cjoy | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: What are the most complicated machines humans have built?
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cjoy | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: Compare benefits of second passport based on the one you have
Best second passport for an Australian: Germany.
... well, I guess that means I’m a lucky person when it comes to passports. When I reverse search, the best second passport for a German is “Application Error”, and I sure have plenty of those as well :)
cjoy | 7 years ago | on: Fossil – A high-reliability distributed software configuration management system
... which also happens to match the style of the fossil readme where they are comparing it against git. Instead of presenting factual differences and their dis-/advatages in practical application, it reads like an ego piece and, at least for me, does not win fossil any sympathy.
https://www.fossil-scm.org/xfer/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.w...
cjoy | 7 years ago | on: GitLab Isn’t Really Open-Source
In general I have sympathy for the free core + pay for enterprise features approach. Seems like a fair model. Where it starts to fall apart for me, is when basic quality of life features like a usable code review (do not trigger a notification for every line I comment) are tagged as “enterprise features”.
cjoy | 7 years ago | on: MacOS 10.14 Wishlist
At 100% zoom level, the type is not rendered with crisp edges. It looks as if someone had applied a mild gaussian blur. Only once you zoom in, the outlines are sharp as they should be.
I have this issue on a 2012 and 2015 MBP as well as on a MP 5.1. With the built in screens, Eizos and a NEC SV. The only thing thats common across all builds is the OS.
If you think you dont have this issue, compare the rendering of Preview.app at 100% with that of Acrobat.
cjoy | 7 years ago | on: MacOS 10.14 Wishlist
I’ll be happy if the only thing that ships with 10.14 is a bugfix for the Preview.app. It amazes me that they have not yet unfucked the PDF rendering with a minor release. It amazes me even more, that this issue is not present on the linked wishlist. Do people not view PDFs on their Macs?
cjoy | 8 years ago | on: Modern Frontend Developer in 2018
“How to take a Photoshop design” should not be a task for the “Modern Frontend Developer in 2018”, because “How to create actionable, annotated design specs” should be a core skill of the “Modern UI Designer in 2018”.
cjoy | 8 years ago | on: The Dropbox Foundation
Dropbox provides great value and I dearly miss it, but I can not support a company that willingly hosts a person so closely connected to illegitemate war and crimes against humanity. I doubt this has significance for Dropbox. It is more a matter of personal moral hygiene.
cjoy | 8 years ago | on: Modern JavaScript Explained for Dinosaurs
It seems a bit unfair to blame the language for the added complexity that is introduced when debugging a browser script. Pycharm (or any of the JetBrains IDEs with JS support) offer a very comparable debugging experience for server side Javascript.
cjoy | 8 years ago | on: Amazon Will Buy Target This Year, Gene Munster Predicts
I would say you are wrong. I have used both and the experience was always worse compared to that of competitors, despite their advantage of
a) deep hardware integration b) deep platform integration (so much, that it feels like effort is required to not use the services).
I guess it depends on what your bar is for “better than terrible”, but when I look at the richest company in tech that also happens to own the entire stack in play, then “better than terrible” is not remotely good enough.
cjoy | 8 years ago | on: Five minute guide to better typography
Typography is not just concerned with maximising readability. It is subject to aesthetics and taste, which are strongly linked to habit and consensus.
Most prolific type designers have at least once toyed with the idea of a mathematically constructed, ideal letter form. The final design is either allowed to offend the human eye or mathematics. I do not know a case where this was not true.
cjoy | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are your favorite podcasts?
Omega Tau.
Science and engineering topics in the form of interviews with domain experts (often on site). Some episodes in German language, many in English. If you want to spend 2h learning about fusion and plasma or how batteries work or how airbus builds planes or what goes into a radar satellite... this is for you.
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AB Testing.
Alex and Brent, 2 managers at Microsoft, discuss how not to lead teams and how not to do testing. By discuss, I mean rant along in a productive manner.
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Javascript Jabber.
Good podcast, has lost some steam for me lately, but many early episodes are good for people who are new to the show.
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Software Engineering Radio.
Has a great backlist of episodes on topics like architecture, type systems, database systems ... definitly one where it makes sense to look through the archive instead of just subscribing.
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Software Engineering Daily.
Used to subscribe, but lately the episodes feel more like infomercials where 50% of the time is spent by the guests pitching their product. Did enjoy the earlier episodes though.
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