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Re: Bongo Cat

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Post by boogies » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 2:25 PM UTC

arthurcolle wrote: post #149

sedatk wrote: post #119

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Also HN, please add "`" for inline monospace text.

what? why? backtick code comments/snippets from source text are. really not widely standardized, I don't think it makes sense to encourage them without an accompanying web standard, or at least some kind of standard

CommonMark is some kind of standard, and HN’s current syntax is a subset of it.

Re: Bongo Cat

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 2:29 PM UTC

slingnow wrote: post #159

webmaven wrote: post #153

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> I’m not sure what the go/C equivalent of “Ugh, you’re using jQuery? Time for a rewrite” is. Observed "in the wild": C » C++ C++ » C++ w. STL C++ » C# VB » VB.NET WinForms » WPF » Silverlight » UWP Edited to add: Java EJBs » Java Servlets » Java Spring C++ » Java » C#

You're describing switching to a different language. There's plenty of that going around no matter what language you're using. But I don't recall once seeing anyone decide to rewrite something in the equivalent of a different C "framework". There's certainly a lot less of that outside of frontend development.

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Re: Bongo Cat

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Post by sdfjkl » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 2:29 PM UTC

Finally, some real life use for that n-key rollover feature of my new keyboard :D

Re: Bongo Cat

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Post by arthurcolle » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 2:33 PM UTC

snazz wrote: post #160

arthurcolle wrote: post #149

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what? why? backtick code comments/snippets from source text are. really not widely standardized, I don't think it makes sense to encourage them without an accompanying web standard, or at least some kind of standard

I'd say that CommonMark is a pretty widely-utilized standard defining formatting including `inline code` snippets.

Gotcha, didn't realize it was standardized. I feel like I heard about CommonMark when it first was announced and I more or less wrote it off as another markup format, but thanks for the clarification.

My poor little internet points <\3 sorry HN for the unforgivable offense of asking a benign question

Re: Bongo Cat

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 2:34 PM UTC

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Re: Bongo Cat

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Post by arthurcolle » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 2:35 PM UTC

Rumudiez wrote: post #150

arthurcolle wrote: post #149

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what? why? backtick code comments/snippets from source text are. really not widely standardized, I don't think it makes sense to encourage them without an accompanying web standard, or at least some kind of standard

HN isn’t a web standard.

The markup that it uses for comments should use one though - and apparently it does! Others have mentioned that it uses a subset of CommonMark as mentioned in your post's sibling comments.

Thanks

Re: Bongo Cat

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 2:45 PM UTC

thomasfl wrote: post #7

It uses jQuery extensively. The frontend developer in me wants to make a fork written in typescript using react and redux toolkit to manage keystrokes. Then I realize it is just a fun toy.

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Re: Bongo Cat

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Post by tcmb » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 2:50 PM UTC

buro9 wrote: post #55

Mouse clicks also play the bongos, and other mouse buttons meow.

There's a cat-and-mouse joke in there somewhere...

Re: Bongo Cat

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Post by thn-gap » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 2:50 PM UTC

While the website has barely any text, consider adding a translated option in Catalan. .cat domain is used to highlight the Catalan language[1]. nyan.cat offers a Catalan version because of this.

I think this is checked regularly, but I'm not sure.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cat

Re: Bongo Cat

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Post by webmaven » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 2:52 PM UTC

slingnow wrote: post #159

webmaven wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I’m not sure what the go/C equivalent of “Ugh, you’re using jQuery? Time for a rewrite” is. Observed "in the wild": C » C++ C++ » C++ w. STL C++ » C# VB » VB.NET WinForms » WPF » Silverlight » UWP Edited to add: Java EJBs » Java Servlets » Java Spring C++ » Java » C#

You're describing switching to a different language. There's plenty of that going around no matter what language you're using. But I don't recall once seeing anyone decide to rewrite something in the equivalent of a different C "framework". There's certainly a lot less of that outside of frontend development.

Several of the examples I listed are frameworks or the equivalent.