johnjohnsmith

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by johnjohnsmith 8y ago
"That application whitelist probably needs a permissions flow for a user to agree that Password Manager Brand X is indeed their password manager application of choice." This scares me. Are you proposing it as something that is nec
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by johnjohnsmith 8y ago
Ahhh the old fallacy of "two things we don't understand must be related because we don't understand them!" See also: eclipses and human sacrifices; planetary orbits and the radii regular polyhedra; even Graham crackers a
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by johnjohnsmith 8y ago
I'd like to offer a few decades of perspective on your claim. I've been programming for 30+ years. When I sit down to code, most of the time I've thought through it before even typing and am ~99% confident I won't hit a
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by johnjohnsmith 8y ago
"The usability of an OS is inversely proportional to the size of its control panel." --A college friend, circa 2000 Let's pick a particular UI/UX combo, the GUI: how have GUIs evolved over 3 decades, what has their compl
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by johnjohnsmith 8y ago
Meditation as an Olympic event. Meditation as competition. Meditation as vehicle to sell products. Yup, meditation has come to America full-force.
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by johnjohnsmith 8y ago
Thanks, I'm kinda in the same boat. :)
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by johnjohnsmith 8y ago
Did her pessimism ever subside or did you just learn to accept it as part of her?
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by johnjohnsmith 8y ago
That's pretty funny and I'm glad to hear something other than another barely believable "I did this god mode hack" story... The mechanical realm doesn't get enough love. Indexing shifters have become better, but pro
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by johnjohnsmith 8y ago
Aaaaand we've come full circle back to Microsoft Foundation Class builder that was all the rage in the early 1990s.