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gegtik··on Is anybody still using Windows 95?
It was real. They built their own language and compiler to compile to undocumented windows API calls because MS wouldn't share in the early days while they established a WYSIWYG foothold.

In the corel days they finally decided to port to actual win32 code and put aside the custom transpilation

gegtik··on MIT Drake
Not if the smalltalkers get there first
gegtik··on Karate: Test Automation Made Simple
Thanks for the reply;

I'm a believer in "right-sized" testing, meaning balancing the cost of test creation and updating against the value the tests provide. I believe tests provide the greatest value when they are testing: * public methods * critical business logic * highly reused core logic

in other words, "code for others".

For code that's used for one specific page render or something similarly isolated, I think it's more questionable whether to bother going for 100% code coverage.

The latter category is where I'd like to "trust but verify" with devs permitting them to opt out of unit tests where they believe the code isn't critical, but have some confidence that we would catch code if it became more central and then enforce testing requirements.

gegtik··on Karate: Test Automation Made Simple
given that some test people might be reading these comments - is anyone aware of a configuration for test frameworks that: 1. lets users opt code out of the testing footprint (I know this is a given), but also 2. monitors opted-out code for being called a certain number of times, therefore meaning it's depended upon, therefore meaning it SHOULD be tested, and gets flagged?

I feel like this would be the way to go to minimize non-valuable testing while allowing you to discover code thats becoming more leveraged and therefore more critical to test.

gegtik··on Oculus: Hand Tracking Updates
I really want to know why this is feasible for the Quest but not the Rift S, given that both have Inside-Out tracking (ie. IR cameras mounted on the headset). In fact, the Rift S has 5 cameras to the Quests's 4 so it should be at least as capable shouldn't it?
gegtik··on Organizing a Group Buy of Flour
I think you just invented grocery stores
gegtik··on Tell HN: Toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and now web cams
I'm using a combo of OBS, NDI, and OBS-NDI plugin as per scott hanselman's guide.

You can download an "NDI" apk for your cell phone since the manufacturer removed the app from the play store, to provide the ability for an android phone to serve as a network display interface (of course it's your risk to download APKs from a random site)

gegtik··on Tell HN: Toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and now web cams
Google "yeast water" for an alternative
gegtik··on Introduction to tangzhong (2018)
Tangzhong - A technique for softer yeast bread and rolls.
gegtik··on Software made me loathe my car
Interesting, I hate the entune system on my 2015 Prius V. I was afraid something aftermarket wouldn't be able to pull things like the gas mileage, hook into the backup cam, etc. Is there a model of replacement I should be looking into?
gegtik··on Refurbishing the Rancilio Silvia Espresso Machine
I've owned an EPC8, Silvia with PID, and an E61 machine and I can tell you the flair is my favorite machine
gegtik··on I Can't Do Anything for Fun Anymore; Every Hobby Is an Attempt to Make Money
his grandfather needs to back off
gegtik··on YUML – Easy Embeddable Diagrams
I keep coming back to it too. I would love for some more control on layout but it works for simpler diagrams
gegtik··on What software will you trust when you get senile?
For xmas i got my grandfather a google home hub purely to serve as a digital picture frame so I can send him pics of my family easily.

Talked to my dad today, it's been unplugged because my granddad is worried that satellites are taking his picture and showing it to him, and he doesn't dare use any voice commands.

Turns out it was a poor gift. I wonder what kind of creepy shit my kids' kids will try to pawn off on me.

gegtik··on Video of Glitter Bomb for Package Thieves Exposed as Partial Fake
so: he can't also act surprised and say he didn't know.
gegtik··on Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
although its no pebble, the amazfit bip is the closest contender available today
gegtik··on Show HN: Program, Control and Monitor Your Hardware from the Web
Is this different from node-red?
gegtik··on In China, Desperate Patients Smuggle Drugs or Make Their Own
As opposed to the US,
gegtik··on Google Inbox spoofing vulnerability
sure reads like google is looking to drop Inbox without wasting any more developer productivity on its maintenance
gegtik··on Gitlab 10.7 Released
I would have loved to see this somehow merged with Eclipse Che instead
gegtik··on Mermaid: Markdown-like generation of diagrams and flowcharts from text
You should also check out http://plantuml.com/ An online editor/renderer is available at http://planttext.com/
gegtik··on Keurig to Acquire Dr Pepper Snapple in Largest Soft-Drink Deal Ever
hot cola with lemon is a thing in Hong Kong
gegtik··on Giving you more characters
he used 97 words to say "I love you" 32.333 times, you're taking away 42, so he would also have to say "I love you" eighteen and a third times
gegtik··on Awk vs. Perl (2009)
I love awk, it's my go-to. Somehow learning perl sufficiently (yet another programming language) is more mental work I'd rather not undertake, what with its idiosyncracies and often implicit nature.

I find awk easy to understand when I read a script after not seeing it for a long time (though I have to google each time I'm writing string manipulation and use arrays) .

gegtik··on CodingBat code practice
I would suggest some way to allow people to work toward a solution on their problem. Currently all you can do is submit and find out if it works -- there's no REPL aspect to it.

At a minimum, allow System.out.println() so people can debug their own code.

gegtik··on Think you’re living in a ‘hellhole’ today? Try being a billionaire in 1916
Sounds like you should do them a favour and offer to switch places with them
gegtik··on Google and IBM announce Istio – easily secure and manage microservices
I guess my point is that microservices have been well trodden in this forum context, I would not expect every article to require a basic primer explaining every concept
gegtik··on Google and IBM announce Istio – easily secure and manage microservices
There's some reading here https://hn.algolia.com/?query=microservice&sort=byPopularity...
gegtik··on A Digital Archive of the Brian Structures of Earth's Megafauna
The name is Structures.

Brian Structures.

gegtik··on Achieving 100M database inserts per second using Apache Accumulo and D4M [pdf]
depends on your structure. you could scan though dates as a partition's cluster key for example
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