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   by soapdog 6y ago

   The amount of misconceptions and arbitrary decisions in that text are over the top.
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   by soapdog 6y ago

   If Jobs was alive, no. Now, who knows... I don't believe so, they seem to be firm on the idea that touch is the realm of iPad and iPhone.
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   Writing a Technical Book(andregarzia.com)

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

   I wish they had spent more time showing those software and how they work, but it was quite good nevertheless.
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   by soapdog 6y ago

   Couple years ago, I wrote a commentary inspired by this post highlighting that there is a readly available HyperCard-like system called LiveCode. I went on to demonstrate the creation of the same project and some more. It is basically the s
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   by soapdog 6y ago

   I don't know about other vendors but as far as I can tell, Microsoft is the only vendor providing an aarch64 build of OpenJDK for Windows thus making it available to all those cute Windows on ARM machines.
7. 337.▲
   by soapdog 6y ago

   I think I'm the minority that really values in-person events. The best experiences for me didn't happened by watching the talks and sessions, but in casual conversations in the corridors and common areas. This is very hard to repl
8. 338.▲
   by soapdog 6y ago

   CGI still work great if you know your constraints and for whom you're building stuff. It is underrated alongside its cousins FCGI and SCGI. A ton of little tools work great as CGIs.
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   by soapdog 6y ago

   half the times people say something is impossible here on HN, what they're actually meaning is "it's not economically viable" or "doesn't make sense from a business perspective". It is not that that modula
10. 340.▲
    by soapdog 6y ago

    I know, but making noise on bugzilla appears to be the only way to get people to notice stuff. Those other channels are too easy to ignore.
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    by soapdog 6y ago

    Instead of flocking here to complain, go to bugzilla at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1693028#c64 and complain there. Mozilla is not reading HN threads, you want something you need to reach out through bugzil
12. 342.▲
    by soapdog 6y ago

    I'm still using my MD player. It will work forever.
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    by soapdog 6y ago

    I enjoyed this article a lot (much like other articles by the OP). One aspect that made me smile is that they're impressed by how few processes are running when they run `ps x | wc -l` on their machine and see about 45 processes. I jus
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    by soapdog 6y ago

    I'm not an expert on this but Jails has a ton more features. You can replicate a docker-like workflow if you want, and there are some scripts to do exactly that. Just an example of something that I don't think you can do with dock
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    by soapdog 6y ago

    It really depends on what you define as text. Does it involve special notations such as math? Can it involve diagrams? If all you mean is prose, as writing sentences in whatever native language you speak, then I must respectfully disagree w
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    Make the BeBox great again: TLS 1.2, inetd and more for PowerPC BeOS R5(oldvcr.blogspot.com)

    11 points by soapdog 6y ago|4 comments
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    by soapdog 6y ago

    I live in central London, about 5 minutes away from Google HQ. Here on I can only get 10Mbps ADSL2+ connections. I ended using a mobile broadband modem for the whole house, at least it gets me up to 20Mbps. Now, before living here, I was li
18. 348.▲
    by soapdog 6y ago

    when I check the download stats for all my books, PDF downloads are more popular than all other formats. I prefer epubs too, but apparently readers really like PDFs...
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    by soapdog 6y ago

    Thanks!
20. 350.▲
    by soapdog 6y ago

    I really like this, it might actually be a cool machine to code a little text editor and use for drafting. Anyone knows what that display is?
21. 351.▲
    by soapdog 6y ago

    Edited that comment, I hope it is better now.
22. 352.▲
    by soapdog 6y ago

    Sorry, I didn't mean to be hostile. I'll rephrase that better.
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    by soapdog 6y ago

    But there are ready-made powertools. There are even really nice "standard"-like libraries such as penlight. Depending on the environment you're using, you can have a Lua distro that already contains all the most useful librar
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    by soapdog 6y ago

    I don't know if I am misremembering it but I believe that in a talk called "How much does it costs?", Roberto (one of the Lua creators) touch a bit on why there is no ++ and --: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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    by soapdog 6y ago

    As I mentioned. It is a toolkit. You can make it 0-based and then use it everywhere as zero based. You don't need to mix it. In my opinion, it is not worthy it. I just mentioned it to highlight that if you truly want that, you can do i
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    by soapdog 6y ago

    hey, I'm the author of the article. Thanks for linking. That being said, I'm always impressed with the fervour and effort that people put into complaining about Lua 1-based indexing. Folks, using a Meta Table, you can change the i
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    by soapdog 6y ago

    What I am arguing on the post is that there are many "flying boats" built with Lua already. There are batteries-included distros of Lua. They don't need to be official, and in my opinion they shouldn't be official.
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    by soapdog 6y ago

    I started typing a really long response here to address many of the comments I have been reading. In the end, it was becoming a huge wall of text, which is not something that I think this site is suitable for. So, I wrote a blog post about
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    Panic Blog – new Audion app build(panic.com)

    3 points by soapdog 6y ago|0 comments
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    by soapdog 6y ago

    I'm using the same techniques in my client-side epub generator.