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by felixfbecker 8y ago
The car manufacturers always make their speedometers show a little bit too much (like 10%) to make sure they never show too little (or they would get sued badly and get their cars taken of the streets). We _accept_ that the car companies do
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by felixfbecker 8y ago
I was on vacation on Spain with my girlfriend's family, who are from the US. They all had booked international roaming from T-Mobile US. Their speeds were so bad they couldn't even look up restaurants on Yelp. Meanwhile, I am on T
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by felixfbecker 8y ago
When I tried out Windows tabbed shell in the Insiders build I found myself using the web versions of Electron apps (e.g. Slack) way more than the apps. They can do everything the app can nowadays (including native notifications), and with t
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by felixfbecker 8y ago
The fact that OData calls itself not only RESTful, but literally "the best way to REST", while using requests like this: GET serviceRoot/People('russellwhyte')/Microsoft.OData.SampleService.Models.TripPin
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by felixfbecker 8y ago
TypeScript can check and autocomplete valid values of strings too, but I agree with the other points.
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What language features would you like to see removed?
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by felixfbecker 8y ago
JavaScripts stdlib is smaller, C# has a huge stdlib. map/filter on Iterables is just an npm install away, e.g. https://www.npmjs.com/package/iterare
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by felixfbecker 8y ago
Not sure what version you are using, but that is not how PowerShell does completion for me. If I type in `Get-Package` for example and hit tab, I get printed a grid of the possible completions. Then I keep typing until it's not ambiguo
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by felixfbecker 8y ago
It doesn't look like they put any thought into how to make this appeal to Windows devs. One would have expected support for using PowerShell for scripts. Instead, they use git bash (which is definitely less familiar to Windows devs tha
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by felixfbecker 8y ago
What do you mean by aggressive?
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by felixfbecker 8y ago
I like it. Nowadays CLIs got out of hand with verbs, every CLI assigns a very specific meaning to their verbs and it's not clear at all. Just look at kubectl: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/generated&#x2
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by felixfbecker 8y ago
I agree with everything you said, except "JavaScript got it in 2015". JavaScript had first-class functions since its inception in 1995 before any of Java or C#, and methods like `array.map()`/`filter()` etc since ES5.1 in 201
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by felixfbecker 8y ago
> I would love it if I saw a new version of a language come out and it removes language features, wouldn't that be a change! That is exactly .NET Core
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by felixfbecker 8y ago
Sourcegraph engineer here - that's the goal of the Sourcegraph extension API, being generic and code-host agnostic. One Sourcegraph extension can provide the same features on any code host (Gitlab, GitHub, Bitbucket, ...)
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by felixfbecker 8y ago
It's not supposed to tell you what it looks like. Why is it a goal to be able to tell exactly what something looks like from reading the markup?
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by felixfbecker 8y ago
Yeah this seems weird to me. If your API schema is not introspectable, where do your API clients come from? They don't grow on trees. I guess it's easy to cheat and just use an existing client, but that just shows that this is not
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by felixfbecker 8y ago
outlook.com is great
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by felixfbecker 8y ago
I love it when articles just put statements out like "This syntax would be much better, wouldn't it?" and then just assume the answer is obviously yes and don't find the need to provide any arguments for that. I disagree
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by felixfbecker 8y ago
I hope this will make URLs more transparent and _easier_ to "hack", not the opposite. URLs and deep linking is what makes the web great. If this means making that feature of the web accessible to everyone, that's awesome. If
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by felixfbecker 8y ago
Yarn has the same issue (it used to do shallow updates, but this was changed due to community demand, and now theres the demand to change it back again)
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by felixfbecker 8y ago
> NPM specially assumes that "patch versions are safer to update than minor or major version". I don't see where that assumption is baked into npm - the creator of a package declares the dependency constraints, so they are
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by felixfbecker 8y ago
This would still mean that (the deeper the dependency tree) updates take longer to trickle down to your project, and to spread across the whole ecosystem. Not everyone will have these tools set up, and they will still cause a delay since it
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by felixfbecker 8y ago
This reminds me a lot of the SUBSCRIBE method [0] in Microsoft’s WebDAV extensions (I think this is used for EAS?). You pass a Call-Back header with a URL that gets called with NOTIFY [1] [0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us
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by felixfbecker 8y ago
I payed for Synergy because I love the concept, but the UI is pretty much unusable on high DPI screens on Windows and looks like Windows 95. Are there any plans to update it?
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by felixfbecker 8y ago
All I want is a system that gets the basic right and is version-controllable in git (plain text source code). Latex is just ridiculously complex and inconsistent. Even after years of using it, I have to google how to do most things every ti
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by felixfbecker 9y ago
Sounds like you never used a Surface Book. The OS is closer to Linux than macOS thanks to WSL, the screen is truly stunning and the touchpad on-par with MacBooks.
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by felixfbecker 9y ago
dist-tags/release channels are far superior to classic semver pre-releases. What is the difference between an unstable and a stable version? Testing by users. So as soon as enough users have tested / enough time has passed without
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by felixfbecker 9y ago
Also, how is this not a breaking change? They talk so much about BC but cut minor releases that don't run on the same OS versions as the previous release? Same with FreeBSD: > As announced in the Go 1.9 release notes, Go 1.10 now re
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by felixfbecker 9y ago
A library API is bound to a specific language/runtime. But every language out there can speak JSON. Language servers are mostly written in the language they are for, because that language already has the compiler APIs. The editor is of