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by ximm 6y ago
My first thought: How nice it is to hear someone speak as if they were standing in a large hall, even if in reality it is just their living room.
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by ximm 6y ago
IMHO what is missing in the analysis is hosting. Sure, a good tool to create HTML/CSS is important, but you also need a server to put that on. The author is just glossing over that fact in their analysis for Weebly/WiX/Square
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by ximm 6y ago
For anyone interested in the concept of aria selectors: I created a pure JS implementation a while back: https://github.com/xi/aria-api/
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by ximm 6y ago
There is now a bunch of userland tools that use cgroups: docker, flatpak, systemd, bubblewrap, firejail, …. Unfortunately non of these is really simple to use. For example, `systemd-analyze security` lists 75 different options. I understand
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by ximm 6y ago
Was the pun intended? https://github.com/emersion/grim
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by ximm 6y ago
The inverse is also true though: We not only have the domain knowledge it takes to build software for ourselves, we also have the domain knowledge to use that software to its full potential. Meteorologist do not have the deep knowledge to a
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by ximm 6y ago
Does someone know of something similar for C?
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by ximm 6y ago
Can you give an example on when you would need a link that does not link anywhere? The only cases I can think of are better served by `<button type="button">`.
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by ximm 6y ago
I can do one better: Just learn to use the standard unix tools directly. If you keep stacking wrappers upon wrappers and grow to depend on them you will be totally lost once you have to work on another machine. It also makes it easier to e.
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by ximm 6y ago
The article is bikeshedding; still upvoting for the poem!
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by ximm 6y ago
I recently rewrote my fork of cplay and got fed up with curses. Boy do I wish I had found this article earlier because it describes everything I painfully had to cobble together. This is great! Just one nit: Doing stuff in a signal handler
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by ximm 6y ago
Sounds like the author wants to use debian
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by ximm 6y ago
This might be a good spot to point out that there is actually a BCP 47 language tag for this: en-simple. I would love to see more adoption. More info: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf-languages/yVTGZ
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by ximm 6y ago
I think it is helpful to split the application web into 2 distinct categories: - server-side applications: documents with the option to add/change content via forms (think hacker news) - client-side applications: full blown application
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by ximm 6y ago
> components are pretty uncontested these last few years I don't think so. Many people still use traditional frontends, i.e. static or server-rendered HTML and CSS. Components are newer and there is still more to talk about, so th
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by ximm 6y ago
This reminds me of a post by Steve Klabnik: https://steveklabnik.com/writing/what-comes-after-open-sourc... In that he argues that open source is less about publishing the code and more about a culture of developing in
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by ximm 6y ago
AFAIK peer-to-peer is about preventing censorship, but the author seems to assume it is about preventing surveillance. So a large part of the criticism is missing the point. Still, it is a problem that these systems are not preventing both
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by ximm 6y ago
This seems to be in a similar spirit to https://patchbay.pub/ . I love these small services, but I still don't have an idea how they can be scaled up: If you want to use them for anything serious you probably have to pr
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by ximm 6y ago
The HTML of the frontend is messed up (<head> is duplicated)
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by ximm 6y ago
I recently renamed the default branch in one of my projects to main. The biggest issue I have had was that somewhere in git there is still something called master so that it still autocompletes. I have accidentally created a master branch s
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There will be no fully-functional version of Enigmail for Thunderbird 78(admin.hostpoint.ch)
3 points by ximm 6y ago|0 comments
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by ximm 6y ago
I don't think you are necessarily wrong. But in some way the text also says the exact opposite: That people will understand 0% until they have a magical "Aha" moment by which they will understand 100%.
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by ximm 6y ago
> the primary aim of programming is to have the programmers build a theory I don't agree with that statement, but I don't think the primary aim is to produce a program either. I believe the primary aim is to enable users to use
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by ximm 6y ago
So if reading code means reconstructing a theory, that could explain why we have so much NIH.
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by ximm 6y ago
I am starting to wonder whether we should split the web into "document mode" with only small subset of javascript APIs and "application mode". This could actually spark some innovation because the threshold to build a d
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by ximm 7y ago
I think it is great that they are working on the default styles. Browser stylesheets feel almost as if they were frozen in time to the point where you realistically have to overwrite them. My hope would be that one day the default styles ar
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News.Y Combinator.com is not hosted green – Checker by The green Web Foundation(thegreenwebfoundation.org)
1 points by ximm 7y ago|0 comments
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by ximm 7y ago
How can anyone take this seriously? Yes of course just building windmills and solar panels will not solve everything on its own. That is why massive investments in active control in the grid and more research about backup sources is require
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by ximm 7y ago
You are defining equality via inputs. OP is defining equality via outputs, as in "society is obligated to even out the different starting conditions".
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by ximm 7y ago
But what if the person actually is a moron or -- maybe more likely -- just really insecure. Just because a person is a moron doesn't make it right to treat them badly. But yes, I really agree with your comment: This is not usually an i

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