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by combatentropy 3mo ago
I was wondering what anybody thought of a library I wrote a few years ago: https://www.combatentropy.com/tools/cobblestone/ Many sites could be built on the stack espoused by Alex Petros, "The Hundred-Year We
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by combatentropy 8mo ago
This is clever advice, to first find out what estimate is tolerable to management and then adapt your design to fit. It's sort of like what the makers of Basecamp, in their book Getting Real, say in chapter 7, "Fix Time and Budget
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by combatentropy 10mo ago
Have you tried Lightworks? https://lwks.com/ It dates back to the 1990s and has used in Hollywood movies, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightworks There is a free version to try out with limited featur
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by combatentropy 1y ago
You're right, it's not that hard. But why would you rather do it there?
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Web APIs(developer.mozilla.org)
1 points by combatentropy 4y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Cobblestone – Reactive template that tracks the DOM with HTML comments(combatentropy.com)
1 points by combatentropy 4y ago|0 comments
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by combatentropy 4y ago
> what you're saying is you love someone for who they are as opposed to for what they are doing at any particular moment? but then what if they change? what if they become someone other than who they were when you decided to offer t
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by combatentropy 4y ago
If you're happy with your ORM (and, ahem, your users are happy with your app's speed), then you can disregard this post. An ORM is an abstraction over what already is a huge abstraction, which is SQL. Therefore it would feel to me
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by combatentropy 4y ago
> This last example is a particularly hot topic for us on the intranet team. Every single week we receive requests to create a 'one-stop shop', a 'hub', a 'single front door' or a 'portal'. I too w
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by combatentropy 4y ago
First of all, that's false. Time and again, experts who can explain complicated concepts with everyday words seem smarter, not dumber. To wit: Richard Feynman, Steven Pinker, C.S. Lewis. Second, even if it were true, that would be all
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by combatentropy 4y ago
It reminds me of Newspeak, from Orwell's 1984 . Leaders, especially of bureaucracies, perennially hope to shape belief by just renaming things. I've been to Wal-Mart or Target or any number of places, where I have read a sign or
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by combatentropy 4y ago
Why is there no comment saying that someone is "conflating" something or that a something is "orthogonal"?
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by combatentropy 4y ago
This article was actually published more than 20 years ago, https://web.archive.org/web/20020603153119/http://vothphoto.... Some of its advice is timeless, but its context is back when your phone did not
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by combatentropy 4y ago
> I'm pretty sure nifty-fiftys have been top recommendation always for people wanting to explore beyond the kit zoom. His article isn't addressed to "people wanting to explore beyond the kit zoom". It's addressed
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by combatentropy 4y ago
I came here to say the same thing and was glad to see someone else already did. So I simply upvoted you. I might add that also he was looking for two more things that some times also are rejuvenating: (c) physical exercise (d) a relief from
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by combatentropy 4y ago
Yes, in fact it's two metaphors in a row. "Once more, with feeling," is a cliche that a conductor might say to an orchestra during rehearsal. Presumably professional orchestras usually play with feeling, even on the first att
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The End of Manual Transmission(theatlantic.com)
9 points by combatentropy 4y ago|5 comments
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by combatentropy 4y ago
I'm intrigued by his replacement, the language E. Even though it arose in 1997, I was unfamiliar with it. I like what I have seen so far, http://erights.org/elang/ I'm relieved that Crockford suggests a subst
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by combatentropy 4y ago
"Ampersand" is like "could of", and yet is not like it. Ampersand is a change in sounds, for the sake of easier pronunciation: and per se and # original andperseand # remove spaces andpers'and #
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by combatentropy 4y ago
spacemanmatt, you joined Hacker News 9 years ago, and you have a lot of upvotes, which means not only that you have been helpful but that you have been here thousands of times. So I am mystified by your comments. On the first page of Hacker
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by combatentropy 4y ago
The headline uses the words "top" and "talent" in unconventional ways. When the writer examined Rick's code, it is revealed as messy, buggy, and long-winded --- "a lot of copy pasta", laden with "thou
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by combatentropy 5y ago
You just made me realize that email would look better if it grouped messages by sender instead of just by subject. It was a huge step forward for me when I switched from Outlook to GMail. Outlook originally did not group emails at all. Each
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by combatentropy 5y ago
I would agree that permission dialogs are not what we want, on page load, as so many websites do. A web app should wait until it needs Geolocation or whatever, before prompting you. It should always follow a user interaction. When you click
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by combatentropy 5y ago
I find that most people don't understand creativity. If you believe an artist or inventor is some mystic sage who creates works ex nihilo , then you misunderstand creativity and attribute to it far too much. And therefore you might gr
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by combatentropy 5y ago
Apache has had form-based authentication for about 10 years: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_auth_form.html
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by combatentropy 5y ago
Has anyone had any luck reasoning with the powers that be, to come up with reasonable security? When the security department suggests another thing, to protest sounds like you want things be less safe simply because it's annoying. But
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by combatentropy 5y ago
That is a really nice painting, uncredited, by Ken Hodges (1926-2011).
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by combatentropy 5y ago
Good point. I was imagining outlets eventually in apartment parking lots. But for the many who don't even have a parking spot, and have to park on the street, we still need some public charging stations.
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by combatentropy 5y ago
It seems to me like the ultimate solution is higher capacity. Imagine a car with a range not of 500 miles but 5,000. This is almost a round trip between New York and Los Angeles. I don't know how long a 10x advance in batteries would t
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by combatentropy 5y ago
Context: Japan using cassette tapes and faxes (2015), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10497355

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