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by ken 7y ago
Likewise, Git has been steadily improving on the user interface front for years. It's much better than 1.0 was, but it's still not the easiest DVCS to learn. In my experience, saving a little on runtime doesn't make up for
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by ken 7y ago
I’m simply going off what the article says. If it was “toxic” before and still managed to decline, that sounds even worse!
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by ken 7y ago
Fair point. I’m not sure if they did, or simply believed the benefits (financial and otherwise) of being bought outweighed the loss of company culture. They at least seemed to, in my experience. JWZ — or maybe Spolsky — wrote about (a more
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by ken 7y ago
> The results of GitHub’s quarterly anonymous employee survey — which showed a decline in trust of leadership ... In 100% of cases where I've known a small company that got bought by a much bigger company, this has occurred. It&#x2
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by ken 7y ago
Yes. Organizing doesn't mean you fire everybody and hire new pro-union workers. It's the same people. They're just given a more direct power structure for dealing with management. When you take people who are already vocal
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by ken 7y ago
An old friend of mine who was very comfortable with speaking told me it was acting that helped him. You get to practice saying someone else's words, until you're ready to use your own.
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by ken 7y ago
That won't help you escape Catalyst bugs, except that you won't be able to run any Catalyst apps. But you can just stop running Catalyst apps, now, without reinstalling your OS.
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by ken 7y ago
This is using Catalyst, right? UIKeyCommand is a UIKit name, not an AppKit one. And Catalyst doesn't exist prior to Catalina. They've added a whole other (temporary?) operating system. It's perhaps not surprising this has
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by ken 7y ago
The domain should match your organization (or name), not your product. Honda doesn't have civic.com or accord.com, and should vectra.com point to the Hewlett-Packard PC or the Winnebago RV? (It's neither.) As for being able to g
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by ken 7y ago
https://berthub.eu/amazing-dna/
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by ken 7y ago
SQL, BASIC, HTML.
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by ken 7y ago
Back when I looked at it, at least, Mercurial had the strangest and most non-idiomatic Python I'd ever seen. It doesn't surprise me it's been trouble to upgrade. Mercurial's curious implementation is also the reason I g
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by ken 7y ago
I think the point is to get native behavior, you need to use the native functionality. When you try to emulate it, you'll always be missing something. We see this in every corner of Firefox: the text editing, the toolbar, the context
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by ken 7y ago
Is this still not common? I have an Apple Cinema Display from 15 years ago and it has both hardware brightness controls (on the right edge), and software brightness control (keyboard f-keys, labeled as such on Apple keyboards).
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by ken 7y ago
I think Tcl strings aren't exactly what Perlis was talking about. First, the language knows how they're used, so there's a JIT (or whatever) behind the scenes eliminating the literal deserialize-process-serialize pattern you
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by ken 7y ago
Had this been implemented as a web service, half of the crowd would be asking for it to be an open-source program, so they could run it locally, for speed and flexibility and security. It was implemented as an open-source program, so hal
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by ken 7y ago
I'd be more enthusiastic about this if it were about more than just 2FA. That's not the end-all-be-all of website security, and there's sites here which get the "green checkmark" of approval but I'm suspicious
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by ken 7y ago
I've heard this from several sources, but never been able to make it work. What apps, and what version of iOS? Is it new in iOS 13?
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by ken 7y ago
Was it ever announced? How are new users supposed to figure anything out? My C=64 came with a thick reference manual, with circuit schematics in the back. Every computer I've bought since then has had a smaller manual. I think my sm
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by ken 7y ago
And yet, even after seeing firsthand that computer programming is "extraordinarily similar" to the work of a vehicle mechanic, you still refer to it as "software engineering ". Do we think it has anything in common with
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by ken 7y ago
> A non-technical person CAN indeed make software... he just can't make maintainable software, and eventually his incompetence backfires. Sure, and then they just pass it off to a competent technical person. It sure would be conven
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by ken 7y ago
Fear of public speaking is consistently ranked the #1 fear of the average person. I would absolutely put someone who can do it confidently in the top 10%. That's the point of the article: "A bit of work can quickly get you to th
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by ken 7y ago
It had two DB25 connectors. That's an old analog mixer from 2004. The Mackie webpage doesn't even list products that old. Of course, their current digital mixers don't have any D-shell connectors.
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by ken 7y ago
The "How does Passbox work?" isn't clear to me. Is it encrypted at rest? Who has the password (or passwords), and is it just one secret key to unlock everything? Do my Trusted friends have to remember how to access Passbox
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by ken 7y ago
3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20545276 TLDR: it's not unheard of for banks to be downright incompetent at maintaining safety deposit boxes.
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by ken 7y ago
You should line up the free and paid features, perhaps in a table. I can't glance at a list of 8 items and a list of 10 items and distinguish what changed between them, so I'm not sure what I'd be paying for.
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by ken 7y ago
Every Qt application I've ever used has been ... off. Granted, it's closer than Swing. That's a pretty low bar. We need to either start qualifying this ("it's a good GUI toolkit for a cross-platform one "),
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by ken 7y ago
I'll celebrate implementation diversity, but I'm not sure why I'd celebrate interface diversity. All it does is create pointless incompatibilities that users have to deal with. I think it's great that many companies
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by ken 7y ago
Depends on the CPU. The G5 didn't support little-endian mode. VirtualPC used this for x86 emulation, which is why it didn't run on G5 Macs.
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by ken 7y ago
Being a best-seller does not make it fundamental. If anything, that suggests to me that it is not. "Philosophy for Dummies" far outsells Plato.

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