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If you’re fascinated by or interested in Japanese carpentry and happen to be in London before July, go and visit https://www.japanhouselondon.uk/whats-on/the-craft-of-carpen.... It’s free and quite excellent.



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As parent says, nitter is dead.

Discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39382590


I wasn't talking about nitter, I'm talking about websites with names like "threadapp" or similar that would just convert a single thread into a static webpage.


Cologne cathedral didn’t actually take 500 years to build — construction was restarted after a 250+ year halt.

“Construction of Cologne Cathedral began in 1248 but was halted in the years around 1560, unfinished. Attempts to complete the construction began around 1814 but the project was not properly funded until the 1840s.”


So it took 500 years to build.

If a building took one year to build, but they didn't work on the weekends, would you object and say no, it only took 260 days?


Lets take an example closer to home. Babbage famously started working on his Analytical Engine 1837. He never got it very far though, and the project remained dead for 150ish years. Until jgc and friends got the idea to complete the project and construct the Engine.

So would you say it took 200 years to build Analytical Engine, or would you consider the Babbages original attempt and the current day attempt two separate projects?


That seems to me irrelevant to the point being made.


There’s also the experimental https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Barcode_Det... — already live in Chrome.


I really wish mdn samples showed output. As is semi-typical, the examples show console.log of the results, but no sample output is provided.

I'm mainly curious whether position information is provided, and whether or not multiple barcodes can be detected at once. Digging further I see the output is an array and cornerPoints are provided, but i keep feeling like these samples only show 50% of what I want to see.


I like to look at API specs to clear questions like this, e.g.

https://wicg.github.io/shape-detection-api/#barcode-detectio... BarcodeDetector#detect returns a sequence of detected barcodes, so depending on the implementation and input quality it should able to extract multiple barcodes.

https://wicg.github.io/shape-detection-api/#dictdef-detected... each DetectedBarcode has boundingBox/cornerPoints.


This would be awesome. I wish it at least worked on Safari iOS. (Firefox seems unlikely: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1553738)

We have a web app that does QR scanning for event badges, using a JS library, but it's painfully slow compared to the camera app.


Should this be renamed to "Modern Gradle/Maven Build Practices"? Many ways to build Java projects, and implying Gradle is the modern way feels rather opinionated.


It seems to be the contemporary way for Android projects?


This appears to be factually incorrect both for apps installed from third-party app stores and from Google Play itself.

See "Alternative billing systems for users" on https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/11174377?hl=en-...


(1999) actually


Not really, the video and extensive commentary is from 2019.



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