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by frou_dh 7y ago
My sole use of Python is writing plugins (mostly single-user: me) for Sublime Text. It feels pretty comfy to effectively be on an island and far away from the hustle and bustle of the industrial Python tooling.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Flagged as off topic. And probable rubbish comment thread.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
That reminds me of "eBayISAPI.dll" still being in eBay URLs, but in that case I think it's fake and no longer actually hooked into some crusty old Microsoft stack.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Automatically repeating todos in Things.app, that have a link to the manufacturer's web page where they list BIOS/Firmware updates. The todos are set to repeat 2 months after they were last completed.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Do have have experience using a language with sum types and exhaustive case analysis?
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by frou_dh 7y ago
"Implementation Detail" is a fundamental concept in software engineering. If we don't formalise something as fundamental as that in tooling, we're pretty much giving up on tooling.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Fighting the good(?) fight for POSIX shell portability. https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/c... https://shellhaters.org
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by frou_dh 7y ago
MacOS has a much stronger distinction between applications and windows than MS-Windows does. The Cmd-Tab switcher deals with apps, not windows. Similarly, Hide (Cmd-H) and Hide Others (Opt-Cmd-H) operate on app(s), while Minimize (Cmd-M) op
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Hide is for apps, Minimize is for windows. You're not derisively ranting while not even knowing what Hide is, are you?
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Somewhat related... if you're using a Mac and haven't taken the time to understand the difference between Hide (Cmd-H) and Minimize (Cmd-M) then you're missing out.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Filed under: Depths of Yakshaving
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by frou_dh 7y ago
He would have had to expend quite some calories to type that out every time on an ancient keyboard with chunky keys and massive travel.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
I just went to the Rust homepage and clicked until I found an example of a function. It's being presented in Monaco where the dash is noticeably higher than the centre of the angle bracket.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
The thing about adopting the ASCII Art pseudo arrow is that it bakes in an assumption that the dash character lines up vertically with the point on the angle bracket character. This simply isn't the case in plenty of fonts. So it often
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by frou_dh 7y ago
I settled on LaunchControl instead because I was impressed by the semantic understanding of fields that it has. If a job goes wrong it frequently has a 1-click suggestion to fix it or to facilitate debugging. https://www.soma-zo
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Some of the good quality iOS apps that aren't even games use the TE in multiple places, so it definitely can be used tastefully.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
It's a big Opportunity Cost because if people aren't mutually learning from each other then they are most likely just treading water skills-wise. You know, the whole "5 years of experience -vs- the same year repeated 5 times
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by frou_dh 7y ago
I don't know whether you have access to the "Taptic Engine" API on iOS, but a tactile ping when striking the ball and thuds when it hits a planet surfaces could be nice.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
They didn't say it mattered, they said they were curious.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Inane article title required for clickbait?
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by frou_dh 7y ago
That is illustrated very well by the second row here: https://www.paintcodeapp.com/news/ultimate-guide-to-iphone-r...
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Makes me wonder whether people have tried making the wiki repository a git submodule/subtree of the code repository.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Point is that diminishing returns for great legibility kick in far north of ~100 DPI. Perhaps 330 or 440 is pointless at typical desktop viewing distances, but 220 certainly isn't. I mean, just because ~100 looks okay isn't gr
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Wikis on GitHub are themselves git repos and can be cloned separately: https://help.github.com/en/articles/adding-or-editing-wiki-p...
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by frou_dh 7y ago
High-DPI (namely 200+ DPI, aka Retina) text rendering on desktop computers is one of the more impactful hardware developments for programmers in a while. When you're looking at text all day every day, having every single glyph take a m
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by frou_dh 7y ago
> The 5700 series seems right at home in this machine. Isn't the Navi architecture gaming-focused? Vega might still be superior for the "compute" workloads of pro apps. Edit: Although I guess the base-spec comes with an an
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Love a good cheatsheet that actually respects the concept of being a SINGLE, fixed-layout page: http://www.ocamlpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ocaml-lan... It's something of a lost art in the
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by frou_dh 7y ago
It's not insightful commentary to just repeat a meme phrase https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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by frou_dh 7y ago
I would posit that the vast majority of working programmers have always-on internet while working. So an offline-capable bug tracker is not actually that much of draw.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Notably, that quirk was the impetus for the link called "web" under every HN submission. Which, in my experience, still does work more often than not to get around paywalls.

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