Asaf Gartner

A new era of PC. 35.8897, 23.3078

@its_bvisness @nicbarkeragain When you have enough scaffolding around an idea it blurs the difference between remembering and reinventing.

@nicbarkeragain I feel like I hardly ever remember anything unless it's connected to several other ideas. Remembering things is a process of remembering the cloud of ideas surrounding that thing, until I have enough to go "yeah that's probably right"

I suspect I'm not alone in having a memory like this: - If I deeply understand something, I can remember it forever after only hearing it once - If I don't, no amount of revision makes me remember it Critical debuff during school / university, turned into a superpower later on 😅

@cmuratori Looks like the fishing trip went well.

I guess Prime wasn't kidding when he said everyone in the Apple video was trained to move their hands in a very specific way!

@cmuratori "Control how your trash is recycled"

"Control how your data is shared" is such a dystopian phrase. It presupposes that the data will be shared, and all you can do is control how widely.

@AbnerCoimbre @DoctorGester I heard good things about "Digital Signage", but I haven't tried it myself.

@rfleury I'm confused about your meaning here. Did their market share shrink because of the ongoing lawsuit or regardless?

@AsafGartner In virtually every historic example of antitrust lawsuits in the US, the market share of the defendant shrunk from 90%+ to around half *before the lawsuits concluded*. The market selects for competition in the absence of regulation.

Eliminating anticompetitive behavior with regulation by force — as opposed to competition — does little more than enable regulatory capture, and the future use of the government to enforce anticompetitive measures by law.

@CaptainKraft I think it's overall easier to build webapps without frameworks. Start small by implementing a few interactions directly and go from there. I'll be happy to answer more specific questions on the @handmade_net discord.

Is there a simple way to build webapps without tons of frameworks? I'm not sure where to start...

@SamoBurja Israel. jta.org/2020/03/02/isr…

Have there been countries that have carried out elections since the beginning of the pandemic?

@cmuratori @matt_levine Someone at softbank played too much Robot Unicorn Attack.

These are apparently actual slides that people in charge of $100bln of investment money used as part of their earnings call. You really can't parody venture capital at this point (via @matt_levine).

@VyprVPN How can I reach your dev team? I need to report a bug and your customer support is being very unhelpful.

@tumult @krisimov Introducing debounce to programmers was the biggest mistake of the 2010s.

@krisimov no it doesn't. it displays the frame when you stop moving the mouse for long enough.

16-core 3.5ghz computer from 2018 with 8gb GPU running software from 2020 vs 1-core 900mhz computer from 1999, no GPU, emulated at less than full speed, running software from 2002

@khneori @cmuratori en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_v.… "Oracle initiated the suit claiming that the APIs were copyrightable"

Other than just wanting to be able to copy other people's work as they often do all the time anyway, I'm not sure I understand major tech giants' argument as to why APIs would not be copyrightable. They are, if anything, much harder to make well than their implementations.

@cmuratori The "solution" is to display your own thumbnail and only replace it with the youtube iframe after the user clicks it. It's been an issue for many years and I doubt they'll ever fix it.

And by the way, we use the absolute minimum of Google anything - we don't use analytics, we don't use ads, we don't use anything. It's _just_ a single YouTube embed on some of our sites to show a trailer. That's it. And _just that_ causes pages to take up to two seconds to load!

Dear @google: what if you actually ran your PageSpeed Insights utility on your own code, and then fixed it so it wasn't epic garbage? Here's our website, for example. 100% of the speed issues you report _are in your own code_:

@jeffandcasey It's even better with music youtubedoubler.com/sY5S

The videos from the paper we covered are even more amazing than we imagined! Robot: youtube.com/watch?v=bM8jgn… Ostrich: youtube.com/watch?v=teey-q…

@jackmott42 @danielben It could make code more fragile. For instance, I have old Scheme code (which has bitmaps embedded in the code file), and I can't get it to work with a modern version of DrScheme.

Programming thought: function overloading is not a good language feature: 1) Using it means poorer code self-documentation bc it's harder to understand on which context to use one or the other overload 2) It relies on IDEs to even understand what overloads are available

@AbnerCoimbre handmade.network/whenisit?t=155…

@rfleury handmade.network/whenisit?t=154…

I'll be streaming The Melodist development at 3:00 PM PST. twitch.tv/ryanfleury #programming #gamedev

I’m calling for an end to holy war against code duplication. We convince young developers and engineers that it’s the worst thing ever, when time teaches all of us that it is, the vast majority of the time, duplication preferable to dependency.

@rygorous @tom_forsyth Who's doing the box art?

@tom_forsyth I mean we sent them the download link right away but by golly they're also gonna get their physical copy!

"We're going to have to..." *puts giant key in mechanical lock, opens creaky iron door* *swipes away cobwebs* *blows on dust-covered chest, opens it* *grabs packet of blank CDs labeled in cuneiform* "...burn a CD."