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by dvdkon 3y ago
What's your workflow in MS Project? I've talked a lot about PM software with non-IT people who have needs that don't fit into the issue-tracking systems I know, so I'm interested to know what you use in MS Project. From
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by dvdkon 3y ago
Back then, many boards used to be routed with vertical traces on one layer and horizontal traces on another, "Manhattan routing". Somehow, the circuits worked. Nowadays you can't be so "careless" to hit EMI targets
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by dvdkon 3y ago
Junk startups don't cause much harm to the outside world. In contrast, selling junk carbon offsets is basically fraud, you're selling an environmental impact that just isn't there.
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My current phone's GPS receiver is broken, leaving me with a map and compass, just inside my phone. The Czech countryside is full of marked trails and named points to use for finding your position on a map, so I haven't found navi
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by dvdkon 3y ago
> When I write real world code, ..., I write an event handler, which changes some data and then calls the parts of the UI that need an update. That's your choice, and I'd argue you're creating messier code slower than some
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by dvdkon 3y ago
So, new framework-specific syntax is bad (for some reason), so the solution is a new framework-specific JS DSL? As much as I like DSLs, this is hardly a great revelation that justifies the tone of the article. There's plenty of prior w
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by dvdkon 3y ago
I'm not against optional cloud features, but as far as I can see, the camera doesn't work in their LAN only mode. I'd say that's a big feature and makes the non-cloud operation of the printer an inferior mode, and that&#
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by dvdkon 3y ago
I was looking for some software that I could use to make sense of my bank transactions from imported statements, and sadly found that none of the FLOSS options I tried could import the counterparty's bank account number. I have to ask,
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by dvdkon 3y ago
Just so you know, opt-out cookie banners are illegal in the EU. If you want to only measure visits, there are alternatives to Google Analytics that don't even require a notice, since they don't record personal information (Plausib
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by dvdkon 3y ago
Then again, the YAML of Ansible or various CI platforms basically is code. People who already successfully write that will do well enough in Python. (Not that YAML isn't used in plenty of non-code usecases.)
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by dvdkon 3y ago
You have a low bar for config languages. I'd also like one to not be overly verbose, not be clearly intended for markup instead of object storage and not have security issues until you configure the parser just right (though that'
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by dvdkon 3y ago
I think what Qt does is a good compromise, but there are breaking changes. Complex FLOSS projects spent months or years upgrading from Qt4 to Qt5 and then to Qt6. The exact timeframe is a matter of priorities and available developers, but s
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by dvdkon 3y ago
You're exaggerating. GTK2 came out in 2002, GTK3 in 2011 and GTK4 in 2020. That' s almost a decade for each version, and you have to consider that GTK2 was maintained for a long time after 3's release and that current Linux d
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by dvdkon 3y ago
You can let your API's users do arbitrary queries on any sets of data you expose if your API exposes SQL views directly. Plenty of apps don't need anything beyond basic "get by id" and "search by name" endpoint
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by dvdkon 3y ago
I have been looking for good-feeling large rotary encoders and this looks like the best option available. Having software-based detents means that they are perfectly aligned with the actual trigger, besides all the other flexibility demonst
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by dvdkon 3y ago
Visual Basic and other "RAD" builders were pretty neat and I think platforms like WordPress or Drupal never captured their charm. For one, any apps built on them need a rather complex runtime, which feels worse to me than a langua
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by dvdkon 3y ago
That's less of a problem for a hypothetical law requiring either longer-term maintenance or enabling users to perform that maintenance themselves. Manufacturers would just have to make adequate contractual arrangements.
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by dvdkon 3y ago
Maybe not for the user, at least not directly, but developer experience is something to optimise for. PHP is also the one language whose choice can make an impact on users' experience, since its shared-nothing (sans caches) runtime mod
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by dvdkon 3y ago
It's a shame Microsoft slowly let it die instead of straight-up announcing they're discontinuing MonoDevelop/moving to "VS for Mac". That way, maybe a community maintaining the code would have sprung up. Now anyone
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by dvdkon 3y ago
I don't feel the need to fight the "new and shiny" war, because yesteryear's problems are far from gone. Windows' dominance affects end users, people like me who had no hand in creating it and now have to deal with
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by dvdkon 3y ago
That's 30% among all devices , the percentage among desktops/laptops is much higher. You are living in a bubble. I don't know how large it is, but especially in non-web, non-multimedia offices, Windows is the default. Most s
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by dvdkon 3y ago
Do you have a source for that? Wikipedia says it has multiple owners from many different countries.
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Most apartments around here have their own washing machine, often the tenants buy their own. I understand that some people are fine with shared machines, but I think at least for families, a washing machine (+ dryer maybe) is a good investm
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I remember them promising to open-source it early on and then waiting at least a few months for the code. At the time I was jaded and thought they'd go back on the promise, but I'm grateful they didn't. It's the most pol
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by dvdkon 3y ago
I still don't see how China's IP violations lead to a "sadder world state". The article you linked seems mostly sympathetic to foreign trademark-infringing sellers, and I certainly don't lose sleep over small-time t
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by dvdkon 3y ago
I don't think 10USD/month for access to a forum is anywhere near cheap or even reasonable, no matter how big it is. I can't imagine anyone paying that for non-warez Usenet access.
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Are you trying to draw a connection between disregarding IP laws and disregarding human rights? Because I'm pretty sure there isn't any.
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by dvdkon 3y ago
Neither can Google maps. Many countries have official maps, some are even open data, but even those don't have perfect coverage of "unofficial" features like footpaths. Here in the Czech Republic, a combination of OSM and of
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by dvdkon 3y ago
I've had lots of old C code refuse to compile on new compilers out-of-the-box, not to mention that you'll likely need to track down old versions of dependencies as well. Sure, you can always get it all to compile with no changes t
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by dvdkon 3y ago
Wikipedia says Windy.com came ~2 years earlier. Funnily enough, they are both Czech projects.

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