indymike

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by indymike 3y ago
Must. Not. Make. Joke. About. Situation.
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by indymike 3y ago
False. A takedown can be very costly in terms of lost income for the victim of the false takedown. It is a legally prescribed process.
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by indymike 3y ago
For about five years, my daily start of the day ritual was starting eclipse, going to a 10 minute standup, and coming back two minutes before it stopped loading. To be fair, it's probably better now, and I stopped doing Java work in 20
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by indymike 3y ago
"Teamonkey's law" sounds good to me. Whenever BASIC is mentioned, someone will invoke Dijkstra's rant. >If there’s one language guilty of causing brain damage it’s surely JavaScript. I'm not sure about that. The
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by indymike 3y ago
I'm pretty sure the defense is the "NYT Style and Usage Guide"...
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by indymike 3y ago
Can confirm - it worked in both.
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by indymike 3y ago
> You have literally just 180'd your argument from "they're rich and greedy they didnt need any more money" to "Im glad they are dying they squandered their opportunities". I don't read Drew's comm
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by indymike 3y ago
Dpi has been around for a very long time.
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by indymike 3y ago
Next, csvscript.
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by indymike 3y ago
I don't think that's enough to get over the bar. Need to add some application to cold fusion and you've got it.
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by indymike 3y ago
"I prefer my products to have less code in them." -- Can't remember what smarter person than I said it... Conceptually, I think every developer eventually realizes that every line of code ends up adding maintenance cost, and
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by indymike 3y ago
As a KDE4 user, I had been using a UI KDE4 for two years when Windows 7 came out in 2009. I thought Windows 7 felt a lot like KDE4 and maybe was inspiration for MS. Also, KDE4 was a one step back two steps forward release, and so it kind of
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by indymike 3y ago
Static analysis != linter.
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by indymike 3y ago
This was a classic play where big tech used XMPP to grow their user base, but as users changed left to escape various paper cuts (ads in the UI, lack of utility, etc...), big tech realized they could not force people to stay on their platfo
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by indymike 3y ago
You can look at how email is monetized for some ideas. Everything from ad infested free client to pay service to freebie with the purchase of your internet connection.
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by indymike 3y ago
> but surely most of them never would have used XMPP in the first place. There was a time that Facebook messenger was XMPP and Google chat was XMPP, so there was a time it was gaining a lot of traction. Most people just think their emai
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by indymike 3y ago
One of the things I really like about my Subaru is the over-abundance of buttons, and the really hands on wheel button controls. The touch screen is perfectly supplemental and that makes it much less irritating.
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by indymike 3y ago
74 minutes of linting vs 1.3 seconds of linting? If a file has been linted, is unchanged since it was linted, there's literally no need to lint it again. Much like if you only need to process one record, you don't query the whole
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by indymike 3y ago
Usenet? No. Google Groups, sure.
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by indymike 3y ago
Body cameras + youtube/x/tiktok have been absolute lifesavers for people assaulted or falsely arrested. Video is really the only buttress against "your word versus OUR WORD". At the same time, talking to my neighbors (I
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by indymike 3y ago
I don't want to see that footage. Ever.
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by indymike 3y ago
> This is on the general topic of right to repair and freedom of fixing and so forth so naturally HN hates the train company. Actually, the issue here is that the train company is on the wrong side of this issue. > Further, if your co
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by indymike 3y ago
> These things are safety critical and ten days in a workshop is probably a reasonable heuristic for this thing has to be taken out of service and recommissioned from scratch. This makes little sense. It's pretty reasonable that an
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by indymike 3y ago
Idea: let's shut down the security theater at the airport and move on from 20 years ago.
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by indymike 3y ago
> What the GP explained is commonly true when it comes to interacting with other humans, Not really. It's company culture. It does not have to be that way at all, and is honestly a symptom of poor leadership and a misunderstanding o
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by indymike 3y ago
First, hats off for making banner blog. I've made three blogging platforms for clients (one old one based on Zope, one based on Django and a static blog generator written in Go). Each time I've built one I'm always reminded o
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by indymike 3y ago
Coherent was interesting because it emerged as an interesting answer for getting true multitasking, multi-user performance out of 386 machines that wasn't priced ridiculously high. Coherent's tool chain wasn't as good as SCO
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by indymike 3y ago
> Rewriting a PR is a quick way to insult someone Wow. Just review the review and if it's good, merge it, resubmit to a different reviewer, whatever your process is. The reviewer/re-writer is helping get work done and being off
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by indymike 3y ago
Let's use "digital rentals" instead of "digital ownership". Ownership is the wrong word.
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by indymike 3y ago
Mozilla does not position them or manage them as "part of the product".

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