Semiapies | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” when designing interfaces?
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Semiapies | 2 years ago | on: No CSS Club
Fewer neo-Nazis, though.
Semiapies | 2 years ago | on: Threads isn’t for news and politics, says Instagram’s boss
This sort of delusion/pretense isn't a good sign.
Semiapies | 2 years ago | on: Arwes: Futuristic Sci-Fi UI Web Framework
"Retro-future" is a common term for it, at least in certain blogs and forums.
Semiapies | 2 years ago | on: The Black Hole Objection to Longtermism and Consequentialism
How do things make it to the front page with just eight votes?
Semiapies | 3 years ago | on: My Own Python Web Framework
It would have perfect search engine anti-optimization.
Semiapies | 3 years ago | on: In a 1994 blackout, L.A. residents called 911 when they saw the Milky Way
Look into UFO/UAP forums/subreddits and watch any videos of their "sightings".
They're all conventional aircraft, birds, bats, balloons, the ISS, StarLink trains, planets, stars, spotlights on low clouds, etc. With Chinese New Year coming up, the sky lantern sightings have been driving them nuts.
Nothing has intensified my skepticism more than looking at these sightings.
Semiapies | 3 years ago | on: Genders.wtf
Just so. Your gender might not match the cut you need, and even if it does, you might be shopping for a gift.
Semiapies | 3 years ago | on: Publicity Stunt Fallout
Or physics or cosmology.
Semiapies | 3 years ago | on: Watchman: Execute a command when something changes
Alternately, Facebook's project is not to be confused with this significantly older one.
Semiapies | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What technology is mocked today but will be common within 20 years?
By the standard of commenters on some websites, everything is "roundly mocked".
Besides, both were just Apple's entrances into particular markets, not technologies themselves.
Semiapies | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What technology is mocked today but will be common within 20 years?
I'm trying to think of technologies "roundly mocked" twenty years ago that are common today.
Semiapies | 3 years ago | on: Risk Everything (2007)
Really, I wonder if it happened at all.
Semiapies | 3 years ago | on: Risk Everything (2007)
Yes. He'd have a lot harder time writing this article if he'd gone to investigate a raft full of people dead from dehydration.
Semiapies | 3 years ago | on: Who Cares if it Scales?
I think more people should acknowledge that they're not actually going to build "the next Facebook" or "the next Amazon". Even those very, very few who are going to build the next huge site aren't going to build it that way out of the box
Semiapies | 3 years ago | on: Building a panel out of e-ink electronic shelf labels
Or more likely in many cases, putting up temporary discount signs to be collected at the end of the day.
Still a time-saver to automate.
Semiapies | 3 years ago | on: A Love Letter to Geocities Sites
People have downvoted this, but it's true. I've read more praise for Geocities from nostalgic web geeks in the last few weeks than I ever saw from web geeks while Geocities actually existed.
Especially since, at the time, web geeks who weren't starting out with HTML hated Geocities for being the source of everything wrong with web design. And then of course, half or more of Geocities' existence was as a largely forgotten hosting platform, after almost everyone who'd built a site there in its heyday had quickly abandoned it or otherwise moved on.
Semiapies | 3 years ago | on: The Dangers of Microsoft Pluton
Dude, that was 28 years ago.
Semiapies | 3 years ago | on: The Dangers of Microsoft Pluton
MIT named that.
Semiapies | 3 years ago | on: Commenting on Hacker News
I've seen a lot of walls of text lately by people that look copied-and-pasted from their blogs/forum rants/whatever.
In an ebook management system I've been developing, I use a full_name and a sort_name field for authors/editors/contributors, because books are a reasonable thing to want to sort by author names.