andrewxhonson
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Does the readme's last example have sections of one code embedded in the empty space between another code's sections? That's pretty cool.
Maybe the location bar should accept the space but strip it? That would work for input if not reading the URL. Maybe only allowing single consecutive spaces to avoid the address spoofing example. I could go for that.
I would love & natively though. For my wedding (bride&groom.com for example) I looked into faking it with punycode but nothing was close enough, and anything other than an ampersand would have been too hard to input.
This might not be what you're targeting as a use case, but is there any way to do BCE dates?
Had no idea the Unix source was out there, very cool. Weird to see "53 years ago" on GitHub. Thanks!
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andrewxhonson on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @12:31PM
from the ask-hn dept.
What is the oldest collection of code out there, including different versions of the same project, where someone could access it and compare the changes between versions to get a sense of what changed?By publicly-available, I mean where it is made available for anyone who requested it to somehow access it (e.g. from the internet, from a library).With "repo," I'm not imagining it using...
I like this quote about this from Stephen Hawking: [1]
> "One can regard imaginary and real time as beginning at the South Pole, which is a smooth point of space-time where the normal laws of physics hold. There is nothing south of the South Pole, so there was nothing around before the Big Bang," Hawking said.
My layman's reading of that imagines if you move south, get to the south pole, and then keep going the same direction you had been going, you are still moving but no longer going "south." In this metaphor, you could go back in time, be "at" the Big Bang, keep going the direction you had been going in time, but the direction you're going would no longer be "before."
I have no idea how practical this metaphor is and how far it extends, but it's an appealing one to me. Maybe someone else could clarify.
[1] https://www.cnet.com/science/stephen-hawking-tells-degrasse-...
Posted by
andrewxhonson on Thursday November 11, 2021 @11:32PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I've been doing some reading on nonprofits in tech in particular. As I understand it in broad strokes, the Mozilla Foundation originally did all the development work, and later formed the taxable Mozilla Corporation, and handed over development responsibilities to the Corporation, keeping logos and trademarks at the Foundation.One advantage seems to be the ability to make unrestricted income,...
Out of curiosity, did you come up with 'stayup' or where did you come across it? I'm really liking it.
Those exchanges with NFT's don't do anything different from storing that ownership information in a normal database, do they? The novelty in the situations you propose would be that the general public can verify ownership.
> if the reasons are complicated, then the design should represent that complexity. Hiding complications makes everything harder, and excessive minimalism is just as harmful as excessive decoration.
Love the phrasing and idea of a design "representing" complexity accurately.
Loved the Rochester shout-out!
Bookmarked! This is a great idea. I also really love the name—I had considered using it as a name for one of my projects once and was disappointed to feel like it didn't fit. It definitely fits this project though!
I appreciate that you didn't just tell us to cut it out! :)
I just looked at it and ended up having a discussion with someone from Germany about having a Hacker News meeting in Albania when COVID is over. Someone else chimed in, "_________________________the_most_niche_chat_app_ever". I see a future in this :)
EDIT: I almost asked how you knew the blog was posted on a REPL, then saw you're the CEO. Tiny cool internet world.
I'm looking at Subreply, and notice you said it's English-only on the about page. Is that something you enforce? What's your reasoning if you don't mind my asking?
In addition to (and in conjunction with) the other comment about baptism for the dead, it is believed to be a fulfillment of an Old Testament prophecy of pointing "the hearts of the children to their fathers" before the end of the world. Only names and some important life event dates are required for baptisms, but there is also an emphasis on learning much more about them if possible.