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Ask HN: Which OSS codebase can I learn that'll remain relevant after 20 years?
13 points by ctrlmeta 4y ago|14 comments
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
Emacs with *tex-mode(s)
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
What do they gain by this? Do they have any affiliate links? Adverts? Just trying to understand what their motivation behind this is.
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
I see that many links were posted to like 5 times, 8 times, 11 times. What are the rules around reposts? On one hand I see these classics being reposted again and again. But on the other hand we also see some posts marked [dupe]. What are t
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
This is really valuable. Already found some good articles in the list that I have bookmarked for reading/learning in future.
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
I get it that OP's projects do not stand out in your eyes. They do stand out in my eyes! They are impressive to me ! I don't have to find something impressive by your standards just as you don't have to find something imp
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
Can someone explain what we are looking at? Perhaps a simple point by point explanation of what was done, what the expected behavior is and what we observe instead? Do I understand correctly that these are the events that happened: * septic
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
Since you agree that the maintainers don't owe us shit, we are on the same page. I guess I took issue with this - > OSS is supposed to be a collaborative environment OSS is supposed to be what the OSS authors and maintainers want it
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The email that made me convert to Emacs(old.reddit.com)
2 points by ctrlmeta 4y ago|0 comments
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
I don't understand why it needs me to install a browser extension. That's a very weird requirement to sign up for an email address? Could someone explain why an extension is needed or why it was designed like this?
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Ask HN: Which OSS codebase can I learn that'll remain relevant after 20 years?
4 points by ctrlmeta 4y ago|3 comments
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
> OSS is supposed to be a collaborative environment where everyone can contribute a little, not a “fuck you, pay me” environment. This is a gross misunderstanding of what open source is. Please read the licenses that come with the OSS so
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
> Why do you place "insightful and kind" diametrically opposed with "false" in that sentence? I do not! You seem to be making too many assumptions in your responses both about the OP and the supporters of OP. No wonde
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
How do you know what he used? Have you met him or talked to him? So only inventing a 3D engine from scratch from your own brain is impressive? Learning from tutorials, books, papers, etc. is not? I don't know how you learn a new skill
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
Building a piano for web browser, 3D rendering engine, mapping, routing and geometry algorithms stand out pretty well IMO. I have never really seen the core of a piano or 3D rendering engine on stackoverflow. Even if there is one I am sure
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
There is nothing honest and humbling about this feedback. It deliberately makes the poorest interpretation of the OP's post and offers a poor feedback. It speaks more about the commenter's mindset than the OP's earnest reques
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
What a mean-spirited comment! The OP's accomplishments are impressive to me. The OP said - "I want to be one of the best programmers in the world, but I have a long way to go." This is humble enough for me. They may be misgui
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
The last time I checked the remote startups were not even willing to pay me half of what companies with brick-and-mortar offices were willing to pay me. Sorry, I can't see how remote startups will win the top talent with such less pay!
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
I can very much believe it. A CEO can, if they play their cards right, block the CTO from accomplishing what the CTO set out to do. Budget is not the problem. Approvals and alignment with board members are the problems. And if the CTO still
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
I am one of those who began coding in Notepad and then quickly moved on to Vim and then to Emacs. When the whole world of internet services began consolidating around the web and then later when the whole web began consolidating around a fe
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
Why not preserve the original title? "Smoking and other risk factors cause almost half of cancer deaths, study finds" Accurate or not, that's the original title of the article.
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
Lovely post. > a screen that you have to squint to notice anything on This one can be solved easily though in display preferences and selecting larger text.
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Ask HN: If you've used both MATE and XFCE, what pros and cons did you find?
2 points by ctrlmeta 4y ago|1 comments
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
Searching for Python API docs and getting w3schools and geeksforgeeks results is frustrating. Is there a solution to this problem? Maybe even a browser extension?
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
I agree with you. I did not mean that the former comment is acceptable. Both comments are not unacceptable. I chose the lower comment to reply to. That might have given that impression. But I find speculation for either sides to be problems
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
Exactly! HN is full of armchair judges, armchair scientists, armchair inventors, armchair researchers, you name it! More likely than not, their comments are going to be negative, belittling and demorsalizing to actual human beings involved.
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
Can we stop with this unfounded speculation please? These are real human beings we are talking about with serious allegations. Let the court follow its due process and come to a decision. The jury is still out there. Innocent until proven g
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
If you wish to understand computers, you must first invent the universe.
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
The most active users of a technology make the best critic too. Being an active user of something and being a critic of it are not mutually exclusive.
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by ctrlmeta 4y ago
The visual we draw in our mind that the atom is mostly vacuum inside is due to taking our intuition about classical physical world and misapplying it into the world inside an atom where classical physics intuition is not relevant. In quantu

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