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by ungzd 8y ago
Compare this to modern video players, especially in web, it's not that bad. No disappearing buttons. No panels appearing from all 4 sides of screen on mouse hover. This QuickTime thing does not appear from nowhere and start autoplaying
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by ungzd 8y ago
AFAIK there are lots of such keyboards nowadays, but almost all are with scissor low-travel keys.
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by ungzd 8y ago
One of problems with columnar/ortholinear/split keyboards is that all of them are 40%-50%ish. I never seen such keyboard with '[' and ']' keys in standard places. Sometimes there's no "'" to
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by ungzd 8y ago
I used Eclipse, Netbeans and Idea, even Visual Studio (old versions) and don't remember using F-keys. F-keys were heavily used in DOS era, but later not much. Modifier keys are even more heavily used in Emacs than these IDEs. You will
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by ungzd 8y ago
Computer monitor filters were very popular in post-USSR until 2000s, and whole paranoia about CRT radiation continued until CRT were fully replaced by LCDs. And seems that such filters are still produced, and sometimes are marketed to be us
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by ungzd 8y ago
I love the idea of low resolution of "virtual screen", moreover it's reduced to 256 colors! It allows to use low-resolution textures, simple cubes and "billboard" sprites. I think this idea can be useful not only in
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by ungzd 8y ago
It was marketed for a long time to use primarily for Java applets. Moreover, it was marketed as if "old sucking java applets was replaced with javafx", in reality it replaced Swing in applets, not applets. Then, for some period of
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by ungzd 8y ago
Numpad would be useful for hacking if it had letter keys for hexadecimal numbers. With only decimal digits, it's only suitable for hacking sales reports in Excel. BTW, it really exists https://www.ipv6buddy.com/ (but d
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by ungzd 8y ago
Just rubber o-rings on regular switches (instead of low-profile switches) might be enough to reduce travel length, and as a bonus to make bottoming out soft and silent, like on rubber dome keyboards. At least on MX, not sure about dampening
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by ungzd 8y ago
> Higher order functions, coroutines, the ability to return multiple values from a function These features are in almost any language nowadays, including most of languages that AOT-compile to native code. Well, maybe without multiple ret
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by ungzd 8y ago
The positive side is that all this Hollywood abomination with rubber suit superheroes and space swords made of petrified light may drive itself to terminal absurdity. The medium of "feature films" as a whole is disgusting and dese
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by ungzd 8y ago
There was Veertu Desktop, but seems that it's dead project now.
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by ungzd 8y ago
Another SaaS that may suddenly stop functioning tomorrow.
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by ungzd 8y ago
Opera had built-in Bittorrent (this feature is now removed, probably after Opera became rebranded version of Chromium).
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by ungzd 8y ago
It's hard to "just send pull request" with such core and large aspect as documentation. You can work on your own and submit bug fixes, improvements, more examples and clarification for existing docs, but making documentation
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by ungzd 8y ago
The problem is not that icons are not self-describing (diskette save icon does not describe "save" operation either), but that these icons look like indistinguishable grey circles until you start to focus attention to them. The sa
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by ungzd 8y ago
I don't think lack of type inference is the primary reason of un-attractiveness of Java compared to dynamic languages. The main reason is bad expressiveness of java's types itself. You can't even have tuples. Neither tuple-li
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by ungzd 8y ago
Is main page created with Powerpoint? /learn/ is good (better than nothing or than ancient PDFs) but no real documentation yet.
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by ungzd 8y ago
> Advertising is one such model, with massive privacy violations required to optimize it Why they took as granted that web ads must be behavior-targeted? It does not even work. Ads were much better targeted in 2005 with context-based tar
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by ungzd 8y ago
TIC-80 is open source (however there is also "pro version" which isn't). "Regular", open source version supports editing only in built-in editor, no external text files. Update: seems that "pro" version is
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by ungzd 8y ago
It was not designed for games at all. Making games in in was too hacky.
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by ungzd 8y ago
PICO-8 uses Lua too.
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by ungzd 8y ago
On blockchain.
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by ungzd 8y ago
Modern websites/services that use phone number as user identifier (or for 2FA) as opposed to email address (i.e. Whatsapp) stop users from switching carriers way more than need to get physical SIM card.
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by ungzd 8y ago
It's still better to link directly than to "tech gadget news" websites (that are so popular on HN): their writers understand even less.
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by ungzd 9y ago
Isn't Jaguar considered "racing" car? How about not just automatic driving, but automatic racing ?
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by ungzd 9y ago
I see lots of Russian scam ads ("earn money easily blah-blah") on Instagram (which uses Facebook's unified ad network). Other category of ads I see here often are ICOs.
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by ungzd 9y ago
> The correct answer is zero. > Payments should be invisible. And should be without user consent. It would be the best mobile-first UX. This technology should be called algorithmic payments !
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by ungzd 9y ago
I see lots of ICO ads on Instagram, which uses Facebook's ad network. Probably they banned them only on Facebook, not in their ad network completely, or just lots of ads left unbanned. Also lots of russian money scam ads posted from te
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by ungzd 9y ago
TLDR: mainstream news media says to read more mainstream news media and pay for it.

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