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by tl 1mo ago
Ignore the syntax for a moment. Minus Javascript, HTML + CSS is a green screen terminal with better fonts and image support. Message passing (fetch, XMLHttpRequest, polling, streaming, etc...) is how you build something that feels like a re
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by tl 2mo ago
You'd be surprised. This was the same conversation where Numbers was pitched as an Excel replacement.
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by tl 2mo ago
I asked an Apple (via a sales rep who visited our company to showcase in internal iPad healthcare app) to please do this for iCloud when iCloud Drive was in-development. We would have easily paid $50,000 for a rack-able Mac Pro you could po
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by tl 2mo ago
It's not a widespread issue but it's hardly new. DiskTop was an add-in that's almost as old as the Mac itself, and PathFinder has had a business model for most of the life of OSX. Alternative file managers are arguably a heal
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by tl 3mo ago
It does not. Source: have a dock. Latest firmware installed from deck. And because the current Steam controller is a recent release, I had to try a whole mess of third party controllers before settling on PS5 controllers because everything
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by tl 3mo ago
I like the SteamDeck I have, but it doesn't do HDMI-CEC or controller wake from sleep today. Valve needs to prove the Steam Machine doesn't fail here.
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by tl 3mo ago
Simple example: a while back LLMs would trip over questions like "how many Rs are in strawberry". Now, the system prompts have a line like "when a user asks for a count, actually count the value by calling a tool if needed&qu
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by tl 4mo ago
The OG of these is probably C and Assembly. C and (Emacs) Lisp is well known. Arguably, it's the entire reason we have Python. But if you want to pair Zig against something, I would look at Lua.
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by tl 5mo ago
This is America. We gerrymander the vote and blame the victim. Sorry you got downvoted.
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by tl 5mo ago
https://antonz.org/sqlite-is-not-a-toy-database/ — 240K inserts per second on a single machine in 2021. The problem you describe is real, but the TPS ceiling is wrong by three orders of magnitude on modern hardware.
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by tl 7mo ago
Per BalatroBench, gemini-3-pro-preview makes it to round (not ante) 19.3 ± 6.8 on the lowest difficulty on the deck aimed at new players. Round 24 is ante 8's final round. Per BalatroBench, this includes giving the LLM a strategy gui
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by tl 8mo ago
I have Claude whiplash right now. Anthropic bumped limits over the holidays to drive more usage. Which combined with Opus's higher token usage and weird oddities in usage reporting / capping (see sibling comments), makes me suspec
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by tl 8mo ago
Most of the job is noticing friction and clearing paths — which requires context and trust more than technical superiority. In practice: Start a note for each engineer you manage. Fred Brooks called this a "career file". Start by
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by tl 8mo ago
On the contrary, they hire the trendiest: https://danluu.com/programmer-moneyball/
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by tl 9mo ago
I recommend everyone bookmark the archive.org link or download via the magnet link since HN is disappearing these. Also, any recommendations for a news site that doesn't suppress news? Asking for a friend.
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by tl 10mo ago
Balatro and a number of other games have. But react-native? I can't think of an example and the framework wouldn't be my choice for "award winning" design. Watch Duty won with a Cordova app in the "Social Impact&quo
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by tl 11mo ago
> If you have a good audit process then errors get detected even if AI helped introduce them. If you aren't doing a good audit then I suspect nobody cares whether your financial statement is correct (anyone who did would insist on a
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by tl 1y ago
Foundations just reprinted Savannah Lions (the 2/1 for W). It's still a good card in Limited (one of two actual good, popular formats in MtG). The interaction soup people of thousands of cards? Actually good in commander (the othe
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by tl 1y ago
> The sad fact is that the software industry as a whole relies heavily on mainstream languages, and not on educating your engineers to leverage the strengths of your specialty language. Except when the language is the workhorse of a prop
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by tl 1y ago
As a similar but distinct theory, you might find Larry McEnerney‘s work interesting. Writing has two classes: a writing for thought and a writing for communication. Larry uses horizontal and vertical spatial metaphors here. Writing for tho
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by tl 1y ago
While Elixir is my current favorite language to hack in, it is very alien and downright hostile to integrating with existing systems. For example, relational database support was postgres focused for a long time (to the exclusion even of SQ
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by tl 1y ago
Apple has been the new Microsoft long enough, I've begun to suspect the current environment cannot support a new Apple. Joel Spoksky's 2004 "How Microsoft Lost the API War" [1] applies to Apple's 2019 introduction o
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by tl 1y ago
Maybe for "Apple", but there's one team that takes performance seriously. The WebKit team has a zero tolerance policy for performance regressions ( https://webkit.org/performance/ ) dating back to the impl
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by tl 1y ago
Which means your cries for privacy only apply for rich people and you're okay with that because you have some money.
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by tl 1y ago
This is optics versus reality. Its goal was to address shortcomings in C++ and Java. It has replaced neither at Google and its own creators were surprised it competed with python, mostly on the value of having an easier build and deploy pro
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by tl 2y ago
I just refreshed HN. This story is #10 when I'm logged in and gone when viewing from a private window.
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by tl 2y ago
It's a biased viewpoint, but it's not nostalgia. The following all happened to me: - 486 Packard Bell that I upgraded ram from 4MB -> 12MB as a kid? Win 3.1 went from being slow period to Windows 95 being fast any time I didn&#
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by tl 2y ago
The only real answer for this is self-imposed handicaps.
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by tl 2y ago
Title shortened for HN. Original: "You Can't Build Interactive Web Apps Except as Single Page Applications... And Other Myths"
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Htmx – Myths about MPAs(htmx.org)
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