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by imron 4y ago
> Adobe is deeply committed to keeping Figma operating autonomously What an 'incredible journey' for Figma.
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One of my favorite Bill Gates stories. http://www.borrett.id.au/computing/petals-bg.htm
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I’d read this book! The color scheme I use for vsc++ still mimics turbopascal/turboc++ from the mid 90s.
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This is going to make tattoos of Chinese characters even worse than they already are :-D
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Nokia used to make toilet paper and rubber boots. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Nokia
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> The reasons they've given me are weak and I want to debunk them. Debunking them on HN is pointless. The only way to debunk them is to find a job that will pay you what you think you are worth. At least now you know the pay scales
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Japanese writing is made up of a mix of 3 different scripts, kanji, hiragana and katakana. The hiragana and katakana are syllabaries and don’t have the information density that you get with kanji. I don’t imagine you’d get Japanese books th
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Follow this: https://cbea.ms/git-commit/ and this: https://www.aleksandrhovhannisyan.com/blog/atomic-git-commit... That way your "large change" becomes a collection of small, easy to rea
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> My point is that yes you do No I don't.
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> How do you reverse that charge in case of accident or fraud? Hard fork :-D
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JavaScript, interacting with a cobol backend
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> So, they must be doing something right.. Resting on laurels, while trying to figure out how to destroy everything good about macOS by making it more like iOS.
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> The navigation keys being at my fingertips is ESPECIALLY useful as a coder where using things like home/end/pgup/pgdown can really help you move through your code faster. This is why Vim key bindings are the first thing
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> I think it's because the friction of microdecisions of whether or not to pay for that individual transaction is tedious. I think Brave has the right general idea. Fund an account and then split that per month among the sites I vi
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But at least the most important part is right (the brackets are correctly balanced.
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I wish this was a joke. I know of systems running multibillion dollar companies that are still using rhel6.
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> If you were to encounter such a laptop I don’t encounter such laptops except when they run Linux. Other OSes have their own litany of issues, however the topic under discussion was how well Linux just worked without tinkering, and the
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I’m not a huge fan of vscode (speaking as a c++ dev), but remote dev is a killer feature so I use it over other alternatives.
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> I always found docker as a dev environment rather painful. I’ve found the following to work quite well: Have a docker compose file setup that runs a container with all the necessary build tools and anything else. Map home directories,
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I’m actually trying to convince my current employer to let us use Linux laptops instead of windows ones (with Linux vms for all development). My comment was in reply to someone saying Linux just works without needing to tinker, and as much
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I no longer use a Linux laptop for work but as recently as a year ago, plugging an external monitor/keyboard in to my X14 wouldn’t wake it up (required manually opening and closing the lid), I could use the headphones on AirPods but no
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Except for power management, screen sharing under Wayland and certain Bluetooth headsets
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It didn't even work on my browser. Hopefully the tech is not like the website.
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> Search results that don't allow you to go to the specific part of long conversations. This is so frustrating. How could anyone work on this feature and not realise how useless it is to see the message in question but not any of
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:mrgreen:
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Right. This is the sort of thing that’s interesting to know from an intellectual perspective to see how far can you bend and twist a language to do certain things, but you’re setting yourself up for a world of maintenance pain if you use th
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VS6 was such a great product.
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Zoom doesn’t require an account. All you need is the meeting number and password to join a call. And one of the recent Google meet offerings (not sure exactly which one but it was about a year ago) required an account before I could connect
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Through StarCraft, you were responsible for bringing countless hours of enjoyment to me and my friends, not to mention millions of others around the world. I don’t mind if you’re a little boastful. Thanks for all the fun!
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> how is it better than google meet? Doesn’t require a Google account to login.

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