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   by sidpatil 6y ago

   No JavaScript, no ads. Loads fast, and is highly readable. The top nav bar links to https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/maps/tp_ip_bnr.map?150... — server-side image map. No one uses that technology anymore, as
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   by sidpatil 6y ago

   Historically, wasn't this the case? Companies like IBM, DEC, etc. built highly-proprietary systems that weren't compatible with each other, and were able to set high prices because of it. Only later, in the late 20th century, did
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   by sidpatil 6y ago

   As far as I can tell, Windows 10 doesn't natively allow you to use the older window decoration styles—you'd have to purchase 3rd party software to do so.
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   by sidpatil 6y ago

   Hmm, not sure what issue you were having. I already hear the audio in both channels without that script.
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   by sidpatil 6y ago

   https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23627569
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   by sidpatil 6y ago

   > Has the definition of "AI" changed? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect It would seem that the AI goalposts are always being moved.
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   by sidpatil 6y ago

   There should be a Wirth's Law for UI: UI design is getting whitespace padding more rapidly than screen resolution is increasing.
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   by sidpatil 6y ago

   What would the energy efficiency of such a building be?
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   by sidpatil 6y ago

   What does Docker really have to do with this? It's only mentioned twice in the article. It's like saying "Using Python, SQL, and a virtual machine to analyse the health records of 24M people."
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    JavaScript Style Sheets(en.wikipedia.org)

    2 points by sidpatil 6y ago|0 comments
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    by sidpatil 6y ago

    Gloss was a trend in the mid 2000s, if I remember correctly—around the same time that AJAX started becoming really popular
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    by sidpatil 6y ago

    Easy. Command line interfaces are function over form. Overly-flat UIs are form over function.
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    by sidpatil 6y ago

    This sounds just like dithering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dither
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    by sidpatil 6y ago

    I was expecting a nicely-typeset PDF, but it looks like they simply printed the webpage to a PDF. The content is probably in the public domain though, so maybe I'll take that on as a challenge—to produce a proper PDF edition.
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    by sidpatil 6y ago

    > Exhaust products are hype, Medium posts, and waste heat. FTFY.
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    by sidpatil 6y ago

    > I work with people who use MSTeams and it makes me yearn for Jira. What do you mean by this? As far as I can tell, stock MS Teams and stock Jira are designed for very different goals—they don't fall in the same category.
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    by sidpatil 6y ago

    I like reading stories like this, which help to counter hype and wasted effort. Reminds me of this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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    by sidpatil 6y ago

    > am not sure what is the name of this drawing style Corporate Memphis. https://www.are.na/claire-l-evans/corporate-memphis
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    by sidpatil 6y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_number_mapping
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    by sidpatil 6y ago

    Original dicussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16946951 Outline: https://outline.com/uwvSNG
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    by sidpatil 6y ago

    Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6156238
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    by sidpatil 6y ago

    From what I understand, wired infrastructure is really expensive to roll out, due to all the property rights that need to be negotiated.
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    by sidpatil 6y ago

    > Is it 'E-mail' or 'email' https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html > or 'Internet' or 'internet'? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitali
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    by sidpatil 6y ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23103251
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    by sidpatil 6y ago

    "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." —Carl Sagan
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    by sidpatil 6y ago

    If those rows of depressing tables and power strips are akin to open-plan offices and free desks, then the carrel desk is like the cubicle. I've always loved the carrel desk. It seems perfectly designed to encourage the state of flow
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    by sidpatil 6y ago

    .NET, ActiveX, JScript, etc.
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    by sidpatil 7y ago

    I wish we used more Cyrillic characters in math, just to keep things varied.
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    by sidpatil 7y ago

    As if on cue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22742476
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    by sidpatil 7y ago

    Oh, come on. A sizable amount of undesirable functionality is implemented using JavaScript—ads, tracking, cryptominers, etc. It doesn't seem unreasonable to have some expectations about where JavaScript should and shouldn't be use