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by brimstedt 10y ago
When something blows, arent you just happy to get as much information as possible? I remember when developing in VB classic, youd get something lile "error -68377388484". Perhaps you prefer this?
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by brimstedt 10y ago
What about the overhead of starting bash processes for everything, not to mention parse files, interpret and whatnot? (Presuming systemd is compiled code)
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by brimstedt 10y ago
Im not native english, but: "It has to do with Mischel's most famous experiment, called the marshmallow test, which he first conducted in 1960. You can still find videos of it on YouTube". Doesn't it sound like they were
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by brimstedt 10y ago
Honest question from someone who's been using stored procedured with sourcecontrol for 15 years: What exactly is the problem? :)
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by brimstedt 10y ago
Probably when you want to use the browser (from computers you do not control) or when the user is not that computer literate.
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by brimstedt 11y ago
Of course, we're all individuals with our own set of bodies and problems. But still, if some developer at my office is getting neck problems, HR starts looking into her officespace, what chair is in use, can it be tuned, etc. People ex
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by brimstedt 11y ago
Perhaps "seriously " was a bad choice of words here. What im talking about is the increasing number of people who get a headache at work solves it with pain killers. If you have a real medical condition its different of course.
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by brimstedt 11y ago
Ia there a reason TO take painkillers (at work or not)? If you are not seriously ill, like having cancer or a broken bone, why do you take painkillers? Imo, by taking pain killers you shut of the bodys built in protection thats telling you
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by brimstedt 11y ago
Engineers often tend to build ugly products, I can agree. When I'm asked to build something, the first thing I tell is "just so you know, I build ugly things, but things that work " The more interesting twist of the story wo
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by brimstedt 12y ago
I think having choice of desktop environment is a good thing. However, I do think he has some point on interoperability. Copy/paste for example, works differently in desktop apps vs terminals, etc. File selectors is another thing. I li
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by brimstedt 12y ago
Also, ashes are basic (? I mean Non asidic) which is good for you.
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by brimstedt 12y ago
A header Id rather see is Cookies: I-know-what-they-are-for "don't show me information about cookie usage".. )
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by brimstedt 12y ago
Remember a story like that on thedailywtf.. Was it yours?:)
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by brimstedt 12y ago
Is there any language/environment that tries to combine the two? I.e JIT for a few iterations and then "settling" on the best optimization and caching it?
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by brimstedt 12y ago
What is really needed is a plugin for turning "beautiful" into "ordinary"... It really distrupts me when companies/people puts " beautiful interface" as one of the features of their app/site/wh
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by brimstedt 13y ago
@asdfasdf, get back there and finishbour game ;)
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by brimstedt 13y ago
No, at least for android there are r/w ones. None ive tried been perfect so far though
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by brimstedt 13y ago
he has a point and i like perfected ux too, but as a programmer im unable to achieve perfected UIs :) anyway, there is also "good enough" and most likely 3px wont matter any more than refactoring a perfectly working class into a p
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by brimstedt 13y ago
of course things dont come out of nothing, i just find it so odd that we have open source top quality OSes, monitoring systems, programming languages, ides, browsers, graphics suites, etc etc, but no backup ..
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by brimstedt 13y ago
(dont mean tobsay this is a bad product or anything, just not a finished product..)
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by brimstedt 13y ago
so, its 2014 and still people use homegrown variations of tar, rsync, git and whatnot. Or a half done solution like this, or an abandoned solution like box backup. why on earth isnt there already a perfect cross platform open source backup
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by brimstedt 13y ago
When I write "passionate" in a job ad, I mean for the person to be enthusiastic about code /programming. We have different teams in my company. Some require people who chose to become a programmer for the pay, who may not ca
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by brimstedt 13y ago
could we please get the css adapting to screen size (i.e. make HN readable on mobile without zooming and scrolling)?