glroyal

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by glroyal 7mo ago
Communities are not fungible, but they are also not permanent. Because humans are mobile, the community changes as people, institutions, infrastructure, and industries come and go over time. Even if a substantial fraction of the population
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by glroyal 8mo ago
In other words, forking punishes poorly managed projects by depriving them of some fraction of their developers, users, and mindshare, and that's fascism?
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by glroyal 10mo ago
Let me get this straight: the author is angry that Disney didn't release a series of shitty Roger Rabbit sequels, prequels, and shared cinematic universe pictures with Pixar and Marvel, so he's re-taking his copyright in order to
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by glroyal 1y ago
BREAKING NEWS: the "Old Web" was far, far more than just blogs and feeds. It was full of bulletin boards and chat systems and listservs and other such "social" software artifacts inherited from BBSes and commercial times
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by glroyal 1y ago
The point of the refresh (which can be activated with a meta tag) is that JavaScript is disabled in the game's server-rendered mode, so AJAX/Comet is out of the question.
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by glroyal 3y ago
Meta succeeded in cloning Twitter only because it picked up engineers who were let go after Musk acquired the company. Dead weight, albeit dead weight who understood how Twitter works under the hood (the timeline data structure has confound
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by glroyal 4y ago
You mean there are dating sites for people who have a killer app idea but can't program, in search of developers who will work for free until the app goes viral in return for a small cut of the profit if that ever happens?
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by glroyal 4y ago
In find it interesting that Wirth would accept needless complexity as jihad, and then put an object oriented programming language at the heart of his "back to basics" workstation Oberon. Sweeping complexity under the rug isn'
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by glroyal 4y ago
Isn't that the real, unspoken purpose of a framework? To commoditize a critical (and formerly well compensated) skill for the purpose of outsourcing it to the country with the cheapest possible labor?
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by glroyal 4y ago
I would add that frameworks: * promote helplessness by abstracting away fundamental but tedious tasks one ought to know how to do, * erode the capacity for innovation by making it difficult to contemplate or impossible to implement solution