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arbie··on Generate Flowcharts from Text
Input text in https://www.bpmn-sketch-miner.ai/doc/00-intro.html to create a BPMN, download it and edit in Camunda Modeler?
arbie··on Show HN: Dumbdown – A dumb alternative to Markdown
As someone that could never get into Markdown, this looks promising to me!
arbie··on I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit
Caution: NewPipe may cause your entire Google account to get locked.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21247759

arbie··on Bash $* and $@ (2017)
> back in the 1990's ... everybody in VLSI design expected you to know Perl.

Has this changed at all?

arbie··on LaTeX, Instantly: Extract LaTeX from PDFs or Handwritten Notes
This could blow Nebo out of the water.
arbie··on Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
Keyboard-only input is not antithetical to discoverability. You can have a menu system (including top-menu bar) with clear hotkeys displayed.
arbie··on Generating a Java program with 90% less code
What if the IDE did not traverse a specific file during the global search and replace?

Are you relying on a correct and comprehensive project/workspace setup within the IDE?

arbie··on Today’s Top Tech Skills
I think we are seeing the difference between software development and software engineering laid bare.

The distinction is similar to a property developer and a civil engineer. Both create buildings, but one does it at scale by offloading functions to known entities and prepackaged solutions, while the other understands one domain in depth.

Both are needed in any team or organization, because not every solution needs to be "engineered" (a Dockerized Redis instance without SSL or auth behind a corporate firewall may survive untouched for a decade), but sometimes you have to engineer something that withstands gale-force winds at 1000 ft height.

arbie··on Google Kills Cloud Print
"250M printers compromised by Google Cloud Print" is an ugly look. It won't matter at that time that Google rescued a beloved product from being Deep-Sixed.
arbie··on Google Kills Cloud Print
No one? It is an open standard originally created by Apple.
arbie··on uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking
Isn't NaCl deprecated now?
arbie··on Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities
Can the Server be launched on a Windows machine?
arbie··on Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities
Is there a Windows or Web client for DevonThink?
arbie··on Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities
If it (or Notion.so) supported Inking, I would switch completely from my combination of GDocs, GKeep and GoodNotes5.

Will see if I can contribute to this project.

arbie··on Why Is the Migration to Python 3 Taking So Long?
In ten years, there will be serious money in it as enterprise codebases need to be renewed.
arbie··on L.A. temporarily suspends Uber’s permit to rent out electric scooters and bikes
Public transit exposes everyone's full routes, anyway.

Metrocards can lead back to the payment card used for the purchase, and buses (which also record passenger ingress/egress) can remember all swiped Metrocards.

arbie··on L.A. temporarily suspends Uber’s permit to rent out electric scooters and bikes
This is a fascinating piece of history, the Taxi Riots of 1934: https://untappedcities.com/2015/02/05/today-in-nyc-history-t...
arbie··on They Might Never Tell You It’s Broken
There are many industries where the workflow espoused in the manual IS the secret sauce, and, once replicated, can be replaced by a much cheaper product.

In these cases, you will never recoup your NRE.

arbie··on They Might Never Tell You It’s Broken
I agree completely. Just observing users stumbling through what you had thought was a blindingly-obvious, low-friction workflow is an eye-opener.

Sometimes, you have used your own code way too much to judge effectiveness.

Having a no-agenda meeting with users is also a great idea, but it is important to set scope on feature requests before it snowballs into a request for the moon.

arbie··on Some Employees Chafe as Google’s New Internal Rules Take Hold
The difficulty is in rolling back previously unlimited freedom.
arbie··on Switzerland vs Silicon Valley for Software Developers
In Silly Valley, yes.
arbie··on Lyrics Site Genius.com Accuses Google of Lifting Its Content
If I listen to a song and transcribe the lyrics myself, do I still require a license to put them up online and profit from them via ads on my site?
arbie··on If a $5B Fine Is Chump Change, How Do You Punish Facebook?
Facebook didn't happen to society. The internet happened to society.
arbie··on Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to admit its mistake
I have had a good time with Cloud9, now part of AWS. I default to t2.nano and scale it up for large bursts of workload.
arbie··on Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product
IIUC, you are suggesting that GitHub make new repos private by default, unless a permissive license is set.

This seems a reasonable balance.

arbie··on Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to admit its mistake
Keyboard and processor are unrelated dimensions of improvement.
arbie··on Google makes BigQuery available in Sheets
Seems convincing. Likely the same reasoning behind removing Real-Time results.
arbie··on Serenity: x86 Unix-like operating system for IBM PC-compatibles
> Now for the rest of my life, I will always have something to hack on. :)

This is such an inspiring and humbling sentiment!

Thank you for all your hard work on this impressive project.

arbie··on PHP 8 to Add a JIT
I think it's a given that Perl6 will not achieve the prevalence that Perl5 has.
arbie··on The Programming Language Conundrum
> I specialize in long life software

How does one market themselves in this specialization?

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