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by bstar77 6y ago
I never had an aptitude for touch typing, but became very good at hunt and peck typing. This year I finally started to use proper form and not look at my fingers to type. I’m still slower than I was hunting and pecking, but I can pretty m
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by bstar77 6y ago
Yeah, it's AWS. In the future I'll be looking at the smaller providers.
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Very nice and well executed. One suggestion if the dev is watching, there needs to be some logic to prevent a fruit and bomb overlapping each other entirely making cutting the fruit impossible. I don't remember having this issue with
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by bstar77 6y ago
One issue I have with going the VPS route is that what I'm charged is often not what I'm expecting. I will use estimation calculators and figure my bill will be $25/month (which I get for a couple months) and then suddenly g
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by bstar77 6y ago
I strongly disagree with this sentiment. You'd be surprised how effective people that are "smart enough" can be. I've become less and less impressed with people's innate "genius" and more impressed with
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by bstar77 6y ago
Could this all be summed up to "know your fundamentals"? I get the nuance to the rest of what he says, but I think it still falls under the "know your fundamentals" umbrella.
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by bstar77 6y ago
I guess I agree if you are talking about consumer stuff, but dev products like React are pretty amazing. Since React is open source and can be used in isolation, it’s relatively harmless in its current state and doesn’t empower Facebook’s p
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by bstar77 6y ago
They would only be terrible if they are not properly updated for a laptop experience. The Overcast podcast player is a good example of an iOS app that works great as a Mac app too.
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Problem is that many, if not most, iOS apps would have a terrible user experience with a laptop touch screen. Most apps have swipes that assume a phone or tablet form factor and virtually all games expect you to use your thumbs. The better
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by bstar77 6y ago
Outright refusing the vaccine is absurd, but refusing at this phase of the distribution is not.
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While I agree that sound quality is likely much better with those headphones you listed, they all require an external dac/amp to realize that quality. For high end, wireless, noise cancelling headphones, this might be appropriately pr
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I think it's insane to change policy intended to protect a huge segment of our vulnerable population to placate addicts. Addiction is a terrible thing (I've lost family members to it), but I'm not going to prioritize their n
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by bstar77 6y ago
I think the secret is likely tied to MI2. The ending of that game is very cryptic and more adult oriented in nature.
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by bstar77 6y ago
This is equal parts sad and hilarious if true. I have a sudden urge to watch Deadwood again.
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He’s not saying permanently disable Adblock, but rather disable it to see if it’s responsible for the memory leak in question.
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It's just not scalable for most businesses as you would have to operate cache-less if you truly went javascript-less.
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Technically it's possible if everything is handled server-side, so I should have acknowledged that, but IMO, it's not practical for most businesses.
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by bstar77 6y ago
We will only know the secret if Gilbert gets the rights to make another Monkey Island game.
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by bstar77 6y ago
You can't do any kind of ecommerce or media without Javascript (or something like flash). Do we really want to limit those sorts of things solely to apps? This whole movement is insane. Lets get rid of cars while we are at it, they
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by bstar77 6y ago
Yeah, pre compiled c libraries for node js, like SQLite.
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by bstar77 6y ago
The pro is not any faster, it just has a fan that kicks in that prevents the machine from throttling as quickly. Someone who buys a PC with a water cooler isn't buying a machine that's faster than someone buying one with an air c
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by bstar77 6y ago
I think I finally convinced my wife to stop using Acrobat Reader for Mac, which performs and looks like a java swing app. I don't know why she refused to use Preview for viewing PDFs, but I think some people just get set in their ways
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by bstar77 6y ago
"Apple-chosen press" is referenced in almost every paragraph of this article if you are wondering what the author's intent is here. I'll sum up his unique complaints... Lots of old Microsoft specific software still doesn
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by bstar77 6y ago
But Isn't this exactly what a service dog does? I guess there's some nuance here, but I believe dogs specifically exhibit most things we assume are human only characteristics. Where humans and dogs start to deviate is with tasks
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by bstar77 6y ago
To each his own I guess... I find ligatures show intent, are easier to identify and help instantly identify typos (== vs ===). I also find the things that ligatures replace are usually ugly "programming specific" sequences of cha
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I saw that (snazzy guy video?) as well. Thing is, that video was explaining how a highly integrated system can perform better when software optimizes for it. These Macs will only see better performance as more software is optimized over t
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by bstar77 6y ago
It's interesting you say "not convinced", curious what you are skeptical of? I'm not upgrading because I just bought a 16" Mbpro 2 months ago, but I'm more than convinced this new architecture is the real deal
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by bstar77 6y ago
Does anyone know if arm64 compiled javascript binaries will work on x86 systems?
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When I say first gen product, I mean the whole product, not just the chip used. It would be a very different situation if we were talking about an upgraded iPad with a new chip. This is a platform defining moment.
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by bstar77 6y ago
I ran linux for years on my MacBook via Bootcamp. I'd be surprised if Bootcamp ever comes back.

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