_pmf_

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   by _pmf_ 8y ago

   I'm using Sylpheed, the same e-mail program I used 16 years ago. I highly recommend it.
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   by _pmf_ 8y ago

   > I have a "Left" and "Right" list and use Twidere (on mobile) and Tweetdeck (on the laptop) to keep track of current political banter using the two lists. If only this would work for outbound stuff (likes/retwe
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   by _pmf_ 8y ago

   My favorite feature is the "step-wise reveal" mechanic.
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   by _pmf_ 8y ago

   > And then some pinhead starts cheerleading 100% code coverage. I've seem IBM consultants increasing test coverage from 40% to 90% without creating any new test assertions (in fact deleting existing test assertions) because the cont
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   by _pmf_ 8y ago

   > I don’t buy the excuse of, “they started it.” Spot on. Once you start excusing things with "they started it", you're no longer on a slippery slope, you're in free fall (and her tweets make is seem like she's en
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   by _pmf_ 8y ago

   > Fwiw, the SR-71 was not engineering excellence. It was slapped together to do what needed to be done. For whole industries, this is the definition of engineering. Anything that is done but is not needed is frivolous extravaganza.
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   by _pmf_ 8y ago

   I wouldn't want to have that level of public affiliation with my employer (no matter who that employer might be).
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   by _pmf_ 8y ago

   GitLab's usage of team members in marketing material is creeping me out (as does the whole team page[0]). [0] https://about.gitlab.com/team/
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   by _pmf_ 8y ago

   > The "future CEO of GitHub" said they will continue to develop and support both VSCode and Atom They will "support" both by supporting VSCode and declaring Atom to be a subset of VSCode. I give it 8 months, tops.
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    by _pmf_ 8y ago

    What I don't understand is the discrepancy between the size of their engineering workforce and the lousy quality of their web client on mobile.
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    by _pmf_ 8y ago

    What's the motivation behind this?
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    by _pmf_ 8y ago

    > There is no sane way for an operating system to switch out program heap pages after they have been mapped. They'll even move the page to the harddisk if necessary. Or am I misunderstanding what you're asking?
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    by _pmf_ 8y ago

    > All his other stunts, from the boring company to Thai submarines need to take a hiatus until he gets Tesla out of this trouble That's making the assumption that Musk's direct involvement in operational affair is a positive co
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    by _pmf_ 8y ago

    > I've found useful for myself is that REST is about operating on the HTTP layer instead of building your own layers on top of it That's just using HTTP.
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    by _pmf_ 8y ago

    In Germany, they could have sustained a team of 100 developers for 100 years (at 50000 EUR salary).
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    by _pmf_ 8y ago

    So unlike the clean and rational business decision making process in the gloriously enlightened West.
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    by _pmf_ 8y ago

    TI Pico DLP[0] is a nice platform for projectors at small scale. [0] http://www.ti.com/dlp-chip/display-and-projection/pico-chips...
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    by _pmf_ 8y ago

    "Work with us if you want to change the world to be a better place, 345 packages of cheap knockoffs a day."
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    by _pmf_ 8y ago

    What could possible go wrong?
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    by _pmf_ 8y ago

    Well, someone has do do the hard work.
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    by _pmf_ 8y ago

    > It removes a lot of the baroque from mobile development (no need for the whole RecyclerViewer construction for every list! No Fragments! The Android API sets the bar really, really low for improvements.
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    by _pmf_ 8y ago

    You're right. I assumed the new look was a Gtk 2 to 3 switch, but it's been Gtk to Qt.
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    by _pmf_ 8y ago

    Thanks; will try.
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    by _pmf_ 8y ago

    I think they just use the default GTK theme.
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    by _pmf_ 8y ago

    Also: USB with USBPCap. My personal pain point is lack of localhost tracing under Windows.
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    by _pmf_ 8y ago

    I refuse to see where the difference to exception handling is. My exceptions bubble up to my "sad path" handler.
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    by _pmf_ 8y ago

    > You could walk into a market and go home with slaves, totally yours, to do whatever you pleased with your property. then: people as property now: people as a service
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    by _pmf_ 8y ago

    > This sounds totally backwards. It is. It's the result of low level managers using issue counts as KPI: now it's a metric that must be gamed.
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    by _pmf_ 8y ago

    Nature documentaries are laboriously produced works of fiction.
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    by _pmf_ 8y ago

    > Boring speed is not the main limiting factor for those projects. It's equivalent to measuring software developer productivity in lines of code.