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by rikroots 7y ago
> And then if all web apps move to a canvas-painted UI with all the code in web assembly then there will be a major accessibility problem. I know nothing about webm beyond the idea that it's supposed to help developers write code in
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by rikroots 7y ago
The British Library's web archive[1] does similar archiving work, but limits itself to 'British' sites - in other words, sites with a .uk domain. I've had good dealings with the admins before, when I submitted some of my
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by rikroots 7y ago
I think this article offers some very good advice about the need for different types of documentation to support software. I am far more likely to try a new piece of software if it comes with clearly signposted online documentation covering
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by rikroots 7y ago
Submission to HN is not enough in itself. The title and link in any "Show HN" submission needs to be calibrated to both catch the eyes of the right HN readers (so they learn - if only fleetingly - that the project exists) and also
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by rikroots 7y ago
I posted this link because I, too, have face blindness.
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Article on living with face blindness (prosopagnosia)(washingtonpost.com)
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by rikroots 7y ago
I'd argue it's active. But the choice of verb - "to be entitled to" - is poor. A conditional "claim" would make for a better active sentence: "You can claim jump pay for the time..."
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by rikroots 7y ago
Question: does anyone have any tips on how to recover from burnout at work? I ask because I've taken the steps required to get myself out of an - unpleasant[1], let's say - work environment. I left my last job with a little bit of
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by rikroots 7y ago
> Tell me about your weaknesses Whenever that question comes up - which happens more often than it should - I always concentrate on my inability to swim and my current plans (and barriers) for rectifying the situation. > Tell me one t
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Show HN: Scrawl-canvas JavaScript rewrite progress report with interactive demos(scrawl-v8-progress-0919.rikworks.co.uk)
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by rikroots 7y ago
Zamenhof's Esperanto - it always felt a bit too, well, earnest in its aspirations to me. If we're talking about universal communication systems, then my favourite will always be SolReSol - https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by rikroots 7y ago
Personally I like it when people and/or companies announce they've switched from service (architecture, etc) A to service B and then give a good account of why they made that decision, how they then established themselves on B, et
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by rikroots 7y ago
I've played with ArangoDB[1] last year, when I was doing a self-learning sprint. While I never reached any level of proficiency in it, I did enjoy using it, and I'm still intrigued by the idea of a combined "graph, document,
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Show HN: A different sort of website 'lightbox' animation(scrawl.rikweb.org.uk)
3 points by rikroots 7y ago|1 comments
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by rikroots 7y ago
You're right that he's right. 70% royalties - paid to the author - are (generally) reserved for ebooks priced under $10.
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by rikroots 7y ago
> If you want to sell it above $10, then their commission becomes 70%! No, that's how much the author earns from each sale. I will say that Amazon's pricing model - divided as it is into geographical regions - is needlessly com
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by rikroots 7y ago
I have no relationship with Amazon Publishing, nor am I ever likely to. My experience of publishing with Amazon is entirely restricted to their (now defunct) CreateSpace platform and its successor, Kindle Direct Publishing, alongside publis
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by rikroots 7y ago
As a new joiner to the Freelance Web Developer pool, building myself a portfolio website is on my list of things to do - but, honestly, I'm struggling with some very basic questions: - Do I want the site to demonstrate the areas of cod
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by rikroots 7y ago
Many thanks for posting this. It's really useful to find guidance on how to do stuff to more effectively engage HN readers with a website or project. Of course, all my efforts so far have failed to engage the sort of people I want to e
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by rikroots 7y ago
> Is 35 normally considered too old to make something of yourself by society? By Western Society norms, yes. But there's no reason to take notice of what other people around you expect you to be doing at a given age. If you feel the
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by rikroots 7y ago
I dislike articles that attempt to turn people into binary groups such as "amateur" vs "professional" - there's some parts of my life where I'm amateur, others where I'm professional - and a lot of areas w
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by rikroots 7y ago
Thank you for posting that article - I've never read it before. There's many things John Q says in the article that resonate strongly with me. I've never viewed my attempts at conlanging as anything more than self-indulgent a
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by rikroots 7y ago
35.9k members in that conlangs subreddit? When did my shameful little hobby suddenly get so popular??
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> Regarding transpilation surely it's not as standard as you make it out to be? The impression I got from working on various projects over the past couple of years was that if the build doesn't include Babel/Webpack/P
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by rikroots 7y ago
Sorry - I misunderstood. Are you talking about kids who will claim to have made-up friends because of peer pressure? I've not heard of that sort of thing before, but I suppose it's possible - some people/kids will tie themsel
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by rikroots 7y ago
From this article on the Psychology Today website: Taylor and her colleagues found that 77 percent of these children said “yes” when asked if they had a pretend friend, and 40 percent spontaneously remarked at some point during the intervie
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by rikroots 7y ago
Most of my personal websites shout into the void. Their content is so niche (poems, conlangs, web coding experiments, etc) that I would be genuinely surprised if any of them suddenly got popular. I keep on doing my personal sites because I
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by rikroots 7y ago
> but I think most of it is really due to the fact no one's promoting his work at all Anecdotal evidence time. I write and self-publish my own poetry chapbooks, distributing them (via Smashwords) to places like Apple Books. Most of
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by rikroots 7y ago
If the eBook is broken on Kindle, then it'll be up to the publisher (Riverhead Books) to fix it, not Amazon. Though as the bookseller Amazon should (in theory) offer refunds to people who bought the defective eBook?
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by rikroots 7y ago
The blog post on which the article is based - which is very long! (I'm still reading through it) - can be found at the top of Dominic Cummins's blog (On the Referendum #33, 26 June 2019) - https://dominiccummings.com&#x

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