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New comment by Anonymous4C54D6 in "Gresham’s Law: Bad Drives Out Good as Time Passes (2009)"

Anonymous4C54D6 — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 09:41:31 +0000

Meh. If you have two coins that are nominally worth the same but one is actually worth more - because it can, in a pinch, be melted down for a valuable resource - I wouldn't call this the bad driving out the good.

Of course the point that bad behavior may give a higher fitness score is still true.

I also like the idea of lemon market's in this context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons In short and very simplified: if the customer cannot tell the good products from the bad products he will not pay the price of the good products and so the good products disappear.

New comment by Anonymous4C54D6 in "The Intensional Spreadsheet"

Anonymous4C54D6 — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 07:22:08 +0000

So, what happened to all of these? I feel like a multidimensional spreadsheet would be a great alternative to things like MS Access.

New comment by Anonymous4C54D6 in "Why do we need modules at all? (2011)"

Anonymous4C54D6 — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 14:59:44 +0000

As way-too-often, I think the solution should be a good IDE. There is nothing stopping your IDE from completing "foo" as "module1.foo" and offering "module2.foo" as well if it exists. Alternatively the IDE could just display "module1.foo" instead of foo because that is what the import dictates.

As always with dynamic things and editing code for them, this will be more difficult to get right when imports are dynamic.

New comment by Anonymous4C54D6 in "Why do we need modules at all? (2011)"

Anonymous4C54D6 — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 14:51:03 +0000

Serverless is about running functions this is about distributing their code. I agree that there is some overlap but different problems are being solved.

New comment by Anonymous4C54D6 in "The PGP Problem"

Anonymous4C54D6 — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 09:47:17 +0000

Hi Thomas et al.! Good write-up and with several software suggestions that I didn't know. Excellent! I think one thing you are missing is an "alternative" for the identity problem. I somewhat agree that all long-term keys are a problem but how do we build an identity out of a bunch of keys for different systems, covering privacy concerns, with some sort of key transparency to detect attacks, ... I think this would be a very interesting post from you guys that I would love to read. ;)

New comment by Anonymous4C54D6 in "When it comes to composition and length, passwords mostly don't matter"

Anonymous4C54D6 — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 09:46:22 +0000

This article is slightly inconsistent.

All those arguments for why a password's strength doesn't matter because the attackers gets the exact one have one important conclusion: Don't reuse your password.

And then there are a bunch of arguments that the strength mostly doesn't matter but the password shouldn't be too weak.

So we end up with having to remember lot's of non-trivial passwords and now the conclusion should be to use a password manager and certainly not that your password "mostly doesn't matter".

What sadly mostly still doesn't matter is MFA because it is a site-specific pain to set up and use.

New comment by Anonymous4C54D6 in "Writing a small ray tracer in Rust and Zig"

Anonymous4C54D6 — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 09:36:58 +0000

Also, https://www.arewewebyet.org/ is somehow trying to provide a little bit of this but fails to actually recommend the best option.

New comment by Anonymous4C54D6 in "Show HN: A Firefox extension to leave comments on any URL"

Anonymous4C54D6 — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 12:23:10 +0000

This actually looks a lot cooler than the OP. :)

Edit: oh wait...chrome only

New comment by Anonymous4C54D6 in "CSS Grid Level 2 – subgrid is coming to Firefox"

Anonymous4C54D6 — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 08:20:02 +0000

Oh...oh...the numbering is 1 based. O_o

Ask HN: Can I get some nice and simple CSS please?

Anonymous4C54D6 — Tue, 21 May 2019 13:42:02 +0000

We've had quite a few submissions over the last months discussing minimal CSS. I've been experimenting with CSS for a bit now and I find that most of them don't even provide the following basic properties: * Legible font-size on mobile and desktop * Legible width on mobile (full-width) and desktop (only a central column)

So, does anybody have something like that or is it only fake 2019? The target would be a website similar to https://jrl.ninja/etc/1/ so a simple one-column article type of thing.

Eventually, some sort of navigation would probably be nice so if you want to suggest a larger framework, please do!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19970017

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by Anonymous4C54D6 in "A Sealed Garden That Was Watered Once in 53 Years (2017)"

Anonymous4C54D6 — Mon, 20 May 2019 11:39:50 +0000

Unfortunately in German but still pretty easy to get some information out of and it has DIY guides: https://ulfsoltau.wordpress.com/

New comment by Anonymous4C54D6 in "Show HN: CSSFX – Click-to-copy CSS effects"

Anonymous4C54D6 — Wed, 08 May 2019 14:00:30 +0000

I especially dislike most of these because they don't actually feel very responsive. The animations are so slow that quickly hovering something looks jarring and waiting for the animation just feels wrong.

New comment by Anonymous4C54D6 in "Interface Dispatch (2018)"

Anonymous4C54D6 — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 11:32:25 +0000

The ascii art is broken.

New comment by Anonymous4C54D6 in "TKE: Modern Tcl/Tk-based text editor"

Anonymous4C54D6 — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 09:16:50 +0000

That sort of misses the point of comparing different editors. :)

New comment by Anonymous4C54D6 in "TKE: Modern Tcl/Tk-based text editor"

Anonymous4C54D6 — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 08:51:16 +0000

So, Hackernews, here is what I want you to do. Create a website with "solve this with your editor" challenges where everybody can upload screencasts and compete. :)

An obvious metric would be /time to completion/ but I would also be interested to see /can be done with mouse only while drinking coffee/ or in general /can be done one-handed/, /can be done left handed/ (so the mouse is free) or maybe /keystrokes+clicks/ instead of general timing because it takes the typing speed out of it. Some metric that measures how many shortcuts you have to memorize would be great, too.

Now somebody go and do it! :)

New comment by Anonymous4C54D6 in "Why [Insert Thing Here] Is Not a Password Killer"

Anonymous4C54D6 — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 18:01:51 +0000

Has anybody made a list of [Insert Thing Here]s? I'm curious what kind of trade-offs they offer.

New comment by Anonymous4C54D6 in "FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997)"

Anonymous4C54D6 — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 11:08:22 +0000

I miss this. Web pages were just data not programs.

New comment by Anonymous4C54D6 in "Generative Art Finds Its Prodigy"

Anonymous4C54D6 — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 16:08:17 +0000

You can't say generative art without saying demoscene.

New comment by Anonymous4C54D6 in "Pandoc"

Anonymous4C54D6 — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 11:24:27 +0000

Just reading C-c C-f C-b is an issue for me and I haven't even tried to remember and type it yet.

New comment by Anonymous4C54D6 in "Lubuntu is taking a new direction"

Anonymous4C54D6 — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 11:37:18 +0000

How about we use a raspberry pi as a definition of an "old" machine? It's the most popular low powered system. Which distribution would you use?