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by veidr 8y ago
I like Swift, too, and if it's a rap battle between Swift and Java, I think Swift has to emphasize C interop, and more recently (or perhaps "soonly"?) Python interop. But regardless, we're gonna have to give it a few yea
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by veidr 8y ago
While it wouldn't solve the problem in and of itself, I think one mechanism that could help mitigate this phenomenon would be to compel companies like YouTube and Facebook to (somehow) disclose what their algorithms select for promotio
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by veidr 8y ago
That seems consistent with what the author is saying. Working inside of YouTube, he was in a position to see that the algorithms heavily promoted Brexit. However, for people not directly involved in YouTube's operations, this is not ne
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by veidr 8y ago
The point being made is that, in order to promote the divisiveness that yields more ad revenue (through increased "watch time"), the YouTube algorithms disproportionately promote positions that are morally wrong, factually incorre
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by veidr 8y ago
Wait, I'm confused: do you think there are only ~700 trans people identifying as female in the world, or do you think there are only 7 of them in the UK?
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by veidr 8y ago
Yes, I have been doing software development in Japan for the past decade. Of course you are right that no sane person would contemplate this calendar for any purpose other than user-facing display, and even then only where it is absolutely
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by veidr 8y ago
Since nobody else has said it in this thread: wow, some of your photos are fucking awesome! I especially loved the pensive aahhhdammit face composed of the moon on orange sky with three birds.
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by veidr 8y ago
Is that a reality-based statement, based on some sort of data? If so, please share. Since I can remember, I've had episodes of pretty gnarly insomnia, and have sought all manner of medical and other help, from mainstream to fairly ridi
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by veidr 8y ago
That's pretty interesting.. I already thought it was a reasonable engineering decision, though, because of one other factor: the bar for what a screen should look like has gotten massively higher over the last several years. On 1x di
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by veidr 8y ago
Specifically: https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/coming-soon-sass-support-and-m...
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by veidr 8y ago
Hmm, I have never seen a conflict like that with any of the Electron apps I use daily: VSCode, Cypress, Wire, and (blecch) Slack. What app was that, and what platform did you see it on? (I use the apps mentioned above on macOS, Windows 10,
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by veidr 8y ago
Pooo Opportunity people put dd
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by veidr 8y ago
Well, I can't say for sure if if would benefit you, but the one thing I found useful about it is that it makes it easy to do code reviews without checking out the whole project. At work we use GitHub, so to do a code review I have to c
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by veidr 8y ago
People do want this. If you asked me what I want, in terms of software, a great cloud IDE is near the top of my list. I didn’t want this before I had kids, though. But now that I do, I greatly value being able to stop work suddenly, even
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by veidr 8y ago
I programmed mainly in Objective-C from ~2000 (Rhapsody beta) and resisted even learning Swift until Apple finally confirmed they were definitely going to open-source it. So about a decade of objc. 1.) I love working in Swift. It would not
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by veidr 8y ago
Yes, sometimes when editing existing text (as opposed to writing new lines sequentially. OTOH, I have had that same issue occasionally with every editor that auto-closes that kind of element, haven't you? I assume there's a perfor
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by veidr 8y ago
Hi! Okay sure, I will tell you! I am rooting for you guys. 1. Presence/active device detection. Often I am sitting right at my computer actively chatting with somebody, and yet my phone sitting on the desk right next to it is blowing
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by veidr 8y ago
I had the same problem recently. After failing to get my friends and wife to use Keybase (they tried it, but it just doesn't work on mobile beyond basic text chats with no image pasting). Requirements were: secure, iOS/Android&#x2
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by veidr 8y ago
There are a lot of apps where you want to be on the desktop and mobile (with your data in Le Nuage, say). I've done a fair it of that kind of Mac/iOS development (although not in the last couple years). It was always super annoyin
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by veidr 8y ago
> lack of a great pro desktop FWIW, I have had every generation of Power Mac G5 and every generation of Mac Pro except the very first, and the iMac Pro is by far my favorite of all of them. It's the best Mac ever made, not just in a
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by veidr 8y ago
It has so little travel (like < 1mm) that it feels like typing on an iPad, and there are shitstorms of complaints on the Internet that tiny particles of dust get under the keys and then either a key doesn't work or it enters 2 c
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by veidr 8y ago
> emoji generally does not require translation to different languages Really good point. I don't find watching a keynote speeches about emoji at all exciting, either. But I work on a mixed-language engineering team with a lot of (ex
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by veidr 8y ago
Oh, it's in those two footnotes: Apple pre-announced that they were going to open source Swift, and then they did, and they did a great job and there was much rejoicing. But there was some skepticism, because Steve Jobs had previously
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by veidr 8y ago
My take on that is: a.) A huge part of GitHub's value is their default-ness . Anybody can build a website UI to git, although it is a lot of engineering work. Gitlab and Bitbucket are somewhere in that equation. People uneasy about MS
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by veidr 8y ago
I am sad this HN topic isn't trending up more, because THAT would change EVERYTHING . (By which I mean everything whiny MS-skeptics have said today (myself included).) It would be a knockout PR move, suddenly sucking all the wind ou
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by veidr 8y ago
GitLab is a lot like Firefox, or "Linux on the desktop" in that way. It's what a lot of us want to use, but the less-open but more-polished option has always seemed the more pragmatic choice. But that can change. Recently (
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by veidr 8y ago
Yes, that's true; the radical change in smoking environment is only in Tokyo so far. I assume that's because Tokyo is first though, and we will see similar developments in Osaka, Sapporo, etc. over the next 5-10 years... but I g
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by veidr 8y ago
To a large extent, sure, but this kind of norm-signaling is also actually effective as a change-driver in Japan. For instance, I can't believe how fast Tokyo converted to nonsmoking restaurants. When I got back here in 2008, after a de
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by veidr 8y ago
I live in Tokyo, and and if I become a billionaire, the second thing I will do (after starting a thrash metal guitar university for girls) will be to commission a Planet Earth II level documentary about the crows here. They are fucking HU
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by veidr 8y ago
Hmm, I'm American, so I can tell you Puerto Rico absolutely is part of the United States. My understanding is that Chechnya is part of Russia in a similar way, but I'm not an expert there, so maybe I'm wrong. If so, then I

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