Encosia

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by Encosia 11y ago
IE11 has been doing automatic updates for at least a couple years now, by default.
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by Encosia 11y ago
In terms of desktop development, it's important to keep in mind that Windows is still what's running on ~90% of desktops and laptops outside a few bubbles. I doubt your average desktop .NET developer has spent much time thinking a
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by Encosia 11y ago
Obligatory: http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/07/we-take-security-seriously-o...
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by Encosia 11y ago
> How about 60# full gut vs 50# hybrid (gut in the crosses)? Would the former still be a lot more powerful than the latter? The hybrid setups I tested were usually in the ballpark of 46-48# poly mains with 50-52# gut crosses. My experien
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by Encosia 11y ago
The advantage of poly isn't that it grips, but that it's elastic enough to deform and snap back quickly. The old idea of string having 'bite' has been mostly disproven with the advent of high speed video to show what&#x2
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by Encosia 11y ago
Poly definitely changed the game in many ways, but not as much when it comes to fast serves. Even strung in the 40lb range, poly strings generate much less power than gut. You'll find that most of the big servers still use gut in the
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by Encosia 11y ago
From McEnroe's era to now, the biggest difference is the materials used to make the racquets, which allows them to be stiffer, lighter, and have a larger head all at the same time. All three of those things contribute to how much power
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by Encosia 11y ago
A little anti-trust action against you by the government will do that. Though it may not have been solely consumer friendly in the past, strongarming OEMs to avoid these kinds of messes was one of the things that got them in trouble 15 year
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by Encosia 11y ago
The Outlook mail app on iOS is much better than the default iPhone mail app. I know quite a few folks who are non-MS in every other way, but use Outlook on their iPhones.
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by Encosia 11y ago
Looks like the work of an article spinner (and not a very good one at that).
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by Encosia 11y ago
That is definitely interesting. I wonder if it's because they're more likely to be contextually interested in ads on a site that they would go to the effort of whitelisting, but that wouldn't actually be the case overall if t
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by Encosia 11y ago
I get the impression that today's CTR-driven advertisers would prefer not to show ads to folks who are actively trying to block them, because they would almost never have generated useful clicks anyway. Kind of like how online scamme
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by Encosia 11y ago
Yes. Coupled with cmder for a nice terminal interface, msysgit's ssh is what I've been using for about the past year and a half. Works great.
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by Encosia 11y ago
Seems like there's a lot of middle ground between "laudable" and "don't judge", yes?
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by Encosia 11y ago
FWIW, the upgrade process works very well. If your current setup doesn't have any issues, I wouldn't bother with a full repave. I've upgraded a half dozen machines from 8.x to 10 throughout the past several months and all of
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by Encosia 11y ago
There have been ISOs of the slow ring preview builds. I'd expect they will be available as usual.
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by Encosia 11y ago
Not exactly BootCamp, but I've been running the preview builds of 10 on Parallels without any trouble.
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by Encosia 11y ago
Yes, and that font looks much better. I've used Lato on projects in the past and it was legible, but you have to stick to 400 weight and above (IIRC, that template you used was only loading 300 and 700).
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by Encosia 11y ago
> don't judge! Definitely don't let anyone ever judge you for that. The vast majority of desktop/laptop users are on Windows, including a slightly-less-vast majority of developers.
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by Encosia 11y ago
Still pretty tough to read here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/036jxac9dm9l7rw/hard-to-read.PNG?d...
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by Encosia 11y ago
I understand how Compete works. I'm just showing you one immediate example of how comically wrong their data often is, both in absolute value and in misreporting trends. This has always been my experience with their data on both small
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by Encosia 11y ago
Compete's data is almost totally useless in my experience. Just look at what they show for my site right now (a similar growth pattern): https://siteanalytics.compete.com/encosia.com/ Here's my actual data fr
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by Encosia 11y ago
I can't speak for the valley, but the market in Atlanta went from lucrative to bleak almost overnight.
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by Encosia 11y ago
It's not really; it's about the same difficulty that it ever was. We've just become very lazy (i.e efficient) when it comes to solving our own problems. Over the course of 520 days, you might be amazed at what you could figur
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by Encosia 11y ago
I don't use Xamarin myself, but I don't think it's very accurate to say nobody is using their tools: http://xamarin.com/customers If you spend any time at all talking with .NET developers (of which there are
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by Encosia 11y ago
I think bringing a sane extension model to Edge is a bigger deal than any of the other improvements that Edge is making over IE11. For a couple years now, I would have instantly switched to IE on my touch enabled Windows machines if there
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by Encosia 11y ago
To be fair, using PC keys might annoy ~10% of the population if you include Linux users, not half. They actually make an Apple version of the variant that does have printed keycaps. But yeah, the stated purpose of the blank keycaps is to fo
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by Encosia 11y ago
I've love to see some sort of blind visual latency test between a wired and quality wireless keyboard. I've been using wireless keyboards since around 2005, am fairly allergic to latency in any device, but couldn't imagine go
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by Encosia 11y ago
I can't remember using a wireless keyboard in the last decade that had any noticeable latency. Even a cheap HP Wireless Elite that I tried on a whim recently had no visible latency as I typed.
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by Encosia 11y ago
Threading like Gmail is called "Show as Conversations" in Outlook. It's been available since 2010. They work almost identically as far as I've noticed (I use both Outlook and the web interface to my Google Apps email acc

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