grassmudhorse

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by grassmudhorse 1y ago
what is stopping hackernews from following closely behind?
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by grassmudhorse 3y ago
Mainly agree, but defining "open format" seems problematic, and isn't always practical if you have some feature that the competition doesn't have
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by grassmudhorse 3y ago
> You'd think ... people would be just a wee bit less credulous. Like the Crypto scams - irrelevant. As long as the publicity is bringing in users, investors WILL throw in more money.
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by grassmudhorse 3y ago
feels like a very clever marketing ploy any publicity… and just following some major feature releases premium service has been v slow since the news began. suggesting a massive influx of users well played(?) Sam
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by grassmudhorse 3y ago
feedback: - I want to repeat just the word, lots of times, without waiting, so a "rapid repeat" button would be nice. - Context is good, but the player keeps going, well beyond the initial useful section. My attention span struggl
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by grassmudhorse 3y ago
someone at msft has way too much time on their hands
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by grassmudhorse 3y ago
why
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by grassmudhorse 4y ago
You're looking at the wrong metrics. The risk of using a solo-dev product is them losing interest and stopping support (or as someone else pointed out, not being able to deliver the required level of support). Both types of products al
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by grassmudhorse 4y ago
Are you allowed to look at it? Yes. Are you allowed to remember it? Yes. Are you allowed to use similar patterns / naming conventions / algorithms when your are trying to solve your own unique problems? …I hope so, or you won’t be
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by grassmudhorse 4y ago
I take it you write all of your code in notepad with no linting, formatting, or any of the other cheater plugins that incompetent devs use?
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by grassmudhorse 4y ago
At worst, it helps me type fast by finishing my lines of code for me, as pressing `tab` is faster than typing boilerplate. At best, it is scary in it's ability to pre-emptively suggest context-specific implementations of functions befo
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by grassmudhorse 4y ago
> this is, after all, a zero sum game. No it isn't. Lost me here.
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by grassmudhorse 5y ago
> currently federal law enforcement can hack online accounts, remove, add, or modify data Terrifying -- we are trusting officers who are incentivised to make convictions with the power to remove, add and modify data which could be used a
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by grassmudhorse 5y ago
>You can type anything in the terminal, and it displays all the matching commands (with help snippets) in real-time Like when you start typing something and press tab for autocomplete options (on a Mac at the moment but PowerShell does t
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by grassmudhorse 5y ago
Anything you want to, do it Want to change the world? There's nothing to it
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Ask HN: Feature requests? (Any Microsoft-owned product)
5 points by grassmudhorse 5y ago|8 comments
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Ask HN: Evolving practices (10M – 1B users)?
1 points by grassmudhorse 5y ago|0 comments
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by grassmudhorse 5y ago
> the author wants to paint this as essentially the arrogance of the tech elites. Clearly you didn't read the second paragraph of the article: > In fairness, this particular problem isn’t by any means endemic to Hacker News. It o
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by grassmudhorse 5y ago
Isolde?
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by grassmudhorse 5y ago
similar origins https://app.clipchamp.com/
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Interactive map of the evolutionary links between all living things(onezoom.org)
1 points by grassmudhorse 5y ago|0 comments
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by grassmudhorse 6y ago
Complete crap. Anyone who makes statements about solar energy costing 2c a kwhr is either a fool or a liar. I'd suggest the latter in this case. There's nothing independent about this clown
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by grassmudhorse 6y ago
I don't know what it means to define self-awareness without consciousness. Sounds like just emergent behaviors.
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by grassmudhorse 6y ago
Or, from an insects perspective: "The swarm doesn't think humans are swarm-aware. Swarm still thinks they have some form of consciousness"
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by grassmudhorse 6y ago
Excellent tool. How is WPM calculated? There are a few things to consider -- time spent not typing when taking a mid-chapter break, number of characters in a word (unless a words are counted literally by splitting at space characters), or i
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by grassmudhorse 6y ago
I see what you did there. I like it.
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by grassmudhorse 6y ago
Low quality contribution
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by grassmudhorse 6y ago
Description too general. Hard to comment
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by grassmudhorse 6y ago
How can I bypass the paywall?
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by grassmudhorse 7y ago
Is this the right forum?

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