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by thosakwe 7y ago
It shouldn't have been flagged - it's on topic for this forum. What HN needs is a downvote button for stories, because flagging is extremely misused.
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by thosakwe 7y ago
I think you might have misinterpreted the previous comment, because it wasn't implying that any one paradigm is better/worse.
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by thosakwe 7y ago
Why is this flagged? Stop using a moderation feature as a downvote (or maybe the flag threshold should be raised higher).
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by thosakwe 7y ago
For anyone else wondering, IPA = International Phonetic Alphabet.
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by thosakwe 7y ago
The "blah blah this could have just been a library instead of a DSL blah blah no one will use this blah blah" conversation always comes up, but always ignores the fact that even if it were just a library, that alone wouldn't
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Writing Your Second Operating System(thosakwe.com)
2 points by thosakwe 7y ago|0 comments
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by thosakwe 7y ago
This is literally the definition of FUD.
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by thosakwe 7y ago
Sounds like confirmation bias to me.
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by thosakwe 7y ago
Agreed, especially since it's often that the bad actors aren't even human, and simply explosive in number. Moderation is hard, but ignoring it is a recipe for disaster.
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by thosakwe 7y ago
What I got from this article is that the main reason to return to Usenet is the lack of requiring moderators. Wouldn't you still need moderators on a big enough Usenet instance? There's also the issue of what happens in an unmoder
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by thosakwe 7y ago
There are already at least two languages like this I can think of with good standard libraries, and good frontend support (Elm and Dart). But adoption of both is low. I don't think it's a coincidence, nor do I think it's just
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by thosakwe 7y ago
Nothing wrong with highlighting areas for improvement, though.
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by thosakwe 7y ago
IANAL. I'm also assuming this was an HTTP client library. How could this possibly be a violation of copyright, if it's just a client that accesses their API? Their API is not truly "private," just undocumented. If you di
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by thosakwe 7y ago
Firstly, Rest In Peace, Bill Manning. Gone too soon. Condolences to his family. As for Kobe, TBF, it wasn't the mods, but the users (via flagging). That being said, that definitely rubbed me the wrong way. There were at least 3 posts I
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by thosakwe 7y ago
Honestly, I don't know how much that matters. An interesting idea will always bring early adopters. The question is if they will stay and convert.
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by thosakwe 7y ago
I don't think it's possible to achieve both 1 and 2 simultaneously. If all of the software is specifically made to be integrated with other components, wouldn't you necessarily be locked into that single system?
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by thosakwe 7y ago
This is a sad day for open-source at large, as well. I think it's very important to keep having conversations about proper stewardship of open-source projects, until we eventually reach new models that are more fair/reasonable.
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Contribute, or Die: An Open Source Mantra(thosakwe.com)
1 points by thosakwe 7y ago|0 comments
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by thosakwe 7y ago
Honestly, I wish more developers were familiar with the Linux command line. It definitely has a learning curve, so it makes sense that people avoid it if it's not necessary to launch their app. That being said, there's a lot of va
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by thosakwe 7y ago
I've started appreciating Makefiles a lot after using them more. It's honestly the simplest way to batch together tasks that might depend on each other (you can even use them to deploy applications).
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by thosakwe 7y ago
Are you seriously "All Lives Matter"-ing this? Not just that, but nothing you said adds value to the conversation.
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by thosakwe 7y ago
> And people here are very biased towards Dart. "Here" as in HN? Some of the comments on every Flutter post are people complaining about Dart, "why didn't you choose Kotlin," etc.
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by thosakwe 7y ago
I don't agree with this, really in any sense at all. Firstly, you could argue that using battle-tested projects with thousands of hours behind them can yield you better performance, as well as reducing training time because more new em
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by thosakwe 7y ago
Does anybody have resources on the math behind ML? I hit a dead end using Python frameworks because it was a black box, and I simply lacked the underlying knowledge.
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by thosakwe 7y ago
It's probably not as simple as I'm about to make it out to be, but to me, it just seems that positivity is not rewarded nearly as much as negativity. How many people will upvote a Show HN on the new page, opposed to an article abo
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by thosakwe 7y ago
When you post your project that you've spent hours of hard work on to HN, expect a lot of criticism, with very little of it actually related to the purpose of your work, and even less of it to be actually constructive criticism.
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by thosakwe 7y ago
Dart has static typing, and hot reloading in its VM, so it's definitely possible.
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by thosakwe 7y ago
There must be some sort of Betteridge's Law about this. I swear, every time I see the word "hackers" in a headline, it's always about either script kiddies, phishing scams, simple passwords, or some other trivial breach.
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by thosakwe 7y ago
On the surface I agree with this, but you don't necessarily need to make a new browser to provide an alternative. Writing a browser is a fool's errand, but there are like a bajillion Chromium forks all focused on "privacy&quo
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by thosakwe 7y ago
This is a copy of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21809282 .

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