amyjess · HackerTrans

15 giorni fadiscuss

I remember reading this article when it was first posted here five years ago, and I've been fascinated by Bank Python since. It actually reminds me of a number of systems I've come up with in my head but never told anyone about or wrote down in any way.

amyjess

24 giorni fadiscuss

I'm sorry, but what? Why do cars need apps now?

amyjess

5 mesi fadiscuss

I absolutely need a pure SDI workflow. I like browsing through files on disk by the double-clicking them, reading through them a bit, and then using Alt+F4. I tried that with Notepad++ once and I ended up with hundreds of files open in tabs because Notepad++ remembers everything you've ever opened even if you Alt+F4 the app.

I also like sometimes having multiple files open at once and drag the windows around my monitors as I need to and you can't do that in Notepad++.

Also Notepad++'s UI is bloated. There's just too much going on.

And please don't suggest I muck around in settings, I'm not interested in spending hours mucking around in a gigantic bloated settings dialog, I want something that Just Works™ with no configuration just like Win95 Notepad.

Edit: My specific use case here is for viewing files, not editing them. I use a different editor when I'm actually writing stuff but for browsing I just want old Notepad.

amyjess

5 mesi fadiscuss

Are there any text editors for Windows that are feature-for-feature and bug-for-bug compatible with the Windows 95 build of Notepad?

I'm looking for a plain and simple text editor with no programmers' features—no line numbers, syntax highlighting, etc.—no tabs or MDI whatsoever. No, I'm not looking for something with "you can turn these off", just a complete reimplementation of Win95 Notepad made via black-box testing.

amyjess

7 mesi fadiscuss

As somebody who has no problem whatsoever with weed, it smells like pus from a tooth infection to me.

I have had dental abscesses in the past that made my mouth taste like I was in a room full of cannabis smoke.

amyjess

8 mesi fadiscuss

IMO Outemu blues are better than Cherry's. They're actually clickier.

amyjess

8 mesi fadiscuss

> “We are committed to operating like the world’s largest startup, and … that means removing layers.”

I learned a long time ago that behaving like a startup is not a good thing, and I've specifically oriented my career towards working at companies that don't even want to pretend to imitate startup culture. I'm very happy in enterprise-land.

amyjess

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My favorite video game company is a little Japanese outfit called Nihon Falcom. They've been around since 1981, have about 65 employees, release exactly one new game a year, and if you've played any of their games, you can tell they're all made on absolutely shoestring budgets. They have also never posted a loss and have an absolutely bonkers amount of cash on hand (enough to keep the company going for several years on their current budget IIRC).

They also make the best story-driven RPGs I've played in my life. And they specifically went the story-driven route because it's cheaper to hire good writers than it is to wow people with AAA graphics or a giant open world or whatever.

More video game companies should be like Falcom.

amyjess

5 anni fadiscuss

GitHub has always owned 100% of the project from the day the developer created their account. The developer owns the code, yes, but the account itself and the actual GitHub project structure is 100% owned by GitHub. From a legal perspective, it is a 100% GitHub-owned project that's a derivative work of the developer's code. Legally, the website is a derivative work, and derivative works are owned by the creator of the derivative work, not by the owner(s) of whatever the work is derived from. There are restrictions on what the owner of a derivative work can do based on the licensing of the original work (for example, GitHub can't merge GPLv2-licensed code and Apache2-licensed code hosted on their platform) but GitHub still owns the derivative work entirely.

For example, if I were to stand up a website using Apache httpd using PHP and Drupal, then the website is 100% mine but it contains code owned by the Apache Software Foundation, Dries Buytart, and Zend Technologies. None of those three have any rights over my website, even though they own the code I built it on. I still have to respect the licenses to the code I use—I can't make my own fork of httpd containing code I copy-pasted from a GPLv2-only project, for example—but the website is still my website.

Or for a non-code example, let's say I were to write Lord of the Rings fanfiction. As a derivative work, the fanfic is 100% mine even though it contains characters copyrighted by the Tolkien estate. I can't legally distribute my fanfic to people without getting a license from the Tolkien estate (but thankfully the Tolkien estate is willing to look the other way), but it's still mine, and the Tolkien estate can't just yoink my fanfic and publish it in an anthology unless I give them permission either.

amyjess

5 anni fadiscuss

The developer only owns the code, not the account. GitHub owns 100% of all accounts on their service.

amyjess

5 anni fadiscuss

The MIT license explicitly gives the entire world the right to distribute and modify and project licensed under it. The author isn't allowed any takesie-backsies. Everyone is well within their rights to host copies of faker and colors and any other MIT-licensed project in existence regardless of whether or not the author objects to it.

If the author didn't want third parties redistributing copies of their code, they shouldn't have released it under the MIT license.

amyjess

5 anni fadiscuss

Honestly the first two paragraphs of this article alone indicate that this article is a polemic intended to stir up a pogrom against so-called elites. This isn't intellectually gratifying: it's an angry political screed.

Furthermore, as a Jewish person myself something else jumped out at me: there is a long, long, long history of the word "elites" being associated with control over the media as an antisemitic dogwhistle. Any Jewish person will read this, see "the media is controlled by elites", and immediately understand that this is a restatement of antisemitic conspiracy theories that are over a century old. This article is wildly irresponsible.

amyjess

6 anni fadiscuss

> Not to mention you have much more beautiful choices of nature in Northern California.

You're making the mistake of assuming access to nature is a priority for everyone, which I think is a consequence of the cultural bubble that Silicon Valley is in. Most people who are part of the scene are into nature stuff, and they assume everyone is because they don't know anyone who isn't. I have definitely heard of people who moved to SV/SF for a job and then being looked down on and sometimes even bullied by coworkers for not having any interest in nature activities. There is very much an attitude that if you don't partake in the Standard Silicon Valley Hobbies then something must be wrong with you.

By contrast, I've lived in Texas all my life and I don't know many people who's really into going hiking and stuff all the time. A couple of people, sure, but most people I know are content to only do the kinds of activities you can do in an air-conditioned room.

I would imagine there are a lot of tech people who moved to NorCal for work but aren't comfortable with the culture there. They don't care about nature and would be happier if they got to socialize with coworkers who had similar interests, and so they might be much happier if their employers relocated to Texas or something. And while I can't really speak to Austin, my experience in Dallas is that the tech scene (which is thriving and active) is much more enterprisey and doesn't really attract people who would prefer a more SV-like culture.

amyjess

6 anni fadiscuss

I mean, Austin is pretty close already. Their housing prices have been sky-high for a while now, especially compared to Dallas and Houston.

amyjess

7 anni fadiscuss

> I've not gotten around to wearing suits even though that would be even better.

The danger with suits is that we're at a point in society where wearing a suit conveys an image of helplessness, not power.

Nowadays, people mostly wear suits when they're throwing themselves at another person's mercy. Wearing a suit means you're on your way to a court appearance or a job interview, not that you're some powerful executive. At every company I've ever worked for, the only times I've seen our executives wear suits has been when they were on their way to or from a meeting with investors or potential investors (and honestly, asking investors for money is basically another kind of job interview). Even at my current company, which is fairly conservative, every time I pass one of our C-levels in the hallway, they're almost never wearing a suit. I'm more likely to see the CEO in a sweater, really.

An article on the subject: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/9/30/20869237/suits-contr...

amyjess

7 anni fadiscuss

You could literally be the only man in town, if you're not the kind of person other people want to date, they'd rather be single.

amyjess

7 anni fadiscuss

"Progressive" in this case means it uses progressive enhancement: it'll work even if your browser doesn't have those additions (though QoL won't be as nice), and it also uses responsive design such that it's just as useful on desktop as on mobile.

The new Twitter is a good example of a PWA.

amyjess

7 anni fadiscuss

This alone is the reason why visiting Thailand is on my bucket list. They're still grown there.

amyjess

7 anni fadiscuss

> download

That's already too much work for the vast majority of the population. If you can't just randomly stumble on it somewhere, it has no real discoverability.

amyjess

7 anni fadiscuss

> Life as a mod is about a million times easier, for both you and your users, when you minimize the amount of judgment calls on edge cases that have to be made.

No, life is much easier when rule 0 is "don't piss off the people running the show", and anyone who complains about mod actions gets instantly permabanned.

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