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by rodw 6y ago
Oof. The cantilevered rear wheel in the first link in particular makes me really uncomfortable for some reason. I don't mind the "n-shaped" frame overall but something about the chunky frame combined with the rear wheel stick
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by rodw 6y ago
Maybe I'm stating the obvious, but a bicycle has a more complicated (or specific) structure than most people realize that they find hard to reproduce when sketching it. I think "mental modeling" is actually the problem in tha
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by rodw 6y ago
BTW: I happened to re-watch that White Stripes video (for "Fell in Love with a Girl") and I misremembered it badly. Pretty much the whole thing is done in what looks like stop-motion animation with Lego blocks (but may actually be
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by rodw 6y ago
This is the "blogs kill newspapers" argument again. You're not wrong - and arguably they _did_ - but this is a perennial problem for web content. Aggregators are more profitable than content creators, but they kill their supp
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by rodw 6y ago
UPDATE: Playing with it a little more I do think it is a little flakier than that. There's something weird about the marquee image that makes the header re-appear for reasons I don't understand. If you use the arrow keys for scrol
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by rodw 6y ago
It seems that it disappears (rolls off the top of the screen) when you scroll down, and reappears when you scroll up. There's little or no "inertia" in that behavior though, so depending on your mousewheel/track-pad&#x2F
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by rodw 6y ago
FWIW I think that unless the value is immediately obvious without experiencing it directly a demo is helpful but ultimately inadequate. I think you'd want something like the Reddit onboarding model, where you can use the service anonym
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by rodw 6y ago
I don't know what I was expecting, but I was a little disappointed that the ASCII art seems to be generated from actual video. (I assume?) When I first clicked the link I guess in my head I was stressing the art part of ASCII art, an
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by rodw 6y ago
Normally there is a detailed list here - https://www.electronjs.org/releases/stable - but right now there is no mention of v9 on that page.
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by rodw 6y ago
> I really don't think your proposed headline would have gotten any traction here That's OK with me.
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by rodw 6y ago
I guess. I don't know how much of that $10b is readily liquid. If we really want to look at it in percentage terms it seems like that number is the one to compare to. Frankly it seems reasonable to me to sell off some shares to "l
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by rodw 6y ago
Is there any way to edit the HN post title to be more accurate? "Zoom CEO sold $24m worth of stock" is still a pretty compelling headline.
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by rodw 7y ago
> such a failure to protect consumer data and privacy would be in serious breach of legislation I imagine this is true in the US also (which may be why the OP asked about reporting this). > result in significant fines This part I have
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by rodw 7y ago
> SVGs in general seem to have had quite a poor adoption rate I don't know. I'm not sure what the real numbers are but in my experience SVGs are pretty commonly used for app and web icons because they are easily "themeabl
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by rodw 7y ago
Was the Newton network capable?
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by rodw 7y ago
> A docker build as part of my CI/CD will download some new package and bork everything. Really? I'm not much of an ops guy but that's precisely the problem docker _fixed_ for me. We must have very different usage patterns
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by rodw 7y ago
"JavaScript Libraries Are Almost Never Updated Once Installed" ...on an website. I imagine the ease with which one can type `npm i` or `yarn install` means that server-side JavaScript libraries are updated frequently. Wasn't
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by rodw 7y ago
I think the grandparent post isn't trying to say "a 100,000 employee company automatically makes secure software" but rather "anecdotal evidence from a year or two of personal experience may not be representative of a 10
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by rodw 7y ago
Maybe JScript (Microsoft's proprietary JavaScript) and/or VBScript (VB sometimes shoehorned into a JavaScript-style role) would work for the first one, but to be honest I don't have enough experience with either to know if th
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by rodw 7y ago
Exactly. I don't get it. What's the advantage here? If the complaint is "semver numbers aren't always used the way they are meant to be" how does (what is effectively) `v<year>.<month>.<day>` solve
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by rodw 7y ago
As far as I can tell I actually tend to use something like this also (semver annotated with some form of timestamp, if only so I can tell at a glance how old something is, but usually as two distinct fields), but even after looking at the l
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by rodw 7y ago
Ok. That's fair. That's basically the way I remember them too. I just see that more like a distributed "web directory" used for cross promotion than a social network, but I guess it kinda sits in between. It was self-pro
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by rodw 7y ago
I have travelled here from the early 90s and I gotta say it seems more like a parlor trick (voice recognition plus a much larger, more sophisticated, networked Eliza) than true AI. But that's the AI problem in a nutshell: Once we'
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by rodw 7y ago
Were they though? In my experience webrings were more like rudimentary, off-white-to-gray-hat link-farms. Were webrings ever used like a friend-list or is that not what you meant by "primitive social networks"?
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by rodw 7y ago
> Myspace -> FB Some of you may be surprised how far back this chain goes. Back in the (pre-www) day we used the `finger` command and `.plan` / `.project` files as rudimentary versions of social profiles. I'm not able to fin
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by rodw 7y ago
This is super fascinating in so many ways. E.g. the list of features that made webgen "the most sophisticated web catalog generator available" includes: > 2. Webgen generates all the buttons [as images] in a site automatically.
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by rodw 7y ago
Right, look at SourceForge. There's a lot of broken links and/or references to no-longer accessible content in some of the older Apache.org projects too. Also maybe cvs/svn/git repo generally don't contain content w
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by rodw 7y ago
That's why I hedged a bit. SVG is certainly less readable, but it can be human readable if not aggressively minimized. I've both created and modified SVG documents by hand with a text editor, and also view-sourced SVGs to see how
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by rodw 7y ago
Then I think you need something like archive.org. You can design and mark-up content that will still be useful and readable in 100 years. You might be able to preserve the presentation logic (CSS-style) for 100 years. You probably won'
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by rodw 7y ago
Also unless you're very diligent about semantic markup and separation of content, presentation, interaction logic, the more complicated s site is the more difficult it is to port. I have run into this problem trying to migrate very o

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