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I really wish OmniGroup had the vision and resources to bring OmniGraffle into some kind of shared collaborative editing world, whether by developing a web app, or incorporating some kind of collaborative, versioned backend for "corpor
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> Loved the books as a kid and one of the first programs I wrote was a straight up port of one of the books into the computer Same.
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This seems to simply be how Patreon operates: yearly layoffs
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Very low drag on a stationary bike: that's the secret.
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It's been said that Perl is a write-once, read-never language. Applescript is the opposite: read-many, write-never.
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She didn't say the words were themselves violence, which was the original claim. She said that transphobia opens trans people to violence. Those are different things.
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> There is a trend on the political left right now that basically equates speech directly with violence (e.g. asking whether a man is capable of getting pregnant is violence) I must admit I have not seen an argument like this outside of
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> impossible to visit family or friends who live in car-centric places Traditional car rentals like Avis, Hertz, etc., as well as carshare services like Gig or Zipcar enable this if you don't already own a car. Many people I know in
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> Other people’s websites are the OG social network, and the optimist in me is going to riff on MLK’s quote: the social arc of the internet is long, but it bends towards individual websites. I agree with the first part, individual websit
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You're likely observing the fallout from meth and opiod addiction, not psychedelics
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sheet, I remember being eight, and a tractor pull would have been just about the best thing ever. And I grew up twenty minutes from Disneyland. Loved it as a kid, but also loved the Pomona Fairgrounds -- LA County Fair -- and the drag strip
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> Just because you read about an attraction that seems cool, is 1,500 miles away, and is the best of breed nationwide, doesn't mean you need to or even get to experience it. FOMO is real and amplified by media. Most medium-size citi
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"It [Amiga] uses a workbench metaphor (in place of the more common desktop metaphor) for representing file system organisation." Is "workbench" truly a different metaphor from "desktop," or is it just a differe
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Cool site! The title promises more than is delivered: computer user interfaces existed before the GUI, and interfaces to physical machines in general have existed for centuries, and a lot of those antecedents have influenced present-day com
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The author simply disagrees with the the HTTP RFC and a couple decades and many of thousands of implementors. There's nothing wrong with that, and many implementors and applications have certainly taken the tack the author suggests --
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Whether a particular unit is itself necessary seems a question independent of whether its training is necessary. At this point, the US military has determined that having paratroop units available is a useful capability in war. Arguing whet
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I don't know anyone who uses Facebook creatively or as a primary vehicle for widely-shared creative or entertaining content. Certainly nothing like Instagram or TikTok.
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Eat Up Martha
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It's funny, I moved to SF and landed a tech job, in that order. I moved to the Bay Area for certain things above a job. I know there are others like me, perhaps not a majority of the HN crowd, but I quite like it here and it would take
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Genuine question: what does homebrew do to market itself? I found about it word of mouth many years ago, and haven’t noticed the marketing. Great docs, website and overall experience though. Kinda sells itself
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Nurture your hobbies
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Time-to-market with a viable product is extremely important. In the case of Rails in particular, the developer experience is such that even a very green programmer (for example, an entrepreneur who has taken a class or two) can bootstrap a
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Um, because programming machines to do repetitive tasks has been an undeniable component in vector of progress for science, business and art for the last 200 years.
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There are some paradigms like this option-drag-resizes-both-sides one which have antecedents at least as far back as MacDraw circa 1984.
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I feel like PHP was the first big blow to Perl's king-of-the-web status. Python and especially Ruby+Rails knocked Perl off many people's radars for good.
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I have one of those Zocchihedrons, a d100. They missed the d30, with diamond-shaped faces, also a completely useless die.
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For you kiddos and newbs to startups/corporations out there, nothing anyone says is worth anything unless it's in a legally binding contract. When your boss says, "your department is super important to our company," that
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playing music, writing, learning a foreign language, and certain types of coding all tickle my brain in similar ways
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I see it as a workplace version of a lot of the underpinnings of Strunk & White's Elements of Style: Strive for clarity and unambiguity. Jokes are by definition, the opposite of this. The humor of many jokes is found in the ambigui
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I like that apple is trying to reduce waste by not including copper and plastic that is superfluous for a high percentage of phone buyers. Can Apple not simply offer a two iphone SKUs, "with charger"; "without charger"?

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