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by dbrueck 5y ago
IMO the best versioning convention is YYYYMMDDNN, where NN is the release number you did that day (and so is typically 0). With this, it's trivial to generate new version numbers, there's no version number angst, and version numbe
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Nodewebkit and CEF are some of the main alternatives. And really, Electron is "just" something that does a lot of housekeeping for you, but at the end of the day you could do it yourself - you ship Chromium (or WebKit or ...) libr
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> For the actual user, the experience is inconsistent with the rest of their system Hmm... is that actually true though? If so, in what way? For example, right now I have open, among other things, Spotify, Visual Studio, Vim, Chrome, and
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>> consistent across OS versions and platforms. > This is an upside for the developer only. This is definitely not the case. For some apps/branding, a particular style is more desirable than making sure a checkbox looks 100% n
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by dbrueck 5y ago
It's really hard to beat an embedded browser if you're doing a desktop GUI app. Yeah, I know, I know, there are downsides, but the upsides are compelling: very mature technology, can be very performant for many types of apps, extr
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That ideal job can exist, though you may have to create the company yourself (that's what I ended up doing). We were very small (5-7 people) and thought it'd be fun to try out different forms of compensation, so after some experim
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I've been working from home almost completely since 2009 and worked about half time from home since 2005. It's definitely not for everyone, but the only way I'll ever go back to an office is if it's literally the only op
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Honestly, that's /precisely/ the type of thinking that we need more of. There's a lot of great work on the "this is a huge problem, how do we fix it?" side of things; we need to keep encouraging more on the &qu
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by dbrueck 5y ago
Conservation efforts, curbing emissions, etc. - that's all good and has its place, but on its own it just doesn't seem feasible to motivate enough people for a long enough time to make enough of a difference. Reducing amount of CO
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A culture of hypersensitivity to the opinions of others + a source of infinite negative opinions = bad stuff for one's mental health.
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A (the?) primary argument for SPAs is state preservation/management. If you're actually building a web "application" (as opposed to web pages), then the default state model that a web browser provides is pretty bizarre w
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I'm curious to better understand what you mean by this (maybe an example or two?).
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I don't know the background - tell me more. Also, your comment comes across as an ad hominem attack, not sure if I'm just misreading it though.
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Meh... what you're describing is rarely where the actual conflict is. What about situations where it does affect other people (and unfortunately those situations tend to be ones where merely articulating your concerns is enough to earn
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I want to believe that it's a combination of (a) the sheer volume of tweets that makes it impossible to catch all the stuff and (b) that there's probably a lot of overlap (at least initially) between people who read the tweet and
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You could not have more completely proven his point.
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Well... this perspective oversimplifies things a bit. Amazon pays little or no corporate tax, but it still pays a lot in other taxes (such as payroll taxes). See, for example, https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephanieden
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Tying it to revenues sounds nice, but isn't feasible. Or, in order to make it feasible, the slice the employees get would have to be vanishingly small in order to mitigate the risk.
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That's basically what I did 12 years ago: the benefits of working from home were too appealing, so I quit my job, started my own company, and have worked from home ever since (the only exception was a post-acquisition stretch where I h
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_o_O7v1ews
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> Step #2 is precisely the opposite of the advice that keeps innocent victims of the police out of jail. Cooperate, sure So... not quite the opposite after all? :)
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You asked for examples and so I gave them to you, and then you dismissed the first because you didn't like it and then completely ignored the other two. I'm discussing this in good faith and am assuming you are too. Please update
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The term "racist outcomes" is an example of the problem we're talking about. A racial disparity is not racist. Correlation is not the same thing as causation. Racism could very much be one of the factors, but painting the ent
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by dbrueck 5y ago
Can you double check the link? You might have mistakenly posted the wrong one. Thanks! (I read it and the accompanying PDF and neither seem to support your point of "statistical evidence says racism" - this is a study about how sh
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I'm all for looking at incarceration rates and sentencing disparities, etc. - if there are actual imbalances after controlling for relevant factors, then it makes sense to root them out and fix them. That said, studies like the one you
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So? There is no guarantee of anything, for anyone. But in terms of risk management, you can take some extremely simple steps to reduce the risk to approximately zero. Here's "the talk" that all parents can have with their kid
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> People in a state of confusion or crisis sometimes don't have the option of being cooperative with the police. I hear your point, and I'm all for mercy, patience, trying to understand and help people in crisis, etc. But at th
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by dbrueck 5y ago
For starters, go search Twitter for 'George Floyd' - it's hard to find threads that /don't/ make it about racism to some degree or another. But even a cursory search on other sides yields oodles of results; her
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Applying those labels to people who are objectively and overtly acting that way is not the problem. The problem is that way too often people are assuming it's there. It's a presumption of intent, "racism is one possible e
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A big part of the problem is that terms like 'racist' are often used as synonyms for 'people who don't share my viewpoint'. As long as that level of hyperbole is present, you can't have meaningful conversations

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