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Because that would be a distraction to the point they're actually making.
The point is thoroughly undermined since we can't judge the veracity of their claims
Personally, I think he uses Emacs.
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When I was young there were a few luminaries in the software world who talked about how there is a steady if small flow of ideas from video game design into conventional software. But I haven't heard anyone talk like that in quite sometime (unless it's me parroting them). Which is quite unfortunate. I think for example if someone from the old guard of Blizzard were to write a book or at least a novella that described…
I’ve been of the opinion that every hard problem in CS shows up somewhere in gamedev. It’s a great space for inspo.
In each game generation there’s a game that would be easy to write on the next or subsequent generation of hardware and is damned difficult to implement on the current one. Cleverness and outright cheating make it work, after all fashion.
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When I was young there were a few luminaries in the software world who talked about how there is a steady if small flow of ideas from video game design into conventional software. But I haven't heard anyone talk like that in quite sometime (unless it's me parroting them). Which is quite unfortunate. I think for example if someone from the old guard of Blizzard were to write a book or at least a novella that described…
Kernel design is (to me) another one where ideas have flowed into other software fields - there were monolithic kernels, micro kernels, and hybrid kernels, and they all need to work with third party modules (drivers) The lessons from all fields seem to be relearnt again and again in new fields :-)
See also people trying to bring Erlang back into fashion.
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> what exactly are you doing with a markdown note-taking application such that performance is a legitimate concern? Launching it and expecting a fast startup.
That’s a reason I moved away from Notion. The startup is so terribly slow (perhaps because it’s updating too often?).
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Funny enough, I thought this earlier about Arch Linux and it's deritives. It was mentioned on reddit that they operate on a small budget. A maintainer replied that they have very low overhead, and the first thought that popped into my mind was that most of the software I use and rely on comes from the AUR, which relies on the user to manage their own security. If engineers can't even manage their own security, why ar…
I'm shocked it is most of your software. I think I have under a dozen AUR packages. It has been that way for about a decade. I added a couple for gaming recently (mostly because Lutris just crashes for me), but nearly all of my software comes from the official repos.
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I’ve been of the opinion that every hard problem in CS shows up somewhere in gamedev. It’s a great space for inspo.
Game dev also rewards people for applying the 80/29 rule effectively and you see less of that in commercial software. In each game generation there’s a game that would be easy to write on the next or subsequent generation of hardware and is damned difficult to implement on the current one. Cleverness and outright cheating make it work, after all fashion.
This doesn't make any sense to me. I've always been told you don't write anything yourself unless you absolutely have to and having a million micro-dependencies is a good thing. JavaScript and now Rust devs have been saying this for years. Surely they know what they're doing...
There is a balance to be struck. NPM in particular has been a veritable dependency hell for a long time. I don't know if it just attracts inexperienced developers, or if its security model is fundamentally flawed, but there have been soooo many supply chain attacks using NPM that being extra careful is very much warranted.
From my buddies who have worked in JS my understanding is that a lot of it is rooted in JavaScript having a really shitty standard library for a long time. So that lead to a culture of code sharing early on since everyone was rewriting the same utilities and what not. Which evolved into the package management ecosystem over time.
Why that came about in something like JavaScript but not C, which also obviously has a really small std is super interesting. My only guess is that JavaScript came up in the internet when package managers started to take on a new meaning, and web dev is more relavent to a broader range of (nontech) companies and they're more likely to put a huge focus on quality over quantity.
Is that the reason why Obsidian does not support the https://textbundle.org/ format for import/export like any other markdown editor?
for export it's the same reason many features don't exist yet — the team only has 3 full time developers
If the obsidian team did a 2 hour q&a livestream every week, I'd watch every one (or at least get the AI summary). One of my favorite pieces of software ever.
I recently had a similar experience using Libby for the first time. An absolutely incredible piece of software. If anyone here on HN works on it, you deserve to be proud of your work.