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Re:Prince of Persia in JavaScript on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @06:15AM (#29712583)
there is a bug in level 1, I lifted the sword but it still appeared on the ground.
Re:Ask HN: Films that made you see the world differently? on Saturday August 08, 2020 @02:28PM (#24093910)
For me 500 days of summer is a documentary movie, it helped me to deal with many stupid ideas I had about relationships.
Re:Audacious 4.0 released, switches from GTK to Qt 5 on Sunday March 22, 2020 @04:28PM (#22658335)
Qt's license and cost is another valid reason to continue developing on GTK
Re:Delphi's 25th Birthday on Friday February 14, 2020 @06:37PM (#22331553)
Borland made a lot of mistakes with Delphi, but the best part of delphi was VCL was shipped with the source, it was a great introduction for the Win32 API world.
Re:A small DIY air purifier on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @07:52AM (#22106431)
Has you tested it effectively can absorbe particles? It's a good project but seems more like a nice form to waste energy
Re:The Value in Go’s Simplicity on Saturday November 16, 2019 @05:30PM (#21555369)
Go is not a simple language, it lacks of features.
Not sure if I'm not catching the joke or everybody here got naive.
>Computers aren't necessarily gigantic corporate undertakings.

I'm not saying it's not possible, there are much stories in HN about guys creating VGA cards or self-made computers, I'm asking for evidence.

Oscar Toledo is very talented to write minimal code, but it does mean either his entire family is a society of wizards or they can build a computer or develop browsers, these "achievements" are urban legends without any proof.

> Unfortunately, they live on the outskirts of Mexico City, not Sunnyvale or Boston, so the public accounts of their achievements have been mostly written by vulgar journalists without even rudimentary knowledge of programming or electronics. It would be a valid reason in '80s

I use i.reddit.com it's faster and usable
Re:How to use array reduce for more than just numbers on Sunday June 02, 2019 @06:26PM (#20078738)
You don't need a function, this is my little trick to convert an array to object

peopleObj = peopleArr.reduce( (a,x) => (a[x.username]=x, a), {} );

Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed on Thursday May 23, 2019 @09:32PM (#19997707)
Maybe we should say torrent can't be killed, sadly there is not a good replacement for it until now
Re:Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail? on Monday September 24, 2018 @11:17AM (#18058384)
What about protonmail?
Seeking for alien messages sent to nobody is silly, we have more chances to find extraterrestrial civilizations if we look for two points that seem talking to each other, I know, easier said than done.
Re:The Bielefeld Conspiracy on Sunday August 12, 2018 @02:18PM (#17745592)
If you' re tired of it, does that mean that you receive a lot of tourists?
Naive question: are your tables partitioned?
Re:An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense on Saturday January 27, 2018 @12:33PM (#16247038)
Reminds me when I find out that should I stay or should I go is partially in spanish, I didn't know it until read the lyrics
Re:Windows93 SP2 on Sunday June 11, 2017 @04:37PM (#14533663)
Solitude does not accept drag and drop on android
Re:Is jQuery still relevant? (2014) on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @07:54PM (#13487803)
Most of problems pointed by the article are related to javascript and the DOM model, JQuery just provides a very useful function set and interoperability between browsers.
Re:Spinner on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @10:19PM (#13478169)

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