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by jmcphers 4y ago
Have to disagree about the mobile app, while it looks nice and is full-featured and responsive, it is a glorified webview and is totally useless offline -- you can't search emails or even view them without an active mobile data connect
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by jmcphers 4y ago
Lots of advice for making the transition, here's some more: buy your own domain; don't use one of Fastmail's. That way you can just change the MX records if you ever want to switch away from Fastmail, and you will -- in theor
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by jmcphers 4y ago
If you're new to fountain pens, you can't go wrong with a Lamy Safari. https://www.lamy.com/en/lamy-safari/
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by jmcphers 4y ago
It's really hard to explain to folks that "RStudio" makes software for languages besides R! The old brand will stick around for the RStudio IDE itself.
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by jmcphers 4y ago
It's more the PBC than the B corp status that make Posit's approach different.
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by jmcphers 4y ago
The company name is changing, but the open source IDE name isn't; it will still be called RStudio.
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by jmcphers 4y ago
Oh gosh, I had one of those! What a great little phone.
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by jmcphers 4y ago
> My mother is amazing to watch because she doesn't do anything efficiently, really: She puts about three times as much energy as necessary into everything she does. But she never spends any time wondering what to do next or how to
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by jmcphers 4y ago
If this topic interests you, I highly recommend the book Moonwalking with Einstein [1], which is written by a journalist about people who participate in memory competitions. These people assert that their memories are no better than anyone
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by jmcphers 5y ago
Fastmail does SUCH a great job managing multiple addresses and domains. My favorite feature is the auto-BCC so that when I'm sending from a joint e-mail address I share with my wife, she always gets a copy.
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by jmcphers 5y ago
The police force in Seattle has indeed been significantly defunded, and currently has hundreds of vacancies because officers have been quitting and no one wants the job. I don't blame them. Source: https://www.wsj.com&#x2F
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by jmcphers 5y ago
I worked at Microsoft around the time of the Windows Vista disaster, and one of the big lessons that came out of that era was solve distractions, not discoverability . Windows and other Microsoft products tried to make features (and produc
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by jmcphers 5y ago
I get my music on Bandcamp, if the artist sells it there. They compensate artists far better than Spotify[1], and offer lossless, DRM-free downloads. Some major labels don't sell on Bandcamp; for those I often buy the MP3s on Amazon. I
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by jmcphers 5y ago
RStudio | https://www.rstudio.com/ | Full Time | Boston, MA | REMOTE RStudio makes open source software for data science, along with commercial and enterprise solutions. Most people know us for our eponymous IDE, which is t
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by jmcphers 5y ago
These arguments are nearly identical to those laid out by Neal Postman in Amusing Ourselves to Death , who pointed out -- almost 40 years ago, I might add -- that television news has become entertainment, not news.
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by jmcphers 5y ago
Of all the games I've played (which admittedly isn't many), the Witness felt the most like an IQ test.
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by jmcphers 5y ago
Yeah, I used it for probably 6 years! Despite becoming very fluent I eventually came to the conclusion that the hassle of was not worth it. This was in the early 2000s and I had to use a lot of Windows and Remote Desktop, so there were at l
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by jmcphers 5y ago
Another great terminal UI for git is tig: https://jonas.github.io/tig/
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by jmcphers 5y ago
> It’s super unfortunate that it still gets the stereotype as a “rich white people” activity when it’s really so much more financially accessible than a car. It's true that a bicycle is itself cheaper than a car, but housing with
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by jmcphers 5y ago
I have exactly the opposite problem: tons of legitimate email is getting flagged as Spam by GMail. It's now happening regularly with emails from people in my contacts with whom I regularly exchange messages . Mind-boggling. I know s
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by jmcphers 5y ago
It's pretty easy to extract! zbarimg -q -raw <png> will do it. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/zbarimg.1.ht...
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by jmcphers 5y ago
This is almost exactly the feature set of OhLife, which tried and failed to make this experience (replying to a daily email as a form of journaling) into a product. It's a great idea but kind of hard to make money on. https:/&#x2
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by jmcphers 5y ago
It's kind of miraculous that wristwatches can pick it up at all given how little space they can dedicate to an antenna. I live at the very outer Northwestern edge of WWVB's coverage, in the Seattle area, and my similarly equipped
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by jmcphers 5y ago
Oh sweet! This is great news, thank you.
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by jmcphers 5y ago
Very much agree, most projects I work on these days have components in multiple repositories and trying to coordinate work among them is challenging. We use Github Issues as a source of truth but have resorted to using third-party software
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by jmcphers 5y ago
This doesn't seem to have the one feature I want most, which is the ability to track the status of projects and milestones that span multiple repositories. Anyone know if this is there and they didn't mention it, or is on the road
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by jmcphers 5y ago
Total speculation, but Joel is ex-Microsoft (he worked on Excel for years) and I don't think he would sell to his former employer. I've worked with a number of Microsoft alums; all of them have seen how Microsoft acquisitions usua
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by jmcphers 5y ago
Absolutely. The B-corp by itself is indeed not a magic bullet, but the PBC transition (which is separate) does make a big difference. In a typical C corp the corporation is ultimately answerable to shareholders and it is shareholder pressur
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by jmcphers 5y ago
> The wave is subsiding and they now need to appear to have a viable business (so they can be sold to a bigger fish), which means there has to be a visible market they can sell into. Might need a (2019) tag. As of 2020, RStudio is a Pub
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by jmcphers 5y ago
There's a new(ish) editor called Xi that's built on the rope data structure: https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor

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