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neoeldex··on When open becomes opaque: The changing face of open-source hardware companies
I remember the days having to build my devkits with power regulators and having to flash them with separate programmers. The Arduino ecosystem opened up hardware to many designers, makers and tinkerer's. sure thing, the real cost of the boards is low. but the value is tremendous.
neoeldex··on More emphasis on trains in Europe to replace flights
It's also the only place with such amount of trains. It is quite involved of making the infrastructure, and still it's managed. From april onwards you can travel from Amsterdam to London for 40 euro in 3 hours. There's a lot to align. Doesn't take away from the things that could be improved. Trains from Amsterdam to Germany stopping in small towns doesn't help.
neoeldex··on More emphasis on trains in Europe to replace flights
We should mandate taxes are paid on fuel, they dump fuel before landing. Which has a worse impact on the greenhouse effect.
neoeldex··on Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019)
There probably will be a plethora of different hard issues to fix in such situations. It's also easier to institute change in a dictatorship as opposed to a democracy (being a dictator that is :).
neoeldex··on 4.2 Kiloyear Event
Why do you think it's called `back to the future`?
neoeldex··on Using Web Bluetooth to Communicate with Bluetooth Devices
Do you use any of these in a browser: facebook, instagram, youtube, gmail, whatsapp, github, gitlab?
neoeldex··on Using Web Bluetooth to Communicate with Bluetooth Devices
Webkit itself is very likely to die xD. Who uses safari nowadays?
neoeldex··on Using Web Bluetooth to Communicate with Bluetooth Devices
You could use the 'chromecast' flow. Where it creates a WiFi network the user has to connect to with another device. And then serving a webpage with configuration.
neoeldex··on Make More Land
Not only flevoland, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieringermeer. But we also have to give back some land for nature: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertogin_Hedwigepolder#cite_no... (only dutch though)
neoeldex··on OnSen UI – Develop HTML5 hybrid and mobile web apps
Funny thing is there's practically only Mozilla and Google left with their browsers. Microsoft, Apple and Opera all basically piggyback on the chrome renderer (prolly not entirely true for safari, but it doesn't run on anything besides apple anymore)
neoeldex··on What the Quantum Internet Has in Store
> Physicists say this futuristic, super-secure network could be useful long before it reaches technological maturity. Isn't that what they also say about the internet atm?
neoeldex··on Real-Time ASCII art rendering using a single decision tree
Doesn't seem to function on FF64
neoeldex··on Show HN: Gurn – Use words, not bookmarks
A friend of mine is working on something like you described: https://blog.webmemex.org/ It an oss personal browsable history.
neoeldex··on Structured Page Fragments by YouTube (2017)
I'm not saying that.
neoeldex··on Structured Page Fragments by YouTube (2017)
When a PR isn't merged or closed within a couple of months at least, the project doesn't look healthy to me. It might still function. Just wondering what the reason of reposting this would be.
neoeldex··on John Resig: Introducing the GraphQL Guide
Why is all the GraphQL documentation so tightly coupled with either Apollo or Relay? Apollo doesn't work nice with a non-react setup (imhe), not to start about Relay itself. All the Relay server side stuff makes the client also really boilerplaty. I don't think i'd buy this book, since it's also apollo stained.

Does someone have good resources on how to use vanilla GraphQL without the bloated Apollo/Relay stuff?

I'm currently working on a GraphQL server (using Graphene), and thankfully I'm able to not use Relay (with which it tightly integrates). So I'm able to implement my own pagination and filters.

neoeldex··on Structured Page Fragments by YouTube (2017)
What's the reason for posting this? It's been posted before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10667783) and the repo seems to be dead since beginning 2017 (4 open PR's from 2017).

It also looks like it doesn't fit the current web-meta anymore :)

neoeldex··on So long GitHub and thanks for all the fish
Wha, so the exchange format is already open. So how would they ever lock everything in. Second I feel that Microsoft will be a much better guardian than google in this respect. Google doesn't have too many OS projects, and their most valuable software is closed source, with closed formats, with little room for data-exchange... How come we don't have proper calender sync yet, f.i. Microsoft has in recent years been much better in their OS efforts. And they haven't killed any promising projects as opposed to G
neoeldex··on The Physics and Physicality of Extreme Juggling
> if there was a place to show off these cutting edge tricks? This is a competition where jugglers on the cutting edge can shine. There's the ejc :) http://www.ejc2018.org/

But when it's a trick that only lands 1/10, will you enjoy watching them fail for a while, possibly with a lenghty setup and stay interested in it? I think it's usually the jugglers not showing them because they're not consistent yet.

neoeldex··on SkyKnit: When knitters teamed up with a neural network
Its a bit more complicated than that, since the only constraints is the yarn and physics. And there's infinite possibilities of stitching things together in intricate manners. Then deciding whether something is nice/wanted, is in the eye of the beholder :)
neoeldex··on Operation Ivy Bells
That would be socialist of the USA ;)
neoeldex··on You probably don't want to run Firefox Nightly any more
Hmm, it's not great they intend to send this information to the great firewall in the sky. If it were mozilla's own servers, I'd re-enable the usage collection on nightly. Bit more of the same with the screencapture features, it's a shame we can't host and configure our own services....
neoeldex··on Nara – the typeface that never existed (2011)
This happened in juggling as well, describing the patterns in a notation allowed people to find new ways to throw objects: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dwgusHjA0Y
neoeldex··on Auto increment is a terrible idea
There's some caveats with this approach, since your DB has to keep track of the split state since you've started the transaction, it's quite a lot busier. So don't keep transactions open for any long stretches of time ;)
neoeldex··on Firefox Debugger
The developer edition is bit more bleeding edge than beta, but less than nightly. Nightly is updated daily. I'm not sure what the developer frequency is. But if your sporting it, you're getting the fresh features not entirely ready.
neoeldex··on From Markdown to remote code execution in Atom
It's a shame they didn't roll a proper package manager with the language toolkit. Having your executable depend on having some lib installed is quite a pain. But how do you share libraries properly then? Especially without a proper way of bundling deps in your code...

Using cargo always makes me feel at ease when writing Rust. Haven't dabbled with linkers though.

neoeldex··on Ren: a lightweight data-exchange text format
They are different data types, but integer is also ambiguous, did you mean signed or unsigned, 32 or 64 bit. Its about your use case, and when your parsing something with loose typing into stricter types, make sure you validate accordingly. But being able to specify the exact type kind of defeats the purpose of an interchangeable data format.
neoeldex··on Amazon and Apple hit by EU tax crackdown
The problem with taxing income is that it taxes the lower/middle class heavier than upperclass. Usually the upperclass has ways of diverting their income into other means. Taxing profits is the current approach. There's been talk about taxing revenue for companies. Which is measurable on a nation's level
neoeldex··on A Decade of Dynamo
No, couchDb is older than DynamoDB, and according to wikipedia there's been nosql databases since the 60s
neoeldex··on Disconnect. Offline only
(for chrome) open devtools, network tab, tick the offline mode box :)
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