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New comment by bigato in "Procrastination is driven by our desire to avoid difficult emotions, says expert"

bigato — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 22:00:58 +0000

There's a big overlap. Recent research shows that 80% of people on the autism spectrum also have adhd, and 50% of people with adhd also are on the autism spectrum.

More big employers are talking about permanent work-from-home positions

bigato — Sun, 10 May 2020 16:24:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/01/major-companies-talking-about-permanent-work-from-home-positions.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23133823

Points: 1

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PSK31 Radio Teletype Mode

bigato — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 23:47:24 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSK31

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22828452

Points: 1

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New comment by bigato in "The growth of command-line options, 1979-Present"

bigato — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 22:27:31 +0000

and do you find powershell to be a simpler alternative? i recently had to look into a 100 or so lines powershell script and it felt crazily hard to read. Good thing I had access to the guy who wrote it so that he just told me what it was supposed to do (he gave up explaining the script)

New comment by bigato in "The growth of command-line options, 1979-Present"

bigato — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 21:59:25 +0000

In the unix-compatible world, you could take a look at openbsd as an example of OS that is not growing exponentially. Yet, the web browsers are the same two beasts that you find elsewhere in linuxes. For a more radical approach to what you ask, look at plan9. There are some modern forks that run on modern hardware.

Worse Is Better

bigato — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 19:06:42 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22445365

Points: 1

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New comment by bigato in "Bootstrap Treeview"

bigato — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 17:10:04 +0000

Scratch my post above, I made a better example:

https://pastebin.com/raw/9D02J80s

New comment by bigato in "Bootstrap Treeview"

bigato — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 16:15:09 +0000

Unfortunately I didn't find an example that was simple enough on the web, and the work I did is not open source, so here is the best link I found, which was by the way what I used to derive my implementation:

https://codepen.io/dsheiko/pen/MvEpXm

This is a bit fancier than necessary and that makes it not so good as an example for learning, but hopefully it will be enough to give you the idea.

edit: this one is a little bit better to understand the basics: https://medium.com/metaphorical-web/javascript-treeview-cont...

In short, summary/detail has the native hability to collapse the details and you can explore that to implement a tree by nesting them.

New comment by bigato in "Bootstrap Treeview"

bigato — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 13:54:27 +0000

I recently used html5 sumary/detail to implement a treeview and it was the best experience ever solving such problem on the web. Very simple and easily customizable via css, and if you render it on the server, you don't need javascript at all.

New comment by bigato in "Securing Firefox with WebAssembly"

bigato — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 17:37:33 +0000

Good point. That should probably be the case for the majority of generation who entered the programming world in the last 20 years, which is quite a lot of people. But yet, old farts like me may disagree.

New comment by bigato in "Securing Firefox with WebAssembly"

bigato — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 16:40:13 +0000

if parts of the web browser start being shipped as wasm code, we will eventually reach the point where the web browser shipped to the user is only a wasm vm, and all the rest will be shipped as optional libraries or even downloaded on the fly. Even stuff like the html engine, the css, and the javascript. In that world, using the messy web standards evolved over time would be optional. The web browser would then become the universal virtual machine that the world seems to want it to be, instead of a browser. The web would be the app distribution system. One could for example, decide to write their site using tcl/tk.

Implementing the wasm vm and its basic apis would be simpler in a new operating system. Because the way it is now, the web browser itself is more complex that writing a simple operating system. That hinders innovation in the Operating System space.

New comment by bigato in "Updated ThinkPad Laptop Portfolio"

bigato — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 14:28:42 +0000

I have no idea of youtube channels, but I ask on the irc channels I like to hang out in.

New comment by bigato in "The Zen of Go"

bigato — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 21:52:42 +0000

In my experience, reality is unpredictable enough that no one actually know what the requirements will be two versions down the road. In practice you end up with code that is more complex than what the current problem needs, trying to solve a future need that you presume will happen but you don’t really know what it is and when it will happen.

New comment by bigato in "The Zen of Go"

bigato — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 21:41:07 +0000

The standard library

New comment by bigato in "Firefox 73"

bigato — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 18:29:27 +0000

You may like Iridium - it’s chromium with all the google stuff removed.

Go Wiki – Webassembly

bigato — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 23:24:32 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/WebAssembly

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22251953

Points: 4

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New comment by bigato in "Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-from-Home Experiment"

bigato — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 07:49:44 +0000

Well, I don't work remotely but I am waiting on a task to be completed by another team for about a week now. It's something that can't possibly take more than one hour or so to be completed, and I even talked to them in person before submitting the task. That didn't change a thing about their deadlines.

Aphantasia: How It Feels to Be Blind in Your Mind

bigato — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 09:34:32 +0000

Article URL: https://facebook.com/notes/blake-ross/aphantasia-how-it-feels-to-be-blind-in-your-mind/10156834777480504

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22200310

Points: 1

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How (Not) to Run a Modern Society on Solar and Wind Power Alone

bigato — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 18:06:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2017/09/how-to-run-modern-society-on-solar-and-wind-powe.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22183770

Points: 2

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Precise C64 Replica

bigato — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 16:19:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/dec/19/the-c64-review-precise-replica-80s-gaming

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21836239

Points: 2

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