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by Joeri 4y ago
In a large enough system a full rewrite becomes impractical anyway, because the team is sized to incrementally grow not replace whole cloth. The team simply isn’t capable of rewriting the whole codebase in one big bang release in anything l
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But … icloud benefits from being part of the OS. Dropbox is probably technically unable to build a service that works as smoothly as icloud. It seems unfair to ding dropbox for that situation. Having said that, I use icloud as well, togethe
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That’s the view of someone who is lucky to have many choices. Many people, in fact I suspect most people, pretty much have to accept what they’re offered because they don’t really have other choices. For some of the people in these layoffs
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Has anyone here read the full paper and checked whether they controlled for this?
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Yeah, but if the teams developers had been fixing those bugs, they wouldn’t have been able to build this AI-powered teams premium. /s As a daily user of teams it’s pretty obvious that the way teams is built is not informed by UX expert
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I would go for the combination: first what, then why. Links break, so a link to why is not good enough when it comes to long-lived code. A good commit message should however start by completing the sentence "when committed this will ..
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by Joeri 4y ago
Yes, like many of the bad things in American politics, they both do it. Relevant podcast: America's hidden duopoly. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/americas-hidden-duopoly_rad... Both the Democrat and Republican
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by Joeri 4y ago
Yes, when gerrymandering was challenged in 2019 a bunch of mathematicians filed an amicus brief with a mathematical fairness test. Their work is here: https://mggg.org/ Other tests and models have also been proposed in the
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Just looked it up: 0.3% lifetime probability of dying by gun assault. Mass shootings are indeed lower at 0.01%.
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That view gives very little credit to bystanders. If people really are unable to see multiple arguments and choose the smarter, we may as well put a cross over democracy, because elections hinge on them doing exactly that.
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The limitation is in the other direction, the iphone can’t be read or written over nfc as if it were a tag by an nfc reader (feature is called host card emulation). It is technically possible but apple makes it very difficult to get the ent
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by Joeri 4y ago
That approach only works on the 13 and 14 inch laptops because the screen isn’t big enough to show more than one application. On anything larger the green button is basically never what I want. The green button is just a very ill-considered
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I switched from magnet to moom. It feels like a native OS feature, which is the highest compliment I can give such a tool.
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I don’t get why tesla can’t just do the thing that originally made them successful: build really good electric cars, that people choose to buy over cheaper alternatives. Why do they need a competitive mote when they can just outcompete by d
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by Joeri 4y ago
You can run owncloud and use their app to automatically upload photos and videos in the background.
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A certain percentage of ram and storage goes bad in ways that cause this kind of instability, and an upgrade will have a tendency to bring this out. I’ve had my own share of stability issues fixed by ram and storage swaps. Too bad new macs
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by Joeri 4y ago
To be fair, owning an apple tv and only an apple tv is not a scenario that I would expect, so I’m not surprised apple’s engineers simply didn’t conceive of this situation occurring. Occam’s razor would lead me to assume this wasn’t malice o
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by Joeri 4y ago
For really high quality audio you pretty much need high impedance headphones, and I don’t think these walkmen support those. I’m not convinced the new walkman sounds better than an iphone, but I’d be interested in a blind comparison test.
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by Joeri 4y ago
I’m expecting even worse: heavily weaponized political influencing by AI bots. Brexit was won in 2016 by microtargeting ads on facebook based on individual profiles, and since then this has become a common strategy. Think of what a game cha
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The article wasn't decrying the existence of excess wind power, it was trying to describe the best solutions for using that power. But it was missing the most obvious long term solutions for excess wind power: carbon capture and hydr
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by Joeri 4y ago
Is that the VCL or the FMX library? VCL should be nothing more than a wrapper around native windows controls, FMX emulates native controls in a cross-platform framework. I would find it surprising to see these sorts of bugs in VCL, not in F
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by Joeri 4y ago
The thing is that hardware scales faster than humanity. When the internet boom happened there was no choice except to scale horizontally to reach a global audience, but as this article points out that assumption might no longer hold true fo
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by Joeri 4y ago
You don’t even need to build, there’s plenty of cheap already built housing in places like detroit. Ask yourself: why do people prefer to live in san francisco so much more than detroit? It has nothing to do with the housing market. Solving
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No build frontend dev is a thing, although obscure. Preact has a no build path in their documentation: https://preactjs.com/guide/v10/getting-started/#no-build-too... And here’s my no build react setup: http
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For me the reason for the explosion in complexity in both frontend and backend comes down to package managers on all platforms getting way better with transitive dependencies and lowering the cost of adding those dependencies. Developers us
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This is an architecture I’ve noticed most (if not all?) large cross-platform mobile apps land on: a native core to quickly get the user to an interactive state and have smooth navigation, that then gives way to some kind of web technology f
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The feature with the worst UX is the one that’s missing. There’s a trade-off between perfecting features and adding more of them. Fully native app development plants the flag on the side favoring less features with a higher polish. That is
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Reminder: Amazon once secretly remotely wiped 1984 from people’s kindles. https://gizmodo.com/amazon-secretly-removes-1984-from-the-ki... You don’t actually buy digital books, you rent a restricted right to read for an unsp
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by Joeri 4y ago
For me I switched from a thinkpad running linux to an m1 macbook air for these reasons: - safari (for testing and debugging, not daily driving) - mobile app dev for iOS - nicer hardware experience than any linux laptop I know of (superior s
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If a default value is set you’re going to have the problem of people skipping the field and submitting the default value instead. What is needed is a way of influencing the picker’s default view into year view with a default year visible, b

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