the_gipsy

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1. 1621.▲
   by the_gipsy 5y ago

   > No references to physical packaging, digital packaging, or retailers (for example, vinyl or CD). Jesus fucking Christ
2. 1622.▲
   by the_gipsy 5y ago

   They do care if the experience doesn't work right, even if they don't understand why.
3. 1623.▲
   by the_gipsy 5y ago

   > The majority of routers for React, and other SPA frameworks, do this out of the box. This has been a solved problem for half a decade at least. A website has to go out of its way to mess this up. 99% of SPAs break history related featu
4. 1624.▲
   by the_gipsy 5y ago

   Yes, people would just script netstat. I mean the argument is getting ridiculous, as another sibling points out, cURL would be nowhere today if it wasn't FOSS.
5. 1625.▲
   by the_gipsy 5y ago

   You're proving the point, nobody would pay a monthly subscription to use curl over netcat.
6. 1626.▲
   by the_gipsy 5y ago

   Way to troll everybody
7. 1627.▲
   by the_gipsy 5y ago

   Are these figures x/5 weekdays, a range of daily hours, or something else?
8. 1628.▲
   by the_gipsy 5y ago

   I'm not advocating for that! Just that Esc/Mode shouldn't be far. Vim uses Esc for mode switching because the author wrote vim on a keyboard that had Esc where now Capslock is on a modern keyboard.
9. 1629.▲
   by the_gipsy 5y ago

   Caps as Esc works like a charm outside of vim too!
10. 1630.▲
    by the_gipsy 5y ago

    The easiest are F and J, the home keys where your index fingers rest. The more you have to "reach away", the harder it is to always correctly reset your hand.
11. 1631.▲
    by the_gipsy 5y ago

    ...and popularity doesn't correlate with quality.
12. 1632.▲
    by the_gipsy 5y ago

    I continuous happiness the key success, or is continuous success the key to happiness?
13. 1633.▲
    by the_gipsy 5y ago

    I don't know that!
14. 1634.▲
    by the_gipsy 5y ago

    > My impression is that Steve Jobs treated 3rd party software on "his devices" as a necessary inconvenience. That feels "evil" pretty fast, for someone trying to get his software published. Software that only works on
15. 1635.▲
    by the_gipsy 5y ago

    UnladenSwallow
16. 1636.▲
    by the_gipsy 5y ago

    Maybe he did get a license of some sort to do it.
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    by the_gipsy 5y ago

    Nobody wants to be blamed for something not being in the logs, probably in production. So everybody adds everything to the logs, you can always filter out the noise but not the reverse, right? And very soon the logs are completely unusabl
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    by the_gipsy 5y ago

    Can Web Push Notifications not also be considered as an alternative? They are quite different from SSE and WebSockets in some aspects. Using Web Workers for some core feature shouldn't be considered lightly. But the end result is pub&#
19. 1639.▲
    by the_gipsy 5y ago

    If you're burnt out, you're most likely being suckered.
20. 1640.▲
    by the_gipsy 5y ago

    > I don’t want to engage, lest I get sucked in. :-) Was about to suggest this
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    by the_gipsy 5y ago

    > The users don't care if you wrote it in C++ or fortran as long as it performs well, doesn't eat all their ram, or create giant backdoors. In the short term, yes. In the long term however, this strategy could have been cruci
22. 1642.▲
    by the_gipsy 5y ago

    Yet apple always aggressively pushed their native app platform over web protocols, which would allow much more privacy.
23. 1643.▲
    by the_gipsy 5y ago

    > And now that iOS Safari is adding push notification Not there yet, and also a decade late.
24. 1644.▲
    by the_gipsy 5y ago

    I recently moved out of the city too, and everything in the article resonates with me. It's just that people that move into the city usually do it to get a better job. If you have been born there, yea, it probably feels like what the
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    by the_gipsy 5y ago

    > You go to cities for commerce, optionality, stimulation, sex, culture, bright lights, and the feeling of being relevant. Cities tell you that, whatever human life is about, you are right on top of it. No, Sasha, most people go to the c
26. 1646.▲
    by the_gipsy 5y ago

    My kdice/dicewars clone written in Elm: https://qdice.wtf No ads, no plan to monetize.
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    by the_gipsy 5y ago

    In the kitchensink demo, the keyboard doesn't show when clicking the input, on mobile.
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    by the_gipsy 5y ago

    Proper sum types, if only for proper error handling. The if err != nil dance is extremely verbose and error prone with consecutive checks.
29. 1649.▲
    by the_gipsy 5y ago

    Oh no you don't want them
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    by the_gipsy 5y ago

    Sell that million dollar Bay Are house and move somewhere better but less expensive. Don't worry.