pmilot · HackerTrans

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Why help complete this? If they would be willing to have an open source D2 out there, they can just release the original source code. It would seem even more "ideal" to me.

pmilot

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The save model at the UX level is completely orthogonal to the application file format. You could implement either model with an SQLite DB file.

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From the article:

> You can sterilize and reuse your face shield. It has been evaluated to be compatible with the following chemicals [...]

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Because they don't give tools to law enforcement agencies to enforce their local laws. As a platform, it would be within their power and their right to do so. I think that is preferable to them doing the enforcing themselves.

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7 yıl öncediscuss

I wonder just how strange and alien most locals would find the above comment about their town.

Not trying to be offensive here, I just find the thought of using Google Street View coverage as any kind of metric for such a place so... jarring.

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7 yıl öncediscuss

It's a beautiful excerpt, thanks for sharing. Though I can't help but feel that the author's allegory fits a nebula better than "plain" space.

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Except they are not extinguishing Linux as a whole, simply phasing it out of their own OS offerings. Linux itself is still alive and thriving, and will continue as such even after it has been replaced in Android and/or its successor.

The classic EEE strategy aims to eliminate a competitor entirely. If that was Google's plan (which I doubt), it was doomed to fail from the start.

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8 yıl öncediscuss

The message content is fine, even laudable. It's the tone that rubs a lot of people the wrong way.

I've been choosing gnu tools over non-free ones whenever I could for over ten years now, and I deeply believe in the GPL, but the condenscending attitude that a part of that community displays is annoying and counter-productive.

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I was also dismayed by the lack of choices in smaller smartphones a few months ago when my Nexus 4 died.

I tried an LG G5 for a while but couldn't handle the larger screen.

It's not iOS, but I got a Sony Xperia ZX2 Compact as a replacement and I find that it struck exactly the right balance between enjoyable screen size and being able to operate the phone with one hand.

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8 yıl öncediscuss

Doesn't this Commons Clause goes specifically against one of the core principles of Free Software? The whole idea is that a Free Software license should not restrict what you can do with said software.

Even the most restrictive FS licenses like GPL will not prevent me from selling consulting services around the product licensed under it.

If you combine this clause with a Free Software license, it sounds to me like it is no longer FS. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

pmilot

8 yıl öncediscuss

Not the person you were replying to, but that was unnecessarily mean. Instead of just poking fun at someone else's ignorance, perhaps you can enlighten them?

pmilot

8 yıl öncediscuss

While I generally agree with the "if it ain't broke" sentiment, you have to perform some pretty wild mental gymnastics to end up calling COBOL the "best tool for the job".

Adoption and ease of learning should always be considered when selecting a tech stack for a solution. COBOL's semantics are so foreign to modern programming languages that it makes the language pretty inaccessible.

Also, COBOL's strength is in the generation of reports, but in the end, it's no more expressive for that purpose than any general-purpose programming language coupled with a nice report generation library.

pmilot

8 yıl öncediscuss

From the FAQ:

    It is a work in progress. The current version is a rough draft with many problems and placeholders. I am using gitbook and github to keep track of versions of this website and the book itself.

You definitely do not get that impression just looking at the homepage. Beware!

pmilot

8 yıl öncediscuss

Name conflict warning: There is already a software project named Textile. Here's the homepage: https://txstyle.org/

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8 yıl öncediscuss

This again...

If you really believe that the "decline in quality of the web" can be attributed to web developers, then I'm sorry but you're just not seeing the big picture.

Marketers want more and more precise user tracking and analytics.

Designers want bigger and heavier images (and videos!) embedded directly in a website's homepage. They want custom, web-unfriendly fonts that have to be downloaded.

Financial stakeholders want cleverer, more intrusive ads that can bypass ad blockers.

And users want desktop apps that they can "install" by bookmarking a URL.

What can devs do about this? Nothing. Refuse to engage in it? Someone else will gladly take your job. In the end, there were clear economic incentives for the web to evolve this way. In this capitalistic economy, there was just no other possible direction.

I have ten years of experience in professional web development. I personally hate Javascript too. It's a terrible language and an even more terrible ecosystem. But in the end, you can write good software in anything. What you don't let like about the web today has little to do with the technology it is built on... Or the people developing for it.

pmilot

8 yıl öncediscuss

Others have brought up good points, but I'd also add that the ad-hoc solution only supports calling methods on possibly-null objects. If you want to pass a possibly-null object to a function that does not accept null values, only the monadic solution works.

In fact, you can see this in the example. AFAIK, the ad-hoc example will end up printing a null value, while in the monadic example, print is never called at all.

pmilot

8 yıl öncediscuss

Thank you so much for this, I can't wait to try out the Linux version. Are you using GTK+ for the UI on Linux? Your website does not specify.

I'm asking because high-dpi support on Linux/Wayland is constantly problematic for desktop applications that don't use GTK+ 3 or Qt.

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I think you're absolutely underestimating the consequences of the various antitrust rulings Microsoft had to submit to, especially in the European Union.

Even if Microsoft was no longer a monopoly (which, by the way, is entirely incorrect), you can't always hope for a new emerging market to break up a monopoly. The hold that Google has on digitized data is nearly unassailable at this point.

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8 yıl öncediscuss

Should they also prevent people on Google Chrome to even view the article? Sometimes you have to separate content from container.

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8 yıl öncediscuss

There's a third possibility: The definition of maturity is constantly shifting over generations. Each new generation is not "less mature" than the previous, but it's not an illusion either. There really is a change in the mindset of what it means to be an adult, it's just not a strict one-dimensional scale.

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