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by fournm 13y ago
So many defects knocked out this week during the HN issues. I don't know whether to be glad or what.
92.
by fournm 13y ago
I prefer Office. Libre/Open Office compatibility always fails me in some strange way and they've still got certain settings buried deep in strange locations. Google Apps are okay in a pinch and I don't mind using them for sma
93.
by fournm 13y ago
Because it's a pointless measure--If $X legally must be spent, one would generally assume that's permission to spend $X. Denmark at least keeps theirs set high enough (for now) to avoid any political stances and shenanigans around
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by fournm 13y ago
I'm skeptical and I'm going to stay that way until I actually get to try it because of the haptic feedback, but.. The face button layout also gets to me. That's going to require some serious mental gymnastics to re-wire 20+ y
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by fournm 13y ago
This is a pretty recent change in how controller support works in (Windows? DirectX? not 100% sure) but basically any third party controller can register itself as an Xbox controller. I have an older Logitech DualAction and a newer one, the
96.
by fournm 13y ago
I don't know, after dealing with hundreds of jsps and javascript files adding margins in all variety of ways when they should be a consistent size (that of course, has changed over time and not been changed everywhere) in an enterprise
97.
by fournm 13y ago
Ouch to the 503's with rawgithub, but I like this. I'd love to see a rain track/Chell in the Rain version with this on it.
98.
by fournm 13y ago
I've seen ~O(1) as amortized constant time fairly frequently.
99.
by fournm 13y ago
As another Atrix owner, backing this up entirely. It's in a position where you basically hit power and then slide your finger down along it. Edit: As a side note, the lack of it on other Android phones is really making it hard for me t
100.
by fournm 13y ago
I like the look of this--not necessarily for my daily coding font (Source Code Pro, lately, but Consolas works in a pinch) though it would definitely help for any presentation that needs to display code. It just looks like a good presentati
101.
by fournm 13y ago
From a user perspective, intents are more useful and cover almost everything they're talking about. Most people really don't want to think about the how, they just want to share something to Facebook somehow. Having a standard way
102.
by fournm 13y ago
It's more common in enterprise-y settings, since you don't have to pay them as much. Hire a few senior people to do the heavy lifting and stick all the maintenance programming stuff on the others.
103.
by fournm 13y ago
Looks slightly less portable because of the lack of clamshell, but I bet the battery life is improved enough to make up for it. I'm interested.
104.
by fournm 13y ago
I'm more in favor of everyone learning CS theory (primarily logic really and anything else would just be icing on the cake), which would be a more transferable and honestly useful skill. As it is, the most states try to bake learning h
105.
by fournm 13y ago
With plugins already in a different process, these situations are far less likely.
106.
by fournm 13y ago
Honestly, the code's probably changed enough since it was commented out to not be worth considering anymore (short of maybe leaving the comment, reworded, to explain what used to happen and why). Large amounts (I regularly see 500+ lin
107.
by fournm 13y ago
I'm at a loss when it comes to considering something with dead code or a potentially unexpected return type to be good code, especially in something statically typed...
108.
by fournm 13y ago
That is gorgeous and a huge step up in readability over the previous docs (and most others that I see, honestly). Amazing work, everyone involved.
109.
by fournm 13y ago
And in more cases than people seem to think, you really don't need it.
110.
by fournm 13y ago
Yeah. I understand the sentiment on some level, but when you find 10+ broken implementations of the same thing in a large codebase because every team decided to do it slightly differently you start to really, really appreciate those meeting
111.
by fournm 13y ago
On the opposite end of the spectrum, there are frequently science and engineering tests where the expected average is around 30-50%! I'd argue those tests are more poorly designed, as they're either the wrong format or the profe
112.
by fournm 13y ago
This is more what surprises me--the lack of some slow, calculated migration off of PHP and to something like Node, almost anything JVM based, etc (since yeah, a full rewrite of any codebase is almost always crazy). I'm in a similar leg
113.
by fournm 13y ago
I'm always astounded at just how much effort Facebook puts into trying to keep PHP usable compared to switching to really almost anything else.
114.
by fournm 13y ago
I'm always amused by how quickly drinks seem to go in order to save costs when the cost of drinks for an entire small department of developers is nothing compared to the salary of a single one of them, yearly. Not to mention the whole "deve
115.
by fournm 13y ago
I've been using NewsBlur with a paid account since pretty close to the shutdown announcement for Reader and finally switched all of my bookmarks over. I'm happy with the web app, and honestly, the Android app is way better than what I was u
116.
by fournm 13y ago
I don't know if I would quite go with loving Eclipse (working in an environment where workspaces are practically required instead of only closing/opening projects and having to redefine settings constantly is a pain) at this point, having n
117.
by fournm 14y ago
Between this and the cost per developer, I don't think there's any way I could ever justify using it. It looks really nice, though, definitely good job.
118.
by fournm 14y ago
I've not seen it directly in the package names, but I've definitely seen project hierarchies with source/java even though no other languages were used (or going to be used, for that matter).
119.
by fournm 14y ago
This is my day job in a nutshell. Somewhere around the 5th folder click I couldn't decide if I wanted to laugh or cry.
120.
by fournm 14y ago
Most of the settings complained about are behind an "Advanced" tab anyways. If you really want to keep them from users, stick a "warning: dragons" on it or document the hell out of putting the ability to enable the advanced tab in about:con

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