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by jjkaczor 6y ago
As part of a quality control team, I personally went through over 1.2 million lines of working code (i.e. not including comments) over the span of about 8 months, M-F, 9am-5pm. So, yeah - this number is bunk.
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by jjkaczor 6y ago
... in the usual pedantry of HN your use of "poor" was interpreted to mean socio-economic, rather than... "just bad at something"...
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by jjkaczor 6y ago
"auto cloud sync across all devices" hmmm - if it is an editor that handles text files, then myself, I would rely on one of the myriad of sync tools/platforms available, rather than have someone else's implementation
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by jjkaczor 6y ago
...but, maybe some corporations do/did support them... https://thehill.com/homenews/news/534564-mypillow-ceo-photog...
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by jjkaczor 6y ago
Probably (let's hope - but, if I have seen anything in the last 4-years, it has been a constant, non-stop erosion of competency in the US government) - and, most likely the insurgents just didn't plan anything "long-term&quot
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by jjkaczor 6y ago
Probably not, they planned all of this on open sites/forums/social-media platforms, so they are not the smartest people...
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by jjkaczor 6y ago
Myself, I would be more worried about any keyloggers, or wifi/cell interception, "man-in-the-middle" devices being left behind...
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by jjkaczor 6y ago
Exactly, it is kind of like Clarke's first law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws Youth are always writing off the oldies - I did it, and now that I am old, I see it happening to me - and that is
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by jjkaczor 6y ago
Will stick with my Parrot Ziqs (gen1) for awhile longer at that price...
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by jjkaczor 6y ago
Heh... well, I am old enough to remember the offline MSDN - which was great, and the rough transition to online - which got better, eventually... (and the rise of StackOverflow makes more sense in that context) but then at the beginning of
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by jjkaczor 6y ago
For all the crap that Apple, Java and other open-source people have piled on Microsoft over the years, their developer documentation has always been very good. Yes, there are rough-edges. Back in the day, when Sun was still in-charge of Ja
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by jjkaczor 6y ago
Used to great effect in "For All Mankind" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_All_Mankind_(TV_series)#So...
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by jjkaczor 6y ago
XLSX files have been around for ... nearly 13-years... Ugh - I still deal with clients who are creating brand new XLS and DOC files and expecting to have all the latest features (co-authoring when hosted in 365/SharePoint Online/
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by jjkaczor 6y ago
Exactly - you can pick one boring color and not have any flashy/animated/cycles.
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by jjkaczor 6y ago
My solution will be to use a headset, or separate microphone that is further away from the KB.
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by jjkaczor 6y ago
Does it have backlighting? (frankly, I didn't need or use all of the "RGB" features, so that was overkill - not a gamer)
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by jjkaczor 6y ago
>One of the reasons is overlap. Your hands do occasionally >hit keys on the other side. That has been my biggest re-learning curve - but with only the 6/7 numeric keys (which, apparently I use often) - the one thing that I would
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by jjkaczor 6y ago
(and the Kinesis KB noise can be mitigated by the choice of switches, I went with "cherry mx brown", but you can choose a quieter option)
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by jjkaczor 6y ago
Myself, I have been using a Kinesis RGB Edge with the "lift-kit" for about a month. Have never been a perfect, trained touch-typist - so there has been a learning curve, but it is worth it. My wrists feel so much better, and I am
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by jjkaczor 6y ago
Having spent time in various winter locations in Canada, I found... -35c in Iqaluit? Or northern Alberta? Cold, but actually enjoyable. (Admittedly, that changes during extreme winds or blizzard conditions) -15c in Ontario? Frigid, slushy
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by jjkaczor 6y ago
Or... https://blog.codinghorror.com/regular-expressions-now-you-ha...
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by jjkaczor 6y ago
Well - all of my ad-blocking is through a Pi-Hole - and I am not in the habit of logging into it's management interface and whitelisting sites unless absolutely necessary. So... tab gets closed, site loses my eyeballs completely.
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by jjkaczor 7y ago
Apparently OpenSilver uses Blazor ( https://www.opensilver.net/announcements/introducing-opensil... )
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by jjkaczor 7y ago
"Anecdata" Today's rush to simplified, web interfaces means typically that common keyboard scenarios have been completely forgotten about. A market leader in a niche sector, re-built their UI in Electron, it's primary p
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by jjkaczor 7y ago
Lookup "greenwashing" and who (hint, corporations as people) actually founded "Keep America Beautiful"...
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by jjkaczor 7y ago
Ah yes, there was also a PCMCIA/"pc card" in that mix too.
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by jjkaczor 7y ago
Well... No wifi... I do recall using my 120 with a data cable, connected to my Motorola Flip and that as a modem to send/receive email. It was a great demonstration in a coffee shop - although, you would be able to watch the battery dr
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by jjkaczor 7y ago
Yes, this was a great book - Jeff writes fiction these days, but has updated his "Assembly Language Step by Step" for Linux and has a nice FOSS book on FreePascal http://www.contrapositivediary.com/?page_id=1808
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by jjkaczor 7y ago
Heh - I had friends and colleagues who went to "Yummy Interactive" in 1999 to do this exact same thing - initially it was downloaded, locally cached subscription games (ala "Steam"), but my associates were also working o
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by jjkaczor 7y ago
I hated it so bad, I eventually took it off my resume.

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