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by jfe 5y ago
I compute the resized windows and columns on mouseup to imitate how the Acme text editor does resizing, but the event handler which computes the resize could very well be called on mousemove if preferred. Maybe it'd be worth adding tha
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by jfe 5y ago
Thanks. I'm not sure how many people have three mouse buttons but it wouldn't hurt to make the buttons respond to middle-clicks the same way they do to left-clicks.
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by jfe 5y ago
Thanks. Which browser are you using? I noticed this issue in Firefox but thought I fixed it. I've tested it using the latest versions of Chrome and Firefox and it seemed to work.
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by jfe 5y ago
Omnino does not implement the "right-click to load" functionality of Acme, as it's meant to be a general-purpose library. However, I have implemented this functionality on my personal website and plan to open-source this code
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Show HN: Omnino, a windowing system for web apps, inspired by the Acme editor(github.com)
50 points by jfe 5y ago|10 comments
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A hierarchy of software engineering discourse(uvwx.github.io)
134 points by jfe 7y ago|53 comments
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On a hierarchy of software engineering discourse(uvwx.github.io)
1 points by jfe 7y ago|0 comments
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On a hierarchy of software engineering discourse(uvwx.github.io)
2 points by jfe 7y ago|0 comments
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On a hierarchy of software engineering discourse(uvwx.github.io)
3 points by jfe 7y ago|0 comments
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How to Disagree About Software(xlat.posthaven.com)
1 points by jfe 9y ago|0 comments
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How to Disagree About Software(xlat.posthaven.com)
1 points by jfe 9y ago|0 comments
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A Software Discourse Hierarchy(xlat.posthaven.com)
1 points by jfe 9y ago|0 comments
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Is grid/cloud computing development normally slow?
1 points by jfe 10y ago|1 comments
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by jfe 10y ago
what is with programmers and needing to defend a combination of syntax, semantics, and runtime? C++ is a programming language with advantages and disadvantages. end of story.
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by jfe 10y ago
would you also criticize newton's principia mathematica because he expressed the concept of infinitesimals using geometry instead of using liebniz's or lagrange's arguably clearer notations? K&R was written in a different
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by jfe 10y ago
hand-roll it. a 3-minute programming task doesn't warrant pulling in a graph of dependencies a la leftpad.
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by jfe 10y ago
looks like the fox is guarding the hen-house.
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by jfe 10y ago
i wonder if the size could be reduced by replacing the yacc code with a hand-written parser.
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by jfe 10y ago
I used to think that being a software engineer meant you were intelligent, and worked hard to earn the title, but after working in the industry for 6 years, I decided that, large-scale software project management problems aside, industrial
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by jfe 10y ago
iirc dennis ritchie was an applied mathematician.
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by jfe 10y ago
every framework we use -- library, language, runtime, operating system, hardware -- makes decisions that constrain what we can express. languages like haskell, lisp, or ruby may make it easy to create new control structures that blend well
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by jfe 10y ago
i feel like each "new" general-purpose language project is just nipping at the boot-heels of the much bigger problem of constructing large-scale systems that can be fully understood by a few (2-3) people. VPRI's research has
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by jfe 10y ago
I'm compiling a computing research publication/invention "greatest hits" to help myself and others learn what's already been done, and avoid, as Alan Kay would say, "reinventing the flat tire." Your sugges
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Computing Timeline(bopwerks.github.io)
2 points by jfe 10y ago|2 comments
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by jfe 10y ago
so easy, any 10 year old with 30 years' experience can do it.
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The Futility of External Change(bits.posthaven.com)
1 points by jfe 10y ago|0 comments
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by jfe 10y ago
true tolerance tolerates the intolerant.
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by jfe 10y ago
Do a substantial number of IRC users actually care that the current version of IRC lacks the features that IRCv3 proposes, or are we just modernizing because we want to make writing IRC bots more complicated?
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by jfe 10y ago
The value of literate programming is proportional to the novelty of the material it documents.
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by jfe 10y ago
You captured 18 months of personal depression in 7 lines :)

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