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by jfb 5y ago
If they make a PS5 specific remaster, I'll buy that, too.
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by jfb 5y ago
You don't say, Steve.
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by jfb 5y ago
The problem is that the documentation is garbage .
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by jfb 5y ago
It's promotion packet season at Google again, I see.
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by jfb 5y ago
More than doubles it, because there are a variety of phone sizes, tablets, monitors, &c. But that's OK! Build the best thing, don't settle.
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by jfb 5y ago
What if you don't want the same applications with the same interface modalities on different devices? Shouldn't we be much more concerned about data portability than application portability?
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by jfb 5y ago
It's a classic.
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by jfb 5y ago
As a user, I happily browse in Safari. I use Chrome for interacting with Google, but nothing else. I haven't noticed anything that I want to do that is prevented by my use of Safari. As a developer, I never touch the web, so. It comes
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by jfb 5y ago
I loved this, but I was a bigger fan of Starflight , which I would love to see a slightly updated version of -- not a full reboot but just ... more visual detail on the planets, maybe some 3D effects.
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by jfb 5y ago
Could it be that people aren't really interested in undoing the mistakes of Web2, but rather just kicking off a new round of consolidation, where they could be the gatekeepers/platform owners?
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by jfb 5y ago
Yes. It is a Java application that originally was written to facilitate the upload of large intermediate video files from post houses to the iTunes Store ingest systems. I know because I was there.
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by jfb 5y ago
Darwin is much further from BSD than Android is from mainline Linux, and the Android/Linux distinction is entirely sufficient to call them different operating systems. I think you can accurately say that there are either two or five di
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by jfb 5y ago
The filename belongs to the user. Therefore, it is incumbent on the computer to adapt, not the other way around.
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by jfb 5y ago
One of the best things about OS X (as it used to be called) is that the runtime was accessible not just from Objective-C, but also from ruby or python or JavaScript. It was very cool to be able to fire up a repl and go exploring in the inna
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by jfb 5y ago
Really? Whinging about syntax? You don't understand how cleanly dividing the C bits and bobs from the Smalltalk-derived object system by using distinct syntax could be considered a more elegant solution to the problem than C++'s i
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by jfb 5y ago
I have a deep fondness for Objective-C, which always struck me as a much more elegant way to bridge the C/OOP divide than C++.
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by jfb 5y ago
The Conversation, Badlands, The Godfather, &c
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by jfb 5y ago
All art works better when it's pushing against constraints. But I would take the film of the '70s, as flabby and weird and bloated as it ended up, over any other decade.
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by jfb 5y ago
Right, these are very different things. I am very bearish on Tesla, but they are shipping cars !
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by jfb 5y ago
Fair enough, and I'm not saying that BBEdit is wrong , per se, but it is close enough to useable for me (as a very long time Emacs user) that when there's something off, it strikes me as really off.
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by jfb 5y ago
I have never once — in a career as a professional programmer that is coming up on 30 years — needed to insert a literal tab character in a document I’m writing. Not once. I’ll check out the bindings control panel, but in the past (as of m
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by jfb 5y ago
Yep.
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by jfb 5y ago
I really wish it supported keyboard rebinding. I really wish this. I would happily pay for it, over and over again, but the tab key behaviour when editing structured text is just ... wrong.
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by jfb 5y ago
You do have to apply for an acknowledgement of US citizenship for your kids, and when they're 18, they have the choice of renouncing US citizenship without all the bullshit hassle adults face.
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by jfb 5y ago
Yes. Most of my tax is covered by reciprocal tax treaties between my country of residence (Canada) and the US, but I still have to file, and differences in tax regimes mean that there are decisions my family has to take that other families,
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by jfb 5y ago
Kavanaugh's concurrence is 100% an invitation for a broader restraint-of-trade suit, and honestly, it is long overdue. The NCAA is dead, they've got to settle, but there isn't going to be any real interest in half measures.
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by jfb 5y ago
I have been an Aeron user since I moved to San Francisco in the late '90s and picked one up cheap after the (first) .com bubble exploded. I highly recommend looking for a used Aeron; they are everywhere and can easily be refurbished
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by jfb 5y ago
I hate my handwriting, but the physical act of longhand absolutely helps me with retention, so I have a reMarkable. It's a pretty great device.
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by jfb 5y ago
The amount of money that Apple would save to put a bunch of 2U ARM servers into racks is dwarfed by the costs of building such systems. Seriously, nobody (to the first approximation) is going to buy a macOS server, and so there's no re
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by jfb 5y ago
What's in it for Apple? I'm not trying to be glib, here, but unless there were some Mac only server functionality, nobody would buy an Apple ARM powered datacentre machine.

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