ilovwindows

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by ilovwindows 5y ago
I wish I had read following books when I was a teenager or my parents had read them. Never too late though. These books changed my life. 1. The power of Now by Eckhart Tolle Helped me stay present. Helped me overcome past regrets and future
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by ilovwindows 5y ago
It's clearly shows Apple doesn't support Open Source. So few projects. It's embarrassing for the company which sprout out of an Open Source project. For those who don't know, MacOS is a fork of FreeBSD.
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by ilovwindows 5y ago
Many people might not know, but early version of IE was built on top of Mosaic, the first web browser, created by same people who built Netscape Navigator. Also, IE didn't win because it was better than Navigator but it was shipped fre
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by ilovwindows 5y ago
I agree with the author. Some devs take unit testing too literally. I have come across tests which mock every units that a component being test depends on. It's a terrible practice. First mocks are hard to maintain and second over time
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by ilovwindows 5y ago
I have been waiting for 0.5 for ages. While most of us are trying to justify one text editor over the other, I am using combination of them depending upon the usecases. I use Neovim most of the time and use Vscode for special cases like get
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A tiny SQL query composer that scales infinitely(github.com)
2 points by ilovwindows 5y ago|0 comments
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by ilovwindows 5y ago
I disagree. Query composing is probably 70% of an ORM framework. Rest are schema generation, serialization and validation. All of which can live outside the ORM.
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by ilovwindows 5y ago
ORMs are unnecessary abstraction. Check out https://github.com/ludbek/sql-compose Tools like this are the future. It's so simple yet flexible enough to handle any complex queries. It scales infinitely.
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by ilovwindows 5y ago
I have always wondered, wouldn't it be pretty easy to create a missile that follows a radar wave to it's source? A fighter plane could use this very missile to shut down a fighter plane chasing it or a ground radar scanning it.
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by ilovwindows 5y ago
A simple experiment will open your eyes wide. Lets ship iPhones which cannot install any third party apps and see who goes bankrupt. Apple or the app developers? No one with sane mind will by the iPhones. Where as devs can always make money
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by ilovwindows 5y ago
30% of a revenue is extortion. Why should an app developer pay that fee? It's like owning almost half of a business. Apple is the most developer hostile company.It charges $100 every year to devs for developing apps to it's platf
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Apple wants you to know it chose not to take a cut of $400B in physical goods(theverge.com)
2 points by ilovwindows 5y ago|0 comments
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by ilovwindows 6y ago
The biggest drawback of this pattern is, it won't support mobile and desktop apps.
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by ilovwindows 6y ago
The question is why it's installed by default? Also why would the admin in Raspberry Pi forum remove threads related above issue. It's suspicious.
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About Linux Game Development(theregister.com)
2 points by ilovwindows 6y ago|0 comments
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by ilovwindows 8y ago
And we still have to pay for it
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by ilovwindows 8y ago
So they are gonna open source everything so that the community can contribute to it and still charge us for using it. Cleaver move Microsoft