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by untog 6y ago
Non-AAA games seem like a huge target as well. Just look at the Steam store. The web would be a really interesting medium for indie games.
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by untog 6y ago
One recent innovation that (IMO) hasn’t got much attention is OffscreenCanvas. Even with WebGL, JS has been sorely limited by the fact that it’s single threaded. OffscreenCanvas lets you pass a drawing context off to a separate thread, or m
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by untog 6y ago
I really don’t think that’s true at all. Just think of all the spreadsheets out there in the world: they aren’t programming by the strictest definition, but they have most of the components. To me, programming is simply an acquired skill. T
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by untog 6y ago
edgy
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by untog 6y ago
I have been really happy with a HomeBridge and HomeKit setup. The only downside is the eventual hardware: for various boring reasons I was forced into getting Lutron smart light switches, and they require a hub. That hub has a Telnet connec
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by untog 6y ago
They have an app called “handjoob” so safe to say it’s deliberate. And the site shows all male contributors, you say?
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by untog 6y ago
That’s your personal experience. But I can guarantee that if you rewind a few years you’d be able to find many people who would say that Snapchat gave them the kind of experience Instagram never did, or whatever. Snapchat was huge. TikTok
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by untog 6y ago
I’m not an expert in TikTok by any means but the videos I’ve seen are quite different to the ones I used to see on Vine.
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by untog 6y ago
It was a huge story yesterday that Trump has said he’s going to ban it. And while it’s not clear exactly how they’d ban it, it certainly isn’t impossible. They could tell major telcos to block IP ranges. Or tell Apple and Google to pull the
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by untog 6y ago
Couldn’t you have said the same about Snapchat a few years ago? Not that it’s about to shut down, but it’s definitely not the white hot app it was hyped to be.
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by untog 6y ago
This is maybe a slight tangent, but it’s made me reflect on how much had changed since the Napster era. If it launched today then Apple and Google would pull it from their app stores immediately. That kind of central control simply didn’t e
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by untog 6y ago
Teens would be able to figure it out within minutes. It’s not difficult, it just isn’t required knowledge for most users (yet?)
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by untog 6y ago
I don’t think this is a particularly helpful path to take the conversation down. Both Trump and China can be threats to democracy, we don’t need to play one off the other to make one look better by comparison.
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by untog 6y ago
> I should be able to drop PDF and other files onto my phone by dragging them into the aforementioned native interface. Apple have gotten pretty far along that road with Airdrop, it works great. As for the rest, MS tried some of that stu
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by untog 6y ago
In many ways Windows Phone came out at the wrong time (i.e. way too late) but it felt like a real sweet spot for UI. Android had stalled out on 2.x for a year or more while they focused on tablet UI (woops) and iPhone was starting to feel v
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by untog 6y ago
It's surely not that simple. Android allows Google to gather all kinds of location data that makes Google Maps much more effective, not to mention advertising. I doubt that gets categorised as Android profit.
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by untog 6y ago
There’s a difference between “regulation is a good reason” and “the regulations that were created are good”. Taxi medallions is a good example: NYC streets were flooded with taxis and it was slowing down traffic. And there weren’t enough pa
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by untog 6y ago
> If I’ve gotten counterfeits they were certainly of the quality i was expecting from the brand name and I really don’t care Except that the other end of that spectrum is kids toys with lead in them. Or, hell, adult toys with lead in the
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by untog 6y ago
I used to live in the UK (and still visit often) but now live in the US. You'd be amazed how far behind US banking is, even compared to the UK ten years ago.
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by untog 6y ago
They've described part of TypeScript's approach. .rbs files: have types .rb files: no types .d.ts files: have types .ts files: have types It's a pretty significant difference. So they didn't "follow typescript&#x2
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by untog 6y ago
> As they mention in the post, they followed typescript's approach, here. They didn't, though! That's what's confusing me. TypeScript has inline types. .d.ts files are typically for JavaScript files that don't ha
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by untog 6y ago
> Type annotation takes away from readability. I don't disagree, but I think it's a very minor issue given that it's trivial to use color to highlight code these days. By comparison having to switch between two files (and
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by untog 6y ago
I think OP's point is that it's a very small category and one HN users probably self-select for.
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by untog 6y ago
That’s a very easy thing to say when you’re not the one on the receiving end of these “transient problems”, though. Would you tell a homeless person to their face that their poverty is a shame but it’s the price we need to pay for progress?
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by untog 6y ago
A lot of Americans don’t leave the country anyway, only 42% have passports. I actually don’t think that’s as damning as many make it out to be: foreign vacations are expensive and the US provides an incredible variety of vacation spots at a
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by untog 6y ago
They don’t care where the tourists come from but they still want a healthy number of tourists to keep the industry going. Americans form a sizeable block of that. And yes, plenty of people complain about American tourists. Frankly with good
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by untog 6y ago
Taxing does involve taxing people, yes. It's not a universal sin.
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by untog 6y ago
> We're better off with something like UBI I strongly agree... but we don’t have UBI. So for me it’s still a moral dilemma. That person is still out of a job and might be out of a job for a very long time if the economy is weak. Yes
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by untog 6y ago
Or fund it with an increased level of taxpayer revenue, the same way other public services are funded?
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by untog 6y ago
Match looks exactly how Rust’s match works and it’s one of my favourite parts of the language. Happy to see it elsewhere too.

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