MisterKent

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by MisterKent 6y ago
>model prevents any attacker who gains access to one of our servers from... If an attacker gains access to your server, they can just inject javascript to gain access to whatever they want on the client's browser. I'm a big fan
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by MisterKent 8y ago
The old UI was better, and forcing people to this weird pretty UI doesn't make sense. Several products aimed at tech people seem to make this mistake. We are power users, we don't want stuff hidden away. Stop having UX that's
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by MisterKent 9y ago
Crap cars are a poor tax. They can't afford the lump sum payment for a nice car, so they basically pay the same amount or more but spread out over the life of their crap car. It's not that they don't know it's a terrible
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by MisterKent 9y ago
I go into work every day. I wish I could work remotely. But I don't, because I find I hate every time I'm forced to interact with the people who do. Working remotely makes you a pain in the ass to interact with.
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by MisterKent 9y ago
I get constant metal versions of pop songs. Winterplay's Billie Jean was recommended to me for weeks on end. This week I have Turn down for what meets metal. Seems like a small tweak to let us tell them we dislike this style of music.
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by MisterKent 9y ago
The ones that are usable and broken are good, like the elongated teapot. The things that no human would possibly design are just silly. Would love it if they had a site with just the purposefully poorly designed, but still workable objects.
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by MisterKent 9y ago
Sorry, I don't know why. Care to explain?
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by MisterKent 9y ago
VSCode is also built with electron[1], so that doesn't excuse it. Atom's defenders always bring up that it was made with electron as the reason for it's slowness. Then, VSCode came along and invalidated that. Now, that leaves
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by MisterKent 9y ago
Most of the comments addressed the issues with the article. It mostly boils down to, Microsoft will support legacy for as long as possible (such as 16 bit apps), some performance advantages of 32 bit OSes. And that one reader who correctly
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by MisterKent 10y ago
This is getting closer to my dream setup of being able to open files in my formatting, and saving them in the team's formatting. Formatting source code feels like a complete waste of developer time and energy, especially when they don&
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by MisterKent 10y ago
So... Why? The article didn't even answer their own question. Unless the answer is truly just "because he enjoys it". Which doesn't make this very interesting. He didn't even really get into what goes into writing a
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by MisterKent 10y ago
A slightly related note is that UI's are trending "dumber". More and more apps and websites I see are adding all this padding around things creating wasted space. Once upon a time, someone figured out cramping everything toge
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by MisterKent 10y ago
This is a terrible article which doesn't even meet the requirements for posting to hackernews.
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by MisterKent 10y ago
I recently purchased one after a few months of research. I was also impressed at the amount of engineering that went into this bag. Recently, I had someone notice just how well the bag hides how much stuff it is holding without looking bulk
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by MisterKent 10y ago
Except it should probably be web workers that are unthrottled. However, in the current implementation Web workers do get throttled. Service workers are supposed to be for networking and offline applications, not doing cpu related things. As
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by MisterKent 10y ago
It's not slavery if you'd do it for free.