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by distcs 2y ago
For those like me confused how opensource.net is related to opensource.org from their about link: > OpenSource.net launched in response to the halt of Opensource.com operations by supervising entity Red Hat, which supports the move. This
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by distcs 2y ago
From the HN guidelines: > Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. > Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teach
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by distcs 3y ago
It isn't mysterious. It just doesn't match the vibes of HN. I don't come on HN to see silly jokes. And as you can see by the number of flags this post has received to kill it, it looks like most HN readers agree with me.
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by distcs 3y ago
Still it is not clear why a silly joke needs to be on the front page of HN!
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by distcs 3y ago
> Iceland was a very poor country for most people other than a few well off in the fishing industry. Very insightful. I had no clue this was the case. Is there any published list somewhere that measures the relative richness between the
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by distcs 3y ago
Tell us more about your project! Did you start it from scratch? Or did you use another opensource app as starting point and developed it further for yourself? What language is your app written in? Where do you run it? In CLI? or desktop GUI
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by distcs 3y ago
Thanks for clearing up my confusion! That comment makes total sense now and not as baffling as it first looked.
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by distcs 3y ago
> What if you have never cooked at home but all the time in a commercial kitchen? That's the reality for most of us here so it is a bit difficult to relate to this article. Really? I'd hazard a guess that the majority here (&gt
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An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)(robinsloan.com)
1051 points by distcs 3y ago|288 comments
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Hazard distances for selected consumer laser types(lasersafetyfacts.com)
2 points by distcs 3y ago|0 comments
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FXYT pattern drawing language with 36 commands(susam.net)
1 points by distcs 3y ago|0 comments
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by distcs 3y ago
But the OP is talking about creating a new blog (a website that has a collection of blog posts).
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by distcs 3y ago
> As noted in another comment, some of this can be attributed to manufacturing being done elsewhere This is an excellent point. Are there reports similar to TFA that accounts for this? I mean a report that calculates the total demand a c
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by distcs 3y ago
> The current Remembrance Agent uses the Savant information retrieval system developed in-house by the Jan Nelson and Bradley Rhodes. The Remembrance Agent runs through emacs, a popular text editor. The user interface is programmed in el
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Ask HN: How do HN posters find interesting links?
3 points by distcs 3y ago|3 comments
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by distcs 3y ago
> Who made this? > Colin Cotter (Imperial College, London) and Julius Ross (University of Illinois at Chicago, supported by NSF-DMS 1749447). You can provide feedback, or access the source code here. I'd really like to know how
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by distcs 3y ago
Is it a common practice to commit dependencies into the project repo? If so what type of projects do that?
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by distcs 3y ago
> still don’t have contents insurance (a hangover from poverty, I just wasn’t in the habit of insuring things and now keep putting it off, because paperwork terrifies me) The author seems to be from UK. Is contents insurance a thing in U
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by distcs 3y ago
Anyone has got a similar list for single file software tools that are not libs? Something end users can use directly?
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Ask HN: Examples of nice open source software that are written as single file?
2 points by distcs 3y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Name names and thank open source maintainers of small projects!
3 points by distcs 3y ago|1 comments
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by distcs 3y ago
Is there a service that actually gives MP3 downloads? Call me old fashioned but I'll happily pay for a service that actually gives me MP3 files that I can download and keep offline.
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Meow5 Concatenative Assembly: The Conclusion(ratfactor.com)
3 points by distcs 3y ago|0 comments
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by distcs 3y ago
> In many years of coding C++, very rarely I experienced a stack overflow or segmentation fault. It is literally not an issue in every codebase I have worked with. Is this true for most people though? What do you think about this quote?
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by distcs 3y ago
A few things I've found notoriously difficult to do in C++: 1. Add two signed 64-bit integers without overflowing on either side (negative or positive) and without using 128-bit integers. If the sum is going to overflow, generate an er
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by distcs 3y ago
I've done some C++ but no Rust. I'd like to learn a few things from people who have done both. 1. How many years of C++ programming do you have under your belt? How many years of Rust? 2. For new work projects, do you choose C++ o
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by distcs 3y ago
> it seems self-evident to me that books and videos are complementary Can't speak for others but for me it is more about efficient utilization of time rather than complementing multiple learning methods. I've found that time sp
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by distcs 3y ago
> if those are bad or clickbaity titles, they probably could just not be upvoted much I am an active /new page lurker. You'd be surprised by the number of times I've seen clickbaity titles getting upvoted and making it to
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by distcs 3y ago
> Have you looked at for instance Khan Academy's Grant Sanderson (aka 3Blue1Brown) Math videos? I have. I went through Khan Academy, Brilliant and 3Blue1Brown. After spending more than 100s of hours I started getting the feeling tha
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by distcs 3y ago
Since FreeBSD is on the front page today, I thought this is a good time to learn from the collective wisdom of this community. 5 simple questions to those who use FreeBSD to stir up a conversation. 1. Where do you use FreeBSD? On your lapto

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