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by lj3 9y ago
Nope.
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With all of this kvetching over the keyboard, what I'd like to see in the next version of the Macbook Pro is no keyboard at all. Go the way of Microsoft Surface Pro and make it a tablet with a full OS, great screen, battery life and le
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> it's unfair to claim stuff is slower without improvements. I claimed no such thing. You're arguing against a statement I never made. Isn't that what's called a straw man argument?
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Some would argue we've traded speed of execution for snake oil (so called speed of "productivity"). This tweet is an interesting visual that makes the same point: https://twitter.com/TheoVanGrind/status&#
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I think you're missing the point. An object and child hierarchy is too high level for what I'm suggesting. Just expose the graphics library and let the programmers handle the rest. If you want something hierarchical that's si
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Maybe. OpenGL has a lot of history and baggage. I'm pretty sure the current browser engines don't use OpenGL for 2d graphics. I think they still use Skia (Chrome) and Cairo (WebKit). It could be as "easy" as allowing cal
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by lj3 9y ago
Canvas is too slow and handles text rendering poorly. If browsers really want to take another step in that particular direction, they're going to have to expose a lower level API for graphics and text rendering.
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That's the part I find so weird about this. Wouldn't Apple have been a better company to sue? Gab would have a stronger case and the benefits of getting on the app store would be larger than the benefits of getting on the Play sto
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by lj3 9y ago
Here's an equally important question: where did you land on the court case that ruled a christian cake maker couldn't refuse service to a gay couple based on their faith? The question here extends far beyond the domain of tech. Ar
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All of that only makes me more curious to see if its true. I've been down this road too many times. "The Government isn't doing X. You're a crazy conspiracy theorist." A few years later its revealed that not only is
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by lj3 9y ago
> which I think of as the killer app for OO Was this written in a book somewhere? I keep hearing it from people, but nobody's able to really explain why. OO is terrible for GUIs IMHO.
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Do other countries have this? It would discourage nuisance suits if this also applied to civil cases.
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This isn't a study, it's a survey. Of course they're all going to say they're as far left as they can possibly be. Saying anything else will make them a target of the unhinged left wing nutbag brigade.
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> Nothing forces you to use Composer And yet nearly everybody does. Is there a compelling upside to justify that tradeoff? I can't think of a worse fate for a language than trying to mimic Java circa 1998, but that's exactly wh
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by lj3 9y ago
It's a distinction without a difference. The end result is the same, along with the resulting Streisand effect.
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Just for that, I gave the post an upvote. It's like you've never heard of the streisand effect.
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by lj3 9y ago
> I know people who are making mid six figures working for Google-tier companies. But I don't think there are very many of those kinds of people - hundreds, maybe. This is the thing that annoys me the most about these conversations.
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> The solution is much higher taxes on the ultra-rich I was with you up until this part. This has been tried for decades and it clearly doesn't work. What we need now are tax breaks specifically for small businesses. We want people
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by lj3 9y ago
I take it you've never used webpass? By far the fastest ISP I've ever had in my life and it's a WISP. It's a shame google bought them.
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by lj3 9y ago
> a longtime journalist shares hard-won insights in teasing out substance from hype. A journalist is not somebody I would be trusting to tease out substance from hype. Their job is to sift the hype out of the substance for ad revenue.
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by lj3 9y ago
This post is worth reading if only for the Typora suggestion. Finally, I have a WYSIWYG replacement for Haroopad! Granted, most of these apps probably aren't for advanced users and hackers, but there's still some damned good app s
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by lj3 9y ago
I can't read the whole story (frickin paywalls). But, as somebody who fairly recently (3-5 years ago) left Silicon Valley for the Northeastern US, I'm willing to bet they overlook two things that still make Silicon Valley what it
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by lj3 9y ago
> However, if I look at the top 100 musicians in the world, they would have all practiced thousands of hours and I expect practice to have diminishing returns, so it should be responsible for very little of the variation in their ability
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> Lots of ideas end up getting removed from the list after I do more research and see the market isn't right or that it will take too much time or money getting it going. That's the rub right there. "Ideas" are easy.
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> Sources: Global Terrorism Database at the University of Maryland, RAND Corporation, ESRI, and author’s calculations. Nice try.
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> In other words, it was a mirror-image of the US. No, that's exactly like the US. Has been since the 60s. Or do I have to whip out the statistics on left wing bombings in the 60s and 70s? Or the number of antifa on trial for assaul
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I did this for a few years when I lived in San Mateo and worked in Mill Valley. It's not healthy, nor is it pleasant. I was robbed in my sleep more than once.
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Which makes your options 'roll it yourself' or 'do without'. Just because somebody chose door #3 doesn't mean they should be expected to get shafted at every opportunity.
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> People and companies have no imperative to provide the same freedom on platforms they control. That's what I keep hearing, and yet a company in Denver was forced by law to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple against his religious

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