brandonwamboldt

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by brandonwamboldt 3y ago
We may be unable to provide a concrete definition of what intelligence is, but we can certainly provide definitions for what it isn't. E.g. we don't need a concrete definition of intelligence to say that a rock isn't intellig
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by brandonwamboldt 7y ago
Obligatory comment that Gmail has a basic HTML view that is substantially faster and less resource intensive, but not as pleasant to use: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/ It loads almost instantly for
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by brandonwamboldt 7y ago
Ignoring your insults, I think there are many valid use cases for smart home devices. For example, automatically turning lights on and off on a schedule, changing light color to red at night, being able to casually set reminders without bot
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by brandonwamboldt 8y ago
Paul was among the top philanthropists in America, and has contributed so much to society. Truly a sad day
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by brandonwamboldt 8y ago
My company uses GitLab and I think the CI is fantastic, especially compared to Jenkins, Travis, Circle, etc. It's very easy to setup, incorporated into the rest of our workflows, intuitive, reliable, powerful. I have a few complaints b
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by brandonwamboldt 8y ago
Something to consider, VS Code being free means it will eat into IntelliJ's marketshare, even without all the features of IntelliJ. They'll be the people who need the advanced features who will continue buying it, but many people
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by brandonwamboldt 8y ago
Maplewave (maplewave.com) | Halifax, Canada | Onsite | Full-Time Join us and help build the next generation in telecommunication retail software, such as electronic document signing software, point of sales, inventory management, and busine
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by brandonwamboldt 8y ago
1. They only have four tiers (four equivalent tiers for hosted and on-premise technically). This is quite reasonable, as they need to provide flexibility for their customers. They are quite clear about which tiers provide which features. 2.
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by brandonwamboldt 8y ago
I prefer VS Code over native alternatives. Don't conflate your anecdotal evidence with facts. Many users don't know much RAM a process consumes or what an Electron app is, they just care about what the app can do, how fast it is,
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by brandonwamboldt 8y ago
Well that's just not accurate. With our Electron app, the main process consumes 40mb of RAM, with each window using 30mb of RAM, so if you have a windowed app, thats a minimum of under 70mb of RAM (results will differ, our app is quite
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by brandonwamboldt 9y ago
Maplewave (maplewave.com) | Halifax, Canada | Onsite | Full-Time / Remote / Visa We build retail products like electronic document signing software, point of sales, inventory management, and business intelligence for the telecommu
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by brandonwamboldt 9y ago
a) you can disable it via the preference browser.tabs.remote.warmup.enabled b) some users will like this feature. they aren't cheating at making it faster, it actually is faster for all intents and purposes.
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by brandonwamboldt 9y ago
We get around the shared folder performance problem using NFS. Adds one extra step to setup (mount a network share), but we've never had performance issues with it.
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by brandonwamboldt 9y ago
This tends to be over-used though. Unfortunately some employees would continue making $500,000 mistakes and never learning. It really depends on the employee's attitude and response to the incident, as well as the circumstances of the
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by brandonwamboldt 9y ago
Personally I have no interest in moving away from Google Search, as I specifically use them because Google learns from previous searches I've made and shows me more relevant results. Searching "unzip" shows me the Linux comma
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by brandonwamboldt 9y ago
It's not up to par with Chrome Dev Tools, but something to keep an eye on is https://github.com/devtools-html/debugger.html (a project run by Mozilla). This has the benefits of being open source and very accessibl
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by brandonwamboldt 10y ago
Genuinely curious, can you expand on why that power strip is bad, and who exactly would shut down the brick and mortar store?
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by brandonwamboldt 11y ago
I kind of wish you could merge or rebase as part of the "Update Branch" feature. I don't allow merging master into the feature branches for any project I manage, I insist that developers rebase their branches before they get
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by brandonwamboldt 11y ago
I mean, that's kind of goes without saying, doesn't it? No game engine will make your game magically look awesome if you don't have the budget for art assets and don't have an artist on your team. That said, the tools ma
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by brandonwamboldt 11y ago
They specifically publish upgrade notes at the bottom, so that helps (as many changes won't break your project). I'm only working on a small hobby project, but I read the bulk of the notes. I mostly look through the subsystems I u
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by brandonwamboldt 11y ago
They aren't, they are hand created. They talked about it on the live stream a few times. Definitely doesn't match up with the commits from what I can see either. They have a couple people work together to make the release notes, s
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by brandonwamboldt 11y ago
The UE4 codebase is very well built and organized for the most part (some legacy code is a mess). Even the community has managed to add quite a few large features to the engine, so I don't worry about it being unmaintainable. I often l
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by brandonwamboldt 11y ago
It worked really well for me. I started on a project that had no documentation, no setup scripts, and nobody I spoke to knew how to get it setup. Everyone kind of just got it working somehow. I setup Vagrant, wrote provisioning scripts, wro
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by brandonwamboldt 11y ago
I added logic to mine to check for a .noprompt file and disable the git part of my bash prompt as I generally want it enabled, but a few large repos are too slow with it. You could do something similar, I'm sure.
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by brandonwamboldt 11y ago
Flash is a closed source binary plugin with a long history of security vulnerabilities that Adobe was slow to patch. For the most part, JavaScript engines are open source, don't have a history of security vulnerabilities (to the same s
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by brandonwamboldt 11y ago
I disagree, it lowers the barrier of entry for people to document code, clean up documentation, or just review the code and report issues (e.g. security related). Even if LuaJIT doesn't see a lot of random contributors, it makes it eas
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by brandonwamboldt 11y ago
There is no money in swatting either, but yet it's becoming a growing problem for popular streamers (and police departments).
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by brandonwamboldt 11y ago
Yes, for more information, see SSH Agent Forwarding Considered Harmful ( http://heipei.github.io/2015/02/26/SSH-Agent-Forwarding-cons... ). Finally a legitimate use of the title "considered harmful".
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by brandonwamboldt 11y ago
So, first of all, I'm 100% against harassment and discrimination like racism/sexism. But "safe spaces" are taking things way too far. If you have to constantly self censor yourself because the person on the other side ma
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by brandonwamboldt 11y ago
Except "Reverse Racism" has a specific meaning, which is racism against a majority group (e.g. white people). There are people who believe that you can't be racist against a majority group, that it's called "reverse

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