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by jolux 5y ago
It depends. I have no idea why Microsoft Teams has such terrible performance on my Mac, for example. Slack is perfectly performant. If there's a general ("inevitable") reason it's that updating the DOM (i.e., adding, rem
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by jolux 5y ago
It's not at all obvious to me how Linux package managers have figured out the problem of versioning web apps. They've figured out the problem of versioning Linux packages, and I applaud them for that. They certainly work better th
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by jolux 5y ago
> We need something in-between. Something that maybe defaults to always being on the latest version, but when the user wants, allows them to use an older version. Just like native applications (mostly) do. But there's no fundamental
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by jolux 5y ago
I think Figma is a good example of a product that spells trouble for Apple's Mac platform strategy. It is the exact kind of app you would have expected to be Mac-first or Mac-exclusive (like Sketch!) just ten years ago or so (highly vi
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by jolux 5y ago
It definitely pisses me off that billion-dollar companies can't be bothered to write native apps for desktop platforms anymore, but not enough to make it worth it to forgo the benefits of Electron apps and web apps as an end user.
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by jolux 5y ago
The best part of this article is this comment from Plume: > This has always been wrong, because it completely discounts the advantages of the web. Cross-platform compatibility makes an app greater. No installation makes an app better. Si
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by jolux 5y ago
It wasn't a hedge fund, it was Berkshire Hathaway.
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by jolux 5y ago
> There has never been a time in all of human history where cities cordoned themselves off politically from the rural areas they rely on that did not end in rebellion, bloodshed, and/or collapse. Totally incorrect. Berlin and Hambur
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by jolux 5y ago
No, iOS users can already use Chrome, they just can't use Blink. The difference is whether Google can leverage their developer base to drive people to Chrome without having to provide a superior product to the consumer. Today developer
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by jolux 5y ago
I believe private browsing tabs in Safari have been isolated to some extent for a while already — if you sign into something in one tab, you aren't signed in in the other tab, suggesting separate cookies.
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by jolux 5y ago
This is a fantastic comment, thank you for writing it. I especially appreciate the explanation of how management decisions produce engineering practices.
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by jolux 5y ago
> code review isn't a good place to catch actual bugs. Disagree, but it's also a good place to be ensuring that the system is evolving in a way that is reasonable and consistent — or that it is unreasonable and inconsistent for
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by jolux 5y ago
Sure, I mostly meant automated processes. They won't always save you from yourself but doing blue-green, having an extensive test suite, etc, are all things that will help reduce the risk of a bad deployment.
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by jolux 5y ago
Causing a major fuck-up in production is probably also a sign that you need better release validation and deployment practices.
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by jolux 5y ago
1. Let's separate the idea of code review from the GitHub Pull Request feature. They are often coupled, but they don't need to be. You could easily have a policy and a workflow that requires reviews, but doesn't care whether
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by jolux 5y ago
Not if it’s written by a good programmer.
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by jolux 5y ago
The format is probably one step above serializing internal data structures and writing them out to disk and they haven't bothered to specialize it in the framework they use to develop these apps.
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by jolux 5y ago
One developer's "old and stable" is another developer's "filled with vulnerabilities that nobody will ever find let alone bother to fix because everyone assumes it's old and stable." IPv6 has been a draft
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by jolux 5y ago
The photo is already heavily denoised per the sibling comment — possible they could do more but it's difficult when the sensor and lens are so small.
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> Though the aggressive denoising and small lens probably doesn't help. I think it's mostly this. The photograph is incredibly noisy, very difficult to tell what's going on.
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by jolux 5y ago
This case actually seems even simpler though. There was a leaf in the foreground obscuring the face from the camera's perspective. Distortion doesn't quite enter into it.
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by jolux 5y ago
No, focal length and its effects on imaging is a fundamental aspect of how lenses work. You could reproduce this with any camera. More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspective_distortion_(photog...
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by jolux 5y ago
Tools like this are often a sign that the language was under-designed.
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by jolux 5y ago
Other than memory safety, simplicity, dependency management and build tooling, the .NET standard libraries, the open source library ecosystem, and so on...
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by jolux 5y ago
Suffice it to say if it had let me down I wouldn't be using it. Likely most other people wouldn't either.
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by jolux 5y ago
> But I have to respect your brand loyalty, even in spite of fatal flaws and less than a quarter of the packages available elsewhere. Again, since you don't seem to be reading what I'm writing: The primary reason I use Homebrew
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by jolux 5y ago
Sure, but that’s a known flaw, and it’s also not a use case I have. I already said I’m not a fan of it’s design, but feel compelled to use it because of its dominance. Brew is solidly a “worse is better” proposition. I do not care nearly as
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by jolux 5y ago
One interface to two different package managers is preferable to two interfaces to two different package managers. My experience with Homebrew is that it has what I need more often than MacPorts does, this is why I continue to use it.
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by jolux 5y ago
> After using Homebrew for only a short time, you'll have a mess on your file system. Good luck cleaning it up. Been using Homebrew for a decade and haven’t had serious problems with it in a very long time. I do use asdf for version
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by jolux 5y ago
> 5901 packages in homebrew-core versus about 11000 ports in MacPorts (not counting subports). Good to know that it is still actually bigger, but that’s really only relevant to me if it’s a superset of Homebrew’s registry, and in the pas

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