alxlaz

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by alxlaz 8y ago
I have to say, I am particularly fond of the first example on this page: https://exclusive-design.vasilis.nl/the-defaults-suck/ . "As you may see, when they reach the bottom of the screen the text of the link disa
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> 2. type (typically) three letters of the program you want to run Unless what you want to run is, for example, "Internet Explorer": "Inte" will auto-complete to nothing useful if you have a bunch of apps, "Inter
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by alxlaz 8y ago
Not just the icons, the entire user interface was excellent. You had: - Clear indication of whether something was clickable or not, vs. everything flat and featureless - Good contrast - Normal-sized widgets which left enough room for conten
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by alxlaz 8y ago
What's more, most smart devices will not last until 2038. Planned obsolescence is a standard feature of smart devices product development plans today, especially since fewer and fewer of them are doing anything without cloud integrat
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by alxlaz 8y ago
But it's not the mere existence of software bugs that is at issue here. Everyone's first attempt at solving a problem in software is going to have bugs. Everyone's last attempt at solving a problem in software is likely t
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by alxlaz 8y ago
I guess it's better, but I'm with AnIdiotOnTheNet on this one :-). Packaging is definitely something important, and definitely not something that we ought to be looking down upon. Why avoid calling it by its name?
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by alxlaz 8y ago
Well, it's not like you're showing anyone how to create a Linux GUI, either (unless, you know, you count the copy-paste part :-) ). If SEO is the goal, perhaps it's worth looking into keywords along some other directions? A
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by alxlaz 8y ago
I think I'm missing something here. What is the operation that this tool is meant to simplify? This takes five minutes because you're copy-pasting a 250-line file. Which otherwise builds the layout manually. Doing that from scra
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by alxlaz 8y ago
There is no such thing as "native Ubuntu" :-). The default widget style of a modern Ubuntu installation is just a GTK theme (which, I think, supports both GTK 3 and GTK 2 -- the two are incompatible, so themes need to implement su
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by alxlaz 8y ago
The hardware support isn't all that bad, but FreeBSD is indeed pickier than Linux or Windows :-). Reasons why I like it include excellent documentation (light years ahead of anything in Linux land), ports & friends (things like Pou
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by alxlaz 8y ago
This isn't a niche thing at all! Assuming you can get xdg-desktop-portal-kde working independently (and I expect it's possible), it's useful everywhere, not just on Plasma. The default "Open File" dialog in GTK 3 is
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> how many people were actually active netizens at this point in history, able to find the ISO? One active netizen with a CD writer was enough for an entire school :-). I don't know what impact this had over sales. Back then (~2001,
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by alxlaz 8y ago
As shady as LinkedIn is (and it's damn shady!), its use in mass manipulation and disinformation is far less important. It played a minor role in elections (everywhere, not just in the US), wasn't use as a means of public promotion
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by alxlaz 8y ago
I'm here to second LTK :-). It's a while since I last used it (2012, 2013, I think?) but it was, and I'm sure it still is, a very good library. It's easy to get started with, easy to work with, easy to debug.
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by alxlaz 8y ago
I'm not defending what they did, but it's worth pointing out that electives aren't exactly universal. During my university I was allowed to choose exactly 4 classes out of 6, in my last semester. Every single other course was
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by alxlaz 8y ago
Have you ever worked with this sort of platforms? Because this is pretty much all in a day's work there. Things have slowly degraded from back in the days of the first freelancing platforms (e.g. Rent-A-Coder) to a state where it'
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by alxlaz 8y ago
Upwork, Freelancer.com & friends are equally well-known to do this.
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> This may not be a matter of Upwork wanting to upsell the client > Thus: the ultimate villains here are the tax/employment-regulation authorities. Why be so quick to think that this may not have been Upwork's fault, but t
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by alxlaz 8y ago
I've made a point for myself to never ask questions like "what are your dreams" or "where do you see yourself in 10 years" in an interview, ever. For a long time, I've used these as a filter, too. Getting this
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by alxlaz 8y ago
I used to work on stuff that doctors use (and I miss it a great deal), so I've seen a lot of this first-hand. In my experience, a lot of the problems that medical software and devices have stem from a lack of understanding on the &quot
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by alxlaz 8y ago
Indeed -- perhaps it's best saved for when we have a pint nearby.
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by alxlaz 8y ago
It wasn't an ad hominem attack -- I didn't mean you specifically :-). I'm sorry if that wasn't more obvious in the post. It's the same as "You generally want to double-check before you run rm -rf" -- I mea
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> If someone has no options left but to abuse their fellow man in order to survive - that doesn't make it respectable. Respectable as an activity, no, but understandable -- yes. From the comfort of your own home after a light lunch,
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by alxlaz 8y ago
It varies from one company to another. Responsible managers (and, by extension, companies) don't encourage this kind of behaviour, precisely because when it goes south, it tends to blow up in your face, badly, especially in heavily-reg
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by alxlaz 8y ago
This can be said of anyone who is taking part in an abusive activity, and it's equally untrue every time it is said. Advertisement is a very high-end job in the grand scheme of things. People who work in advertising have many career ch
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by alxlaz 8y ago
I don't work for Google, so I don't know how much this applies to you folks. In my experience, while what you are describing is ideally correct, it's often just that -- an ideal. For example, you'll have people insisti
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> Many of the things that differentiates DE's could probably be offered as configuration within one DE If you want to get flamed to death, mention the word "configuration" on a Gnome mailing list. There are people who thin
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> 1. GTK+ is completely (GNOME) community owned (QT is a company owned, which companies like to avoid) If avoiding commercial vendors is what you want, do not look at the emails in the GTK commit messages :-). Qt is covered by an agree
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by alxlaz 8y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by that. With its default settings, KDE is as "tablet-oriented" as it gets -- the UI of the shell and application are pretty similar to Windows 10's. Also, the whole thing is very scriptable
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by alxlaz 8y ago
Most crystals have better sealing :-). SiTime explicitly(-ish) acknowledges that their older-generation packaging was less efficient on their website: "How effective is the hermetic seal of MEMS oscillators?? One of the key elements

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