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by chiefsucker 7y ago
Last year I’ve worked on an open source soft phone where the proprietary backends are abstracted away, and you can switch them depending on your desired infrastructure. Twilio, PortSIP, and Abto are currently implemented as demo backends.
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by chiefsucker 7y ago
NNW is a fine piece of native software, both on macOS & iOS, and refreshing in the flood of not so native technologies, i. e. middleware. I just hope Fever sync will be added soon.
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by chiefsucker 7y ago
That’s not really surprising, but people tend to forget about it. In the end somebody has to pay for ops. It’s business as usual, like it was a century ago. There are cases where you can indeed save money by doing more by yourself. But how
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by chiefsucker 7y ago
Recommending Cliqz that is owned by Hubert Burda, a global media conglomerate which couldn’t care less about your privacy, and where every player is sorely focused on getting a bite of Google’s cake, is also hypocrisy.
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by chiefsucker 7y ago
I have a Gen8 and it has a Xeon. I just want to put some perspective to “switched from”, because HP _used_ Xeon processors in its prosumer servers, so I don’t really see switching them back.
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by chiefsucker 7y ago
Platform coherence, but also look & feel come to my mind. While the guidelines are what the word says, vague guidelines with a lot of room for interpretation, they don’t necessarily dictate any details. When you look at it from a more t
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by chiefsucker 7y ago
Those two statements contradict somehow. Why wouldn’t Apple be able to switch XML with a Swift DSL and keep the Interface Builder UI intact after most of the biggest SwiftUI issues get fixed?
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by chiefsucker 7y ago
This works when you manually select the text, but it fails when you want to select by double-/triple-clicking. In this case the selection ends before the word “me”. It’s awkward how easily one can break a basic functionality like selec
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by chiefsucker 7y ago
Charachorder looks like a modern attempt to produce something similar to the Datahand (availability was always limited, and the company has gone defunct by now): http://www.atpm.com/7.05/datahand.shtml The biggest issu
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by chiefsucker 7y ago
I always wonder how your commit messages look like with a system like this? When you have a task like: Do the laundry Do you then commit it with a message like: Added Laundry Task Or do you have some kind of automatic commit m
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by chiefsucker 7y ago
I got the same keyboard this month and the only thing I regret is that I didn’t buy it already 9 years ago when I got a Das Keyboard instead (which is still an excellent and fully functioning keyboard, but it has just a regular, rather uner
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by chiefsucker 7y ago
A Razer Naga MMO mouse [1] has 12 thumb buttons (and a couple of others which are rather hard to reach). They are perfect for cut, copy & paste, and other frequent macros / actions. The vendor software is crap, though, especially o
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by chiefsucker 7y ago
I switched recently from Vim to Evil after more than two decades, mainly because I prefer proportional fonts these days, and also because of Magit (I’m really annoyed by “free” Git GUIs going the subscription route after building up a big e
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by chiefsucker 7y ago
Or Vimari, the Safari port. https://github.com/televator-apps/vimari
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by chiefsucker 7y ago
For some people Unix is the IDE.
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by chiefsucker 11y ago
Not a bad start for a technology that should have costed less. People complain that this is way too expensive, but every new thing costs a lot even if it is “just a bunch of sensors with a display”. The more interesting question is if VR ca
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by chiefsucker 11y ago
If he stands by his principles then it should be OK. For me it would be OK as a “counter-measure” against an ad blocker.
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by chiefsucker 11y ago
> Is there a shortage of people that love writing software enough to spend most nights and weekends doing it? And this is actually another, if not part of, the problem. I’m passionate, I would even return to pull a couple of all-nighters
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by chiefsucker 13y ago
The current version is still 1.9, but it shouldn’t take long for 2.0 to be the official stable release.
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by chiefsucker 14y ago
I think that a lot of gamers feel that way. In retrospective it’s funny to look at those times, see how 2D games were much better, but nonetheless pushed away by their 3D equivalents. Today we probably take 3D for granted, but we forget tha
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by chiefsucker 14y ago
Yes, and he wasn’t really into collecting all those cartridges. As far as I understand he bought all SNES games to scan the labels on the covers and check his emulator’s accuracy.
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by chiefsucker 14y ago
That’s just one side of the coin, though. While the binary tree played a role in the ”death” of the Usenet, services like AOL played another major role. Companies tried to make the internet more comprehensible for the average user and inven