JohnDeHope

I'd really like to see some FE folks kicking around what sorts of new form elements they'd put into HTML 6. I miss WinForms, component libraries, Silverlight, WPF, that sort of thing. Browsing the sea of components somebody like Telerik or Infragistics or DevExpress give you brings so many ideas to my mind. The web has nothing to show for decades of being in the limelight. We have buttons, textboxes, checkboxes, drop down lists... the end. Oh I guess we have date pickers now, and reasonable large text areas. I mean we build apps this way so it's not impossible to live like this. I'm just jealous of folks with Blazor and a component library license.

cross platform GUIs are ugly by default, compared to fully native desktop apps, because they don't entirely replicate the affordances or the style of the platform;

I think this is an implementation detail. It's up to the software stack whether it leaves off before drawing the UI elements on screen, or goes ahead and takes on that responsibility too. The wxWidgets toolkit uses the runtime platform's UI, so it does not draw the widgets themselves. Java Swing took on the task of drawing the UI elements on the screen in its own style.

It’s true. I was more expressing a sentiment than suggesting a course of political or legislative action. I await my punishment.

As a Pasco county alumni, I think we should drop the people who want to drain the everglades off in the everglades and leave them in there until they gain an appreciation for the scenery.

I’m not a hacker but I really appreciate their ethos. It’s like punk. I’m not punk either. But I will defend it all with my dying breathe.

God bless a capital I with crossbars.

I think it has the prettiest UI of the era, including Apple’s.

This was the first programming language I got paid to code in. It really did look like line noise. Good times.

If "left" and "right" have any meaning at all, "right" describes a worldview under which civilized society depends upon legitimate hierarchy, and a key object of politics is properly defining and protecting that hierarchy.

I've never heard anyone describe left and right this way, and I don't think anybody but the author thinks like this.

I've long maintained that the threat from AI to workers isn't that AI can do your job – it's that an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job:

This post is on to something.

I can't tell if you're aiming for a faithful reproduction of the original font, or to make the coding font modern and most useful to today's developer. But... Can the code variant have the asterisk used to represent multiplication be on the same line as other math operators like plus, minus, and tilde? +-~* I always like the asterisk to be in line with the others. Maybe I am just weird. Also for the code variant I think the pound or hash mark # could be reduced in drama a little, to fit in with the other punctuation marks. Thanks for listening to my two cents.

Well, law alone hasn't stopped presidents from bombing citizens, so I don't see how it'd stop them from deporting them, either.

I found this video to be very educational. How Africa’s Geography Traps it in Endless Poverty https://youtu.be/Y8m95sCDEf0?si=vA5u5DEnFBzP5s1E

What goes into your sense organs is just as meaningful, and capable of causing unwanted and lasting change or trauma, than what somebody does to your physical body. Intellectual force is no less force than physical force is.

Harassment is just a mild precursor to outright force. Advertising is just a mild precursor to intellectual force. Advertising is to indoctrination as physical harassment is to physical force.

There's too much overtly political content on HN, and it trends towards liberal, anti-Trump, etc. I agree with it about half the time. But the other half of the time it's like some mainstream leftist media stream got randomly interspersed into HN. I have a ton of places to go to find out how awful the regime is, no matter if it's 2020 or 2024 or whatever. They're all equally awful. Please get them all out of HN!

Pff. HN has rebranded to become the DOGE News Network. If you want a more curated technical experience, I recommend https://lobste.rs. There's much less latitude for non-technical stuff.

I'm interested in things

This song, and this particular line, are a part of my religion.

I hate to be a hater, but having built myriad gaming PCs in my time, this doesn't really seem like much of a step forward. I'm hoping it's just the beginning. I'd love a modular plug-and-play PC parts ecosystem. This doesn't seem like that, yet.

I'm 50. Yes. "It's about trying to come up with a working solution in a problem domain that you don't fully understand and don't have time to understand." This has been my trick for staying engaged and excited about my work. Do try to understand the problem domain. It makes a world of difference in what you code, how you're perceived, the kinds of roles you can be promoted in to, etc.

Honest question, what is the point of this? I think it's cool that you can reproduce "what the pilots saw". But what pilots see is, to us laymen, really super boring. And there is no actual crash here. It's just video reconstruction of the flight path. I'm missing the point. Can somebody set me straight?

Do Americans? Does it matter? They either can't or won't do anything to stop it.

I think sometimes guidance like this is more about the organization than the customers. This is true for all sorts of things: application development, disaster relief, etc.

Everyone is going to buy one of these as soon as they can ship them to them, so if the thumb sticks could not be intentionally engineered to fail this time, that would be great, thanks.

I'm not claiming this is true, only that it's how I think about it. All forms of public performance, including blogging, youtubing, singing, dancing, etc. are dominated by the Pareto principle (roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes) and Sturgeon's Law (90% of everything is crap). Any success you see anyone having is solely due to survivorship bias. Unless you are already an amateur success, it's very unlikely you have the ability let alone the dedication to pay the price to be anything remotely close to a real success. It's always been this way. It's never been worth it to have a blog. That is, unless it's worth it to you. In that case go for it!

I hope wasm becomes the assembly language of the web, before JavaScript does.

I taught high school programming for one year, and used PureBasic as the in-class language. The kids were able to put together games and such things after just a few days. We never really hit the ceiling. The real gem was the IDE experience, built in help, etc. That made everything so much easier.

Ahh! That totally did not come through in your earlier comment. I'm sorry I jumped to the conclusion that you were trying to police my art appreciation. That sort of thing really grates on my nerves.

I don't appreciate this stuff, I'm not the target audience for it, but I'll be darned if this didn't kick me hard in the feels.

This is scary, but it doesn't teach me anything. What is a foundry, why is it full of piles of metal junk, why is some of it (evidently) wet, what are these trash compactors full of fire, I guess they're the furnaces, why does the other forklift driver just kind of sit there, why does the one forklift driver (splashed in molten wet metal scrap) move away from the (I assume) self-inflicted napalm mine field to the left and then drive through it to the right, is he just scared and injured and nervous or what is that all about? I have nothing but questions about this.

It was fun :)