StevePerkins

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by StevePerkins 3y ago
The Mother of All Demos was given in 1968, and still warrants its moniker today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
If it is, then it's certainly not very good at it. Scrolling back the past 6 months, I see only tweets about U.S. and European architecture and urban planning. There are indications that the account owner is religious, and grumbles a
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
If you were "deciding which application server to use", then that WAS "years ago" indeed! The paradigm shifted, from applications being deployed to a server such as Weblogic or Websphere, to applications bundling their
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
It's a philosophical thing. The advantages of microframeworks (e.g. Sinatra, Flask, Javelin, etc) are that as your needs expand, you can bolt-on the additional functionality as you see fit, from a "best of breed" selection of
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
> Can you imagine Apple causing confusion like this? After 14 years of using Siri, I can't imagine Apple developing any competent AI tools in the first place.
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
You have to mention "e-waste" in order to establish that you are virtuous, not just a killjoy. Note, however, that this does not work in threads about the Vision Pro goggles that people will chuck in the bottom of their closets (n
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
Indeed. We can't even agree on whether or not there's an extra Neptune-sized gas giant out beyond the orbit of Pluto, and that's right here in our OWN solar system!
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
Amazfit Bip 3. Fifty bucks when I bought it, I see on Amazon that it's creeping up toward $60 now. Honestly, my favorite watch over the past 5-10 years has been a no-name that shows up on Amazon with a search for "EURANS Smart Wa
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
Every brand I mentioned above has battery life of at least a week. My current watch is between 10 and 14 days. Do remember that I'm replying to a parent comment looking for "a simple watch with simple features". The watches
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
Counterpoint: (1) I see a myriad of products on Amazon fitting the description that parent comment was talking about, the average retail prices being sub-$50. (2) We are literally conversing in the comments of a post about name brands withd
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
There's still Garmin... but honestly, I don't understand why people insist on paying hundreds of dollars for a "name", when the watch you are describing is only worth $50, give or take. Amazfit, Xiamoni, Pautios, etc. T
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
The hatch makes total sense pre-takeoff and post-landing, but makes zero sense during flight. So having it, with a protocol of locking it down during flight, seems optimal.
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
Time is a flat circle.
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
> I work on spaceflight mission planning software... Yeahhhhhh. The thing is, though, I see two classes of desktop GUI applications: 1. The kind that are simple and casual enough to build around a web-based framework. In which case,
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
If people don't already know what you're doing at a startup, then you have REALLY chosen the wrong startup! I have no doubt that the LinkedIn addicts and self-help book cultists will swoop down to insist that this advice applies t
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
I don't disagree, but my anecdotal experience from working with peers is that the overwhelming majority of IntelliJ users never learn a small fraction of the keyboard shortcuts and advanced tooling. I really do believe that for most
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
Honestly, I feel like the primary reason why IntelliJ "won" over Eclipse and Netbeans was that it was first to market with a decent-looking dark mode. Back when Eclipse and Netbeans were as stark white as Windows Notepad... and c
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
Project Normandy is another fun read. They tried to basically seize control of the town of Clearwater, Florida. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Normandy I know that Scientology has historically had a lot of infl
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
I'm not sure about this symbol. It can't be found at all on Schwab or Fidelity's websites, and Yahoo Finance only has "VMEX19.MX" with no historical information. The only mainstream ETF that I'm aware of for M
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
What ARE sales of digital magazines like these days? On the rare occasions that I've had a passing thought to subscribe to one, I found that it's easy to subscribe but hard to unsubscribe, and so I never pulled the trigger. Then
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
If it's a junior developer, then they really shouldn't have too much responsibility without heavy supervision anyway. If it's a senior developer, then they should feel comfortable speaking up when there's a disconnect or
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
Because the savings would be less than peanuts in the grand scheme of things that the government spends money on. Because the Left would be galvanized by a million blog posts and academic papers (basically the same thing these days), arguin
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
> To Do requires a 365 subscription It does not. I was briefly using MS To Do as a desktop interface for my Alexa todo and shopping lists, before I decided that I prefer Todoist instead. But To Do and OneNote are free-as-in-beer for
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
VB6's strength was that Windows was a virtual monopoly at the time. Today you have more fragmentation, where the user masses are still mostly on Windows but the developers are mostly on Macs or Linux. Developing a desktop GUI framewor
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
I don't think the question is whether Spotify should or shouldn't persue podcasts and audiobooks in addition to music streaming. The question is whether any organization really needs 5-20k tech workers for an audio app. Even one
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
What an interesting thread to read. "Typography aficionados" are one of the most ardent and vocal subcultures within the Hacker News community. Any given post may be hijacked at any time, for a meta-discussion about the font cho
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
$75 license. I assume they want people to be wow'ed by the unrealistic zoom shots, and pay money before realizing that it's little different from JetBrains Mono or Roboto Mono in a real-world editor or terminal.
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
It blows my mind that not only are Apple, Nvidia, and all other enormous "chip makers" fabless... but there's ONE single company actually making the majority of all their chips. Why aren't any other companies entering th
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
Not to be a wet blanket, but I'm really surprised to see posts about this all over social media today. This isn't even a nice round number, and we hit a new decimal value every 5 years or so.
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by StevePerkins 3y ago
I haven't plugged a pair of wired headphones OR a charging cable into my phone in 3 to 5 years now. Wireless charging has been a thing for ages, and is standard on any non-budget phone. I understand that some people are still upset ab

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