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by bhauer 9y ago
> I spend very little time trying to digest information on a 6" screen when I can wait till I get home and digest it on a 4K display and able to concentrate on my work. This is so important. Not only are larger screens better for
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by bhauer 9y ago
A while back I roughed up a dark theme for HN via a greasemonkey userscript, as seen here: http://i.imgur.com/PkwVEOD.png There are obviously some rough edges—no pun intended—such as around the voting buttons. Dark themes r
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by bhauer 9y ago
When I manage teams, I love having productive and self-motivated people like yourself on the team. As long as you are able to complete the scheduled and required tasks, if by being light-touch with process, you are motivated to contribute
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by bhauer 9y ago
I'm somewhat ambivalent on text size since I typically zoom web content when I find the text size uncomfortable. There are some cases where there is a severe mismatch between the size of body/text and other elements, which poses
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by bhauer 10y ago
For what it's worth, I like the proposal, in large part because it is a rewrite with an aim to implement a full-featured cross-platform mail client. Something fresh but with the spirit of Thunderbird and consistent with the Mozilla cr
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by bhauer 10y ago
Oh heck yes, El Segundo and Hawthorne: http://www.walkinginla.com/2016/Jul24/07_24_16.html My daily walking commute is between these two cities. El Segundo is home to several firms as it's a particularly bus
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by bhauer 10y ago
> Well, to the extent that these costs degrade the user experience, I'm not sure they really are externalizing them. Presumably they pay this cost in the form of decreased user satisfaction. It's just that this is a cost they
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by bhauer 10y ago
YMMV. In my experience, developers are equally productive (and in many cases, more productive) on high-performance platforms for a variety of reasons. These include the aforementioned reduced friction of avoiding subconscious performance
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by bhauer 10y ago
To be clear, I am not suggesting Go specifically, although it is certainly a very good choice and the article this thread is linked to makes its own good arguments in favor of Go. Java 8 also has some very high-productivity modern web appl
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by bhauer 10y ago
I've written about this [1], but in brief, my opinion is that selecting a high-performance platform is extremely reasonable, all else being equal (equal familiarity with Go and Ruby, for example). Opting for a high-performance platfor
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by bhauer 10y ago
Thanks for sharing these. They're fascinating. In the winter video, a few things jump out at me: - The environment seems depressingly spartan and utilitarian. Everything is drab. And yet this it he capital city. - Virtually no one i
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by bhauer 10y ago
Putting aside the awkward title, the article is confirming what we instinctively would expect: increasing the burden of commuting by car will reduce the number of people who commute by car. The cost of parking is an example burden. Obvious
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by bhauer 10y ago
All the time, using folders in the bookmarks bar as drop-down menus.
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by bhauer 10y ago
I use a Surface Book regularly and my wife uses a Surface Pro 4. Both are great at what they are: portable computers. I had purchased my Book in part as an experiment to determine if a relatively small laptop could actually replace my desk
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by bhauer 10y ago
> I think you're making the oversimplification they raise in the article about grouping all of the different pro users archetypes into the idea of "the pro user". (Some) developers might not care, but other pro types espe
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by bhauer 10y ago
I'm not a Mac user, so I am not sure if there's something fundamental I am not appreciating, but I do not understand why releasing a high-specification desktop computer requires a year or more of design and planning. I do recog
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by bhauer 10y ago
Agreed. Incidentally, what you describe as data convergence is part of a theoretical computing model I call PAO: http://tiamat.tsotech.com/pao
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by bhauer 10y ago
That coin is a beauty. It looks like it would be a denomination much higher than £1. As someone who collected coins a child, I've been a tad disappointed by some of the newer designs coming out of the US Mint. Some are classy, others
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by bhauer 10y ago
Give me a 50+ inch 8K concave OLED desktop display with a matte surface and I will pay a huge premium. My predictions aren't holding up [1]. I feel too many customers are satisfied with small form-factor and/or are tolerant of
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NY Legislators Looking at Installing 'Right to Be Forgotten'(techdirt.com)
1 points by bhauer 10y ago|0 comments
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by bhauer 10y ago
I have a Surface Book and I will vouch for how awesome the 3:2 display is. I agree that 16:9 is a bit disappointing. It's the lingering dominion of HD televisions converging on computing. I am glad that some companies are re-asserti
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by bhauer 10y ago
I don't agree. In my opinion, even on my high-specification workstation, the performance of the modern web is below my expectation for 2017 (having been using the web since 1997). Browser and CPU performance have not kept pace with w
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by bhauer 10y ago
Like I said, I would love score voting (range voting). Its my preference for precisely the reason you state: it provides the expressiveness to show partial support. And it does so without the constraints of IRV or ranked voting. To my mi
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by bhauer 10y ago
I would love score voting. But given the potentially higher cost of implementation, I would be very happy with approval voting (score of 0 or 1), which would be compatible with most existing ballots. "You may vote for zero or more o
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by bhauer 10y ago
Sadly, the Natick web page [1] hasn't been updated in quite some time and now has a TLS/SSL problem. [1] https://natick.research.microsoft.com/
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by bhauer 10y ago
More things need dark themes!
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by bhauer 10y ago
I write plenty of multithreaded code of my own. What I am grieving is our CS education teaching new programmers that they should avoid concurrency because it's "too hard." I don't have time to make Thunderbird use more
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by bhauer 10y ago
Agreed. The stagnation in desktop single-core performance is taking a toll on my productivity as software continues to bloat. Yes, I have a massive number of cores in my desktop workstation, but most are idle at any given moment. With CPU
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by bhauer 10y ago
On the subject of districting, the ideal is shortest splitline [1]. Combine this with Approval or Score voting and I'd be a very happy voter. [1] http://scorevoting.net/SplitLR.html
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The Intel Atom C2000 Series Bug – Why It Is So Quiet(servethehome.com)
13 points by bhauer 10y ago|1 comments

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