PunksATawnyFill

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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
Not always. After working for years at Apple I was told (in response to a bug report I filed about missing menu items) that Mac menus might totally change their contents if you PRESSED A MODIFIER KEY. WTF! So every Mac menu conceivably had
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
Autodesk loved to waste money acquiring products and companies and then letting them die.
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
They can also cause hearing loss. Which is pretty depressing.
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
Meanwhile, Mac users STILL don't get a real Delete key; they get a Backspace key mislabeled "delete."
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
How about fixing the problem where Apple doesn't restore the minimized app when you switch to it? Kind of defeats the purpose of tabbing through apps in the first place, when you leave it minimized in the dock after you switch to it. D
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
The difference is that Windows apps are far less likely to be a mess of floating windows than Mac apps are.
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
That's Apple for you. They should have abandoned the dumb one-menu-for-all-apps idea with the OS X transition, but nope. That would entail learning. Then again, they DID implement Command-Tab app switching from Windows... but managed t
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
Everyone continues to ignore a glaring problem in the USA: Your health insurance should have nothing to do with your job. When people carp about "benefits," that's really what they're talking about, isn't it? And it
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
No. Uber has presented work for which they will pay a particular rate. Individuals can accept that rate and submit themselves as candidates for the job, or do something else with their time. If someone posts a classified ad for a handyman t
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
"they'll now have to provide those employees with a bunch of benefits they currently do not provide and pay a number of taxes they currently do not pay." Thereby driving them out of business and eliminating this form of emplo
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
Apple has insulted users and embarrassed itself with this dogshit keyboard and the pathetic emoji bar... on a $4000 "pro" computer, no less. Then there's the glued-together chassis, the soldered-in RAM and drives... when thos
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
So what do they do? Revoke the app and developer account of that guy who wrote the free transit-mapping app for Montreal. Google: hypocrisy on a colossal scale.
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
Forbes is such a pathetic joke now. Lately they churn out another "Apple headed for disaster" article every day. Someone there is shorting AAPL and thinking no one will figure it out.
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
Very cool. Now if we can keep corrupt local politicians from destroying our airports and turning the land over to developers (this means you, SANTA MONICA)... transportation might continue to advance.
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
Would it not be more economically prudent to simply rent a small office? When I looked into these shared spaces, I found them to be a significant rip-off.
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
I liked the post except for its repeated use of the nonsense buzzphrase "virtue signaling." WTF is that supposed to mean? We have lots and lots of words; I don't believe this BS phrase fills an otherwise unfillable gap.
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
I think the point is not that they don't deliver a service; it's that the prospects for that service are far less rosy than they want you to believe, and the company is being gutted by disgraceful profiteering, nepotism, and what
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
For the near future, I'd speculate that human-scale multirotor copters are not going to hold enough energy to be practical. A design that lets you save energy after takeoff by using lift from wings and forward propulsion... maybe.
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
Why not Kotlin? Isn't it Google's anointed successor to Java?
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
I like it a lot. It's really too bad Android doesn't use it as a native language.
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
Funny, I too stopped using C++ around 2011. Recently I had to delve into Swift and learn it with great urgency... then my project changed direction toward C++ and Qt. I find the '14 and '17 additions vastly improve C++ and in fact
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
"but can repurpose our existing Kotlin code and share with iOS" How so?
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
OK, but they didn't attempt to use Qt. I'm currently working on a project where we have indeed decided we needed to go Swift/Kotlin native on each platform, but with the long-term goal of building a cross-platform app with Qt
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
There is no additional function afforded by making the laptop thinner through the implementation of a defective keyboard and reduced battery volume. Nice strawman, but portability has long since been achieved. You say you prioritize usabili
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
Yeah, another brilliant Apple "solution" to a problem that doesn't exist. WTF? They did the same thing to the Eject key: They put a hardware DELAY on it, so you couldn't remap it to be a real Delete key. How can Apple wo
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
A cover isn't going to fix the inherent shittiness of Apple's keyboard.
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
And no video of it. Brilliant.
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
I've added up all the shits that are given, and the stunning total is... zero.
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
Whoever wrote this doesn't know WTF a quorum is.
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
Interesting! I went to download Alda, but there's only a Windows executable and an Amiga file...

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