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by roryisok 9y ago
> Even though as a Catholic (Laudato Si, Rerum Novarum) it kills me to waste all those materials every couple of years and be part of the environmental degradation of our planet It's not your Catholicism that makes you feel bad for
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by roryisok 9y ago
Exactly. The many can't afford to drop €699 on the "base" model phone, especially an unproven one.
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by roryisok 9y ago
Great site, brings back memories. A few little issues I found 1. On mobile I have to scroll past all the featured products to get to "all products". A link at the top or a hamburger menu would be great! 2. No search? 3. "all
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by roryisok 9y ago
I didn't even know this existed! Link? Or even just a good search term??
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by roryisok 9y ago
http://getpoe.com - distraction free / focus writing app for Windows, and soon Linux and macOS. It makes me nothing, but I love working on it. I built it to have a focus writer on windows 8 (there were none that played move
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by roryisok 9y ago
Garbage Collection
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by roryisok 9y ago
GET news is pretty good
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by roryisok 9y ago
Notepad. No, I'm not trolling. Plain text with some utf8 icons gets a lot done. Saves getting locked in to one platform or another
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by roryisok 9y ago
The first thing my mind went to was the image of muttley putting up a detour sign
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Ask HN: An alternative to skype for cross platform video chat?
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by roryisok 9y ago
$5 is impressive - my current leather wallet cost more than that and it doesn't have any of your fancy pants air-gaps or blueteeth
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by roryisok 9y ago
As far as I understand it you can't scroll back further than a million, so if you were using this for notifications, you wouldn't be able to see what your n-1,000,000th notification was. I could be misinterpreting, but if I'm
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by roryisok 9y ago
The cut off seems to be a million messages, seems like enough to me
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by roryisok 9y ago
Yes I suppose it would. But if I had to choose (and I really hope I never do) I'd rather have silicon tetrachloride spilled in my town than nuclear waste.
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by roryisok 9y ago
The risk of injury or death while installing solar may be greater than nuclear by the numbers, but if a guy falls off his roof installing a solar panel it doesn't poison the land around him for hundreds of years
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by roryisok 9y ago
It's probably a little late on this discussion, but I've just discovered that qbrt can also run XUL
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by roryisok 9y ago
It's not that big a deal, but it all adds up eventually. I wouldn't want every .net or java app to install their own versions of .net and java. Sure, my laptop hd probably has enough space for that, but its unnecessary
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by roryisok 9y ago
Slack and discord maybe, but Spotify plays your local music library. Can't do that in the browser (well, maybe with java applets)
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by roryisok 9y ago
I'm going to bookmark this post and refer all figure electron arguments here. You're right. Nobody would ever bother porting these apps to Linux
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by roryisok 9y ago
You forgot GTK. I think he meant that electron had dominated the JavaScript-on-the-desktop scene
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by roryisok 9y ago
> Macbook touting webdevs I'm a web dev but I don't have a MacBook. Does that make me better or worse? Also tell me more about your Amiga Edit: I realise that probably looked like I was having a go, but I was actually trying to
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by roryisok 9y ago
Good point. If you don't have to build for architecture it could run anywhere
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by roryisok 9y ago
I actually liked active Desktop. You could have animated wallpapers and system information embedded on your Desktop back in windows 98, it was a shame it got removed. Nowadays you have to use rain meter if you want to do any of that stuff
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by roryisok 9y ago
That's it, thanks.
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by roryisok 9y ago
There's a little known Microsoft framework that allows html and JavaScript to be compiled into an exe using ie, but its so obscure I couldn't find it after five minutes of googling. And obviously it's not cross platform.
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by roryisok 9y ago
You can install electron globally but if you package your app to target electron prebuilt you'd have to require the use to have installed both it and nodejs already. It's not completely bonkers. It could be possible to make a web
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by roryisok 9y ago
Never heard of this. I wonder why it's not more popular?
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by roryisok 9y ago
Actually I tested both with a hello world app just this week and nw.js used more RAM than electron
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by roryisok 9y ago
It has an upside though. If all apps share a runtime they're tiny in size. Every electron app installs its own version of chromium
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by roryisok 9y ago
my thoughts exactly. mozilla arguably set the ball rolling on this stuff with the Prism project, which allowed turning web-pages into chromeless browser window apps, with their own desktop icons and everything

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