote both STOS and AMOS back in the day I'm looking forward to seeing how the new project turns out. https://www.aoz.studio/the
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by rikroots 6y ago
Genuine question time: assuming that someone has created the "framework/library that everyone needs"[1], at what price points should that person be setting their sponsorship tiers, along the lines that you suggest, on GHSpons
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by rikroots 6y ago
Collaborative writing can be great fun - I used to contribute (on occasion) to collaborations on Usenet poetry groups (when taking a break from tweaking the trolls). I wish you all the best for taking this project forward!
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by rikroots 6y ago
No surprises from me: I launched v8 of my HTML5 canvas library back in April, which the admins here very kindly promoted to the front page of HN for a couple of hours - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/ Since then I've
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by rikroots 6y ago
For the purposes of the article - "How to get people to work on your project" - won't tidier code (as in: it looks pretty when viewed on GitHub) - be more likely to attract potential contributors? Getting the code to work as
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by rikroots 6y ago
1. Don't be scared if the project fails - for whatever reason. Failing can be a good learning experience, if you choose to look at it that way.[see end] 2. Don't be scared to abandon the project. When the work stops being fun ...
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by rikroots 6y ago
I'm mourning the loss of the old Facebook UI - it will probably take me a few more weeks to adjust. My first impression of it was: "Why have they turned the desktop version into the mobile version"? Newsfeed posts now in too-

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