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by donatj 7mo ago
Bring back the floating toolbars of the early 2000's and it'd be fine.
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by donatj 7mo ago
If anyone should not exist, it's PMs. I kid a little, I worked with some very good PMs when we did client work who made my life much easier. Working on a SaaS though, I find them generally less than useful.
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by donatj 7mo ago
Yes. Without a doubt. I worked with a QA team for the last fifteen years until last year when they laid them all off. QA is a discrete skill in and of itself. I have never met a dev truly qualified to do QA. If you don't think this you
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by donatj 7mo ago
I have been using Wine on Mac for fifteen years now since I moved to Mac for work. There's always been a couple Windows programs I just can't seem to replace fully, namely RegexBuddy, and I continue to run them in Wine to this day
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by donatj 7mo ago
The important question becomes can you stack the window decoration "tabs" of different apps into a single stack of tabs like in BeOS? Demonstrated here (animated): https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/
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by donatj 7mo ago
I'm all for protecting the data with my life, but there's increasingly little value in the code around a CRUD app, which is what we're keeping in GitHub.
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by donatj 7mo ago
The level of lockdown in current years is wild. With our 2FA requirements and SSO, signing into GitHub every morning takes me something like eight clicks and a solid minute. Everything has gotten so locked down in recent years, people are w
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by donatj 7mo ago
> One idea I’m particularly excited about: rebase doesn’t have to destroy history. I guess I don't understand why not just merge at that point? The point of rebadge is to destroy history...
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by donatj 7mo ago
I have worked in Edtech for the last 15 years, and I stand by it when I say most of it is just added noise. 1:1 programs are a waste of money and time. Students don't need continuous access to a computer. Shared computer labs with a se
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by donatj 7mo ago
I'm trying to sort out my own emotions on this. I did not realize this was AI generated while reading it until I came to the comments here... And I feel genuinely had? Like "oh wow, you got me"... I don't like this feeli
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by donatj 7mo ago
I think the part that often gets overlooked about code review is that it is useful for maintaining knowledge of the codebase for the reviewer . I know our codebase like the back of my hand specifically because I'm reviewing almost eve
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by donatj 7mo ago
Be nice if there were a small screenshot or two.
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by donatj 7mo ago
Music is interesting to me, because I've experienced the opposite. What I've encountered is if you get outside the top 100, a lot of like TikTok and SoundCloud famous people are actually doing some really interesting music. Thin
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by donatj 7mo ago
I have genuinely put a lot of thought into this lately. I have the sensation like older media was more expressive and thoughtful, there's at least more... interesting flavors there generally... I am happy to ponder and willingly acce
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by donatj 7mo ago
> it depends on what you enjoy: the journey or the destination This has been 100% my experience. I enjoy the puzzle solving and the general joy of organizing and pulling things together. I could really care less about the end result to m
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by donatj 7mo ago
Was that in doubt?
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by donatj 7mo ago
Gods no.
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by donatj 7mo ago
Containers with different contents look different? I don't see the big deal. That seems like a reasonable design choice. Make nice rounded corners when content allows, but rectangle them up as needed? Seems like a nice adaptive design
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by donatj 7mo ago
Minnesota is in a strange place where they were ruled unconstitutional, and they disappeared for many years. Now they are back, and to get around that they are not a misdemeanor, aren't a ding against your license or insurance, and you
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Thinking About Probabilistic Filters(donatstudios.com)
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by donatj 8mo ago
I don't know, I personally find it kind of disrespectful. My initial gut reaction was "he can't even be bothered to use his shift-key while dramatically altering 4,000 people's lives?" It's just too casual for
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by donatj 8mo ago
Stop adding features to notepad. It was feature complete in 1995
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by donatj 8mo ago
There was an active shooter in our area a number of years ago and they locked the building down. No one was injured, it was a domestic dispute in a neighborhood a few blocks away. The police caught the guy hiding in some bushes. In response
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by donatj 8mo ago
Coming from the Midwest I visited Fry's for the first time in early 2020 weeks before COVID. I had always heard amazing things about the store, for years. It was on my short list of places to visit on the west coast. That place was not
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by donatj 8mo ago
For me, as a two thumb typer, I feel like if you had kept the letters generally on the same side (left/right) as Qwerty, even if nowhere near the same location, I could adapt to it much more quickly. I go to spell something as simple
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by donatj 8mo ago
It's interesting to me every time one of these "I just figured out I can use git without GitHub" posts comes up. The entire design of git was intended to be decentralized. You really don't even need the centralized bare
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by donatj 8mo ago
My Facebook is bad, but I still see a bunch of posts by friends. Instagram on the other hand went from a stream of artsy photos my friends posted of their vacations to a literal river of AI generated garbage. Until about a year ago I really
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by donatj 8mo ago
Back at a job I had in ~2008 we built a library to convert an Excel spreadsheet into a fully functional web based configurator. I've talked about it here previously[1]. I have always thought that it was a missed opportunity that we&#x2
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by donatj 8mo ago
FWIW iBook G3 is circa 2003-2006 so only 20-23 years old. Not 27. Way to make me feel older than I already do lol. We used these in when I was in high school, they'd wheel in a cart full of them into the classroom, and had a Wireless B
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by donatj 8mo ago
> provide a [...] consistent experience Please just don't. This is not the web. Color usage in the terminal should be largely semantic, not stylistic. Speaking for the group of people I know and work with, we don't want a &quot

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