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by misterS 3y ago
I was amazed that the site still runs, apparently still using the same engine. But it seems that it was a flash site (of course), and archive.org seems to replace Flash Player with "Ruffle" [1]. Either that, or someone of Tobin&#x
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by misterS 3y ago
Starting a comment with «yawn» immediately shows dismissal of and disrespect for the person you're replying to. You might want to refresh your memory of HN's guidelines. Link at the bottom.
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by misterS 3y ago
TIL. https://plugins.jenkins.io/blueocean/ Blue Ocean status Blue Ocean will not receive further functionality updates. Blue Ocean will continue to provide easy-to-use Pipeline visualization, but it will n
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by misterS 3y ago
> Be specially careful when installing their extension pack, as it is an evaluation license. Our company was targeted by Oracle Sales because they detected mere _downloads_ from our IP range. They couldn't prove any installations, b
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by misterS 3y ago
This works great for password resets. It does not work if you actually want to send emails, for instance notifications.
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by misterS 4y ago
Instinctively applying Pascal case, maybe?
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by misterS 4y ago
Plainly Difficult has a nice video about this accident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhL0xQzPSy8
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by misterS 4y ago
I did, too :) For those that don't know: Datasette is the author/curator of https://musicforprogramming.net
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by misterS 4y ago
That's a really nifty visualisation of the 140 named web colors.
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by misterS 4y ago
I did not and can't downvote, no I have no stake in this. That said, in my opinion people working in such a workplace reading a post "Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022" should be savvy enough to not click links, o
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by misterS 4y ago
Two days ago, I've tried to create an account tied only to an email. During account creation, the wizard suddenly inserted an additional step and required my to enter a phone number. I realise though that this is possibly an anti-spam
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by misterS 4y ago
We use Quill, too, we only need rudimentary features, though. Its maintenance status is... questionable, although my information is out of date (see last paragraph). * Github: https://github.com/quilljs/quill/ * I
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by misterS 4y ago
Please provide some context, instead of just dumping an URL.
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by misterS 5y ago
My guess is that the graphical designers are to blame for this – and of course whatever PM signed off on that.
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by misterS 5y ago
> kids in first year of school should know how to draw flag from memory Roman Mars taught me that – well Ted Kaye, but Roman taught me in his seminal TED talk [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnv5iKB2hl4
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by misterS 5y ago
While I can understand their reasons for shutting Upsource down, I think the very same reason will prevent users from migrating to their preferred tool-suite ("Space" [1]): users of Upsource very likely already _have_ existing too
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by misterS 5y ago
This is called "dark mode" nowadays, and it's a feature.
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by misterS 5y ago
Let me assure you that not all European developers have such generous conditions.
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by misterS 5y ago
On this topic I suggest viewing CPG Grey's video "Hexagons are the Bestagons" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thOifuHs6eY
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by misterS 5y ago
> and are financially secure. This is the key point. I can imagine being a farmer is a lot more nerve wracking if e.g. bad whether destroys your year's harvest – for the third time in a row. If you're financially secure, any jo
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by misterS 5y ago
The Windows 95 ".chm" help pages [1] were basically HTML pages, displayed in an application embedding Internet Explorer. IIRC this lead to login exploits (since the login screen was able to show help pages). [1] https:/&#x2F
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by misterS 5y ago
I had to look this up to check if it was sarcasm or not. Apparently it's not, and `_optout` for Windows is real. FML. Source: https://superuser.com/questions/1005235/wi-fi-opt-out-micros...
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by misterS 5y ago
I guess (and I have no way to verify this, it's really just a guess) that the number of developers that worked on the Windows code base in its 35 year history is in the same order, if not higher.
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by misterS 5y ago
There's https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/ , a fork of Clementine, apparently created due to Clementine's inactivity. I've used it on and off on MacOS, but had some nasty locks which crashed the applicatio
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by misterS 6y ago
Stuff like this is the reason why I, as a non-american software engineer, use `US_en` layouts on all my machines.
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by misterS 6y ago
> anyone who tells you "You must do this for the saftey of others" can go fuck themselves. You have no right to tell me what I can and can't do as long as i am not causing DIRECT harm to you. Do you not count spreading a v
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by misterS 6y ago
But I bet the beer would not taste as good.
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by misterS 6y ago
I'm not disagreeing, but just because something uses more memory does not mean it's slower per se.
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by misterS 6y ago
> There isn’t anyone popping over my shoulder, and general interruptions are almost nil in my case. I think a lot of people are going to be super surprised what a quiet room and your playlist of choice can do to increase productivity. Ju
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by misterS 8y ago
Dave Jones of EEVBlog has a nice series of videos talking to Richard Stephenson, Operations Supervisor at the DSN's Canberra site. How To Contact The Voyager 2 Probe: Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzRP1qdwPKw&

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