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loganlinn··on Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
I had a similar experience on YouTube Music. I discovered the message was misleading and I just had to enable downloads when not on WiFi
loganlinn··on Monodraw
I bought license to Monodraw in 2018 and have used it off and on since, so I can attest to GP
loganlinn··on Framework Raises $18M Series A
I not gaming, but I do run a 3840x1600 external monitor over USB-C hub with my Framework on PopOS. I have had zero issues so far...
loganlinn··on Open-Sourcing our Firmware
I came across similar anecdotes of build quality and turned my nose. I found myself wishing I could hold a Framework laptop twist it like I was ringing out a wet rag. Surely this is a good test of build quality, I thought to myself. But in a moment of clarity, I realized this and other pseudo signals of build quality that Youtube reviewers and other armchair experts were attempting to use to draw comparison (to a unibody macbook pro) were either irrelevant or pedantic. Why is a unibody the pinnacle of build quality? Shouldn't longevity be?

I checked my Apple elitism at the door and I put my name down for a Framework in September and got it in October. Happy ever since. It's a great little laptop and would highly recommend others.

loganlinn··on New Ways to Be Told That Your Python Code Is Bad
Something tells me the author would appreciate the minutia of working in functional languages that tend to avoid entire classes of problems like those described and the dogma used to fight it.
loganlinn··on Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco
The are everywhere. I'm fairly certain that I encounter them more often than SFMTA.

My car was broken into over the weekend and I couldn't help but think about whether a Waymo captured the vandalism... Not like it would help, but like all mass data collection campaigns, the potential implications are strange.

loganlinn··on Github1s – One second to read GitHub code with VS Code
If anyone is looking for actually useful cross-repo search: https://grep.app/
loganlinn··on Rollerball Pens of 2021
I picked up a 2mm rOtring lead holder on a whim during a visit to Japan. Absolutely love using it and I've even come to enjoy sharpening the lead.
loganlinn··on Ask HN: Resources to encourage teen on becoming computer engineer?
This! I participated in two FIRST robotics competitions as a teenager. I can say, it definitely was a pivotal experienced for me on the path toward a computer engineering degree.
loganlinn··on What we wish we'd known before building the Prismatic Android app
Engineer from Prismatic here. The Android app was written with Java. While we would have loved to build it with Clojure, but support/perf on Android isn't quite there yet (at least for us).
loganlinn··on Om Sweet Om: functional front-end engineering with ClojureScript and React
Clicking follow mutates the global app data. Changes to the app data causes the entire application to re-render, and React pushes those changes out to the DOM.

So, to answer your question, we don't propagate events :)

loganlinn··on Mozilla Thimble
Look's like its a CSS cascade issue. They're setting '.CodeMirror' to have a monospaced font, but it's getting overridden in (several) other palaces
loganlinn··on The futures of Facebook and Google are embedded in these two images
As a moot sidenote, this story was submitted yesterday http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4038962 (yes, coincidently by me)
loganlinn··on PHP: A fractal of bad design
> But letting users write code that appears to work (yet it does not) is not a good property of a language.

I still don't see the point that's trying to be made here. Whether it returns -1, FALSE, or you need a try/catch, the programmer still needs to check. To successfully program in any language with an 'index of' function, a check needs to exist regardless...

loganlinn··on Twss.js
Looks like this could easily be integrated into a script for Hubot
loganlinn··on Elm: a functional reactive programming language that compiles to JavaScript
Ditto. Reminds me of my limited, yet enjoyable, time with Verilog
loganlinn··on Git workflow for addons.mozilla.org

  sync = "!f() { echo Syncing $1 with master && git checkout master && git pull && git checkout $1 && git rebase master; }; f"
I believe this is equivalent to (from topic branch)

  sync = "git pull --rebase origin master"
loganlinn··on Tell congress to stop SOPA with a physical letter
If only calls were recorded and letters were scanned. Analyzing the trends seems like pretty powerful data for a congressman.

Then again, you could say that the congressman shouldn't need a computer to understand the people he represents.

loganlinn··on Vim Movement Shortcuts Wallpaper
The layout conceptualizes well.

Except one minor gotcha: `Fx` then `,` will actually find the next x, since `,` reverses the direction of last character search, and `F` was already going backwards. But I can see how those movement commands are hard to fit into this layout :)

loganlinn··on A river for the Occupy movement
It's nice to see projects like Twitter's Bootstrap[1] being used to help reduce the amount of time it takes to get a site and its information on the web.

[1] http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/

loganlinn··on Bitbucket now rocks Git
I think an appropriate GH response would be to make a few/all personal (aka 0 collaborators) private repos free.
loganlinn··on Mozilla Paladin project is developing Gladius, a 3D game engine for browsers
True, however "Gladius" is also a popular WoW interface add-on.

http://www.google.com/search?&q=gladius

loganlinn··on Mozilla Paladin project is developing Gladius, a 3D game engine for browsers
Does this title scream "WoW" to anyone else?
loganlinn··on Dropbox Easter Egg?
I think so. The whole thing had a very nostalgic feel to it.
loganlinn··on Dropbox Easter Egg?
Also says something like "shoutout to AAPL GOOG MSFT :)"
loganlinn··on Netflix Splits DVD And Streaming Businesses
Hastings replied to that question in the Netflix blog post's comments: [1]

Question: "If a film I search for on Netflix is not available for streaming, will the website still tell me if the DVD is available? Or must I search twice?"

Reply: "ouch. You'd have to search the second place if we didn't have it in the first place."

[1] http://blog.netflix.com/2011/09/explanation-and-some-reflect...

loganlinn··on F8 2011 Conference by Facebook
I was alluding to the fact that talking directly to a FB dev to get or give suggestions is extremely valuable. Especially when speaking on non-trivial topics.
loganlinn··on F8 2011 Conference by Facebook
First, all conferences are expensive in terms of time and money. That's a given.

> just to watch Zuckerberg reveal something I won't use

I think you're overlooking the value. It's not about going for a keynote or being entertained/catered to; its about the interaction. The ability to talk to the people that've built the tools you are using is extremely powerful. Would you rather talk to an expert on a subject matter, or post a question on SO and hope someone has had a similar experience? This is just one of the reasons why conferences like this are "worth it".

loganlinn··on Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple
> John Gruber wrote that Steve Cook should succeed him last month. http://daringfireball.net/2011/07/succeeding_steve_jobs

You mean, Tim Cook. Freudian slip, I understand.

loganlinn··on Ask HN: Help, I think GoDaddy has hijacked my domain
They have not responded to my emails as of yet. I will be calling them soon, but I was hoping to get some input from the community on the legitimacy of their actions.
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