Slackwise

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by Slackwise 7y ago
Haven't used Xfce in a few years... is there finally a native Dock/SuperBar or a proper plugin that isn't some hack that nests alternative docks inside a panel?
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by Slackwise 7y ago
I actually like the domes as they are. What I want is, somehow, to increase the spring tension after the dome collapses, so that I don't slam into the baseplate.
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by Slackwise 7y ago
Actually, increasing resistance has reduced my strain from typing. After a few minutes of typing, I start to bottom out less and less, and instead I feel like I have little shock absorbers under each key, reducing the impact of every press.
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by Slackwise 7y ago
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Value-Values/ https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/ https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hi.
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by Slackwise 8y ago
So if I understand correctly, it's an anti-anti-adblocker...?
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by Slackwise 8y ago
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by Slackwise 8y ago
I'm a lefty and while I avoid writing, a fountain pen with fast drying ink and a BOLD tip is very lefty usable. The trick to lefty pens is to get BOLD tips! When you have a thin needle-like tip, as you know, you end up stabbing or scra
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by Slackwise 8y ago
> So I get the impression GnuPG is considered obsolete by the security community. This is news to me, but I'm not in "the Security Community". I can't find anything that corroborates this. Why do you say that?
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by Slackwise 8y ago
>> Where possible avoid simply using "id" as the primary identifier for the table. > I wonder what is the reasoning behind this? To escape the ambiguity during joins? Most justifications center around the "USING&quot
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by Slackwise 8y ago
If I'm going to "upgrade" from JavaScript, why would I specifically choose TypeScript? Yes, it gives some compile-time-only type safety in certain places, but it doesn't provide state safety like ClojureScript. I'
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by Slackwise 8y ago
Not the parent commenter, but... - Add a time to reminders, as they're currently only due date reminders. (Nearly useless, really, other than appearing on your calendar.) - Merge Tasks remidners with the Google Assistant reminders, and
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by Slackwise 8y ago
I don't see any actual¹ JavaScript on the page, so how would this have been accomplished? Some fancy but broken scrolling manipulation CSS...? 1: The only JS on the page is an IE conditional comment adding an HTML5 shim script, and the
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by Slackwise 8y ago
Or for those who come from Unixland and see way too much typing, PowerShell has aliases that make this much shorter: cd HKCU: ls -r -i *HeidiSQL* Or if you really want to use the match operator, regex, or other expression, you
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by Slackwise 8y ago
This is also a comically bad time to release yet another social network, as you've pointed out with the current atmosphere surrounding Facebook.
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by Slackwise 8y ago
Really? Because I'm required to use an Oracle IDE that only does MDI, and it's a pain to use across multiple monitors.
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by Slackwise 9y ago
Just heard of "The Great Vowel Shift" on the "Lexicon Valley"[1] linguistics podcast, which covered the idiosyncrasies of English spelling, and how the vowel shift was a large factor in how pronunciations diverged from t
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by Slackwise 9y ago
> unlike Intellij, which sells its IDE The fancy version costs money, yes, but the community edition is free and Apache licensed. Here's the source code: https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community > is
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by Slackwise 9y ago
> Why does Google always think they know what is best for me? This is the entire ethos of the "AI Revolution" in tech. The algorithm "knows what is best for you". This will only get worse with more "AI" bein
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by Slackwise 9y ago
> When did smartphones start regressing? When they got rid of keyboards. Then your other mentioned features, the SD cards and batteries left quickly after, but the keyboard was the first to go. Now I struggle with typing in frustration,
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by Slackwise 9y ago
Oh yeah, we need a purely unfiltered web to prevent echo chambers forming! Let's see what that turns out like—oh that's right, 4chan. (Do we really need more 4chans?) It looks like even with an unfiltered world, echo chambers stil
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by Slackwise 9y ago
Oh, also, Russ Olsen does a wonderful talk about the moon landing and the engineering involved: https://youtu.be/4Sso4HtvJsw
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by Slackwise 9y ago
The customer isn't always right, but, the customer also didn't ask for glued-in smartphone batteries, removing the MicroSD slot, or removing the headphone jack.
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by Slackwise 9y ago
Whenever I want someone to understand Lisp being a homoiconic metaprogramming language, I link them this: http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html
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by Slackwise 9y ago
Adoption. Users want convenience. They want to click a thing and go, not install a desktop app, configure it, learn about the networking model, etc. Then when we've all sunk into all these convenient cloud services and "easy to us
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by Slackwise 9y ago
Very frequently, my train is up to 4 minutes early, and the doors open on the other side of the track, opposite the parking lot, so sometimes I'm totally on time, walking towards it after parking, but it's swooshing in, and I get
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by Slackwise 9y ago
It's supposed to make you understand the language, how it works, and why it works the way it does, not how to write it professionally. It exposes you to patterns you'll run into.
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by Slackwise 9y ago
You'd think by now they'd add a "details" or body section to tweets, so 140 chars is used for a title or summary, and then you could have a standard blog post attached to them. That way people using SMS can still use the
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by Slackwise 9y ago
Still waiting on TCO.
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by Slackwise 9y ago
More like a sigh of relief.
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by Slackwise 9y ago
CCleaner is also essential for cleaning up poorly uninstalled apps leaving registry keys lingering around. It's also great for when you need to fully reset and reinstall a misbehaving app, such as Symantec Endpoint Protection, which fa

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