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Scarbutton Beeper Mini is back

This happens to me constantly when I use google search in ios safari.

Scarbutton Advent of Technical Writing: Style

If you can't express clearly want you want to code you are going to waste time brute forcing.

Scarbutton Advent of Technical Writing: Style

The biggest level up someone can get is learning how to communicate and write well.

Fixed that for you.

Scarbutton Plan for Windows 10 End of Support

I feel bad for the people who have to stick with Windows because they need to use Adobe or Microsoft products.

I don't how good it is, but Google literally forced Microsoft to create a web version of office, so now Linux users have excel?

Scarbutton Why is Jepsen written in Clojure?

In which programming languages did you measure?

Scarbutton Why is Jepsen written in Clojure?

The blog post does mentioned the lack of a static type system as a drawback. Although it sounds that what he really wants (cause of his prototyping remarks) is gradual typing similar to typescript.

Scarbutton Rage: Fast web framework compatible with Rails

That's worse than using plain JS.

Scarbutton Python Is Easy. Go Is Simple. Simple != Easy

The added value of Clojure over JavaScript is marginal, and the trade-off is significant.

Scarbutton Show HN: React Spreadsheet 2

I got the following:

Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).

And from console:

    139-d48f98f3a9d41491.js:1 TypeError: Cannot destructure property 'sheetId' of 
    '.for' as it is undefined.
        at 561-5e048c82ab8ff4d8.js:5:60688
        at Object.rQ [as useMemo] (2443530c-0641256dae818679.js:9:43805)
        at t.useMemo (139-d48f98f3a9d41491.js:17:7340)
        at nv (561-5e048c82ab8ff4d8.js:5:60642)
        at nI (561-5e048c82ab8ff4d8.js:5:68802)
        at e (452-22edc4adb41de58f.js:1:1090692)
        at rs (2443530c-0641256dae818679.js:9:38883)
    at lg (2443530c-0641256dae818679.js:9:54218)
    at iv (2443530c-0641256dae818679.js:9:112640)
    at oR (2443530c-0641256dae818679.js:9:90032)

Scarbutton Shopify live dashboard

I can build that in a weekend!

Scarbutton Shopify live dashboard

It also could be that something like Java/Go/Rust is doing the hard work.

Scarbutton Ultorg: A User Interface for Relational Data

Is it possible to generate new tables within Ultorg? Specifically, for the purpose of experimenting with a novel schema using test data.

Scarbutton Algorithms (2019)

The book might be more aptly called 'advanced algorithms' as the prerequisites clearly indicate a need for a solid understanding of discrete mathematics, all fundamental data structures, and proficiency in basic algorithms related to searching, sorting, and graph theory.

Scarbutton Next.js 14

What does vite/bun/deno has to do with keeping JS on the frontend?

Scarbutton Thunderbird 115.4.0

The biggest issue for me is search, gmail spoiled me.

Scarbutton Just paying Figma because nothing else works

Why didn't the free version worked for him?

Scarbutton The Oracle Java Platform Extension for Visual Studio Code

Medium to big companies outside the HN bubble.

Scarbutton The Oracle Java Platform Extension for Visual Studio Code

Intellij's vim plugin is good.

Scarbutton Intel Launches Intel Core 14th Gen Desktop Processors for Enthusiasts

No one should buy Intel processors under any circumstances.

Scarbutton Intel Launches Intel Core 14th Gen Desktop Processors for Enthusiasts

What AMD CPU beats an i3-13100 in price/performance?

Scarbutton Bad Emacs defaults

I'm pleased to report that it has save my ass two or three times.

Scarbutton Linux ate my RAM (2009)

It's weird that their 'used' column is accounting for 'buff/cache'

'man free' states

     used   Used or unavailable memory (calculated as total - available)

Scarbutton My views on NeoHaskell

Wasn't laziness one of the things Haskell would ditch if it were to start from zero? Why is neohaskell keeping it?

Scarbutton Using Emacs as $EDITOR

While project.el or projectile.el are good sometimes you don't want to see anything else except your current project. A new instance is an easy way to achieve that.

Scarbutton Using Emacs as $EDITOR

What's the difference between daemon and server-mode?

Scarbutton What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023

It's called satire.

Scarbutton OnlyOffice: Free open source office suite with business productivity tools

The elephant in the room is excel not word IMO.

Scarbutton Localtunnel – Easily share a web service on your local development machine

What name registrars allow one to to create unlimited subdomains on the fly like how Localtunnel does it?

Scarbutton My Unhealthy Relationship with Keyboards

Love the Sculpt except for the horrible FN keys and the FN switch.

Scarbutton Show HN: Tome, aka Tom's Editor – a new command-line text editor

* I'm super fast with VSCode's keybindings*

Using the arrows keys and the mouse?