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by generalk 7y ago
I'm not sure if there's something outside my usage that Chrome does better, but for my needs Firefox's dev tools are great. Firefox also not only sync's between all of my devices, including my cell phone. Each device has
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by generalk 7y ago
I would definitely love to see a setting for "if this one-lane back road route saves me less than ten minutes, just take me on the big main street."
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by generalk 7y ago
Perhaps you only get to where Apple is with world-class marketing. Apple's iPod wasn't the first mp3 player, and it for damn sure wasn't technically superior. The iPhone was not the first smartphone, nor the first phone wit
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by generalk 7y ago
I also write CRUD apps for a living. Not every project needs Elixir, but here's several reasons why I might choose Phoenix for a project: 1. Phoenix's channels make communication between a frontend and backend pretty effortless. C
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by generalk 7y ago
> 1. The world could use an online independent currency I'm not 100% steeped in cryptocurrency theory, and so I don't understand why this is presented as if it's agreed on by everyone. What problems does the world have tha
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by generalk 8y ago
Use an ORM. Use an industry-standard ORM -- Hibernate, ActiveRecord, SQLAlchemy, whatever is the done thing in your language. There's just no reason not to. Onboarding new developers becomes easier. Your common queries (fetch a record
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by generalk 9y ago
> Can we not let this become framed as a "breach"? No > systems were compromised. Nothing of Facebook's was > accessed that wasn't supposed to be accessed. This was > data intentionally exposed by
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by generalk 10y ago
Or, alternatively: 3 AM on a Sunday, you discover a critical bug in a library provided by a third party. Commercial support: You call them. It takes an entire day of awkward back and forth emails and phone calls, but you eventually get an e
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by generalk 10y ago
> Is [keeping "guilty murderers alive in prison"] worth it? In many cases, guilt is not certain, only proved beyond a reasonable doubt. Lifetime imprisonment can be reversed if a mistake is realized, but death can't. Even
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by generalk 10y ago
> I'm hopeful, though. I like the idea of a decentralized > content platform. We have one of those, the WWW. What we need is a decentralized method for the social aspects: identity management, networking (following/liking,
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by generalk 12y ago
> One definition of "Common" means prevalent and it seems to > me that this word was picked not to solve the above problem > but to get around it by making Gruber look like a dick for > objecting again to the same p
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by generalk 12y ago
I don't understand a thing you're saying. but at the moment you start to derail real progress, the moment you attack one of the best organizations who has literally been busting its ass for the last decade to change the world for
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by generalk 14y ago
I've said it before, but to make the Nexus Q awesome : give it Google Now, and have multiple users able to set up their own Google accounts on it. I don't want an Android console, I don't need something else to stream content to my TV, b
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by generalk 14y ago
Really? Reading your comment I realized that I just naturally I assumed Bill wasn't his real name.
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by generalk 14y ago
No but you can hide an OS-level software back button, like in any Android 4 phone that doesn't have hardware buttons.
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by generalk 14y ago
> When I buy a ThinkPad, I intend to keep it for 5 years. > My friends with MacBooks all replace them every 2-3 years. Yeah that's one of the reasons I don't know if I'm comfortable getting one of the new Macbooks. I mea
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by generalk 14y ago
Of course, what works for the guy who invented Linux might not work for someone who just wants a download/install/everything works Linux setup.
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by generalk 14y ago
It's honestly one of the reasons I'm still contemplating getting a new Mac when it's time to upgrade. I've never seen a PC laptop with both a comfortable, large, smooth trackpad and good drivers that provide the kind of scrolling you get
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by generalk 14y ago
I agree, fewer buttons does not necessarily make a device simpler. There's a happy medium that I think Android hit with the four-button menu/home/back/search keys. Whenever I use an iPhone anymore I always cache-miss and try to find the har
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by generalk 14y ago
> These layers were built not just for differentiation but for > base functionality/gloss that stock eclair/froyo/gingerbread lacked. Certainly! But then Android got awesome. 4.0 is good, and 4.1 is great. But manufactu
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by generalk 14y ago
> Apple targets people who want their computer to look pretty. > Lenovo targets the people who want to get stuff done. I'm no Apple fanboy, but this statement's ridiculous. > Want to quickly scroll through a docum
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by generalk 14y ago
Care to expand on that? Recall that Mac OS X is a certified UNIX, so I'm not sure what "unix-y" features it's missing.
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by generalk 14y ago
ORMs -- in my case ruby's ActiveRecord -- solve nearly every use-case I have. Find a record by its primary key; get a record and all of the associated records from another table; update a record with a bunch of data? Why should I write a
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by generalk 14y ago
> Because it would seem to me that your company _invented_ a tradition like that, it's just that you didn't like that it wasn't invented from the guy sitting > next to you. No, the company didn't "invent" a tradition. Her
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by generalk 14y ago
I can't help but wonder why Google didn't ship this thing with Google Now. A cool looking sci-fi sphere that hooks up to my TV and lets me and my Android-enabled guests stream stuff from Google's cloud? I have almost no need for this. A few
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by generalk 14y ago
I'm sure the same people that were dismissive of the Playbook are also dismissive of the Nexus 7, at least until Apple releases a 7" iPad. That said, the bigger complaints I heard about the Playbook had nothing to do with its size and every
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by generalk 14y ago
I'm on the fence. On the one hand, the new MBP is a fantastic machine and if I pay the premium for the 16GB of RAM, I'm probably going to be set for years. That said, I'm currently running the original Late 2008 Unibody Macbook Pro. It's
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by generalk 14y ago
I'd be annoyed if my HD or RAM started showing signs of failure and I had to take it into a service center and have it mailed to a facility somewhere to fix it.
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by generalk 14y ago
But it's primarily a complaint that there's no built-in service to upload said mixed-media to, for sharing. I can think of several off the top of my head, Flickr being the best of them. To your parent comment's point, with an And
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by generalk 14y ago
GitHub for Mac borrows from a lot of good Mac UIs, and it looks like GitHub for Windows does the same from good Windows UIs. Frankly I find this refreshing. I'm tired of applications that build their own interaction layer and then implement

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