ToddWBurgess

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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
No offence taken. We do have a fairly regular group of core users that are usually there. Of course this core group will change with time given life commitments and other things that come up. Not uncommon for regulars to disappear for a whi
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
I one of the organizers of a meetup called Coffee and Code in Toronto, Canada. We used to be a bi-weekly meetup in cafes pre-pandemic. After the pandemic started we moved online to a weekly Discord. We still posted the meetups on Meetup and
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
Flutter release code compiles to AOT code which speeds up execution. React Native has the Javascript engine which can slow things down. For most of us here on HN, who are using flagship phones none of this really matters, however for other
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
My first Linux install was in 1994, on a 486DX/2-66 with 8MB of RAM. At the time it was considered standard hardware and Linux ran really well on it.
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You will end up writing less code. You won't have to tackle advanced subjects like managing app state in Android and iOS. You can use a Flutter state management solution that works on both platforms. You won't have to feature matc
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
My theory on why Flutter is popular in developing countries is a Flutter app compiled in release mode is turned into AOT code. This gives it a performance boost on apps that are constrained by low CPU and memory resources. I expect that tha
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
I work on a Flutter app with a small team that does both iOS and Android from the same code base. It works really well for our use case given the size of our team. I also have experience with both native Android and iOS. The way Android and
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
Flutter dev here. The Flutter webview is basically a wrapper for the native iOS and Android implementations. A native Android app using a webview and a Flutter app running on Android using a webview is using the same native webview. It is l
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
I think you misunderstood. If you fire up a mail server on your Linux box today and try using it for mail the big mail servers are sending your mail to spam due to a bunch of spam rules. These days, you need an organization with a known rep
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
I have a lot of fond memories of working with LaTeX in the 90s in my undergrad. These days I wouldn't use LaTeX because I want something quick and dirty.I am not investing a lot of time in writing documents that people are not going to
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
It it my understanding from talking to the same neurologist that ALS is a diagnosis of exclusion. When everything is ruled out the last diagnosis is ALS.
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
I think I am showing my age when I say, I remember when Linux by default came with sendmail enabled by default. You could use your Linux box to send e-mail anywhere without it getting caught up in spam filters. Fun times.
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
I asked a neurologist I know about ALS drugs and he doesn't have a lot of faith in any of them. On a personal note, my mother had ALS. I can tell you it is a terrible disease and a terrible way to go. I really do hope they find somethi
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
Lived off the Canadian version of MREs for 2 weeks when I was in Haiti after the earthquake. Definitely not a fan. One of the things that always impressed me about the Canadian lunch ones is they had a chocolate bar (candy bar for the Ameri
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
I know from talking to an IP lawyer, IP law has less to do with who is right and more about who has the deep pockets to afford an IP dispute.
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
I was on call for 5 years at an old job (non IT). Getting paged and yanked out of bed at all hours messes with you in so many ways. Being sleep deprived you turn to high sugar drinks and foods to keep you awake. The sleep deprivation and ba
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
See the Intel math coprocessor was a blast from the past. I sold a few of them and installed a few of them when I used to work in computer stores.
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
I am an extrovert which usually makes me stand out in a group of developers. I find being tuned into the needs of how introverts function has helped get along better with my peers.
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
sysop breaking in for chat:
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
As a mobile dev (and former Second Life player), I am skeptical about the metaverse due to limitations of current mobile hardware. Using the metaverse is going to require the screen to always be on and will consume the CPU which leads to a
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
Depends where you live. In Canada and a lot of other parts of the world intellectual property also has something called moral rights. What is being done here is well within the copyright holder's moral rights in many parts of the world
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The Canadian province Ontario proposes right to disconnect law for employees(thestar.com)
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
And this is why you need ad blockers and privacy protection plugins for your web browser. If you can't stop Facebook snooping on you at least make it hard for them. As my grandfather taught me, "if you can't win then make it
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
I own a fully functional NeXT Cube. They were always a joy to use
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
I did try NetBSD first on the Pi but the install wasn't working for me. Getting FreeBSD up and running on the Raspberry Pi was a lot less painful. If I really want to kick around NetBSD I can run an instance of it in GNU Boxes on one o
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
This. I know an intellectual property lawyer and was told without a legal contract in place there is no way to assert your property rights in a court of law. Legally speaking, you own nothing.
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
Theo de Raadt wanted to make security the number one priority and the NetBSD team did not. So Theo de Raadt forked NetBSD in order to create OpenBSD which would become security first. It was a political decision. My source on that is a NetB
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
I got FreeBSD running on a Raspberry PI. It isn't too hard to install and get up and running. I primarily use FreeBSD on the Pi for ARM assembly programming. All BSDs are great for devs.
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by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
In the end COUNTRY1 was the United States government. They were selling secrets to the FBI and it went about as well as could be expected.
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Back in the day, Usenet servers were very difficult to setup. They came with a lot of demands and a lot of machines fell over under the load. Usenet servers also consumed a lot of bandwidth to stay synced. Another problem that crept up is a

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