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by gitgud 6y ago
> So in the end, their hosted copy might be much larger than if you had hosted an optimized copy yourself. But you could upload your optimized copy to their platform right?
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by gitgud 6y ago
Inheritance of classes with behaviours has only ever brought me pain and suffering. Though sometimes I'll have an inheritance tree of interfaces, which is pretty easy to manage. The best way I've found to share behaviour is depend
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by gitgud 6y ago
I think Bob Martin said something like; "Legacy code is code without tests" Meaning if a codebase has no tests, it's api and behaviours are extremely hard to determine and change without breaking things.
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by gitgud 6y ago
Sometimes the discussion here is more interesting than the article. If there's something uninformed, then it's totally fine to politely call them out on it. It can also be interesting to see discussions deviate from the exact topi
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by gitgud 6y ago
True, but the burden of maintenance and up-time is on yourself then... Might be good to have a self hosted backup that's automatically synced with Github
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by gitgud 6y ago
Can't wait for the article about this outage, what will it be? - Auto-scaling issue - DDOS - DNS error - Datacenter outage Any other possible problems?
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by gitgud 6y ago
He was a much loved and frequent [1] user here too... the popularity of him and his impact, before and after his death shows that this site is not hostile to him or his fans... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aarons
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by gitgud 6y ago
Here's the link: http://window-swap.com
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by gitgud 6y ago
Some examples of modern tech, which might not be that modern: [1] Reactive programming, seems fairly modern, but can be traced back to the 1970's. [2] Microservices/Serverless, are basically the same as CGI scripts from the earl
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by gitgud 6y ago
> Nautilus. A feature I found in Nautilus the other day is (ctrl + L) allows you to edit the current directory path..... Had no idea this was possible, but hugely beneficial.
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by gitgud 6y ago
True, but if it was Excel Skills that got me hired, I would see that as a red flag about the engineering position I'd be taking...
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by gitgud 6y ago
> It doesn't matter if it's FOSS or commercial It does matter, you can't fix a problem with IntelliJ, you need to wait until the company considers it economically viable to fix, ie enough people report it or its critical.
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by gitgud 6y ago
Yeah that's what I meant, I'm pretty sure it's isolated by each domain for privacy reasons. * example.com -> GET cdnjs.com/jquery * another.com -> GET cdnjs.com/jquery (not cached from example.com) No caching
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by gitgud 6y ago
I may be wrong, but I don't think the browser caches CDN requests, at least per site... So this might be a performance gain too https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29704811/why-isnt-the-br...
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by gitgud 6y ago
> "From a developers and users perspective, it is a wasted effort." My point is that, the perceived "wasted effort" is actually learning and re-thinking the desktop. Many novel approaches to simpler OS's and pa
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by gitgud 6y ago
Snap isn't too bad, at least Ubuntu are trying to make it easier for new software to run on older machines... they might even swap it out if they get enough backlash I've used Ubuntu since 2014 and have been impressed at most of t
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by gitgud 6y ago
> "snap vs flatpak vs appimages once again shows the fragmentation within the linux desktop ecosystem." A common misconception about the FOSS ecosystem is that many similar projects is "wasted effort". In reality, d
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by gitgud 6y ago
> "I dislike Gnome Shell. It's clean and fast but the GUI is "locked" to the main monitor and I can't even switch windows without looking at it." In case you didn't know, check out the workspaces fe
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by gitgud 6y ago
> "Ubuntu 20 seems to have a host of unwanted Canonical-oriented features." I'm curious, what "Canonical-oriented" features are you referring to? (besides snap) After the move to Gnome, I've found Ubuntu t
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by gitgud 6y ago
Yes, they seem to be targeting people affected by COVID, promising easy get-rich quick schemes online...
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by gitgud 6y ago
-> Logical fallacies, being able to name the reasons why an argument has problems is a great skill to have and it's kind of interesting. -> Linux terminal, amazing how much more fun using a computer is with just the terminal (als
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by gitgud 6y ago
70% of startup ideas suck. Is there anything to support that claim? ... why not 99%
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by gitgud 6y ago
Similar to the rise of the StackOverflow programmer. You can get pretty far just by Googling error-codes and brute-forcing a problem in a domain without any experience (I should know). Maybe not the best way to learn, but in such a technolo
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by gitgud 6y ago
I actually thought there was a lot of substance to the article, but I also watch 45 minute video essays about movies ... so attention spans might vary
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by gitgud 6y ago
The other day I learnt that in Chrome's Dev Tools you can easily replay requests. 1. Network -> Select Request -> "copy as fetch". 2. Then paste the fetch() statement in the JS console, and look at the network tab for r
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by gitgud 6y ago
Well I'm at 3 FPS on an Intel i7 2.40GHz.... would be nice to control the level of detail to give older machines higher refrefresh rates Update: Seems to work much better on Firefox. Tested on Chrome incognito too.
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by gitgud 6y ago
Elegant, but then it's no longer a basic shell-script as it requires python installed. If you can live with additional dependencies, then I like the node [1] commander package, which is very readable and nice to work with in my opinion
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by gitgud 6y ago
True but that's just the first time experience, once they understand it, then user's will trust that the scrolling function will work on subsequent sessions. With websites, every implementation is slightly different... so user&#x2
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by gitgud 6y ago
It's the classic false economy you're saving vertical space, but nobody wants to scroll your carousels, or wait for it to transition. It's always easier to just scroll down the page, especially on mobile. Apps like Instagra

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