Hacker News: ilovecomputers

New comment by ilovecomputers in "Apple Lightning Connector Serial Access (2015)"

ilovecomputers — Sun, 16 Sep 2018 18:40:11 +0000

It's firewire all over again. They'll never learn.

New comment by ilovecomputers in "Blender is testing PeerTube after YouTube blocks their videos worldwide"

ilovecomputers — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 23:05:17 +0000

This is why I'm hyped about the fedi. This is what it'll finally take to break our dependence on a centralized web. Essentially, the email model. I wish we followed this model earlier in the web 2.0 days.

New comment by ilovecomputers in "Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook"

ilovecomputers — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 18:05:44 +0000

All these decentralized alternatives don't have iPhone apps. It's app store policy that is blocking devs, ain't it?

New comment by ilovecomputers in "CSS Grid for UI Layouts"

ilovecomputers — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 18:31:05 +0000

Here's the history of CSS layouts as told by a CSSWG spec writer: http://fantasai.inkedblade.net/weblog/2012/css-layout-evolut...

New comment by ilovecomputers in "Slack is offline"

ilovecomputers — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 23:12:51 +0000

https://xkcd.com/1782/

New comment by ilovecomputers in "Stench gas"

ilovecomputers — Sat, 10 Jun 2017 01:01:52 +0000

I know right? Sites like these used to be linked so often. Now that this is no longer the case, I've easily forgotten about these old sites.

New comment by ilovecomputers in "Reinventing the Git Interface (2014)"

ilovecomputers — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 21:23:13 +0000

Now I'm wishing GitUp had this selection tool. Sadly you can only do operations one commit/branch at a time.

New comment by ilovecomputers in "Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team"

ilovecomputers — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 03:49:17 +0000

Don't expect him to protect net neutrality just because he is an exec from Silicon Valley: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2g4g95/peter_thiel_te...

It is clear that Apple is straying from its mission

ilovecomputers — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 19:51:44 +0000

Since the 90s, I've viewed Apple as the computer company that was breaking down the boundaries between humans and computers with capable technology. From the GUI to a Unix OS to the touchscreen; Apple was taking major steps to breaking down this boundary while the competition, Microsoft, was coming up with minor gimmicks with less reliable tech. Now it's the other way around!

The signs were showing, but I could not accept it until a worthy competitor appeared. The watershed moment came with COURAGE, but I reached the final stage of acceptance when Microsoft revealed the Surface Studio (and a host of other enticing gadgets) before Apple's pricey, dongle-loving, touch strip gimmick that is the MBP.

I'm feeling more and more confident in Satya's Microsoft. They're sticking through with the productizing of their research in multi-touch and 3D Augmented Reality. Their opening up of developer products (.NET is on GitHub and Edge was one of the first to fully support ES6) is bearing fruit. Now that Windows runs Ubuntu's userland, I don't have the lack of a Unix terminal to dissuade me from their OS.

Apple used to delight me with the smallest detail, but now they piss me off over the smallest fuck ups. Their gadgets now feel more like boundaries while Microsoft has been starting to break them down.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12820007

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New comment by ilovecomputers in "Playing with Syntax"

ilovecomputers — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 00:41:07 +0000

Articles like these remind me that Lisp uses the perfect number of tokens.

New comment by ilovecomputers in "Interactive Dynamic Video"

ilovecomputers — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 16:57:12 +0000

Signal Processing was that subject I found difficult and I found no reason to be interested in audio filtering, so I didn't find an incentive to work through that difficulty. Then I see applications of signal processing, like this, that goes beyond simple audio filtering, that makes me want to learn it again. Honestly, this looks like wizardry! It is no surprise, MIT is on the bleeding edge of signal processing and it mainly is due to Dr. Oppenheim . He wrote the textbook on DSP and runs the DSP Group at MIT.

New comment by ilovecomputers in "I Was Wrong About TypeScript"

ilovecomputers — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 02:04:18 +0000

If that first feature is true, it will bring me back to TypeScript. Honestly, my major deterrence of TypeScript was managing both 3rd party libraries and typing files.

New comment by ilovecomputers in "The Majestic Monolith"

ilovecomputers — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 21:30:09 +0000

I too was thinking of this article as well. A team might not always know what the boundaries of their data & code classification will be ahead of time.

New comment by ilovecomputers in "Forgo JavaScript packaging? Not so fast"

ilovecomputers — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 19:13:23 +0000

Since we are on the topic of effectively distributing JS code to clients...why is there no push for delta updates on the web? There was a proposal for delta caching back in 2002: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3229

New comment by ilovecomputers in "Gnuspeech"

ilovecomputers — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 22:54:51 +0000

GNU vocaloids?

New comment by ilovecomputers in "Paper is Dropbox's new vision for how teams can work together"

ilovecomputers — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 21:26:09 +0000

Which hasn't caught up to new Facebook features and hasn't updated since March. Makes me wonder if Facebook has killed it.

New comment by ilovecomputers in "Stop Breaking the Web"

ilovecomputers — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 18:11:53 +0000

To a lot of you arguing that Progressive Enhancement doesn't apply to "web apps," as Jake Archibald argues[1], that really isn't an excuse if you can't distinguish it from what you consider a "web site." Is your content static? Is interaction core to your content (like a video game or a data viz explorer)? Even if interactivity is core to your content, why not first offer something like a product page. Describe about your interactive content in text or in images or in a demo video. Just the minimum static content a user can quickly download before the rest of the richer content is loaded. It's not much of an extra effort; you aren't back porting your interactivity to less capable devices. Instead you're using static content to show what your game could be.

[1] https://jakearchibald.com/2013/progressive-enhancement-still...

New comment by ilovecomputers in "Google’s look, evolved"

ilovecomputers — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 16:30:19 +0000

My series of responses within the span of 30 minutes:

* "It looks like fridge magnets for kids! I don't like it; the iconic lower case g is gone cause of designers obsession of san-serif == modern."

* "Glad that they continue to embrace their playful culture tho."

* "You know what, it's growing on me."

* "Haha, they tilted the e, how cute. Oh god what is happening to me!?"

* "Geeze, how old is Google books? They haven't even updated the logo!"

New comment by ilovecomputers in "What happened to Web Components?"

ilovecomputers — Sat, 29 Aug 2015 21:06:41 +0000

The article lead me to this comment by Rob Eisenberg who is skeptical about Web Components being ready. He states that currently, Web Components are not robust for more complicated uses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDtpXhMQeew&lc=z13zzzabckb1j...

New comment by ilovecomputers in "Fix Reddit with Bitcoin"

ilovecomputers — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 08:13:13 +0000

You're correct, getting paid for posts is a strong incentive. In the end, we won't know unless we try.

Personally, when I think of a decentralized reddit, there's nothing monetary about it. Simple points equate with popularity and that's incentive enough, but it's hard to build up a large audience like reddit did. Honestly, when I started reading your article, I was expecting to read a proposal for something like Namecoin, but for a decentralized reddit. Then the monetization part took me by surprise because that would totally change the social dynamic of the site. I would feel it would be less about the content and the popularity and more about trying to make money.