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by jkaptur 4y ago
Is this a reference to something? I don't see how they're similar.
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by jkaptur 4y ago
Interestingly, the AGAIN command is still very much supported in Google Docs/Sheets/Slides (and, I believe, in MS Office as well). If you "redo" (ctrl-shift-z, or use the toolbar, or whatever) without having just "u
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by jkaptur 4y ago
Almost everyone I know under 50 uses WhatsApp and/or Instagram multiple times per day.
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by jkaptur 4y ago
People have different preferences: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/37pw1s... That said (author here), I actually use a 65% for daily use. The 40% was too small for me to use comfortably.
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by jkaptur 4y ago
I used a Das Keyboard for over a decade and loved it. Now I've switched to a Drop Alt so I can hotswap "better" switches and run QMK, which I've grown completely dependent on ( https://jkaptur.com/layout&#
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by jkaptur 4y ago
The article addresses this.
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by jkaptur 5y ago
> the downsides are already widely discussed. Does anyone have any useful pointers? I'm in such total agreement with the article that I actually don't know the counterarguments.
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by jkaptur 5y ago
> If your product aims to be the next Instagram, this is clearly not the architecture. But maybe! https://instagram-engineering.com/dismissing-python-garbage-...
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by jkaptur 5y ago
I'm a huge fan of the Real Housewives of X for two reasons - first, like you say, they're fantastic petri dishes of relationships and status games. But even beyond intellectual curiosity, they also give you a useful topic of conve
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by jkaptur 5y ago
What an evocative example! Before reading your links (sorry! They're long. I added them to Pocket), I just don't see how "allowed to leave an emoji reaction to an issue inside a repository belonging to an organization" c
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by jkaptur 5y ago
He notes that, though it is a little buried: > Permission assets are everything. All my success as a writer, right down to this bookstore, has been rooted in the email lists and social media accounts I have built.
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by jkaptur 5y ago
For context on what's happening here: https://support.google.com/a/answer/10685032 (Disclosure: I work at Google. I used to work on Docs & Drive, but don't anymore and don't have any special kno
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by jkaptur 5y ago
There are high-profile cases of world-class developers pairing: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship...
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by jkaptur 5y ago
This is wrong for many reasons, but I'll just give one example: what if you're a gig worker? Here's some guidance: https://www.uber.com/us/en/drive/tax-information/
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by jkaptur 5y ago
This is the context of that story, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs_controversies#20... I think one important difference is that the story in the OP is fraud directly against individual retail invest
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by jkaptur 5y ago
Strongly agree with everything you've said, and I'd add that elite athletes have the same seemingly-incredible recall (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHibkh57FFA ) - I think for the same reasons.
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by jkaptur 5y ago
Sorry, what would your desired future look like?
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by jkaptur 5y ago
It's funny that you bring up grid systems, because the screenshot of the partiful really evokes how some designers have played with grid systems in decidedly non-minimalist ways: e.g. https://vanle.info/blog/2021&#
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by jkaptur 5y ago
> We solved the test flakiness issue by getting rid of all of our frontend tests Getting rid of the whole swath of tests seems extreme, but I am absolutely a proponent of outright deleting flaky tests. If a test has a reputation for bein
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by jkaptur 5y ago
The article says that the new version of CodeMirror uses a contenteditable and native selection, which I would expect to pretty much "just work" with screenreaders - is that not true?
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by jkaptur 5y ago
I've been thinking a lot about this for https://www.diffdiff.net . After convenience, privacy is the core of the value proposition - the text to diff doesn't get sent to the server. On the other hand, though, if you wan
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by jkaptur 5y ago
I'm relatively new to C++ and I found absl::StatusOr<T> and its helper macros to be extraordinarily pleasant.
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by jkaptur 5y ago
The sly humor really makes this document readable. I love the list of what the base does NOT have, including "spiders or snakes!"
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by jkaptur 5y ago
Google Maps launched in 2005.
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by jkaptur 5y ago
That would be great. I'm no ML expert, but my impression was that standards varied widely from team to team.
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by jkaptur 5y ago
> With enough different sensors, there's quite a bit of information to be found in mining their undefined behavior. It sounds like you would need to be exceptionally careful that your meta-process didn't "find" some
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by jkaptur 5y ago
I agree and would add that the UI is also a pile of mutable state. Even if you model the DOM using a pure function, there's still scroll position, selection, animation, history, and so on. At the end of the day, users interact with sta
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by jkaptur 5y ago
The cnil.fr page hosting this article seems to use self-hosted piwik, which is a good sign that the regulators think it's ok. (I wonder why they need to collect analytics information for this page at all.)
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by jkaptur 5y ago
I guess they worked hard to make it realistic ;)
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by jkaptur 5y ago
I've never used these myself (too old), but my understanding is that to get around the attendance measure you and your friends just take turns going to class and you all give that week's attendee your clickers. An app would actual

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