CRConrad

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by CRConrad 1y ago
Add to that: // PBD: Possibly be done...? // NBD: Not being done! And, Idunno, perhaps some more.
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> ...and I’d probably run my team on Trello given the choice. For how much longer, though? Been quite a while since Trello was bought by Atlassian; dunno how badly Jira-fied it is by now, but I can only imagine it's going to get mor
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> TODOs in code get automatically turned into tickets in your tracker, and then removed from your code automatically. Better yet (IMO), not removed but replaced by a ticket number or link to the issue.
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by CRConrad 1y ago
From all I've seen, heard, and read about that problem over the decades (yup, I think it's not mere years any more): The only solution is to be rock-solid in refusing to do anything if there isn't a ticket for it. Your nine-t
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by CRConrad 1y ago
Then for fuck's sake do it in one.
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> It's clear this "redesign" was as you said, a panic project to cover for not delivering on AI, again for a second year and having nothing to show for WWDC. Hm... So is their current system universally regarded as absolut
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by CRConrad 1y ago
Ah. So they're reducing transparency to get better readability... If reducing transparency increases readability, then wouldn't the best readability occur at zero transparency? Readability is obviously good for something. Is trans
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by CRConrad 1y ago
As a useer I can say that the truth is that customers expect things to stay put and keep working, and if you futz around with that just because you think "the aesthetic" is "stale", that sure as fuck begins driving awa
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by CRConrad 1y ago
There might be competition, but competition for status symbols is not actual innovation. You seem to have got your concepts muddled by corporate marketing-speak.
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> Insult aside What freaking "insult"?
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> Give me a brutalist UI that isn’t embarrassed to show itself. Gimme things that both explain and enable the app’s features. By all means make them shiny and lickable [...or not, according to user preference. -- my addition /CRC] I
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by CRConrad 1y ago
Uuaargh! That's the ugliest freaking thing I've seen in a long while. So, now, how do you do that in three lines?
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> I seem to recall that Microsoft used proportional fonts in their IDEs in the 90's. Or maybe I'm thinking of Visual Basic? Not sure. What's the distinction you're making here; are you saying Visual Basic isn't a
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> Why don't we embrace proportional (i.e. not monospace) fonts more for coding? IMHO, they are a big step up when it comes to legibility. No, according to what seems to be the common definitions in this thread (dunno if that's
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by CRConrad 1y ago
Judging from the headline alone, seems the definition of the term "melting point" needs some work... OK, OK, I'll go read the article now.
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by CRConrad 1y ago
A) Did you find anything? I would also have bet Asimov. (The "slightly sexist" point also speaks for that, IMO; I think Clarke was less so.) B) Á propos another comment[1] by you, too old to reply to now[2]: Betcha you meant Gusta
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> So then Apple hijacking the term to mean high DPI... how does that fit in? It fits in quite easily and obviously: Just typical Apple being Apple, marketing hyperbole.
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> But nobody from the rules wants that. YM "ruleRs", right?
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> Fermat Reincarnation. Pascal, I think.
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> Konrad Zuse That...? Ah, yes, that Konrad Zuse.
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by CRConrad 1y ago
How very American to confidently proclaim about "Every university in the world" when that is actually not the case at all. And from someone who has presumably even attended one. Really, widen your horizons a little. (Or learn to S
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by CRConrad 1y ago
Wich in turn is a play on some badly-translated Japanese video game, I'd guess? Certainly sounds rather like "All your base are belong to us." and "For great Justice!"
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by CRConrad 1y ago
God forbid an input box in a GUI config dialog.
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by CRConrad 1y ago
Windows 10 has a setting to allow you to choose if it should show or hide desktop icons. Dunno about 11.
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> Why on earth would I want this compile-time code to run on an emulated version of the target platform? If I’m on a 64-bit platform then pointers are 8-bytes why would I pretend they aren’t? Even if the target is 32-bit? Does that make
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by CRConrad 1y ago
Personally, I find the idea of needing something called a "build system" completely terrifying.
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by CRConrad 1y ago
Funny, that's all I thought it ever was.
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by CRConrad 1y ago
Damn, beat me by half a day.
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> the feature isn’t! [sic] To be, or not to be... The feature is not. (IOW, English may not be the author's native language. I'm fairly sure it means "The feature doesn't exist".)
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> it is a couple of pages and then goes "The rest of this article is exclusive!" But after that it says, "This article will unlock in 6 months". And hovering over the "6 months" bit displays a hint, &qu

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