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by SiVal 9y ago
I think there's a bit of a problem with the architecture metaphor in general. It implies a limited range of things planned and built. As software eats the world and does more and more things, a metaphor that more closely reflects the v
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iOS 11 battery problems(forbes.com)
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Whether or not Apple does this, others will. The web platform needs a well-considered generic approach to non-rectangular displays to support a widening array of devices: watches, medical devices, decorative displays, industrial controls, e
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by SiVal 9y ago
The Web has more reach than any publishing medium in human history (number and variety of consumers, producers, devices, industries, languages, etc.) Many features combine to make it so, and "view source" is one of them.
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by SiVal 9y ago
Does anyone know how "Release Notes" are implemented in VS Code? I'd like to be able to author my own notes with all the display and interactive features used by each release note document. Likewise the features of the "
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by SiVal 9y ago
Hopefully, it's now time to "make panel position configurable" ( https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/2806 ), by far the #1 request of the "On Deck" features ( https://g
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by SiVal 9y ago
The actual nature of the product itself is what ultimately matters, of course, and I hear your's is outstanding, so good work. It's a less-important issue and just a convention, not a law, but normally v1.36.12 tells me "focu
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by SiVal 9y ago
I just read a report in Guild Navigator News that found nutrient gel to be carcinogenic.
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by SiVal 9y ago
That's always a good suggestion and provides existence proofs, but you have to remind yourself that apps can take years to become favorites, so favorite apps tend to favor older technologies even when the older technologies might not b
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by SiVal 9y ago
I wish I had a better sense of where cross-platform desktop app platforms stood these days: Electron, Java, .NET, QT. All I hear are "Eww, Electron is ridiculous, slow, heavy Web junk for desktop", "Eww Java is blub, insecure
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by SiVal 9y ago
You mistakenly assume that all Vietnamese were on the same side in the war. Millions of Vietnamese lost that war to domestic forces who would never allow free speech, free elections, etc., armed by foreigners (Soviets) who never allowed fre
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by SiVal 9y ago
Understanding something is having a good working model stored the way brains store models, which is quite a complex network. Explaining it requires finding a way to serialize it that makes it as easy as possible for a listener to reconstruc
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by SiVal 9y ago
But your complaint is still valid in the larger sense that you don't want to allow Google to have any say in the matter. What we need is for Google's school/office apps and their storage to become open-source commodities that
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by SiVal 10y ago
I'm not a Rust user (yet), but I'm a little surprised that with its emphasis on safety Rust doesn't maintain all debug safety checks in production by default. You could then do some profiling and turn off only those few (or o
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by SiVal 10y ago
I'm surprised to see "platforms" as Win: 41%, Desktop Linux: 33%, Mac: 18.4%. Presumably this question was about the machine you use to develop software on. The reason I'm surprised has nothing to do with any advocacy. I
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by SiVal 10y ago
The only reasoning is due to past life habits and inclination. I suspect there may be other explanations at least as plausible.
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by SiVal 10y ago
Maybe phones should all have an emergency distress mode--a separate mode like airplane mode that conserves power and sends out an intelligently designed sequence of pings using a standard protocol, some of which encode GPS data, some try to
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by SiVal 10y ago
Yeah, really. This is a shallow guy with a philosophy that amounts to a shrug and a "whatever" who would have starved if not for people with philosophies that actually produce useful results, from whom he simply stole. There are c
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by SiVal 10y ago
A few years back I saw a study that reported that cold viruses survived longer outside the human body in cool temperatures than in warm (not below freezing, but the equivalent of refrigerating them.) That makes sense, and since you won&#x27
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by SiVal 10y ago
Of course, all dev gets more painful with more devs and larger code, so I assume you're saying that it increases more steeply with Swift than with...what? Java maybe? Or something else that the presentations you mention were comparing
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by SiVal 10y ago
My own experience is that I can get the same satiety for the same duration with somewhat less food by taking smaller bites and spending more time chewing. This takes longer, of course, so my assumption was that the mechanism was simply that
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by SiVal 10y ago
What is the long term value to Microsoft for VS Code? A strategic tool for a strategic group (to MS's future): developers. It's not a very big team, so even a total failure would be capped at a fairly small downside, but the ups
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by SiVal 10y ago
Kinda surprised that every version bump gets a lot of love on HN I'm glad it does. Each version bump, I come over the HN to check out what people have to say. It's an extremely useful tool to me and is developing rapidly. I&#x27
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by SiVal 10y ago
Tyriar, thanks SO much for minimap! I use multiple editors. I mark up some of my files with designs that can be seen from a "high altitude" minimap view, and I've had to use a different editor for those files until now. With
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by SiVal 10y ago
I hope they'll carefully architect it (both base product and extension system) so that heavy features can be turned off, either dynamically (when not needed), statically (in preferences), or both. If they do so, I'd be happy to ha
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by SiVal 10y ago
Back in the '80s, when Korea was still a military dictatorship and Samsung was still run by its original founder, one of the founder's sons was recruiting me for some unusual (non-criminal) skills I had. He made it clear to his st
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by SiVal 10y ago
But you may be the leading edge of what could easily become a "key demographic": people who don't upgrade for many years. It's possible that "things I could do with a new phone that I can't with my existing pho
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by SiVal 10y ago
Slavery was already occurring, so NOT splitting from Britain was ALSO a decision to allow it to occur. Many wanted the split from Britain to cause slavery to end. Nobody was proposing that it begin . Southern colonies insisted that they we
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by SiVal 10y ago
The German got the dog to do tricks by rewarding it; the Russian got it to do a much harder trick (talking) by cruel punishment (starvation)
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by SiVal 10y ago
I've switched OSes many times over the decades. If you've never seriously used another OS, you might not see them, but there are a LOT of little nuisances in MacOS that you either can't do anything about or would require buyi

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