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by lj3 9y ago
What if they gave everybody a desk with wheels? Then you can wheel your desk with your tools wherever you want to work that day.
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by lj3 9y ago
> What changed is that a lot of developers today don't care about the open nature of the web and are perfectly fine with sacrificing it for faster load times of their JS-saturated websites. I'm one of those developers who could
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by lj3 9y ago
And they all had crippling security problems[1]. I only mentioned the JVM, but you're right, all of those technologies contributed to the work of secure sandboxes. [1]: Except maybe Silverlight. From what I remember, it didn't see
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by lj3 9y ago
Oh, I think I misunderstood you. You mean the AST is going to go the way of Native Client because Mozilla doesn't have the muscle it used to? Or do you think Google's going to sandbag it as revenge for Native Client? :)
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by lj3 9y ago
Firefox had a much higher market share than Chrome back then. Context matters.
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by lj3 9y ago
Part of this is fad driven, but part of this is also driven by other human concerns. For example, had the early web been binary (like we're pushing for now) instead of plain text it would have died in its crib. Executing binary code se
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by lj3 9y ago
The Design of Everyday Things is instructive here. You don't design for the middle or the average. You design for the extreme edges. If you have a programming language that can be used both by absolute beginners who just want to learn
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by lj3 9y ago
> or even launch your own competing business. That's what Gab did when they were banned from Twitter. Now an alliance of tech companies are banning it en masse, even though they are far more benign than some of the other apps on the
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by lj3 9y ago
All they have to do is convince Google. Chrome's the king of the castle right now.
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by lj3 9y ago
It's a Lenovo W530 Thinkpad. It uses standard hardware that Ubuntu officially supports. Been there. Done that. Also keep in mind I've been using Linux off and on since 1999. I'm not a stranger to hardware compatibility issues
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by lj3 9y ago
Because I spent 4 hours today trying to figure out how to prevent something from starting on boot (which boot system is Ubuntu using this version? Why do the systemctl and service commands disagree with each other?). I spent two weeks tryin
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by lj3 9y ago
> The only true solution is compassion and outreach. It's way too late for that. The battle lines have been drawn by the right and the rules of engagement have been set by the left. The country will continue to fracture until one si
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by lj3 9y ago
Have you had any issues with the trackpad? I have a Lenovo w530 and the trackpad is junk. The texture completely rubbed off with a few months of heavy use. The scrolling behavior is erratic on both Ubuntu 17.04 and Windows 10. It's pro
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by lj3 9y ago
Isn't this how most companies are set up? If the architect/technical lead is the surgeon, then the junior/mid level developers are the support team.
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by lj3 9y ago
My opinion (not "theory") is that teams are not interchangeable. Companies are not interchangeable. Industries are not interchangeable. What works for one team may not work for another. What works for a 10 man startup is not goi
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by lj3 9y ago
This is something I hadn't considered. Thinking back on it, the teams I've been on that did agile had 3 or 4 times the number of managers that non-agile teams did. You needed more people to enforce the process, wrangle the enginee
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by lj3 9y ago
I've been on teams that have agile it right. Some have failed and some succeeded. I've been on teams that practiced chaos driven development. Some of those succeeded and some of those failed. Did you drink any kool-aid on the way
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by lj3 9y ago
Have you taken a look at the Dasung Paperlike yet? http://www.dasung.com/english/
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by lj3 9y ago
It's also a matter of what sort of information is exposed. Video is something most people care about. Audio, not so much. The latter tends to be far less embarrassing/incriminating.
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by lj3 9y ago
Canadian companies won't pay the salaries that companies in the US pay. Same for European companies. For that reason alone, I doubt we'll see a whole lot of competition in the tech space outside of the US.
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by lj3 9y ago
> It would be nice to have a common low-level API across all platforms (mobile,console,pc). I keep wishing the GPU makers would just expose an ISA, like CPUs do, instead of having to rely on flaky driver support.
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by lj3 9y ago
> Microsoft invested in the tech so they’d perform well This is the core of the reason. This extends beyond just the dev tooling they created, though. It also includes partnering with NVidia and ATI to create the best performing video dr
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by lj3 9y ago
I sympathize. I spend a lot of time in the dark playground myself. https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_urban_inside_the_mind_of_a_mas... https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrasti.
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by lj3 9y ago
Matt Greer has been doing a blog series on react internals. http://www.mattgreer.org/articles/react-internals-part-one-b...
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by lj3 9y ago
Yeah, I saw that. I have to admit, that's a hell of a lot better than I thought it was going to be, especially if the voice commands work. I would still rather be able to see the speed without looking all the way down to the touchscree
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by lj3 9y ago
How many poem anthologies do you imagine are published every year? My impression was: not many at all. Poetry doesn't sell.
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by lj3 9y ago
I've yet to meet a non-glance-free radio. Then again, the latest car I've ever owned is from 2003. I can believe tactile buttons went the way of the dinosaur about the time the iPhone was created (2008?)
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by lj3 9y ago
> you can get similar distraction manipulating a radio. You can manipulate a radio without looking at it. You can't do the same with a touchscreen. There are laws against texting and driving for a reason.
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by lj3 9y ago
I can't wait for Jai to be released, both figuratively and literally. It's most likely going to be another year or two. In the meantime, I'm going to use Nim for some experiments in desktop application GUI development.
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by lj3 9y ago
Now I'm really curious if that's the case. It could explain why they didn't open source the Flash runtime back when they open sourced the flex compiler.

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