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by metagame 4y ago
That sounds like a good idea. Have you considered writing it?
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by metagame 4y ago
Thank you for making it! Unfortunately, a JVM on wasm would be quite difficult for the same reason that Lisp over wasm is quite difficult (I had actually looked for wasm JVMs before trying anything). I had no idea there was a JS JVM impleme
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by metagame 4y ago
Thanks for the only compliment in the thread! I appreciate it, especially given I've been such a fan of your writing and life for such a long time. I think that the people who responded to you covered much of it, but you can find more
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by metagame 4y ago
I think it's fine to accuse people of things, even though I did feel a little sad about it. I don't think the problem is that you broke rules of a web forum, or that you attacked me. I wasn't complaining that you were flippan
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by metagame 4y ago
As it says in the article, stdout is wired to the browser console. So you open your browser console to see it. It's not meant to be sold, it's just a little toy.
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by metagame 4y ago
The spec people have been very rude to the Lisp people every time something has been brought up. I'm not going to look up everything that's been written, but here's an example: https://sourceforge.net/p/s
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by metagame 4y ago
Nothing's being sold; it's just a little toy.
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by metagame 4y ago
That's not true at all, and I'm tempted to write something to prove you wrong. My aesthetic choices were intentional, and almost nothing in your comment is right.
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by metagame 4y ago
The page was written to render well if you turn reader view on, and the color schemes are all in one line and easy enough to change. The only thing missing from the reader view is the aside, which is silly and in proper contrast on the orig
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by metagame 4y ago
I don't think you hit the mark at all, as the person who wrote the page. Nothing you note is a bad thing; they're all positives. Superficiality is my specialty. Your comment kind of shows some biases you might want to work on.
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by metagame 4y ago
All of the CSS is handwritten for exactly the intended effect that it gave.
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by metagame 4y ago
I took a picture of a box of pens, snatched the hex values from it, and then threw them directly onto the page. I'm glad you like it!
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Show HN: Common Lisp running natively over WebAssembly for the first time(soi-disant.srht.site)
97 points by metagame 4y ago|64 comments
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by metagame 4y ago
Microsoft's been agitated that the Windows source gets put in a torrent every few years. They haven't been able to rid the planet of that, yet. IPFS is a less-efficient DHT, basically. They might "win" a case legally, bu
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by metagame 5y ago
I was talking about mahmud, actually, the user who summed up your article. Thanks for the article!
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by metagame 5y ago
Previous summary of this article, from a thread with otherwise no activity and with an author that no longer posts on HN, said more elegantly than I could dream of saying: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1047559
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by metagame 5y ago
HN's hellbans aren't real shadowbans, because other users can see them. They just have to opt-in to seeing potentially offensive content (it's a setting in your profile). Other users can even make banned users' posts vis
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by metagame 5y ago
That's not really the "HN team," though. What you're describing that the partners did is scummy, but makes sense when you realize that partners and dang have effectively an adversarial relationship when it comes to the q
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by metagame 5y ago
Have you considered that he might just avoid sharking out on people he considers friends, or people with too large a platform? Genuine question.
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Design Issues for Foreign Function Interfaces (2004)(web.archive.org)
43 points by metagame 5y ago|5 comments
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by metagame 5y ago
It isn't dang's fault that Patrick has a Google Alert or daemon running for his name (or just has a lot of employees who notify him whenever it comes up). It's not direct control of HN, it's Patrick being enterprising. d
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by metagame 5y ago
In your defense, Justine's been at this for a long time! Give it time and effort, and you too can do amazing technical things. Potential isn't a concrete thing, it's a set point you can move around. Throw yourself at the comp
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by metagame 5y ago
If you count being forced in a box by government entities as imprisoned, he's been imprisoned since 2012. If you're a stickler for being literal, he's if nothing else been captive since 2012. Not to mention the UN's guy
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by metagame 5y ago
No, you're missing the point. People who want that can buy a PS4, which has always been cheaper, has more interesting exclusives, and as a result has had its copy protection broken since nearly launch. There's no point in doing
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by metagame 5y ago
I'm aware (that's how I have it configured), but that doesn't solve many of the problems with bookmarks.
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by metagame 5y ago
I know Cydia's your thing (I'd recognize your username anywhere) and I have an infinite amount of respect for you because of it, but I think the status quo is probably fine. iOS is a minority of the market and "Do you know ho
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by metagame 5y ago
It's because the UX for them is awful and takes up valuable real-estate unless you put them in a folder that's nowhere near your toolbar in which case you will never see them again, especially after a Mozilla update corrupts them,
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by metagame 5y ago
Both have the same root problem: There's no incentive. There used to be reasons to crack consoles, and there still is for many of them, and eventually there might be an incentive to for the Xbox One, but there's no reason for the
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by metagame 5y ago
I think you have a few reasoning errors in your comment: The PS3 and 360 aren't actually harder to emulate because they have more complex copy protection; they're hard to emulate because they're very novel systems (hardware-w
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by metagame 5y ago
It's pretty likely they will; they'll just have to crack them first. Pretty much everyone does it with retro consoles today, since CDs are inconvenient and expensive for the core audience of that wants to play video games and DRM

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