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lwh··on Ask HN: What was the best CS paper you read in 2017?
This miserable blog post http://www.sicpers.info/2017/12/computings-fundamental-princ...
lwh··on Ask HN: Why is software quality an afterthought for many people/companies?
If it's MVP let it loose.. poor quality can also serve as a nice auto-obsolescence accelerating the upgrade cycle
lwh··on Why PostgreSQL is better than MySQL
This type of shitpost makes the "victim" look better every time.
lwh··on Tech's push to teach coding isn't about kids' success – it's about cutting wages
This is about catching people with an aptitude. It seems to be a small percetage in all races/sexes/geographies, so valuable. It sucks to be one.
lwh··on Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated?
Sure just like encryption, math and physics
lwh··on Gmail Will Soon Warn Users When Emails Arrive Over Unencrypted Connections
You mean without PGP right?
lwh··on What caffeine does to your brain
But it's only one venti at Starbucks ;)
lwh··on Double-clicking on the Web
Don't go breaking the word selector.
lwh··on Ask HN: How do I become a faster programmer?
Sit in a quiet room, alone
lwh··on Ask HN: Why would I want to pay with my phone?
For some people #1 is a factor, one less thing to carry is a selling point.
lwh··on Sans Bullshit Sans
Great now every HN post appears to be the same story.
lwh··on Defending GCC considered futile
Making your own tool suck/break/be-difficult when license-compatible patches are submitted to improve the program seems counter productive for everyone.
lwh··on Why Google Glass Broke
Once they can get it to fit in a contact or use BCI with a phone...
lwh··on Ask HN: Laptop for FreeBSD?
Get a thinkpad with an NVIDIA card that their FreeBSD driver supports
lwh··on Would You Bet $100M on Your Pet Programming Language? (2007)
The language is irrelevant at that price. Given an architect of sub-average skill they'll pick an acceptable one.
lwh··on UI Performance Decline – OS X Tiger to Yosemite [video]
Don't worry, in a few years when iOS gets a major 3D-look visual upgrade it will trickle down to the desktop and things will be back to normal. In the meantime I've switched my macbook to dualboot Linux and only boot up MacOS when I have to use one of the programs not available for Linux.
lwh··on UI Performance Decline – OS X Tiger to Yosemite [video]
Many recent models are non-upgradeable
lwh··on Ask HN: What is your method for up/down votes?
If I shared it with anyone, I upvote it.
lwh··on Virtual Reality Doesn’t Need a Killer App to Get Huge
Usable BCI and there will be many great apps
lwh··on Why Davis' TempleOS is better than Torvald's Linux
SDL and SVGAlib http://www.libsdl.org/ http://www.svgalib.org/
lwh··on “I am not authorizing you to release a Ruby port of Metaphone 3”
Unless there's a term in the license it never ends, so my BSD copy stays that way. Anyone could keep distributing it and derivatives.
lwh··on Web content fits better on a tall monitor
Their basic argument is true but they completely ignore the fact that you can have two windows side by side on a wider screen monitor. Another issue they don't mention is some LCDs have shit viewing angles and if you are staring at them that way the colours differ from the middle to the ends. It sure would be nice if they brought back 4:3 though.
lwh··on Run to Stay Young
Avoiding road/sidewalk can make a huge difference for beginners.
lwh··on Systemd redux: The end of Linux
It seems like most systemd problems boil down to: shit this will take more than half an hour to understand, I'm a lazy admin and don't feel like learning something new.
lwh··on Level Playing Field
So if others are evil , it's okay to be evil because that's a level playing field? Maybe change it "Don't be Evil*" ?

Hangouts/XMPP , RSS, the big brother aspect of GA - No matter how you justify them they're never going to be good.

lwh··on Facebook, Microsoft, Apple Make Year-End Lobbying Push to Curb NSA Spying
Maybe Facebook should stop trying to bug the entire web if they care about spying so much.
lwh··on Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display
Does it accurately emulate the burning eyes and headaches after a long day? Burn-in artefacts and simulated line noise would be nice additions ;)
lwh··on X to close
ex uses x to exit as well (1976).
lwh··on X to close
The delete/rubout key on many old terminals had an X on it. Like this: http://www.cosam.org/images/vt220/keyboard.jpg
lwh··on Tox: A simple, distributed, free, secure Skype replacement. Now alpha with A/V
How does it differ from Retroshare? http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/
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