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by _bxg1 7y ago
For gaming in particular, the GPU is almost always the bottleneck. It's much easier to throw in more polygons and texture pixels than it is to come up with bigger and more complex gameplay simulations. I'm still running a quad-cor
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by _bxg1 7y ago
I'm not saying I trust their exact numbers, I'm saying China is the only country right now with open Apple stores. No matter how much they fudged the numbers, China has undeniably stamped down the crisis and gotten much of their e
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by _bxg1 7y ago
For what it's worth I've never heard of a company or industry that actively avoids new grads. If anything, many companies seem to prefer new grads because they're cheap, don't have families taking up their time, and ca
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by _bxg1 7y ago
It's a nice idea, but I think the final statement is overly-optimistic. The U.S. has bungled its response to this (ongoing) crisis much harder than China did, and I think our economy is going to suffer more. For all the corruption, Chi
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by _bxg1 7y ago
I've wondered for some time now why most API endpoints even need to exist. The very concept of "glue code" seems to me like a code smell; if you aren't doing any interesting logic, why do you need an extra layer of code
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Profiting from the Folly of Others (dive into Facebook's Folly C++ library)(accu.org)
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by _bxg1 7y ago
It has an effect on other businesses but it'll be far from a "blood bath"
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by _bxg1 7y ago
Startups being the key word. There's much more to tech than startups, and the picture outside of them is significantly more mixed. Google has slowed, but Facebook has accelerated. Etc.
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by _bxg1 7y ago
Wonder how Blizzard feels about this after all the boot-licking they've been doing for the sake of the Chinese market.
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by _bxg1 7y ago
> Isaac Ben-Israel, who is not a medical expert, says analysis worldwide shows new cases peaking after about 40 days, slams economic closures; leading doctor dismisses his claims
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by _bxg1 7y ago
That's pretty funny, but I think it's also fake
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by _bxg1 7y ago
A couple years ago I nearly got the opportunity to teach at a Bootcamp (one of the non-scammy ones). I got turned down very late in the process mainly on lack of experience, but I really felt strongly that I would enjoy it, and be good at i
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by _bxg1 7y ago
> The tech industry nowadays is no longer about solving real-world problems and making the world a better place, instead it's all about screwing the end user in every single way possible I think you're overstating it. This is t
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by _bxg1 7y ago
Makes me think of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOtuX0jL85Y
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by _bxg1 7y ago
For the practical purposes of decision-making by regular people, the distinction probably doesn't matter and would be confusing
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by _bxg1 7y ago
And even then, they replace batteries now on the cheap ($50 I think). I would say the biggest limiting factor would be OS updates; they guarantee updates for 4 years, which is the longest in the industry, but may be shorter than the lifetim
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by _bxg1 7y ago
For the future, Apple has a short-term return policy (14 days I think) where they'll take a device back for any reason, no questions asked, full refund. So even if it's an intermittent problem that's hard to demonstrate, if y
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by _bxg1 7y ago
Yeah. I'm not saying there will never be a new feature that inspires me to upgrade early, but there isn't one on the horizon right now. The only things I can think of right now are a foldable version (maybe) or a significantly s
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by _bxg1 7y ago
That sounds like a defect that they might fix for you. I would've taken it in on day 1
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by _bxg1 7y ago
That's fair, though I'd think refurbished phones won't do quite as well, but who knows
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by _bxg1 7y ago
When was the last time you plugged your phone into anything except to charge? And when was the last time you needed to charge it and listen to music at the same time? All I'm saying is, lots of people who are going on and on about the
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by _bxg1 7y ago
When I got my XS ($1000) it was because I planned to keep it for a long time. It's been a year and a half and I have zero complaints of degradation in speed, battery life, etc. Still feels like new. I plan on keeping it for four years
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by _bxg1 7y ago
FWIW I've got some wired headphones I really love and I bought a dongle for them when I got my iPhone XS in 2018. I really don't notice it; it just feels like an extension of the cord.
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by _bxg1 7y ago
Yeah, its level of support for different languages definitely varies. For TypeScript it feels like a paid IDE. For Rust and Clojure it works quite admirably, since it's the most prominent free (graphical) option for each. For Python, i
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by _bxg1 7y ago
VSCode is truly a full-fledged IDE for TypeScript at least, and via plugins it can play the part for several other languages, including Rust. Mostly those depend on the quality of their Language Server implementations.
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by _bxg1 7y ago
Yes, it does.
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by _bxg1 7y ago
I haven't experienced this, but I mostly use it on a Mac. What OS are you on?
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by _bxg1 7y ago
Yep. If anything, "old-school" Visual Studio is the one that feels bloated by comparison, despite being a native app. Software quality cannot be reduced to the choice of language or framework.
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by _bxg1 7y ago
What Electron-related problems have you had with VSCode? I've been using it as my primary for a few years now and it's been nothing but stellar. And that integration sounds incredibly cool.
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by _bxg1 7y ago
It's so weird to me that software's complexity is such a force of nature. My instinct is that no implementation of a piece of software should ever need to be more complex than the idea of it is (fully and precisely articulated,

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