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Re:Why Figma Wins on Saturday June 20, 2020 @04:36PM (#23587070)
Figma does not seem to tie into the OS UI primitives.

What is the experience for visually-impaired users that need high contrast UIs or braille terminals?

Re:Snapcast – Synchronous multi-room audio player on Monday December 30, 2019 @03:31PM (#21916428)
I always wondered why there aren't synchronous "audio conferencing" tools to allow play music and even improvise over the Internet.

Of course they would have to introduce a fixed delay of a phrase (or multiple) and people would have to play accordingly.

> It's not faster, that's a myth

This is false. There a plenty of statistics showing that Dvorak is faster (albeit it's true that the main benefits is around finger movement)

> native hardware keyboard layouts

Never been a problem: you don't need (or want) to look at the keys anyways.

> limits to the users ability to configure software keyboard layouts

Also not a problem: you cannot touch-type on a phone and also you type with thumbs.

Dvorak. I know 5 people, including myself, that switched to Dvorak and none of us regretted it or switched back.

It's not about speed, at least for me, but reducing stress on fingers and prevent inflammation and RSI.

Touch-typing comes easier with Dvorak. Even better if you use a Dvorak layout on a querty keyboard: there's no point in looking at the keys and this is also good for back/neck posture.

Please ignore all the people who insist on using qwerty without having had at least a year of Dvorak use experience.

> meant to be airtight rather than RF-tight

You are thinking about the wrong one.

Re:90% of the billion dollar unicorn startups are in trouble on Thursday January 21, 2016 @02:47PM (#10947765)
THIS
Re:Nim 0.13.0 has been released on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @01:53PM (#10932935)
Actually, VariableName != variable_name

You can write ClassesLikePython and variables_like_python in Nim.

Sometimes people end up having dangerously similar variable names in the same scope, e.g. username and user_name, where an incorrect tab-completion might introduce a bug. Nim would require the developer to choose better names.

Re:Nim 0.13.0 has been released on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @01:24PM (#10932689)
Keep in mind that Nim is statically typed and the typing prevents ambiguity: foo.say_hi() and SayHi() are not the same.
Re:OweFS – One-way encrypted file system on Friday January 15, 2016 @08:50PM (#10913788)
Author here. Please be aware that the project has no releases, it's not on PyPI and it's little more than a proof of concept.

I have no intention to mislead any user into running it so I'll remove the repository for the time being.

Re:Pybind11 – Seamless operability between C++11 and Python on Monday December 14, 2015 @07:29AM (#10730621)
> This looks like an enjoyable source for weird bugs

It's meant to prevent them: in Python applications it's not uncommon to see bugs introduced by an incorrect completion, e.g. updatePlayerstatus / updatePlayerStatus / update_player_status

With case/underscore insensitivity you know in advance that there can be only one "updateplayerstatus" in your codebase and write it according to your style, e.g. always update_player_status

> Many Secure Boot implementations let you load your own keys.

And there is no promise that this will not change.

Re:TCP Over IP Anycast – Pipe Dream or Reality? on Friday November 27, 2015 @08:30AM (#10637203)
> individual sessions are typically much shorter than route change intervals

True for web traffic, not true for large file transfers, many multiplayer games, VPNs.

> live connections can get rejected and closed immediately by the new server allowing for rapid recovery

...if the client protocol allows recovery.

Re:Did the FBI Pay a University to Attack Tor Users? on Thursday November 12, 2015 @10:24AM (#10553659)
*Tor
Re:Tesla Lining Up Attack on Auto Industry Lobbying on Monday November 09, 2015 @06:00AM (#10532323)
The "conspiracy theorist" fallacy: claiming that an argument is invalid because it implies a conspiracy.
Re:How Not to Measure Latency [pdf] on Sunday November 01, 2015 @04:58PM (#10488539)
What the author calls "Percentile Distribution" is the same thing as a probability density function?
Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects on Sunday November 01, 2015 @03:00PM (#10487912)
> 99% of the stuff you use everyday is closed-source and proprietary

This is Hacker News; I expect the average to be around 20%

That's exactly what is happening with putting cameras on cops and their cars.
Re:Nim 0.12.0 released on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @04:53PM (#10467330)
Some examples?
> The fundamental fallacy is the idea that tobacco is so dangerous that it, and anything comparably dangerous, must be banned.

Please name a country where selling or buying cigarettes is not legal.

> But you, I and everyone else on earth will die sometime, of something: whether it's cancer, congestive heart failure or something else entirely, we all die.

Strawman. By that logic we would not use safety belts or cars.

Re:The Turris open router project on Monday October 26, 2015 @07:09AM (#10450618)
They are also building a powerful Open Hardware ARM-based router with WiFi and NAS capabilities: https://omnia.turris.cz/en/
Re:A Disadvantaged Start Hurts Boys More Than Girls on Friday October 23, 2015 @09:33AM (#10438405)
"win"?
Re:Academics sharing paywalled papers with a codeword on Twitter on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @10:35AM (#10425670)
everyone?
$18 for the cheapest one. I paid 12 pounds for the same key on Amazon.co.uk
Re:Capsule Shield: A Docker Alternative for the JVM on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @04:13PM (#10383133)
> Most organizations are mostly Java

...quite a bold statement. Can you cite some sources?

Re:California makes electric skateboards street legal on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @05:44AM (#10379358)
> I've been by far hit/forcibly stopped/run out of my path by bikes (and other non-motored or low powered vehicles) than by cars.

Would you rather be hit by 3 bikes or by one car?

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