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mufufu | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: A plain-text file format for todos and check lists

I disagree, having the spec is the first step to building tooling around it. People can port plugins that support this format to vim, eMacs, VSC, etc.. and create functionality around it. For example: reorder into a date view

mufufu | 4 years ago | on: Zelensky video deepfake

I don’t know, honestly I felt the opposite way, maybe because I’m not Ukrainian and it’s not my native language. But I found the level of deep fake we can achieve nowadays truly scary. Even if it was a shoddy job, I feel like that’s enough to convince a lot of people, or at least stir confusion

mufufu | 5 years ago | on: “This tool works best on Google Chrome and mobile.”

IE was free as well, didn't prevent it from turning into a pile of garbage when it controlled like 90% market share, which in turn affected everyone (consumers, developers, etc..)

mufufu | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Rentify – Create an online rental store

That page is not rendering for me on mobile Safari, it’s just giving me a blank page

mufufu | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Skia-canvas, a browserless implementation of the Canvas API for Node.js

Not sure why that would have to be done server side though, couldn’t the server only be used for coordination/maintain state and then submit the current state/positions to the client and the client would render the board?

mufufu | 5 years ago | on: Why I don't give .edu discounts

> When you subsidize something, you get more of it. ... That leads to the question of what educational discounts subsidize. In effect, they subsidize going to very expensive universities.

I’m not sure I am following the point here. Are you suggesting people are signing up to a 4 year university, taking out tens of thousands of dollars in loans (as you mentioned) in order to get a student discount?

mufufu | 5 years ago | on: Why I don't give .edu discounts

He also mentioned in the article that, he too, was a broke college student at one point and used to ask people for discounts while juggling multiple jobs trying to get by. Does he not see the hypocrisy in that?

mufufu | 5 years ago | on: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper

Can’t click on the pre-order link on mobile Safari (iOS 13.6.1), no bueno. Trying hold the button down gives me the text options pop up (instead of the link preview) which makes me think there’s an element over it

mufufu | 5 years ago | on: We Can Do Better Than SQL

> It should be possible for an amateur to quickly write an SQL validator as a starting project

I think the point he is trying to make here is the same as the post was making concerning orthogonality. Having a smaller set of special syntax, and therefore an easier validator to write, means easier queries to write for the user. I don’t think he was implying that everyone who makes use of the language should know how to write a lexer for it.

> The syntax is just not the interesting part. Any syntax that meets those criteria would do.

I have to disagree with this. If this was the case we would still be programming everything in BASIC or C because they’re just another imperative programming language and it gets the job done. Having sugar syntax, a consistent language, etc.. all makes it easier for a programmer (or data analyst) to get the job he needs quicker (and therefore reduces cost), makes a program easier to maintain, and so on.