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Re:Tell HN: I let my 6-year-old daughter design my website on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @07:34AM (#30345617)
It looks great! :D It's a lovely idea.

Because of the filesize, this would be right at home on the 512KB club: https://512kb.club/

Re:The Problem with C (2020) on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @04:07AM (#30160215)
The title doesn't seem to correspond to the article at all; basically it's clickbait.
Re:1-Line CSS Layouts on Sunday November 21, 2021 @12:31PM (#29297996)
These are great.

I've been using CSS since it first [barely] appeared in IE3, but I've been behind on fully getting to know flex and grid. Didn't know about aspect-ratio at all.

Maybe that says more about the amount of attention I've been paying, but I learned a lot from these examples.

This is so great. I love the chunky grid layout when positioning.

The eyes and other ridiculousness is what made me wanna try it out. Everyone's branding these days is so boring. Great work. :D

Re:IRCv3 Spec round-up on Friday November 19, 2021 @09:03AM (#29277191)
That's a shame. Sounds like it was great work, just the same!

Lots of my early stuff (late 90s and early 00s) has basically vanished from the 'net as well; I know the feeling.

Re:IRCv3 Spec round-up on Thursday November 18, 2021 @07:48AM (#29264810)
This sounds really cool! What was the app's name?
Re:Biomarker predicts severity of Covid-19 infection early on on Thursday November 18, 2021 @06:02AM (#29264138)
> virtually every other person is radioactive to you.

While you're not wrong, this behaviour is already present - just randomly distributed. Some/many people withdraw, interact with fear, maybe eventually get fed up and take risks, based on guessing-games.

If this research proves fruitful, it will reduce the guesswork a lot, and people can try to find more practical and constructive approaches.

They have little in common.
Reminder that Sublime Text is constantly being improved and might be worth a look if you haven't tried it in a while ~ https://www.sublimetext.com/
This is extremely outdated.
Re:Work on interesting problems. Not interesting tech on Friday September 10, 2021 @08:09PM (#28488253)
Recommend striving for both.
Re:Is Hacker News a good predictor of future tech trends? on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @10:15AM (#28289132)
I'm not aware of HN doing any predicting at large. If you mean 'will the average person later act like a given segment of HN people do now?' - then it depends on how good you are at selecting your segment, which makes it no better or worse than using any other sample of people for prediction.

Less abstractly, productisation is what takes things from obscurity (e.g. HN) to mainstream audiences, so future trends might grow out of stuff that you see here, but the people who can figure out whether certain tech can become a product (would-be predictors) -hopefully- also have the means to turn it into a product themselves.

Re:Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to? on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @12:53PM (#28223915)
Great info. Surprised to hear Wine gets the job done for some of that stuff. Thankyou. :)
Re:Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to? on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @12:23PM (#28223491)
May I ask what software you use for pro audio production? I'm looking for an alternative to Logic. Thanks!
Those photos are great! Thanks for sharing.
Re:Why Young Developers Don’t Get Knowledge Graphs on Sunday August 01, 2021 @10:29AM (#28026464)
>The problem with younger developers, he explains, is that they’re usually..

This article reeks of ageism.

Re:Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization on Saturday July 31, 2021 @10:02AM (#28018211)
It's a great article - really informative and enjoyable to read. Thanks for making it happen. :)
Re:DigitalOcean Down? on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @01:04PM (#27986130)
My London-hosted site stayed up just fine.

DO's uptime has been extremely impressive to me.

Re:Reversing for dummies – x86 assembly and C code on Monday July 26, 2021 @04:03AM (#27956870)
This is an excellent article with great simple tips, like highlighting most Calculator apps' hex mode and the mile-counter analogy. Great work by the author.
Reading this, I would actually tune into Eurosport knowing I can watch with minimal commentary - I know commentary brings some people a lot of structure but I find the events impossible to take in with somebody talking over it.
It bothers me that the article makes no reference to Wally Funk, the pilot - she's now the oldest person to have gone to space. Maybe it's cheesy of me to get a kick out of 'records' like that, but I enjoy that a lot more than caring about who commissioned the flight.
There is nothing "every developer" should do.
Re:This beach does not exist on Monday July 19, 2021 @11:03AM (#27883409)
The video on the site is very enjoyable to have on in the background at 0.25x speed.
Re:React's UI State Model vs. Vanilla JavaScript on Sunday July 18, 2021 @06:21AM (#27871875)
That's a fair point!
Re:React's UI State Model vs. Vanilla JavaScript on Sunday July 18, 2021 @01:05AM (#27870876)
It seems deceptive to me to compare using createElement etc. to JSX, rather than using innerHTML, or a <template>.
Re:A CSS-Only Clock on Saturday July 17, 2021 @01:20AM (#27863685)
> "It’s simply not possible to access the local time with HTML and CSS to automatically set our clock."

Headline is false. I was excited about it, too.

Re:The Most Dangerous Censorship on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @04:41PM (#27596908)
"Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter" are not moral highgrounds for free speech - they're engagement-driven platforms that thrive on drama and conflict.

Posting on these platforms is not real human communication.

If you can't calm down and remove yourself from an online argument before posting something that is almost guaranteed to be misunderstood, you're not evading self-censorship, you're feeding an addiction.

I'm probably doing it right now.

Re:The 88x31 GIF Collection on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @05:23PM (#27521682)
88x31s were still alive and well on early deviantART: https://www.deviantart.com/fractalmbrown/art/Baby-deviantART...
Re:Gemini's "uselessness" is its killer feature on Sunday June 13, 2021 @10:38AM (#27493002)
> ..the only way for Gemini to keep that way, is by not becoming popular. Because that's exactly what happened to the web.

I felt like the web's "change" was when it became skewed towards high-bandwidth content like images and videos, more so than popularity alone.

I can't imagine Gemini becoming as popular, but if it does, another new protocol can grow. :)

> it will probably fade away or keep very niche

Sounds nice, actually.

Re:Gemini's "uselessness" is its killer feature on Sunday June 13, 2021 @07:10AM (#27491582)
Browsing around the Gemini community is a thousand times more relaxing than reading on the web. I really recommend picking a nice client and enjoying a look around.

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