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by yodon 4y ago
The tech looks great but the landing page is a poster child for reminding engineers that you are not your customer, even when your product is designed to be used by other engineers. The first full sentence of the first full paragraph on the
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by yodon 4y ago
Office 365 provides multiplayer spreadsheets, in addition to a great desktop client, and the ability to work in-browser if you prefer.
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by yodon 4y ago
Dot-based tactile alphabets are far more readable than other types, because dots maximize the number of broken paper fibers sticking up vertically out of the tops of the paper to tickle the fingertips, which is what Braille readers actually
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by yodon 4y ago
Most people who are blind lost their sight as adults[0], and less than 10% of people who are blind can read Braille[1], so this font is already probably readable by more blind people than Braille is. [0] https://www.who.int/n
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by yodon 4y ago
>> reading ... isn't about letter by letter, but about the impression of entire words > This is a strangely popular myth Praheps that starengly pouplar mtyh about rediang is gronuded in the nautre of cogitnive prcoesess.
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by yodon 4y ago
Does ADA legislation in the US allow use of a font like this, or does the legislation explicitly require Braille text?
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by yodon 4y ago
There are people who feel strongly that one is only for electric, on non-electric, or combustion, or thermodynamic, or other classes of thing, kind of like a boat-vs-ship distinction. It is certainly more common to talk about an electric mo
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by yodon 4y ago
You're right - Norvig is a much easier name for me to remember than Proebstring, which probably has something to do with why I misfiled the law mentally.
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by yodon 4y ago
Based on the URL I thought this was going to be some kind of C#-specific thing. Finding a technology preview for a radically improved cross-language code search capability within GitHub was an unexpectedly nice surprise.
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by yodon 4y ago
I can't help but read Steve Yegge's announcement in the context of Novig's Law ("compiler research leads to a doubling of compute power every 18 years")[0]. If his presence and enthusiasm can get the compiler commun
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by yodon 4y ago
I had Azure AKS monitoring turned on for a minuscule, essentially unused hobby project. After about four months the monitoring costs suddenly exploded from about $4/mo to about $4k/mo. No idea what happened and MSFT support couldn
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by yodon 4y ago
Oh, the hours we could all save if we didn't spend so many hours reading about, trying, designing, and writing better todo apps. I'm sure somebody has an idea for a better kind of todo app that would help with this.
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AI converts between hundreds of programming languages(codelanguageconverter.com)
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Very nice - Any chance your roadmap includes emitting a set of TypeScript (or in my fantasy world C#) types for the schema types one defines in the CMS? [UPDATE - looking inside the schema definition files it looks like maybe you're al
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by yodon 4y ago
Unique means it's the only one like it. It can't be more only one than another thing. It can be more unusual or more interesting but it can't be more only one.
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by yodon 4y ago
There are also dictionaries that say the definitions of infinite include "great or very great." I don't think most people at HN would accept those sloppy definitions of infinite any more than we should accept those sloppy def
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by yodon 4y ago
All snowflakes are unique. Would a red snowflake be more unique? You might personally find the color axis more interesting, but it's just one of a huge number of axes along which the snowflakes are different. The red one is more intere
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by yodon 4y ago
Unique means there's only one thing like it. You're advocating there's "more only one thing like this" of something than something else. The word that takes qualifiers is "unusual." People commonly say &qu
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by yodon 4y ago
Infinite is a word like forever. We have no problem understanding "ten minutes more than forever" makes no sense (other than as hyperbole), but a surprising number of people are unable to grasp that "one more than infinite&qu
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by yodon 4y ago
Frontend: React/NextJS hosted in Vercel (TypeScript + mix of Tailwind & Bootstrap) Backend: Orleans + .NET Minimal API's hosted in Azure Container Apps Real-time PubSub: SignalR Deployment: GitHub Actions
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by yodon 4y ago
I find it an fascinating insight into the HN mind that with about 50 comments posted, Discord is mentioned in about half the comments but Teams currently appears nowhere in the discussion.
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by yodon 4y ago
Software is sold as SaaS for the same reason games are multiplayer. Both are driven by the need to stop your app from being pirated. The recurring revenue piece is just a side effect of adopting the only effective anti-piracy mechanism ever
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by yodon 4y ago
AGPL Section 13 as you quote it discussed the interaction of AGPL and GPL v3. It has nothing to do with the scenario the parent commenter was discussing involving the interaction of AGPL and closed-source non-GPL code.
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by yodon 4y ago
Are you seriously arguing that Microsoft is intentionally trying to "extinguish" it's own IP? I realize that "Embrace, extend, extinguish" is a hopelessly tired and outdated meme, but trying to freshen it up by argu
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Apple figured out how to get your Apple devices to talk to each other to do the Bluetooth handoff automatically disconnecting/reconnecting your AirPods from your iPhone to your MacBook, iPad, Mac Mini, etc., and back, without you havin
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What sort of research/problems/questions are you looking at?
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Modern office buildings only have plumbing available in the center of the building. The flooring is designed to function as a highly efficient membrane. If you start punching holes in the flooring to place plumbing and toilets away from the
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by yodon 4y ago
"The future is already here, it's just not very evenly distributed" - William Gibson
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Does anyone know if there is a readily available hardware or software version of this (presumably using a laptop monitor or LED panel or similar instead of a rotating screen)?
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Following up on this, the NSwag docs are definitely not as user friendly as the EasySdk site, but I was able to install and run the windows GUI app for NSwag and compare handling of a moderately large swagger file. EasySDK generated a TypeS

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