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Re:Ask HN: Is there a web browser, that's just a browser? on Friday May 26, 2023 @03:27PM (#36088546)
If you're looking for lo-fi, try Lynx.
Re:Hire people who give a shit on Sunday November 29, 2020 @01:59AM (#25243456)
Thank you for this moment of humour. It was much needed.
Re:Inside a Titan missile guidance computer on Sunday March 22, 2020 @05:18AM (#22653732)
Great read! Intriguing to find out that earlier computers were using rotating drum memory systems in space flight and then delicate wiring in cores, I really hadn't considered that. I wonder about the reliability of those systems and whether there was software compensation for that issue.
Re:SwiftUI on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @04:24PM (#20168915)
I would like to know more about Anton, and the irascible Qc Na.
Re:Ask HN: How does Facebook know what I buy on Amazon or vice versa? on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @09:03AM (#15123953)
"Engrossing technical problems are convenient blinders for inconvenient truths."

Where does this take us though? If you build a bridge, how do you know what will go across it? Either we all stop or we accept that not all ethical questions can be resolved by individuals acting alone.

Re:As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @05:59AM (#14444104)
> Though coding is a foreign language to most people, the principles of plagiarism are the same as with papers written in English.

English is a foreign language to most people too. You expect more from the NYT.

Ask HN: Why is assembly language skyrocketing on TIOBE?

Posted by ncke on Sunday April 24, 2016 @07:28AM
from the ask-hn dept.

In April 2015, the TIOBE rating % for assembly language was 0.656; and for many years it has consistently hovered around the 0.5 mark.In April 2016, that rating was 2.193, even making it to #9 in the programming language rankings for January! Number 9. Assembly language.What's going on?http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index?page=Assembly%20language

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Re:Weave and Docker for Mac: The bridge between local and remote services on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @10:16AM (#11479745)
I don't think that it generated these diagrams, but you should check out planttext (http://www.planttext.com/) - makes UML diagrams easy.
Re:Uber's Design Meltdown on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @08:14AM (#11109564)
Wow, I didn't think the day would come when I felt sorry for designers.