blakeyrat

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by blakeyrat 10y ago
I wager the labor savings from SQL Server will pay for itself in a few months.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
I have different priorities than you. In terms of IDE quality, debugger quality, flexibility (ability to use actual threads if you want them!), performance... in my opinion .NET Core is already so far ahead of Node.JS it's embarrassing
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
I can open all of those formats in Microsoft Word right now this instant. So. Good argument?
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
It doesn't need to be. (Why the italics?) In fact I don't give half a crap about the implementation details of how it works. All I want is to be able to drag a little diagram from a paint program into my code editor and have it
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
The Xbox One is a combination of game console and DVR. It has no features designed specifically for workplace conferences, but of course there are tons of apps so it's possible some workplaces are using it that way. In between rounds o
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Meanwhile, Git has taken over all source control for development despite being possibly one of the worst applications ever created. (Hell, even Lotus Notes tried to be usable-- it failed, but it tried.) It's a lost cause in this indu
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
You spent (likely) years learning Emacs. How much time did you spend learning each of those IDEs you've tried? You have to realize that psychologically: you like things you're familiar with, and dislike things you're unfamili
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
You could use a nicer font, for one.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
I think we need to first get over the hurdle of "code == text". I mean, the features you talk about are great-- but right now I can't even embed a little vector graphic explaining a function's flow in my source file. Eve
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
It's been a couple years, but it used to be my hobby (after a Linux user told me their Linux laptop "just worked") to reach over and hit the mute button on their keyboard, which rarely worked. Not sure if that trick is still
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
An opinion stated to a community that (generally speaking) thinks that Git is a pretty good piece of software. Snarky, I'm sorry, but you're 100% right. I grew up in a world where there was tons of optimism in software development
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Who told you Google had a reputation for good UIs? Every Google UI is atrocious. Gmail uses UI concepts that were tried and rejected by Microsoft back in 2000. (Drop-down menus that obscure less-used options under expandos.) YouTube's
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
The DEA is under the Executive Branch. Once Trump's sworn in, he's their boss. If he wanted to disband the office entirely, I'm not even 100% sure Congress could stop him.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
My knee-jerk is that it's an East Coast thing. I've never been drug tested, and I've worked for companies of all sizes and types, nor have I ever heard of anybody getting drug tested in the Seattle area.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
You say "jobs are moving to cities" as if it's a law of nature. It's not.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Maybe they're working on one. You gotta walk before you run. A submarine would have to be very autonomous, though. Getting a high-bandwidth signal to it for real-time control (without it surfacing) would be a huge challenge. A surfac
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
> So you're proposing I'm not proposing anything. This is a casual conversation on a web forum, not drafting a party platform. > a massive tax[1] increase I'm definitely not proposing anything massive. > on urban wor
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Companies are (generally speaking) founded by people with type-A "go go go!" personalities, who love to be in the center of large cities with all kinds of hustle and bustle. The kind of people who couldn't even imagine living
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
You obviously don't live in the Seattle area. You can't move closer, because real estate is literally twice as expensive as where you currently live, and you can't change jobs because all the jobs are in the same places with
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Yeah, but... doesn't that suck for everybody? Commuting time is wasted. (Maybe on public transit, if it's not so crowded you can pull out a laptop, you can get a bit of work done.) It's American productivity going straight in
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
At the time I made the choice, I didn't know that this industry was so concentrated in only large urban areas. In fact, I was basically hearing the opposite: "tech is HUGE, those jobs will be EVERYWHERE in 10 years!" Well. It
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
If I wanted to live in a city, I would have moved into one years ago. I don't. I like where I live. I just want a job within less than an hours' commute of me.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
I live in a relatively small suburb of Seattle. I'm a software developer. There are no jobs for me where I live. None. None within 20 miles. The only job for me is in Seattle or Bellevue or Redmond, an hour-long commute. I love where I
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
It's only 10 meters long, it'd have a tough time going out of coastal waters no matter what. (Unless it's very resistant to being flipped or swamped, which I suppose is possible.)
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Instead of using uppercase, which looks awful, just get an editor with color-coding. Solves the same problem, no more ugly uppercase.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
More likely because it's not available on-premise. Check into how many use HipChat instead, because it is. Either way, this is a HUGE market Slack hasn't even begun to touch. (Although I see they now have a "coming soon!&quot
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
It's from the same set of people who don't understand why Microsoft's Active Directory is more popular than the cluster of hard-to-configured, barely-related Linux utilities needed to reproduce some of its functions on a Li
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
HipChat hasn't botched anything, but they also haven't done anything really well . HipChat is merely... ok I guess? The thing keeping HipChat going in the face of Slack is that Slack can't be used on-premises, which is HUGE
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Does Slack even allow on-premise installs yet? That instantly disqualified them from the last 3 jobs I've had. (All of which had data protection issues that prevented them from using off-premises IM systems, mostly HIPAA regulations.)
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Or the Site Optimization product I maintained from about 2008-2011. The concept's old as dirt. Our script had to work on IE 5.5, though, so suck it kiddies. ;)

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