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New comment by _blob in "REA Reverse – Engineer Anything"

_blob — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 14:15:42 +0000

Very likely. Also noticed when a repo gets on the trending list on github it gets swarmed by some form of contributors and most of those contributor profiles started contributing to random repos around March/April. It's a pattern but dunno what to take from that.

New comment by _blob in "Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser"

_blob — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:02:11 +0000

The "clean room" approach here is using public documentation to assemble a roadmap/guidance and computer use to get any other behavioral output and visuals from the software you wanna clone. The agent doing that will just do something which looks completely innocent to it (e.g. create a rectangle on the canvas and then rotate it).

The other agent then implements the documented journey.

New comment by _blob in "When in Go, do as Gophers do"

_blob — Sun, 07 Dec 2014 16:12:35 +0000

In the original code if out.Close() returns an error, run() will return nil. The revised code sets `err` to the returned error from out.Close(), in case the error from os.Create(*output) is nil.

Simply spoken, the original code will suppress the error from out.Close().

New comment by _blob in "Stop Changing UIs for No Good Reason"

_blob — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 16:57:13 +0000

A quick search reveals, that the Week/ Month view is not available on phones (I only own an N7). Definitely a step backward.

New comment by _blob in "Stop Changing UIs for No Good Reason"

_blob — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 15:51:29 +0000

The month view is not gone ("three dot" menu on the right side -> Month) and you can easily untick `Events` per account to hide them.

The gmail app still allows you to use a list to select different accounts (tap on the account name).