JohnDeHope

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by JohnDeHope 5mo ago
I'd really like to see some FE folks kicking around what sorts of new form elements they'd put into HTML 6. I miss WinForms, component libraries, Silverlight, WPF, that sort of thing. Browsing the sea of components somebody like T
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by JohnDeHope 6mo ago
> cross platform GUIs are ugly by default, compared to fully native desktop apps, because they don't entirely replicate the affordances or the style of the platform; I think this is an implementation detail. It's up to the soft
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by JohnDeHope 1y ago
It’s true. I was more expressing a sentiment than suggesting a course of political or legislative action. I await my punishment.
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by JohnDeHope 1y ago
As a Pasco county alumni, I think we should drop the people who want to drain the everglades off in the everglades and leave them in there until they gain an appreciation for the scenery.
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by JohnDeHope 1y ago
I’m not a hacker but I really appreciate their ethos. It’s like punk. I’m not punk either. But I will defend it all with my dying breathe.
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by JohnDeHope 1y ago
God bless a capital I with crossbars.
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by JohnDeHope 1y ago
I think it has the prettiest UI of the era, including Apple’s.
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by JohnDeHope 1y ago
This was the first programming language I got paid to code in. It really did look like line noise. Good times.
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by JohnDeHope 1y ago
> If "left" and "right" have any meaning at all, "right" describes a worldview under which civilized society depends upon legitimate hierarchy, and a key object of politics is properly defining and protectin
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by JohnDeHope 1y ago
> I've long maintained that the threat from AI to workers isn't that AI can do your job – it's that an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job: This post is on
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by JohnDeHope 1y ago
I can't tell if you're aiming for a faithful reproduction of the original font, or to make the coding font modern and most useful to today's developer. But... Can the code variant have the asterisk used to represent multiplic
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by JohnDeHope 1y ago
Well, law alone hasn't stopped presidents from bombing citizens, so I don't see how it'd stop them from deporting them, either.
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by JohnDeHope 1y ago
I found this video to be very educational. How Africa’s Geography Traps it in Endless Poverty https://youtu.be/Y8m95sCDEf0?si=vA5u5DEnFBzP5s1E
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by JohnDeHope 1y ago
What goes into your sense organs is just as meaningful, and capable of causing unwanted and lasting change or trauma, than what somebody does to your physical body. Intellectual force is no less force than physical force is. Harassment is j
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by JohnDeHope 1y ago
There's too much overtly political content on HN, and it trends towards liberal, anti-Trump, etc. I agree with it about half the time. But the other half of the time it's like some mainstream leftist media stream got randomly inte
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by JohnDeHope 1y ago
Pff. HN has rebranded to become the DOGE News Network. If you want a more curated technical experience, I recommend https://lobste.rs . There's much less latitude for non-technical stuff.
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by JohnDeHope 1y ago
> I'm interested in things This song, and this particular line, are a part of my religion.
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by JohnDeHope 2y ago
I hate to be a hater, but having built myriad gaming PCs in my time, this doesn't really seem like much of a step forward. I'm hoping it's just the beginning. I'd love a modular plug-and-play PC parts ecosystem. This doe
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by JohnDeHope 2y ago
I'm 50. Yes. "It's about trying to come up with a working solution in a problem domain that you don't fully understand and don't have time to understand." This has been my trick for staying engaged and excited
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by JohnDeHope 2y ago
Honest question, what is the point of this? I think it's cool that you can reproduce "what the pilots saw". But what pilots see is, to us laymen, really super boring. And there is no actual crash here. It's just video re
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by JohnDeHope 2y ago
Do Americans? Does it matter? They either can't or won't do anything to stop it.
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by JohnDeHope 2y ago
I think sometimes guidance like this is more about the organization than the customers. This is true for all sorts of things: application development, disaster relief, etc.
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by JohnDeHope 2y ago
Everyone is going to buy one of these as soon as they can ship them to them, so if the thumb sticks could not be intentionally engineered to fail this time, that would be great, thanks.
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by JohnDeHope 2y ago
I'm not claiming this is true, only that it's how I think about it. All forms of public performance, including blogging, youtubing, singing, dancing, etc. are dominated by the Pareto principle (roughly 80% of consequences come fro
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by JohnDeHope 2y ago
I hope wasm becomes the assembly language of the web, before JavaScript does.
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by JohnDeHope 2y ago
I taught high school programming for one year, and used PureBasic as the in-class language. The kids were able to put together games and such things after just a few days. We never really hit the ceiling. The real gem was the IDE experience
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by JohnDeHope 2y ago
Ahh! That totally did not come through in your earlier comment. I'm sorry I jumped to the conclusion that you were trying to police my art appreciation. That sort of thing really grates on my nerves.
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by JohnDeHope 2y ago
I don't appreciate this stuff, I'm not the target audience for it, but I'll be darned if this didn't kick me hard in the feels.
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by JohnDeHope 2y ago
This is scary, but it doesn't teach me anything. What is a foundry, why is it full of piles of metal junk, why is some of it (evidently) wet, what are these trash compactors full of fire, I guess they're the furnaces, why does the
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by JohnDeHope 2y ago
It was fun :)

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