johndriscoll

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by johndriscoll 13y ago
My operating system is a huge and complex beast. But a lot it, if not most of, is modularized in a way that extending it never requires my touching any of its source files. It assumes a mission statement to the user (I'll make one up
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by johndriscoll 13y ago
To your repeated point: It's been my experience that better knowing what the code is doing leads to improving it. I am not a smart or clever person. I can only see one focal point at a time. But with enough time (and a trivial scre
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by johndriscoll 13y ago
"What sort of programming do you do?" Waddya got? When I do web dev, I prefer a fullscreen terminal for editing and a virtual desktop with a fullscreen browser for proofing.
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by johndriscoll 13y ago
Although I don't have any problem stitching side-by-side commits in a terminal, or keeping multiple text buffers akimbo in general (its what the terminal is ideal for), I can't argue with most of your points because you're pr
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by johndriscoll 13y ago
You seem like a very nice employer :) For many of us that have in the past (or still do) work for less-than-very-nice employers, or ones without as much money available to spend on hardware for their team, there was/is always hope in i
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by johndriscoll 13y ago
For me, just turning my attention (and my head) to a second monitor is too much. I greatly prefer multiple workspaces/virtual desktops to multiple screens. I'm fine with completely switching contexts when the cost of context swi
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by johndriscoll 13y ago
I do all these things in a terminal. I used not to. But once I started doing things the CLI-way, I never looked back and have yet to discover a tool offering even half the productivity gained from keeping my fingers firmly planted on the
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by johndriscoll 13y ago
This seems like flaunting your budget more than improving your environment. Maybe I just need to get my eyes checked again, but for some reason my code just doesn't perform any better or write itself any faster with more screen real es
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by johndriscoll 13y ago
"This is a self-printable Tesla Model S Center Console." It can print out ITSELF???
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by johndriscoll 13y ago
It's complete guess work. The only mention of 500M lines of code is from the last paragraph of The Times article: "According to one specialist, the Web site contains about 500 million lines of software code." This "one
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Badger wants to replace Identity Providers with The Blockchain(github.com)
3 points by johndriscoll 13y ago|0 comments