vjancik | 4 years ago | on: Command palettes: how typing commands became the norm again
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vjancik | 4 years ago | on: India tells public to shun Starlink until it gets licence
vjancik | 4 years ago | on: Dopamine Fasting: A Maladaptive Fad (2020)
Instead of asking what's driving people to this practice and whether the practice produced noticeable mental health benefits in the participants.
"It can't work how I understand it", doesn't mean it actually can't work, only that you've failed to understand.
vjancik | 4 years ago | on: Modern JavaScript has made the web worse (2020)
Frameworks being large and taking a long time to parse isn't the fault of JavaScript or NPM.
vjancik | 4 years ago | on: Making the dislike count private across YouTube
"Upvote this comment if you disliked this video:"
vjancik | 4 years ago | on: Making the dislike count private across YouTube
vjancik | 4 years ago | on: From macOS to Arch Linux
vjancik | 4 years ago | on: Truths about video game stories
How can you compare a 2 hour narrative with a 10-100 hour narrative?
This article grossly overgeneralizes stories in games and ignores the unique storytelling device that is a "game".
A good book doesn't necessarily make for a good movie and a good movie doesn't necessarily make for a good game (and the other way around, as we've seen over and over again).
This article seems like a self-congratulating piece by an indie developer for being an indie developer.
Good for you. That doesn't mean AAA studios can't make a good game story, same as big budget movies can have a compelling story.
vjancik | 4 years ago | on: Tracking the White House YouTube channel
vjancik | 4 years ago | on: 1k Netflix employees threaten work stoppage over Dave Chappelle
vjancik | 4 years ago | on: Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag
vjancik | 4 years ago | on: Apple threatened Facebook ban over slavery posts on Instagram
A lot of groups and pages (like newspapers) that have to "self-moderate" due to hate / propaganda spam posts and comments would be willing to pay a monthly fee for a quota in a Turk-like system for moderation.