dleslie

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by dleslie 5y ago
Unity will never have halfway decent audio, networking, or ui; and not for lack of trying. The problem is that the one size fits all approach that made then successful falls far short of ideal in areas where there simply isn't a good g
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by dleslie 5y ago
The passport really isn't an issue, at all. I know a great deal of people who have moved south and have only heard of trivial issues related to border crossings, and never issues with residency and work permits. Being a tech worker fro
813.
by dleslie 5y ago
As a Canadian developer who frequently works for or with Americans, my entire career has been one where I'm acutely aware that my American coworkers make significantly more than me for the same level of responsibility. Yah, it stinks.
814.
by dleslie 5y ago
Considering that video games are usually released unfinished; if you're saying it doesn't even meet the dismal quality standards of video game development, wrt Beta quality, then I agree with you.
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by dleslie 5y ago
The question was if anyone was using a Linux phone. Did I use it to tinker with mobile Linux? Sure. Did I find success using it as a phone? No. It's nowhere near ready to be used as a phone outside of tinkering.
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by dleslie 5y ago
I understood that those flaws existed. If Servo were just an iterative improvement those flaws would be scandalous, but the flaws are to be expected because it was a radical experiment. The whole point of having an experimental feature team
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by dleslie 5y ago
It's not Beta. At the time I purchased it, it wasn't even Alpha. Beta, as a game developer, implies to me that there's a few outstanding show-stoppers but on the whole the product is safe to show to eager end-consumers who ar
818.
by dleslie 5y ago
The camera is so bad that it's even a shame that they bothered adding it. The additional cost for the hardware clearly wasn't worth it.
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by dleslie 5y ago
I have a Pinephone. I tried, in earnest, to use it as a daily driver; but the software stack was hideously unperformant and the camera was just too awful. I have young kids; I need to take pictures quickly on occasion. I couldn't rely
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by dleslie 5y ago
Servo was the experimental renderer that may have become the future renderer for Firefox. Without an experimental/skunkworks team the development of Firefox will remain iterative and focused on maintenance and feature parity. Firing th
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by dleslie 5y ago
... No. I've been meaning to start a website. This article rather resonated with me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30328120
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by dleslie 5y ago
You can use de-Googled variants of Chrome that serve less telemetry, by default, and are more private, by default, than Firefox. They're also faster. And they're open source.
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by dleslie 5y ago
Because for every battle they lost, they won several others. The only reason we're not all using Internet Explorer is because Firefox lost some battles and won many others.
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by dleslie 5y ago
There's a large difference between running on top of a platform built by an ideologically-opposed organization, and actively aiding an ideologically-opposed organization with marketing agreements.
825.
by dleslie 5y ago
That reasoning applies to all employees, of all roles. However, the behaviour of certain employees can undermine the profitability of others. Mozilla appears to be on the path of being a reseller of services and marketer of brands, at the e
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by dleslie 5y ago
That's a bummer; will that effect all chrome-based browsers?
827.
by dleslie 5y ago
Mozilla let go a large number of developers recently.
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by dleslie 5y ago
Drafthouse
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by dleslie 5y ago
GOG, Weightless Books and Bandcamp immediately spring to mind.
830.
by dleslie 5y ago
> Firefox is already as good or better than Chrome. I've been a Firefox user since its inception, but I don't think it's better than Chrome and it hasn't been for a very long time. Chrome is faster on all the devices
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by dleslie 5y ago
The suggestion being made is that developers should engage in unpaid labour to make Firefox better.
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by dleslie 5y ago
I honestly didn't think I noticed the "ghosting" in LCDs until I started using a 144hz display. Now I can't unsee the mouse trails on most LCD displays.
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by dleslie 5y ago
And it's crazy expensive for a peripheral that's not going to have any modern games for it. Which is fine for wealthy middle-aged folks chasing nostalgia, but generations of kids are growing up without that experience. At best, th
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by dleslie 5y ago
Reddit search is superior because the results are community curated and because, counterintuitively, the search algorithm is terrible. It's doesn't suffer _as much_ from the deluge of garbage on there dead internet, and the search
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by dleslie 5y ago
If the non-profit can pay market rates for a CEO then it can pay market rates for developers.
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by dleslie 5y ago
Part of the issue is that it's not attractive to volunteer for. Simply put, why would I volunteer my free time to support a software project whose CEO makes somewhere in the ballpark of 70x the average American salary? Mozilla likes to
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by dleslie 5y ago
> If people here who cares about Mozilla would volunteer, and also use the browser, Mozilla would be in a much better shape. > Want to fix Mozilla? Take an active part in it. Why would I volunteer for an organization that pays its CEO
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by dleslie 5y ago
It uses the package manager of the system, or the one native to the language, to install servers. Ie, it uses nuget to install omnisharp. The same tools are used to update the servers. Feature regressions and security holes from those sourc
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by dleslie 5y ago
Will it support EAC, and Valve's Proton?
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by dleslie 5y ago
Hey, total aside: thank-you. Thank-you for helping to make Emacs competitive again. If not for lsp-mode I wouldn't still be using Emacs, even with 30y+ of enjoyment from it.

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