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by dylan-m 8y ago
Anyone else irked by the keyboard shortcut analogy Google's lawyers keep using? It clearly didn't help them last time they used it. I think if I was a judge I would feel … insulted by such an obvious oversimplification. And the re
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by dylan-m 8y ago
One thing which helps Blender is that its target audience is better equipped to write code, or at least think about code enough to connect with the "project" side of open source software. That doesn't mean Blender users need
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by dylan-m 8y ago
This is, alas, a result of a community that consists of hundreds of disconnected individuals who are each isolated working on their own little modules and don't need to talk to each other outside of NPM's interface. I doubt this w
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by dylan-m 8y ago
Yep. I really like Sublime, and I probably still would be using it. I had it all set up to sync settings between my devices, with a nice theme, some handy plugins, and excellent syntax highlighters. But at some point I had both a new person
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by dylan-m 8y ago
> You don’t see politicians hauling the inventor of email onto TV and demanding that someone do a better job of censoring email. I wish they would. That guy's ( http://inventorofemail.com/ ) a piece of work :b
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by dylan-m 8y ago
I'm somewhere on the autism spectrum, which isn't a big deal, but it does have the effect that I don't come across well in phone calls. So if that's my first meeting with someone, I am doomed . It's challenging eno
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by dylan-m 8y ago
Oh, I was happy with it technically, and I'm glad you're doing something similar with some success! It was just the wrong direction there because it added some friction, building new things where we don't need to build new th
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by dylan-m 8y ago
I was trying Polymer as a components library along with React (with react-polymer, and a bunch of glue code). That way the React code amounts, indeed, to a layer of scaffolding saying "render this component here with this data from her
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by dylan-m 8y ago
Hi! I'm looking for an engineering role, with room to grow. Ideally working for a diverse team on a meaningful project with a clear, long term vision. Location: Vancouver, BC Remote: Sure! Willing to relocate: No, but willing to travel
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by dylan-m 8y ago
$ vim ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
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by dylan-m 8y ago
I set up a little Ubuntu Core server with Nextcloud for archives and sharing, and Syncthing for slightly cleverer sync of files I'm actively working with. Syncthing is decentralized, and it's designed so you can just pick any fold
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by dylan-m 8y ago
Airplane safety is necessarily complicated. To make a giant 300 passenger airplane safe to fly requires an incredible amount of engineering, for a reason. You just can't build this in a way that laypeople can understand. Voting is fund
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by dylan-m 8y ago
I've been doing a four day week since starting at a place that was willing to put up with my shit. You'd have to talk to my boss for actual numbers, but I feel much more productive: * I usually have one or two major goals for the
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by dylan-m 8y ago
I think some video games have this solved quite nicely: for an offscreen point of interest, show an indicator at the edge of the screen. That way someone knows that it's there, and they can click to jump to it (or pan all the way there
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by dylan-m 8y ago
Taken too far, capitalism is also private, for-profit prisons, it turns out. How are those going for you?
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by dylan-m 8y ago
Yep. That's one of the reasons I have always really appreciated GNOME: they're steadfast about buttons that do what they say, and it makes everything so much nicer to deal with for me. Part of this is GTK does a good job avoiding
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by dylan-m 8y ago
Not to mention repeatedly claiming that "it saves lives", when they're probably either talking about a completely separate collision avoidance system (which has probably stopped several accidents, by definition, but it isn&#x
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by dylan-m 8y ago
I was ghosted by an employer after sending them a "few days/hours" technical homework assignment (kindly assigned before any kind of interview). Granted, I sent it to them near the deadline and it was barely complete, but it
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by dylan-m 8y ago
Oh gosh, the scrollbars. The scrollbars are more of a disaster than before. I was trying to figure out Gmail for someone with macular degeneration who doesn't want to deal with screen readers or Mutt. Instead she stubbornly uses a magn
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by dylan-m 8y ago
This is fed by a weird delusion amidst tech people that all their problems (including hiring employees) are somehow incredibly unique, and that they occupy some special magical world that nobody else has ever dealt with before, and they&#x2
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by dylan-m 8y ago
Actually, looking back at it: I've been living under a rock and oblivious to how successful Qt Quick has been :b Before I lost the plot, Qt relied on a lot of C++ particulars (and they used to recommend their own precompiler for some f
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by dylan-m 8y ago
It's silly to discard GTK as overcomplicated because it is designed for more than "a few buttons and some text". Surely the author's JSON idea would end up in the same place. After all, it's a GUI toolkit that is go
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by dylan-m 9y ago
Glad to help! It's better than nothing, yeah :b And if you have a newer phone version of Android, you might be able to double press the Power button to open the camera. In stock Android, there's a thing in Settings / System &
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by dylan-m 9y ago
On the bright side, I think product placement manipulates people in less problematic ways than companies like Cambridge Analytica have been able to do with precision-targeted advertisements. At least product placement needs to involve actua
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by dylan-m 9y ago
Microsoft and Nokia had a really good balance of software and hardware, and it's still a unique contrast to what Google and Apple are doing. I really liked their colourful cases (although the N9 did it best), and I'm still envious
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by dylan-m 9y ago
Well, we had Meego, WebOS, and Firefox OS, and we failed them :( I wonder what it would take for one of those to actually succeed at this point? Personally I'm finding that I care much less about what apps there are than I did three
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by dylan-m 9y ago
Heh, I'm mostly bitter because most of the places I've interviewed at lately just give everyone a Macbook Pro and that's the end of it, and I'm sick of cursing at their window manager and then running Linux on the things
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by dylan-m 9y ago
I always find it amusing how developers flock to MacOS saying things like "you don't need to configure it like Linux; it just works", and then there are articles like this containing myriads of workarounds for its problems :b
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by dylan-m 9y ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/651/ . For someone who spends his time distributing leaked government documents, he sure has a … peculiar understanding of how the law works. (At least, how it works 99.9% of the time).
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by dylan-m 9y ago
I'm really confused by this monorepo thing. So many people have gleefully hopped on to this particular cult, and the most reasonable reasoning that I've heard is it helps to glob together interdependent parts of a system, but I fe

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