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by flukus 6y ago
> nstead of the current style in which office buildings have huge rectangular floor plates with elevators in the center I think you hit the nail on the head, this is why cubicles were hated, it wasn't the cubicle, it was the sprawli
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by flukus 6y ago
I'm not familiar with modula but this doesn't appear to be a valid program ;) I think it wasn't until Vim 8 that the default for .md files became markdown.
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by flukus 6y ago
It's a shame it disappeared before educators became serious about teaching kids to code as well. All my math text books from the late 80's and 90's came with code samples written in basic that teachers ignored and now kids ha
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by flukus 6y ago
> You can say whatever about php and java but 20 year old code works fine with very minor changes; I have Node/JS code from 2 years ago that doesn't work anymore at all after security updates. Doesn't that also depend on a
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by flukus 6y ago
> First things the vast majority of users (virtually all) when they see an old ugly GUI is to hit the back button. These aren't public facing apps you have to entice people to use, it's part of their job, if someone hits the ba
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by flukus 6y ago
Isn't that a feature? Should my settings be cleared if I uninstall a program and reinstall it later? Should all my libre office documents disappear when I uninstall libre office?
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by flukus 6y ago
To a large extent immigration (along with internal migration) and the pressure it puts on real estate costs have been responsible for the drop in birth rates. I know plenty of people that would have had kids if they'd had the financial
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by flukus 6y ago
> Is American tech dominance the result of some magic cultural mojo born from American values that can't be replicated in a different cultural sphere To an extent I think it was, nothing inherently American but openness and a certai
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by flukus 6y ago
> What makes it feel inhumane is when you're laid off with 3700 other employees in a three minute meeting. At least they spared them one more long meeting where they yap on about how important people are, how this a hard choice, how
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by flukus 6y ago
Mailing Lists. Everyone here seems to be conflating good written communication with documentation, but good written communication has happened via a mailing list for decades. Mailing lists provide the many to many interface of a meeting or
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by flukus 6y ago
That's a good fallback for everyone's $ANDROID_APP that can't live without. But for the most part I'd be fine with not having that tire fire ported anyway, those apps are likely to be slow, suck battery and not conform a
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by flukus 6y ago
That's basically the Librem 5 ( https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ ) and to me the most exciting thing about it.
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by flukus 6y ago
> Maybe Gmail is the best example of using the SPA experience to drive a rich UX. Gmail is is the perfect example of an app that loses more functionality than it gains by being an SPA. Middle click to open an email in a new window doesn&
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by flukus 6y ago
> That was a fixed non-resizable layout, showing static content. It eventually morphed into the Windows Forms builder which handled dynamic layouts quite well, if a little different to most. Elements could be "anchored" to spec
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by flukus 6y ago
According to the steam hardware survey ( https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey ) current desktop hardware is 8GB of RAM or less, that's what half of all users have. There are more people on 4GB or less than there are w
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by flukus 6y ago
> if there is so such thing as immunity then waiting for the vaccine is pointless no? The keyword there is lasting, we know immunity exists we just don't know for how long. If a vaccine could be distributed to enough people in a sho
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by flukus 6y ago
Many of those things are solved by outsourcing it to a distro. Sure it's not perfect but having a maintainer layer between the developers and the users has proven much safer than blindly trusting the developers like npm. It also scales
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by flukus 6y ago
> I wish we could get rid of it and replace it with something sensible Getting rid of it is hard, but replacing many uses of it with a more capable codgen/templating your definition of sensible is very simple, just a make rule or tw
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by flukus 6y ago
I also like having a script per project that will get auto loaded when you cd in. An example from a current project: #my vimrc knows what to do with this export VIM_TAGFILES="$PWD/build/tags,$HOME/.local/var&#
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by flukus 6y ago
> It allows you to remove the concern of logging from your classes completely. You say that like it's a good thing. When there's a bug to look into grepping strings from the log is one of the first steps, the first step if you
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by flukus 6y ago
> I fail to see how a first class framework with a LTS that was released years ago can be described with a straight face as "way too unstable". I fail to see how you can call 2 years of support an LTS with a straight face, it&#
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by flukus 6y ago
> not realizing how much time has gone into developing well tuned caches within the database system itself File systems too. A cron job writing a csv makes a surprisingly simple cache the OS can keep in memory.
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by flukus 6y ago
I would love to have seen Windows Integrated Authentication evolve into an open adopted standard: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/258063/internet-exp... Intranet web apps didn't even require a m
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by flukus 6y ago
> If 3rd party cookies had never been enabled, that's what we would be doing today, and you would never even know your traffic was being sent to a 3rd party. Fortunately the GDPR also makes this illegal without consent, it legislate
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by flukus 6y ago
> ASP.NET Core 2.1 was released in 2018 and will be supported until late 2021. Which is way too unstable, especially for the kind of corporate environment c# has typically been used in. Getting those places to upgrade to stable supported
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by flukus 6y ago
I've gone down this rabbit hole recently, I was using apache because it come with a lot of nice to haves beside http handling, like authorization, session and cookie modules, but I wanted to see if c and cgi were viable for modern web
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by flukus 6y ago
> The travel shutdown from China wad probably a random act of racism and not a coherently planned action I think it was more about punishing countries that aren't so friendly. China and Iran got travel restrictions pretty quickly. I
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by flukus 6y ago
I doubt we'll see anyone held accountable. In most countries there were multiple failures that will let everyone successfully deflect the blame, often those failures were years ago and the people responsible are no longer around. From
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by flukus 6y ago
I like valgrind for this, combined with automated tests it gets decent coverage and finds actual (or at least probable) errors.
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by flukus 6y ago
> The medical system in the US was never overwhelmed So you think the solution was pointless because it prevented the problem from ever occurring?

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