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by jkmcf 9y ago
That advice is good when you only report to yourself. If you report to a company and your decisions affect $$$$, directly or indirectly, then it's probably the worst advice.
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by jkmcf 9y ago
More or less. Not sure about appkit, but the Apple dictatorial control bothers me. E.g., Apple apps on iOS have tight integration unavailable to other apps, and they don’t improve their apps for power users or broader use cases. Also, the
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by jkmcf 9y ago
Aside from control, what does this provide over Linux? IMO, the Linux desktop problem is due partially to relying on the antiquated X Windows system, but mostly a lack of funding a good vision, e.g. Unity. After growing up with OpenLook, th
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by jkmcf 9y ago
I’ve been using BoxCryptor on top of google drive. The hard decision was deciding whether to use a fringe[1] service with dedicated encryption or one of the big 3 and encrypt locally. I switched from Dropbox to Google Drive, and store encr
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by jkmcf 9y ago
In fairness, if someone is a jerk to you, but sincerely apologizes, it is important to be thick-skinned and accept that apology. I think this only works in isolated cases when the offending party accidentally says something offensive, or
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At uni, one of my physics profs allowed us to bring our own cheat sheet into exams. The point wasn't to cram it full of everything in super tiny writing, but to think about what should go on it and how to organize it. The thought pro
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Things you learn playing trivial pursuit as a kid: diphallic terata
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For me, celerity of access makes my note taking possible. Mouse over a hot zone and the editor slides out. Mouse away, and it hides. I used to use SideNote, but that was abandoned. I'm currently using SideWriter, but it's a littl
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by jkmcf 9y ago
It was the hometown of Mork and Mindy. That's how I discovered it, at least...
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MS had nothing on Sun’s Dev Guide, the easiest and best GUI dev tool i’ve ever seen. I say this because it took me zero effort to use due to how intuitive it was to get started...
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by jkmcf 9y ago
I have a Peak Design and a few Riut[1] bags. Love them all, but currently using the PD daily. A bit heavy but customizable. 1. https://www.riut.co.uk
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This is comparing apples to oranges. Gore is rich, has a big house, a pool, etc. Of course his house is going to consume more energy than the average. He does claim to try and live a carbon neutral life. If he does, should it matter how
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by jkmcf 9y ago
"Most Recent" is most recently updated by comments, which is mostly useless for me. I just stopped using FB as much, checking in just to see how people are doing every few days.
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TBF, these are useless to the average user, but it would be awesome if there was a visual cue that option was useful. One I find useful is option-right-click dock icon that force reveals the force quit menu item.
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I don't know if they are profitable, but Peter Cooper has a whole bunch of good ones at https://cooperpress.com/
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I didn't notice anything about the types of claims. The acceleration could contribute to rear end collisions if someone stops quickly after accelerating, i.e. pulling into traffic, and the person behind not reacting quickly enough. A
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Sadly, that's Moom's best, differentiating feature.
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Something similar happened to me 18ish years ago, hours before I watched Office Space for the first time.
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In my 6th grade math class we practiced making change by emulating a toll booth. Of course, Asian countries were probably teaching calculus at this age :)
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by jkmcf 10y ago
Burnout is working hard on a vision not mutually shared, at an organization with its head up its ass, for people you don't respect. The money does not matter. Abnormal silence or open grumbling is a chief symptom.
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by jkmcf 10y ago
I practice Dirk Gently Driven Development. Basically, I more or less know what I want to do, my fingers wander, encounter things I didn't anticipate and I modify my work. When it is done, I refactor and add tests where necessary. Not
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For public companies, I know it's true. I'm not sure about private companies.
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Did she have a CS degree? I find it hard to believe someone with a CS degree from a top school could float through w/o being able to code at all. Why would you apply for a job you know you couldn't hit the ground running and then
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by jkmcf 10y ago
You sound like my twin. Wait, are you me? Seriously, I was surprised to find that Splunk uses Mongo. Given its performance and reliability with Splunk, I'm willing to give Mongo another chance given the right conditions (given that som
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by jkmcf 10y ago
I briefly, and well down on the food chain, worked on the Spitzer Space Telescope. IIRC, it was originally supposed to launch in the laste 80s/early 90s but finally launched in 2003. Probably a good thing because the IR detector qual
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boring_Company
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by jkmcf 10y ago
Apple will have to screw macOS up a lot for me to stop using it, especially if work keeps buying my MBP. I just reclaimed my 2009 MBP after upgrading my wife's MBP. I'd never notice it wasn't current If it wasn't for ru
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by jkmcf 10y ago
It might 9.3% of their budget because their budget is much smaller. I would bet the 7.1% is possibly skewed due to a lot more people with spare cash finding better ways to fulfill the pleasure aspect (but it's probably craft beer&#x2F
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The questionable competence of our product team coupled with sales selling things we don't have. We are a smallish startup, but we seem to have a lot of senior people whose value is unclear.
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by jkmcf 10y ago
I still miss Sun's DevGuide. It's hard to find anything on it these days. It was so easy to create a GUI and I haven't found anything similar.

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