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alnitak··on Maybe We All Need a Little Less Balance
I had a little moment of hesitation before clicking on the link "Rich Roll" in the article..
alnitak··on HTC looks at option to sell or demerge Vive
Are you talking about VRML?
alnitak··on VW engineering executive sentenced to 40-month prison term in diesel case
You don't know what sort of settlement is happening behind the scenes ..
alnitak··on Whatruns: Identify technologies used on any website
That article wasn't the first broad mention. I remember reading about BuiltWith being an outstanding one man project a couple of years ago, so I am in fact surprised the copycats took so long to show up.
alnitak··on German Interior Ministry shuts down Linksunten.indymedia.org
Germain?

Also, the wording is still ambiguous. How about this:

"German Interior Ministry raids Indymedia and shuts it down"

alnitak··on Age of Empires: Definitive Edition Beta
Have you tried SC2? It requires some getting into, but the dynamics of the game and the relationships between different races and the tech tree is very well thought out (a well timed upgrade allows you to kill a given unit in 2 shots instead of 3, changing the balance dramatically).

In many ways, as an AoE1&2 fan, I find SC2 a good continuation of some of the best aspects of the RTS genre that requires both a tactical and strategic mind.

alnitak··on Scientific Realism in the Age of String Theory (2007) [pdf]
Metropolis?
alnitak··on Ask HN: Alternatives to Gmail that are new, cool, etc?
I have been looking for an alternative to the Google apps ecosystem, to support mailing, calendar, contacts and document editing, but most importantly it should allow me to have "guests" contributors to documents I can share with them.

Anybody knows of a company providing such a service?

alnitak··on Sweet.js – Hygienic Macros for JavaScript
What would hygienic mean in this context?
alnitak··on Google and IBM announce Istio – easily secure and manage microservices
Can someone ELI5 how is this relating to, and complementing, Kubernetes? What does it do that Kube doesn't, and what does Kube do that Istio doesnt?
alnitak··on Porting Windows Dynamic Link Libraries to Linux
While I agree the grandparent's comment doesn't add much to the conversation, and even has many obvious answers, why is a more interesting question. You are basically questioning if there is a need to change the status quo, or put in physics terms, why do you want to expend energy to move from the local stable point? What is the point with higher stability you want to reach, and what are the characteristics that make this point desirable and justify the energy expenditure?
alnitak··on Why Did a Chinese Peroxide Company Pay $1B for a Talking Cat?
How did you get to know all those things you're talking about? Where does one even start decrypting finance jargon and "possibilities"?
alnitak··on Microsoft to Deliver Microsoft Cloud from Datacenters in Africa
Out of all the African countries, why Rwanda?
alnitak··on Total.js Messenger – A small alternative to Slack
Many comments here seem to miss the point. This is a sort of a template for a full-blown app based on their framework to speed up development amd illustrate using Total.js, more than a competitor to Slack, or even a "product". They seem to have other templates such as a CMS.
alnitak··on Why Criminals Target Patient Data
I don't mean to be condescending but the only thing I learned from this article is this 88% statistic (and the linked source timed out while trying to load it)

This seems like marketing speak at its finest, trying to land some of the readers' within the customer target demographic of this company.

alnitak··on Show HN: An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design
Aha makes sense. Where do I sign up for updates? :-)
alnitak··on Show HN: An attempt to rethink a music sequencer design
Looks interesting. Trying to install it on my phone gets me a "Your device is not compatible with this version" in Android's Play store. What is it you are doing in this app that has special compatibility requiremrents?

My phone has a modern qualcomm flagship cpu and latest android.

alnitak··on HP Labs developed a new rewritable printing technology
I visited the website on mobile. Not much I could do as Chrome doesn't provide a software back functionality besides the system back button.
alnitak··on Solid – Re-decentralizing the web
Thanks! I got a bit confused by the amount of content in the repo.
alnitak··on Solid – Re-decentralizing the web
Where can one find a simple "Hello world" example of an app built upon Solid?
alnitak··on HP Labs developed a new rewritable printing technology
While the technology is impressive, I couldn't get over the fact that I can't leave this page using my back button without trying to outpace the browser. Why do they even direct you somewhere else?
alnitak··on Kazakhstan spells out plans for alphabet swap
> Vowels are an afterthought to Arabic writing.

Are you an Arabic speaker? This claim is a bit stretched.

Yes, short vowels are written as diacritic symbols on consonants, which are often dropped from mass publications.

However, long vowels are an essential part of the language and they are indeed present as their own letters in Arabic.

alnitak··on Prettier 1.0
Your comment made me wonder, could tools like prettier be the first step towards developer-customized code styles?

See it as views. Code could be stored in a minified (spaces and new lines are not necessarily saved), and then every developer in the team can view the code in any style he chooses. His code would then be committed using the underlying "minified" format, so that the next developer can pick up that code and view it in his own code style.

Does that even make sense? What could be the gotchas of such a thing?

alnitak··on New research says starting university classes at 11am would improve learning
The assumption here is probably based on the sleeping pattern of people.
alnitak··on Programming ARM Cortex-M Microcontrollers with Rust
Which Cortex M CPU/board would you recommend for a seamless development experience?
alnitak··on Tacotron: A Fully End-to-End Text-To-Speech Synthesis Model
Do you have an update on this topic?
alnitak··on Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used operating system
hey thanks I think you hit the point very well here. But then how about tablets for example?
alnitak··on Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used operating system
Let me ask a (potentially) very stupid question here: What prevents doing the same on phones?

What would make a phone hardware able to install anything that compiles to its CPU architecture the same way a PC can?

alnitak··on Open Source Needs FPGAs; FPGAs Need an On-Ramp
Out of curiosity, what is the advantage of having a single instruction?

I imagine that the benefit of a simple syntax in the assembly code is counterbalanced by the complexity of implementing complex logic, say control flows?

Also, what is the performance impact of this approach? Wouldn't it cause more cycles for the same code in general, compared to multiple instructions?

Lastly, could there be an optimized hardware for this set? (Executing directly on the RAM chipset maybe?) How do you see it perform against more traditional hardware?

alnitak··on Show HN: Is It Snappy? – Measure latency with your iPhone's 240 Hz camera
Very curious to see the numbers for Sublime Text using his same methodology, as Sublime is often praised for its speed.
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