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Cyberdog
7y ago
SEEKING WORK Boise, ID area or remote; no relocation Professional web developer since 2007, and a hobbyist since 2002. Back end development primarily with PHP and related technologies; front end with vanilla JavaScript and jQuery; system ad
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7y ago
Starting about three years ago, I taught myself to build sites with Kitura, and got pretty far with it. As someone who has been paying the bills entirely with PHP since 2007, I loved the strong typing and great tooling, and I was hoping to
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7y ago
In Ripcord? Never tried it. If I had to guess, probably not. That might be something you need to fire up the official client for. But for simple chatting and stupid meme sharing, which is probably what 99% of Slack and Discord users are doi
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7y ago
I've never heard of them banning anyone for using this or some other unofficial client, no. I'd imagine a more effective approach to urge people to use the official client would be to simply block access from unofficial clients fi
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7y ago
That's new to me too. For others curious, here's the developer.mozilla.org page on it: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Using_CSS_c... And the CanIUse table: https://
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Cyberdog
7y ago
> The rise of dark-mode popularity seems to coincide with the availability of OLED screens "Dark mode" predates OLEDs by decades. Pretty much up until the first Macs, turning on a computer and getting something other than green
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7y ago
I've been using an unofficial Discord and Slack client called Ripcord for a while now. https://cancel.fm/ripcord/ It uses a dark theme by default, which is very appreciated. Another huge plus is that it's not
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7y ago
Yeah, sites which permit upvoting of posts and comments and display a total of upvotes received on user profiles are really cancerous.
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7y ago
I like macOS/iOS's hidden scrollbars personally, but I agree with you about not wanting pages to be able to override scrollbar behavior in any manner. The way my scrollbars work is perfectly fine and, more importantly, predictable
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> The choice isn't just "manufacture in China" or "manufacture in the US". Well, yeah. But the problem is that China has such a huge head start in all this that all the stuff I said about moving manufacturing to
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For certain definitions of “marginally,” I suppose. And keep in mind many of the more complex things manufactured in China are done so from components themselves manufactured in China or elsewhere in east Asia, so either those would also ha
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7y ago
The point is that there is no license under which you can lawfully redistribute Microsoft’s copyrighted icons. And given GitHub’s current ownership, they might not be able to ignore the violation for very long. If you remove the icons (and
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Cyberdog
7y ago
Among those "cute pet projects" are OpenSSH, LibreSSL, OpenNTPD, and PF. The internet at large, and even FreeBSD itself, would be all the poorer for not having these projects available. As someone who has run web servers with both
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7y ago
Yeah, I believe zero percent that this developer was unfamiliar with the concept of speedrunning while developing a game like this.
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Cyberdog
7y ago
SEEKING WORK | Boise, ID area or remote Hello! I've been a professional web developer since 2007. I'm currently freelancing and looking for more work. I'm familiar with both back-end and front-end development, primarily using
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7y ago
I presume your ultimate goal is to increase the average life span, but phrasing it as “fighting” or “solving” death sounds like some mad scientist stuff.
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Cyberdog
7y ago
I don't really understand the licensing issues that well, but if what the poster above you said is true, I wouldn't really want to have to sign software that ships with my computer when it should just run out of the box.
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The main reason is issues with the GPLv3 license, as discussed elsewhere in the comments.
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And you can use MacPorts or (presumably) Homebrew to install newer versions of tcsh or pretty much any other shell you might want. I personally never stopped using tcsh after the bash switchover since it's what I knew and what my dotfi
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7y ago
SEEKING WORK - Boise, ID or remote I've been a professional web developer for 12 years. I'm primarily a back-end developer with PHP and related techs, but I've done a fair deal of front-end work, system administration, and so
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7y ago
> I and everyone I have an influence on, are refusing to buy Chinese goods, that's the limit of my power (which is fuck all honestly). What device did you type this message on? Odds are very high it was assembled in China with a sig
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I'd say the Chinese are more capable of this than the US, if for no other reason than that's the place where almost all hardware and hardware components are already made.
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This is more or less what I do, except instead of 80, I use a port above 1024 because those don't require root privileges to bind to: https://www.w3.org/Daemon/User/Installation/PrivilegedPorts.... I
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We web devs actually have pretty solid definitions for "front-end," "back-end," and "full-stack." The back end deals with work on the server done after an incoming HTTP request comes in and involves preparing t
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SEEKING WORK - Remote or Boise, ID area I'm a full-stack web developer with over a decade of professional experience working on a wide range of site types and sizes. I need more work and my schedule is very open, so if you need someone
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8y ago
My wife is one of these people. I tried to talk her out of it and tell her it actually makes her phone run slower, not faster, but, as typical, she'll listen patiently to what I tell her and then go on doing her own thing anyway, so I
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What does "real-time" mean in terms of a web framework? As a web developer for over a decade, I don't recall seeing a web framework described with that before and have no idea how to interpret it.
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8y ago
Please, reach out to Woz and let him know you found a tiny mistake in his forty-year-old work. Let me know what he says.
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8y ago
I presume "ClodFront" was a typo, but given the frustrations I've had with it myself, I'm not certain.
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8y ago
To be fair, Bitbucket is loads more pleasant to use than Jira.
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