laurentdc

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by laurentdc 6y ago
I prefer <center style="text-align: center;"> for maximum centeredness
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by laurentdc 6y ago
I paid zero for my university since EU, but I still kind of feel scammed out of five years of my life. I got a degree only because I was young and family/friends pushed me into it since "that's what everyone does". The n
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by laurentdc 6y ago
I agree it's an audience problem. I had a Wordpress plugin up and I'd get all sorts of entitled requests, borderline "plz fix my website you broke it". But also had some C libraries for Arm STM32 and only ever got solid
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by laurentdc 6y ago
All project management tools introduce enormous overhead for me. All of them, they're clunky to use, either too general purpose or too specific, and when you need that bit of info you never know where exactly your colleague put it. Tre
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by laurentdc 6y ago
I'm the same. I'm not interested in any of the new releases (besides maybe DOOM) and I've never really been able to enjoy games with a long story, I get distracted too easily and generally prefer TV shows for that type of sto
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Image based upgrades: Upgrading software and OS of 80k servers every two weeks(blog.heckel.io)
2 points by laurentdc 6y ago|0 comments
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by laurentdc 6y ago
I only run their software in a Windows VM since it installs background services (AAMUpdater, AdobeGCClient) that don't go away even after uninstalling and using their cleanup tool. Not to mention the terrible cloud integration that han
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by laurentdc 6y ago
We gladly paid one 800 € for three hours of work.. fixing a botched stored procedure on IBM DB2. Gray haired DBAs with the right blend of dev, ops and most importantly business domain knowledge (something many people in IT seem to overlook)
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by laurentdc 6y ago
> the software is garbage. Yeah, I agree in many cases that's the issue, as the author pointed out in the last paragraph. Let me also add that on this particular stack this happens with caching enabled (W3 Total Cache). Without cach
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by laurentdc 6y ago
> If there’s some sort of natural limit to how many simultaneous connections they can handle Yup, it's pretty much a DDoS. It's simple to test. Spin up Wordpress + Woocommerce (a common ecommerce stack) in a Digitalocean 1 GB d
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by laurentdc 6y ago
Small bug in the signup page, if you select and then deselect "Other", it still stores the selected state and doesn't let you send the form [0] [0] https://i.imgur.com/tNAzrFw.png
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AV Artifact Atlas(bavc.github.io)
1 points by laurentdc 6y ago|0 comments
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by laurentdc 6y ago
High refresh rate screen is the only thing I'd want from that list. I'll upgrade my 2017 MBP when/if a model with >120Hz display comes out. For me it's been the greatest thing in consumer space since HDD to SSD upgrad
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by laurentdc 6y ago
I've been planning to ditch Google for a long time. Besides mail, the only other service I use is Drive. 200 GB, 2.99€/mo. I don't need desktop sync. I only use cloud storage to archive old files that I like to have around bu
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by laurentdc 6y ago
I like the minimalism, but I wish the buttons had something on hover or on click (e.g. invert the colors). You should give user feedback that it's a clickable button and it has sent the form
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Why is the dropout rate so high for Computer Science?(old.reddit.com)
35 points by laurentdc 6y ago|50 comments
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Strangler Pattern(docs.microsoft.com)
1 points by laurentdc 6y ago|0 comments
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by laurentdc 6y ago
Thinner fits the general use case better probably, e.g. there's way more students who care about a laptop that can fit between textbooks than IT professionals who must have an Ethernet port on hand at all times. Also, sweet money from
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by laurentdc 6y ago
Did they fix the dbus (?) bug that made some applications like FileZilla or VLC hang for about a minute on startup? [0] [0] https://askubuntu.com/questions/1184774/some-applications-on...
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by laurentdc 6y ago
> On my iPhone I move every single application into a folder named “.”. I then move that onto the second screen. My phone dock has four apps: Phone, Headspace, Things and SMS: Yawn. When I read these minimalism tips I always wonder if pe
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Riot offers hackers up to $100k to find Valorant anti-cheat exploits(eurogamer.net)
1 points by laurentdc 6y ago|0 comments
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by laurentdc 6y ago
Software development: creating web CRUD interfaces quickly. Here's the orders table, here's the customers table, here's the products table. Join them, present them with a nice UI that scales down to basic smartphones, make so
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Why editorial illustrations look so similar these days (2019)(qz.com)
198 points by laurentdc 6y ago|77 comments
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by laurentdc 6y ago
I think the pricing section has a few mistakes under Monthly $1343 / hour $1.84 effective hourly price
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by laurentdc 6y ago
Physical button and massive bezels, pass. Feels like buying a device from a tech era ago
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by laurentdc 6y ago
# ci = clipboard in, co = clipboard out # xclip so this works in gui apps too alias ci="xclip -selection clipboard" alias co="xclip -selection clipboard -o" Also: tig, Text-mode interface for git h
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by laurentdc 7y ago
Yeah, the devs I met with the most stable and laid back jobs are all AS400, COBOL/CICS or IBM RPG experts
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Make Linux Fast Again (2019)(make-linux-fast-again.com)
368 points by laurentdc 7y ago|314 comments
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by laurentdc 7y ago
Has anyone figured out if these new consoles will run games at 120/144Hz refresh rates? I'm thinking of going back to console after years of PC (mostly due to space constraints and not having time to mess with fancy builds again)
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by laurentdc 7y ago
I've always thought at its extreme minimalism is for those who are rich enough they can buy two/three of everything (including houses and cars). So if anything goes bad you just have a replacement ready. Everyone else better have

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