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by emeraldd 5y ago
> Part of that was requiring that I come to them with identified problems. "Hey I'm getting this error, can you take a look at a stack trace in a language you've never used and tell me what's wrong?" would have g
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by emeraldd 5y ago
small note, I think it's R#RS ...
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by emeraldd 5y ago
My experience with Dell laptops seems to match up with your experience on the MBP. If something is going to fail, it will usually fail immediately or last the "lifetime" of the device. Batteries being the main exception as those a
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by emeraldd 5y ago
I think there's a slight confusion here. An opinion should be stated as an opinion and not treated as or claimed to be a fact. If the point in question is stated as an opinion then fine and I'd agree with you. On the other hand, s
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by emeraldd 5y ago
It get's tricky with ambiguous subjects. If there is a concrete correct answer then yes, give that stick to your guns. If there isn't and the issue comes down to opinion and interpretation ... things get dicy ...
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by emeraldd 5y ago
MVC is such an overloaded term ... I don't think I've seen behavioral equivalence between any two implementations/frameworks in any language I've dealt with. As always, the devil is in the details. So going much further
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by emeraldd 5y ago
IANAPhyicist but if I understand what’s being said correctly the amount of energy necessary to create the warp bubble in the first place, would require converting something roughly the mass of Jupiter. So you’d twice that to “come back”. It
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by emeraldd 5y ago
> QA says: “it doesn’t work”. Dev says: “it must be working, all the tests pass”. Yup, the very next question here should be: Show me the failing/in correct behavior. This means: * There's a case the automated tests don't
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by emeraldd 5y ago
Is the a rehash of the NeoMedia patent issue? Look up Michaels qr code patent lawsuit ...
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by emeraldd 5y ago
My first thought, write another one ... second thought, have you looked at Pod casting? Scott Sigler, J. C. Hutchins, and Nathan Lowell all seem to have made some progress that way.
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by emeraldd 5y ago
Twine and SugarCube! Interesting to see that pop up here: https://www.motoslave.net/sugarcube/2/
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by emeraldd 5y ago
Knowing why a warning happens and being able to say that a particular warning is safe to suppress in a given instance is a reasonable way to deal with that case. There isn't a lot else you can really do... but you need to know the why
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by emeraldd 5y ago
I can't say I understand the formula in the article, but I have interacted with emacs/vim and VS Code to some degree. I've also use several other IDEAS (Eclipse, NetBeans, IntelliJ, etc) and I have to say except for special c
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by emeraldd 5y ago
Is there a readable version of the message Greg was replying to https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/YH%2FfM%2FTsbmcZzwnX@kroah... ? Or was there more to it that what Greg quoted?
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by emeraldd 5y ago
> The IRB of University of Minnesota reviewed the procedures of the experiment and determined that this is not human research. We obtained a formal IRB-exempt letter. Is there anyone on hand who could explain how what looks very much li
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by emeraldd 6y ago
I suspect the puzzle point has more to do with the kind of puzzle to be solved than solving puzzles in general. Word puzzles, dexterity puzzles, progressive discovery puzzles, etc. Each of them has a very different appeal. For instance, a r
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by emeraldd 6y ago
Does this result in text that does not change size with zoom? I've seen several sites where it is all but impossible to change zoom levels because the whole site resizes itself. This "feature" drives me nuts when I run into i
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by emeraldd 6y ago
I thought I'd read this before. Still, there's this little tidbit that bears repeating: Secondly, I would regularly give a speech to the finance employees that went like this: “In this business, we may run into trouble.
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by emeraldd 6y ago
This is well outside of the practical capabilities of anyone but a nation state or large commercial entity. Even then, it's hard. It's more practical for a physical letter than for digital stuff. For a digital service, you'
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by emeraldd 6y ago
I tend to run both. The second screen let's me have source/editor on one and reference material on the other. My daily driver is a three screen setup( laptop display and two external monitors). There's usually some combinatio
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by emeraldd 6y ago
It can be much more complicated than that. * You want means to keep all of the dev environments in sync so you don't get "works on my machine" problems. * If you update something, then you need a way for everyone to have thei
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by emeraldd 6y ago
I remember seeing an article about something related to this some time ago. When it comes to music and background noise in a work environment, the nature and kind of noise matters greatly. If you don't have the right kind of noise for
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by emeraldd 6y ago
What we've seen in the public eye is a classic example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem Attack the person does very little for you except in a purely emotional venue. It can actually make things much mu
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by emeraldd 6y ago
My first thought would be flash storage. So I would read that as no or failing local storage on the phone.
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by emeraldd 6y ago
As the number of tools grow and the number of teams using/developing them grow this becomes more and more untenable. You not only have to maintain the tool itself, but also the build stacks associated with them and it becomes the task
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by emeraldd 6y ago
I suspect they don't believe there is a market for them or at least not enough of a market to justify the development expense. I know they've tried producing a "server" in the past and even a server version of their ope
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by emeraldd 6y ago
This behaves really badly on mobile. I keep having the begin buttons not show up properly and it's too easy to blow past the text milestones with a flick of the finger. This makes it hard to track what's going on. ...
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by emeraldd 6y ago
> Actually turn the heat/AC on I live in Texas, a good chunk of the year, it would be nuts to try to live without A/C (We're not quite Death Valley, but it can get pretty hot here ...). So, I'd amend that one to: &quo
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by emeraldd 6y ago
Ok' so nothing new then, just a wider reaching article.
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by emeraldd 6y ago
Does anyone who would has access to such information, know if this means Disney has not agreed to pay or if this just took that long to work its way through WSJ?

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