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Re:Generate Flowcharts from Text on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @05:52PM (#26322259)
Input text in https://www.bpmn-sketch-miner.ai/doc/00-intro.html to create a BPMN, download it and edit in Camunda Modeler?
Re:Show HN: Dumbdown – A dumb alternative to Markdown on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @12:21PM (#25849049)
As someone that could never get into Markdown, this looks promising to me!
Re:I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit on Thursday February 13, 2020 @02:41PM (#22320735)
Caution: NewPipe may cause your entire Google account to get locked.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21247759

Re:Bash $* and $@ (2017) on Sunday January 12, 2020 @10:09PM (#22031527)
> back in the 1990's ... everybody in VLSI design expected you to know Perl.

Has this changed at all?

This could blow Nebo out of the water.
Keyboard-only input is not antithetical to discoverability. You can have a menu system (including top-menu bar) with clear hotkeys displayed.
Re:Generating a Java program with 90% less code on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @12:30PM (#21704425)
What if the IDE did not traverse a specific file during the global search and replace?

Are you relying on a correct and comprehensive project/workspace setup within the IDE?

Re:Today’s Top Tech Skills on Sunday November 24, 2019 @01:18PM (#21622214)
I think we are seeing the difference between software development and software engineering laid bare.

The distinction is similar to a property developer and a civil engineer. Both create buildings, but one does it at scale by offloading functions to known entities and prepackaged solutions, while the other understands one domain in depth.

Both are needed in any team or organization, because not every solution needs to be "engineered" (a Dockerized Redis instance without SSL or auth behind a corporate firewall may survive untouched for a decade), but sometimes you have to engineer something that withstands gale-force winds at 1000 ft height.

Re:Google Kills Cloud Print on Friday November 22, 2019 @10:49PM (#21612332)
"250M printers compromised by Google Cloud Print" is an ugly look. It won't matter at that time that Google rescued a beloved product from being Deep-Sixed.
Re:Google Kills Cloud Print on Friday November 22, 2019 @10:17PM (#21612211)
No one? It is an open standard originally created by Apple.
Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @01:44PM (#21587006)
Isn't NaCl deprecated now?
Can the Server be launched on a Windows machine?
Is there a Windows or Web client for DevonThink?
If it (or Notion.so) supported Inking, I would switch completely from my combination of GDocs, GKeep and GoodNotes5.

Will see if I can contribute to this project.

Re:Why Is the Migration to Python 3 Taking So Long? on Thursday November 14, 2019 @06:31PM (#21540708)
In ten years, there will be serious money in it as enterprise codebases need to be renewed.
Public transit exposes everyone's full routes, anyway.

Metrocards can lead back to the payment card used for the purchase, and buses (which also record passenger ingress/egress) can remember all swiped Metrocards.

This is a fascinating piece of history, the Taxi Riots of 1934: https://untappedcities.com/2015/02/05/today-in-nyc-history-t...
Re:They Might Never Tell You It’s Broken on Saturday November 02, 2019 @03:48PM (#21429640)
There are many industries where the workflow espoused in the manual IS the secret sauce, and, once replicated, can be replaced by a much cheaper product.

In these cases, you will never recoup your NRE.

Re:They Might Never Tell You It’s Broken on Saturday November 02, 2019 @03:44PM (#21429612)
I agree completely. Just observing users stumbling through what you had thought was a blindingly-obvious, low-friction workflow is an eye-opener.

Sometimes, you have used your own code way too much to judge effectiveness.

Having a no-agenda meeting with users is also a great idea, but it is important to set scope on feature requests before it snowballs into a request for the moon.

The difficulty is in rolling back previously unlimited freedom.
Re:Switzerland vs Silicon Valley for Software Developers on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @10:25AM (#21258705)
In Silly Valley, yes.
If I listen to a song and transcribe the lyrics myself, do I still require a license to put them up online and profit from them via ads on my site?
Facebook didn't happen to society. The internet happened to society.
I have had a good time with Cloud9, now part of AWS. I default to t2.nano and scale it up for large bursts of workload.
IIUC, you are suggesting that GitHub make new repos private by default, unless a permissive license is set.

This seems a reasonable balance.

Keyboard and processor are unrelated dimensions of improvement.
Re:Google makes BigQuery available in Sheets on Sunday April 14, 2019 @04:29PM (#19661512)
Seems convincing. Likely the same reasoning behind removing Real-Time results.
> Now for the rest of my life, I will always have something to hack on. :)

This is such an inspiring and humbling sentiment!

Thank you for all your hard work on this impressive project.

Re:PHP 8 to Add a JIT on Sunday March 31, 2019 @11:05PM (#19540095)
I think it's a given that Perl6 will not achieve the prevalence that Perl5 has.

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