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by dman 7y ago
Apples attitude towards OpenGL/Vulkan/OpenCL is super frustrating.
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by dman 7y ago
I am not convinced either. Getting a language off the ground is a 10 year affair, don't think its possible for a funded company to bring up a new language unless they are targeting some niche where full scale programmability is not a r
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by dman 7y ago
The page for the language is here - https://darklang.com/ but sadly no technical details appear to be publicly available at this time.
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by dman 7y ago
I would really like a browser which attempted to be extensible the way emacs is. No modern browser appears committed to extensibility as a key feature / differentiator.
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by dman 7y ago
What will you use it for?
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by dman 7y ago
Any idea on when this ships?
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by dman 7y ago
+1 - I hope this comes to pass!
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by dman 7y ago
Why dont you use tethering and use the connection from your phone on your ipad?
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by dman 7y ago
Unless you use ramdisk! :)
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by dman 7y ago
Saw the same thing happen.
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by dman 7y ago
Any updates on shipping dates? I preordered one and am looking forward to using the Librem 5.
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by dman 7y ago
I hope developers allocate some money of their annual salary and use it to buy tools. We need to create financial incentives for people to build good tools.
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by dman 7y ago
Qt is $5508 per developer for the commercial version. It appears they are only targeting larger enterprises at this point in time.
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by dman 7y ago
This really saddens me. My 2010 Acura has controls that I really like, almost everything is a physical button/knob that I can hit without taking my eyes off the road.
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by dman 7y ago
I have, Deepin is on another level - trust me!
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by dman 7y ago
I have really grown to like Antergos over the last two years. Deepin on Antergos comes the closest to a Linux that is so polished out of the box that it exceeds Windows / Linux in visual and product polish.
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by dman 7y ago
Completely agree with everything you said but the curiosity that drove my initial question still stands. To be specific do you think Sketch / OmniGraffle are unimplementable on Windows? Why would the creators of those apps after achiev
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by dman 7y ago
Now that you point it out, I realize that I should have edited the parts about questionable ideology out. It was needlessly argumentative and distracts from the point I was trying to make.
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by dman 7y ago
I respectfully disagree. A contrary viewpoint which I happen to share is the following - As a software developer you build productivity multipliers for your users. Users spend non trivial amounts of time, money and energy building skills to
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by dman 7y ago
Ive been surprised because in codebases I have worked on, you usually have an abstract rendering api at the bottom with multiple implementations for each platform. Ive been curious why you couldnt abstract out things like window creation, l
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by dman 7y ago
Am curious why some vector rendering products (Amadine, OmniGraffle, Paper 53 etc) end up being Mac / iOS only? Are there some APIs that are Mac only? Why would devs who take an effort to write such a substantial app not ifdef away the
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by dman 7y ago
Can you point to some HP products that are still great? As a student of computing history this is interesting to me.
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by dman 7y ago
I empathize very strongly with you. At a past gig I was in an almost similar position.
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by dman 7y ago
What version of gcc? What OS? I am showing ~0.4 seconds on a machine that is 3-4 years old. [PS: I think even 0.4 seconds is too slow]
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by dman 7y ago
Not that I know of.
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by dman 7y ago
Executing well on your job is a much safer bet career wise to progress since you are working by definition on things that already have institutional buy in. For a 20% project you have to create institutional buy in - ie it is possible but a
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by dman 7y ago
To be honest I do not know anyone who had such a success so anything I say would be speculation.
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by dman 7y ago
Yes. Google is a competitive place, so opting for 20% time can slow down your career progression unless you are extraordinarily good since it might reduce your ability to create impact at your "real" job. But as long as you unders
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by dman 7y ago
As someone who landed up doing what you did, I also had days where I felt what you have described here. On the other hand by going custom you can usually exploit some understanding you have of your problem to great effect.
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by dman 7y ago
Any github links that are freely available?

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