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by ashark 9y ago
> Wow, only 30 days? That's very very low. REI and other stores here in the US offer up to a year no questions asked return policy. 30 minimum required by law . Not maximum.
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by ashark 9y ago
iOS: docs are so good you'll find yourself reading way past what you actually need, just for fun. They're great. APIs generally well thought out. Examples current. Xcode's sometimes frustrating, but not that bad. Worst part
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by ashark 9y ago
Going back and forth between Android's SDK and docs and Apple's for iOS is like alternating between navigating a labyrinth with a floor of hot coals and, somewhere, the howls of wolves, and relaxing in a nice warm bath with a glas
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by ashark 9y ago
My experience has been that it almost always has that meaning, unless the context is 1) a sports coach talking to players, or 2) HN and related startup culture. I'm not sure why startup people latched so strongly onto a word that'
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by ashark 9y ago
So did I, but outside the context of sports it still mostly means scamming people and/or generally earning money illegally to me. Or maybe a dance. I don't think I ever saw/heard it used in its startup culture sense until I w
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by ashark 9y ago
Ads. Mostly for Microsoft stuff that I don't and will never want. That alone is fairly bad. Even after spending a bunch of time fixing the OS there were still a few. Privacy concerns (ditto). The updates are a real problem, just all ar
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by ashark 9y ago
I would, but I just don't use my home desktop enough to get used to anything too esoteric. I'd never remember the keyboard shortcuts and such. I just need to run some GUI utility programs, manage files, launch some (Steam, GoG) ga
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by ashark 9y ago
> QA is so much better. I had so many production breaking bugs with Ubuntu, especially on bare-metal. Is it (Fedora) much better on the desktop? I dumped Win10 a couple months ago to go back to Ubuntu for the first time since PulseAudio
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by ashark 9y ago
You can't. About a year ago I went looking for a big collection of at least the most popular ones, if not all of them, ready to drop $20 or so and fully expecting it to be available. They're not, so now I just have flying toasters
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by ashark 9y ago
Sure can. It's on both my work and home macbooks. Works fine with multi-screen setups.
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by ashark 9y ago
Well, the way to stop it would be to outlaw it. More difficult and niche/low-visibility issues have been fought and won, over time. Not impossible, though not easy, and you'd be up against a maybe-unprecedented number of lobbying
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by ashark 9y ago
Any data hoarding and/or selling of this kind by anyone—credit card companies, loyalty cards, ISPs, Google, Amazon, creepy phone-wifi location spying in stores, anyone and anything like this—is de facto spying for the government. A
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by ashark 9y ago
> The memory expert interviewed in the article explains that this problem happens when the "low level" basal ganglia has the brain on autopilot, compensating for higher-level functionality that's compromised by stress, emo
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by ashark 9y ago
Aside from one localish case that was maybe-murder (and that also dropped off the news way before it got as far as a court case, so I don't know how that actually turned out) the news is usually of the occurrence, not the charges—the p
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by ashark 9y ago
Wikipedia puts him at 40 novels, enough short stories for maybe 40 short to mid-sized collections (382 stories), 280 non-fic books, and 146 as editor or annotator, which surely don't count. 504 books included edited/annotated. I
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by ashark 9y ago
It's easy to address that in a readme. "This is a showcase of my craft, for which reason I avoid using frameworks or anything else that would obscure my work with boilerplate or autogenerated code, or anything that's not real
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by ashark 9y ago
It's a hell of a lot better than telling me to install and configure any service dependencies you have (databases, say) outside a container. 'Cuz I'm definitely not going to crap up my system doing that. I'm also not lik
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by ashark 9y ago
I'm a little like that with programming. I used to have a similar, but more pronounced, problem with my native language (English). I could read and write way above my grade level, pretty much from as soon as I could read and write. I&#
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by ashark 9y ago
I'd guess you also got a good smirk out of this part of TFA: > GitHub has a rich ecosystem of free tools for building, packaging, testing and much more. All these tools are mandatory for professional software development.
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by ashark 9y ago
If you expect the people reviewing it to be developers: 1) Tell me how to run it locally (docker is a good idea, if relevant) and where the code's entry point is. 2) Don't use a framework. I don't want to spend time figuring
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by ashark 9y ago
In an ideal world I think browsers would have removed most non-click-related JS events (including timers) and AJAX calls, but provided way better native form elements. Also kept improving frames rather than letting them stagnate and die. Th
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by ashark 9y ago
Maybe it's a regional thing? Almost no-one here uses Venmo. I mentioned it around my friends the other day and they'd never even heard of it. 2-3 people at my office use it semi-regularly but that's how they are--trying out a
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by ashark 9y ago
Offtopic(ish), but do you mean like the MS ergonomic keyboard split-but-one-piece, or actually two separate pieces? If the latter, what do you like about them?
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by ashark 9y ago
Code's easy for me (unless "mathy" in appearance like Haskell) but mathematical notation's always made me feel dyslexic. I'd love to see this beauty or clarity or whatever that people find in mathematics, but I&#x27
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by ashark 9y ago
Case in point: plain HTML gmail is more far responsive than both Inbox and regular AJAXy gmail.
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by ashark 9y ago
> Ignore the fads and go back to the typographic principles of print IMO ever since we were rescued from the old-school print designers & design-challenged developers of the Early Web (up to ~2005-07) by the new wave of digital-first
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by ashark 9y ago
This is obvious when your Macbook'd up designers demo something on a crappy projector, without having tested it there first. Entire areas of the design just... disappear.
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by ashark 9y ago
I like almost zero keto-friendly foods (on their own—most are great if you put them in rice or pasta, or on some flatbread) that aren't one or both of very expensive and time-consuming to prepare, and even those I usually stop liking m
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by ashark 9y ago
News to me too. I don't think I've ever seen pasta with added sugar.
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by ashark 9y ago
Yeah. My biggest problem with attempting low-carb is that X+rice and X+pasta and X+bread are all delicious for almost any value of X, while nearly all values of X on their own are fairly unappetizing. Beans and rice? YES. Just beans? I mean

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