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by bshacklett 9y ago
Agreed. This is potentially beneficial to Netflix, et. al. at this point. It just makes it harder for startups to compete with them.
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by bshacklett 9y ago
There's a difference between bravery and just plain poor design. Removing the escape key from laptops which were popularized by developers is firmly in the latter category. As for them resting on their laurels, the fact that Mac OS is
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by bshacklett 9y ago
Could you elaborate? It's very easy for a startup, or even a single person to get a CDN distribution up and running with global points of presence, though I don't have much knowledge of the private networks you refer to.
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by bshacklett 9y ago
Disabling autofill seems like the wrong way to handle the problem, though. Autofill does not necessarily mean that passwords are being shared; it just means that the user isn't typing them in. Strong policies on the machines in questio
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by bshacklett 9y ago
Could you explain the downside of allowing auto-fill for sign-in information here? I understand that security is a concern, but I don't see how allowing a password manager to handle sign-ins would be harmful.
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by bshacklett 9y ago
You make a good point. I'm going to try scaling up the screen for a while and see how it goes. I can already see that the title bars, buttons, etc. are bigger than they need to be, but maybe not as bad as I originally thought.
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by bshacklett 9y ago
I don't want to scale up all of the UI controls just so that I can have type that's readable. I can fit a lot on the screen by keeping the scaling level down and just zooming into web sites when necessary, but it's a lot hard
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by bshacklett 9y ago
That's an argument against using points for measurement, not for the current definition of a point.
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by bshacklett 9y ago
They're not necessarily true pixels anymore, but the effect of using px as the unit of measurement hasn't really changed. You're controlling more physical pixels, but a similar size of the screen.
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by bshacklett 9y ago
I believe @recursive put it very well: > If they're not the same, then they're not inches. I'm not saying that UI elements should necessarily be the same size, but the option should be available. Having a point be equal fr
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by bshacklett 9y ago
That's what puts me in the situation that caused me to start looking into this, though. I've got two displays; one high-dpi and one not. Without scaling the entire display on the High-DPI display, I can't use my terminal app
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by bshacklett 9y ago
I ran across this article today while looking for information on PPI Awareness of web browsers. In particular, I'm looking at Hyper, an Electron-based terminal, and how I might be able to get the same type size from monitor to monitor.
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A 12pt Font Should Be the Same Size Everywhere (2012)(github.com)
290 points by bshacklett 9y ago|156 comments
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by bshacklett 9y ago
No, the company is the freeloader in this case. I don't know where you get this whole idea of no set hours. Salaries are based on the expectation of 40 hours a week. If a company is asking for more than that on a regular basis, that co
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by bshacklett 9y ago
One could argue that bad or fragile tests can be more harmful than having no tests at all.
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by bshacklett 9y ago
Thats the fault of the company for not taking advantage an opportunity for improvement. I fail to see how that should be attributed to the medium.
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by bshacklett 9y ago
That sounds like it's working exactly as it should. If everyone tweeted every little problem, each tweet would quickly be lost in the noise.
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by bshacklett 9y ago
I've had excellent experiences at the Microsoft store. In one case, I returned a Surface Pro and they really took the time to listen to why I decided to return it. Now, I don't know if that feedback ever made it outside of the sto
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by bshacklett 13y ago
MVC is something I've never really been able to wrap my head around. I wonder if this is why... All of the guides/articles that I've read on the subject have acted as if MVC was how the entire application was handled. Could y
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by bshacklett 13y ago
I don't know how common this is, but I personally love working on documentation and fixing bugs. I can't imagine I'm the only one out there. Perhaps they just make sure they have enough people that are interested in that type