Readit Newskadrian12 commented on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file al3rez.com/todo-txt-journ... · Posted by u/al3rez
My professor once said: the only thing that we'll still have in 80 years is the file system. Always bet on the file system.
kadrian12 commented on Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245B of gold home from US ft.com/content/e39390cc-e... · Posted by u/cempaka
This is a very skewed view of the political landscape. Would be nice to forget this pro/anti Russia narrative. Please also note that AfD has become the strongest party in Germany. Sure, firewalled, but question is, for how long.
Not true. CDU/CSU was the strongest party in the last election. Stick to the facts, please.
Wow, this is really great! I've got this case very often when I need non-technical people to send me data in a JSON format, but trying to teach them what JSON is and how to edit it is impossible / takes way too much time.
This is SO close to the solution I need. If I could configure this form using typescript and then send them a link where they can't see or edit the typescript, but just fill out the form and send me the JSON, that would be incredible!!
kadrian12 commented on Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia github.com/yashsinghcodes... · Posted by u/darksoul1011
Nice. Would be cool to have shortcuts numbers next to the links to navigate to linked articles.
kadrian12 commented on JRE Missing (Rogan episodes removed by Spotify) jremissing.com/#link=%7B%... · Posted by u/droptablemain
"You need to enable Javascript to run this app."
No doubt. But do I need an app to read the information delivered by the website. I use the web as an information service.
curl -s -A "" https://jremissing.com/api/episodes|(tr \{ '\12';echo)
Of course, the Ads by Google component of the page does require Javascript. For ads/tracking, one does need to enable Javascript.
Really? Of course you can always do things in a cleverer, more technical, less visual, better performing, "look-everyone-how-i-can-do-it" kind of way.
But I really don't get the point of your comment. It's 2022. If some people publish work that visualizes information for all of us, I'm glad they have Javascript helping them do it.
kadrian12 commented on Japanese typography: Kilograms of sinograms aisforfonts.com/sinograms... · Posted by u/motform
Katakana, to me, is such a trouble. I really wonder whether I'm the only one who believes that Katakana is a big part of the reason, why it's very hard for native Japanese speakers to learn English.
In a Japan of today, you grow up with a plentitude of words taken from English and written + pronounced in Katakana. So you learn to pronounce "san-do-i-chi" for sandwich, "de-za-i-na" for "designer", "su-ma-ho" for smartphone, "ca-re-n-da" for calendar. And since you use and pronounce them wrongly on a daily basis you reinforce the Japanesified pronunciations. Then, actually pronouncing "calendar" in an English way becomes tricky.
So to me, the alphabets are a great example of a "historically grown" system, that's ripe for a "refactoring".
Most SaaS companies are just that: 1) Curated domain model (stored in their cloud db) 2) Some way for users do to almost raw CRUD on the tables 3) Curated high-level domain specific workflows that do n CRUD calls underneath
So many of these SaaS apps could have been a simple Excel / domain model template like Micasa.
But it seems like we haven't "cracked" the perfect UI on top of relational DBs.
Excel: Good: raw CRUD. Bad: too many degrees of freedom + the possibility to edit the domain model itself. That's too much for most users.
TUI: Good: raw CRUD with some guardrails, limited possibility to adjust the domain model / not by accident. Keyboard shortcuts, for professionals. Bad: inaccessible for non-tech end users + hard to build good UX for high-level domain specific workflows.
Full Web UI: Good: accessible for all. Great for high-level domain-specific workflows. Bad: looks and works different every time. Raw CRUD possible, but always a compromise with editable data grid libraries.