john_the_writer

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by john_the_writer 2y ago
I imagine paying a monthly subscription to a browser company. Browser365 anyone?
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
gha.. Another subscription based app. I can see it now: 2.99/month. Also we already have browsers pre-installed. Safari and IE(or what ever it's called these days) There's no call to advance these though. Chrome has profil
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
Yep.. in almost every way it should have beat out slack. It did everything better, and had a name. It was so very close, but lost. Mostly I think because of how hard it was to get non-users into it's eco system.
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
It lost all hope when it demanded the same login as windows. No longer could I have a semi-annon chat tool. I didn't want a "one password for everything" experience.
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
I suppose it depends on how you use it.. If you view it like you would a bit of paper and a pencil then it works a treat. I want this to do X when I ask it with Y param. If you write out your spec's before you sit down to code. When a
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
New chrome book would do.. No setup required, they work offline out of the box, and are really cheap. I got one for my kid a few weeks ago. She uses google docs offline and sync's up when she comes back online. Way easier to get going.
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
Was? You can easily buy one now. There are a lot of them for sale. I got one a few years back. They're great.. and that it uses AA batteries is a huge plus.
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
Gregg is easiest to learn. You can integrate it slowly..
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
Yeah.. I learned gregg short hand. Took years, but I love it.. I can write rather fast now, and for the most part I'm the only one who can read it. I do slip into standard writing.. It's a blend really. What I really like about i
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
Got an AlphaSmart 2000 off ebay. It cost < 200.. It's 100% offline, and the setup involves getting a pack of AA batteries at the local gas station. It is so easy to use, and reliable as heck.
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
I also like the things you're biased towards. :)
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
These are also staff of the government.. Or contracted by the government. The government contracts out all the time.
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
Just on the un-elected private group bit. This would apply to every one of the staff members of these departments. How many elected software developers worked on the original software? How many private contractors were elected? Are there
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
Also talked about C64's, like they lived through it. That brings them into their 50's. I got the feeling they've been at it a long time.
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
I've had the same thing happen with a drawing app.. I've an older android tablet that has a sketch app. It works great.. I got a new high powered tablet, because the battery on the old one wouldn't keep a charge.. New one h
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
vi is also pre-installed on kindles. Yes you can ssh into your kindle paper-white.
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
GQL sucks. Everything is 200, errors are custom, n+1 queries are rife. 304's don't exist. There's nothing like debugging a client and looking for an error in the network tab at a sea of 200's. Not allowed to see the dat
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
Also wrong about the learning something that's a waste. ADD can show up as soon as 5 years old. I noticed symptoms in my 5 year old kid. They were slight, but they reminded me of me. She was learning shapes and colors, and how to s
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
Take a 12 year old out of school? That's grade 5. They're learning to write paragraphs and their times tables. Not many business leaders can't write a paragraph or do 7*5 in their head. Better advice would be to get them i
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
I firmly believe the acronym is incorrect. It is not a deficit; it is an advantage in some ways. I'm a software dev.. Been so for > 30 years, and I can tell you that ADD is a super power. ADD is not so much that you cannot pay att
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
trick here.. create different chrome profiles, with different color schemes. Peach is my "nice person" account. Red is for accounts that I want to be a little more argumentative. I do this at work too.. where I have to have differ
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
I think his point was that he wasn't looking to be totally invisible. Just less obvious to people who won't spend a pile of time looking for you. If you're adding your phone number to a throw away account you use on Target o
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
Depending on where you're going.. I've got some sad news about 2.. Most ISP's in Canada and Australia don't allow you to self host. Not from home. I've set up a system to do it, and then run into a wall when my is
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
1. Finishing a novel.. I finished a first draft of a novel a while ago. I'd like to finish another, and then take it to final draft. 2. Animation. With the skill of finishing my novel. I'd also like to animate it. 3. Voice acting
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
I'd pick elixir over Ocaml. Same feature list, but it's a bit better in the documentation department.
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
It's a great language.. and what makes it fun is the flexible nature of it.. I love the `x ||= 0` feature of the language, and miss it when working in elixir. I also got to like the tailing if. `puts "hey" if x > 0` Some
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
The difference between stock and AI would be how they came to be "free". Stock comes from people posing. AI comes from stealing the peoples poses.
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
Nah.. it means you're cool steeling others creativity. It's a strong signal that your writing from the POV of a person who doesn't object to stomping on the shoulder of giants.
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
I had the same.. I got myself a bullet journal, and I'm working a plan. It's great to have a way through. Not out, but through.
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
I found an interesting youtube vid a while back. It talked about "where I'll be in 3 years." It talked about how you can become more in 3 years.. if you have a plan. I got a new note book and picked a why.. I am going to be

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