imron

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721.
by imron 8y ago
I can mostly live with the keyboard, and grudgingly cope with the touchbar (too many accidental presses doing unwanted things) but please, please, please give me the old arrow keys back. I'd also be willing to trade some thinness for m
722.
by imron 8y ago
No word on battery life.
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by imron 8y ago
> and I haven't once wished it had a classic USB port on it. While I haven't missed classic USB (thanks to a dongle with old USB slots) I have however wished I still had a magsafe power cord. It also doesn't help that the
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by imron 8y ago
Battery life with a 2017 model is horrible, especially if you are using anything that requires using the discrete graphics card. Not expecting anything great from the new models on this front.
725.
by imron 8y ago
> but the current implementation is infuriatingly bad: You left out how easy it is to accidentally brush with a finger and trigger various actions that you didn't want to do. Especially infuriating when using Calculator and clear a
726.
by imron 8y ago
> Have a quiet conversation with your boss over lunch or beers - not a meeting If you do this, follow it up with an email outlining everything you said so you have a paper trail that you brought it up with your boss.
727.
by imron 8y ago
Depends on the software.
728.
by imron 8y ago
I think you missed the fact that the person you are replying to uses a German keyboard.
729.
by imron 8y ago
> But I've never had that happen. Well, I guess that means it will never happen in the future either then.
730.
by imron 8y ago
Exactly! He's absolutely spot on that habits are better than motivation for getting things done, but it's bizarre to have a title claiming there's no such thing as motivation, and then have several sections in the article ta
731.
by imron 8y ago
It's always been free at NameSilo (at least as long as I've been a customer, which is several years now).
732.
by imron 8y ago
I second NameSilo.
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by imron 8y ago
> The other was that “impossible” things tend to happen surprisingly frequently in software. "One in a million is next Tuesday" https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/2004/03/30/on...
734.
by imron 8y ago
It was a perfect example of how integer math is not intuitive :-)
735.
by imron 8y ago
> It also means that new programmers don't get confused when they do 1/3 and get 1, I'm not a new programmer (nearly 2 decades of professional programming experience), and I would be very confused if 1/3 using integ
736.
by imron 8y ago
Silence.
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by imron 8y ago
> Why is nearing completion so demotivating? Because the bulk of the interesting work has been done, and now all that's remaining is the finicky, nitpicking tasks that you've been putting off doing for the whole project. > t
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by imron 8y ago
> Not even in slow motion, with scarves. Scarves are harder than balls because their movement is unpredictable and your hands end up moving in all directions if you can't throw them well. Find decently weighted balls (130g is standa
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by imron 8y ago
> Shannon also built juggling robots. ( I'm disappointed this Kickstarter project never received funding: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/958028900/human-scale-p...
740.
by imron 8y ago
> I'd suggest an option for forever-scroll presentation for the article list As long as it's off by default. Infinite scroll is a major time sink.
741.
by imron 8y ago
Thanks. That's the first recording that allowed me to hear Laurel.
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by imron 8y ago
> I don't believe it is realistic to expect people to pay for every pay wall that exists. I don't either, but most paywalls are porous.
743.
by imron 8y ago
This comes up every time someone posts to WSJ. They have relevant and interesting articles so the real solution is buy a subscriptions or use one of the many workarounds. Outline works well: https://outline.com/www.wsj.com&#
744.
by imron 8y ago
Namesilo are fantastic.
745.
by imron 8y ago
> Everyone is lying at work to some degree. Maybe, but rarely to the degree that this guy did.
746.
by imron 8y ago
> i don’t make purposeful email addresses; i don’t have time for that. I do, because I can make them automatically. With Fastmail, if your address is name@fastmail.com you can make an email somerandomcompany@name.fastmail.com and it wil
747.
by imron 8y ago
> to keep the numbers clean With Australia's minimum wage, it's likely to be at least double this.
748.
by imron 8y ago
> Trivial things becomes real challenges - like finding the button for screen-sharing Tell me about it! The dialpad button is now hidden 2 levels deep in the interface. 2 levels! My primary use for Skype was making calls to landlines
749.
by imron 8y ago
> we are a site full of programmers Exactly! And we all know how good most programmers are at UI design ;-)
750.
by imron 8y ago
jq - amazingly useful for processing JSON

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