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by rogual 11mo ago
I don't have much to add to this right now other than to say this is really fantastic writing. I don't normally enjoy "my journey" kind of blog posts, but this one feels full of valuable insights, and I'm grateful t
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by rogual 11mo ago
It's funny how "think of the parents" is the new "think of the children".
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by rogual 11mo ago
I do have the "second visual canvas" people here are talking about, but the thing about mine, and I haven't seen anyone say this yet, is that I don't have full control of it. For example, I have a memory from childhood o
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by rogual 1y ago
Thing is, italic and bold don't have just one meaning. Italic can mean: emphasis, foreign word, word which is being defined for the first time, title of referenced work, mathematical variable, and many field-specific uses. Bold can mea
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by rogual 1y ago
What does it mean "to take max-cash in compensation", and why does that signal a lack of character?
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by rogual 1y ago
Boss on Windows with a click-wheel mouse: "Make the scrolling smoother" Devs: "It's because of your--" Boss: "Other sites do it. Get on it."
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by rogual 2y ago
This is what I do, these days. Whenever I would previously have reached for X-macros or some other macro hack, I tend to use Cog [1] now instead. It's quite a clever design; you write Python to generate your C++ code and put it inside
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by rogual 2y ago
They even edited the image to insert their own name.
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by rogual 2y ago
I think in the minds of not-particularly-literate online writers, "strange" = "bad" and "unique" = "good".
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by rogual 2y ago
You can see this in venerable software which has lived through the times of "designing for the user" and is still being developed in the times of "designing for the business". Take Photoshop, for example, first released
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by rogual 2y ago
This has been getting some press, but it looks like it's just a small-scale publicity stunt that isn't actually available for people to use. There's no number we can forward scam calls to to connect them to this AI, and this
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by rogual 2y ago
Something about the way Microsoft writes just rubs me the wrong way. Not: "Please wait for ... an update" But: "Please be patient and wait for ... an update" It's not just their staff here, it's all over the
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by rogual 2y ago
It sounds natural to me only if you're expecting exactly one star. For example: The Three Wise Men are back. But this time, there's no star in the sky to guide them.
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by rogual 2y ago
There's a bit in Ender's Game where he plays this computer game that has a dreamlike quality to it. It seemed it could simulate a response to any player action, and continue the story along that path. I think in the book it was a
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by rogual 2y ago
Recently I found myself looking at an old alarm clock with a seven-segment display, but the segments were lit up arbitrarily, making an unreadable pattern instead of a time. But then I remembered, oh yeah, that's right, I do have a bro
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by rogual 2y ago
https://github.com/rogual/csaw
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by rogual 2y ago
This is what JavaScript is for.
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by rogual 2y ago
Right, "said to" is doing an awful lot of work here. I had a look for studies but all I could find was this: https://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN85247318 So, looks like a study was done, but the results not published.
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by rogual 2y ago
I had to try this on my favourite piece of internet bullshit, that surreal Mozilla blog post from a few years back that contains the words "there was also a need for our tools to address the whole body experience of what it means to be
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by rogual 2y ago
I can't help but notice that the homepage has at least a hundred pictures of humans, and zero pictures of any diagrams or charts.
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by rogual 2y ago
Pick a minor flaw, and immediately start expounding on what you do to mitigate it. For example, "I can't always keep all of a complex thing in my head, so I've learned to do X, Y and Z to keep up -- Z is a really cool tool, a
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by rogual 2y ago
You know, like malware.
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by rogual 2y ago
I'm leaning towards genuine, to be honest. Just thought it was interesting that I even questioned it, which I wouldn't have done before.
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by rogual 2y ago
I received a nice email the other day after one of my blog posts got posted on HN. It said: Hi - Just a note to say I'm a big fan of your writing. I always learn something and love your voice, which is hilarious and singular. Write a b
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by rogual 2y ago
The preview pane is also powered by the QuickLook service and has had the same corner-rounding behaviour added.
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Fixing QuickLook (2023)(foon.uk)
240 points by rogual 2y ago|67 comments
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by rogual 2y ago
My initial reaction is "if there's one thing this world and this industry doesn't need any more of, it's people half-assing it." But, who knows, maybe that means I should do the exercise.
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by rogual 2y ago
I have this with grammar. When I read modern websites, articles, papers, emails from HR, etc. with their sloppy English and comma-splices everywhere, it annoys me way too much and it's a real challenge to push on through and keep readi
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by rogual 2y ago
And to read the opinions that other HNers spout. The comments are often better than the articles. Also, I know I'll be able to read them without fending off popups and dark patterns.
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by rogual 2y ago
"However" isn't a conjunction. It should be "Not many academic philosophers discuss magic. However, five centuries ago..." Using "however" the way the author did will trip up a reader expecting correct Eng

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