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by markmark 4y ago
It's not just that they greenlit this change, it's that it's far from the first time they've pulled something like this. It is utterly baffling to me that there isn't someone in senior management who can say "W
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by markmark 4y ago
:) I'm completely aware that smaller companies are using Google. My last two companies used it! (Right up until we were acquired by a large enterprise and got moved to MS).
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by markmark 4y ago
> I don't know anyone still using Excel. I suspect that is very much just the crowds you move in. Every vaguely large enterprise I know is still 100% Microsoft. A huge part of Microsoft's profit these days is their Cloud depart
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by markmark 4y ago
> it might sound OK for Windows people Windows users might be accustomed to having infrequent OS version releases, but they're used to their _apps_ being current.
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by markmark 4y ago
Exactly, they could have just refused this guy bail and nobody on hacker news would have ever heard of it or cared if they did. But mention the word encryption and the world is falling down.
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by markmark 4y ago
I think it's manual memory management, but with effort made to make that easier to handle and easier for tooling to check. With a plan to have a memory safe subset at some time in the future but not as part of the 0.1 designs.
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by markmark 4y ago
I'm left handed but hold my phone in my right.
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by markmark 4y ago
Meh, Microsoft is enormously different than they used to be. They still might not be what you want, but they aren't the same.
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by markmark 4y ago
Are you missing out by just not drinking diner or airplane coffee? I just drink something else in those situations.
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by markmark 4y ago
Having a $1500 (or any dollar) machine is absolutely no measure of the quality of coffee it is able to produce.
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by markmark 4y ago
If the alternative is store-brand beans then it is absolutely about the quality of taste of the thing.
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by markmark 4y ago
So if they are looking at calendar data does "five fewer collaboration hours" only mean five fewer hours in meetings? Some of the funnest and most productive work I've done was a project with three others where we were all in
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by markmark 4y ago
As Gerald Weinberg said on consulting "It's always a people problem". People expect Slack (or whichever tool) to solve problems that are people problems. If your company expects you to be glued to Slack and respond instantly,
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by markmark 4y ago
I have a friend who lost about $5k in the Terra crash. So not a lot, but he'd rather have $5k than zero. And when he was telling me about it before putting money in he was talking about the 15% thing and that it seemed like easy money,
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by markmark 4y ago
If you look at desktop os share from tracking general web use rather than surveying people on a dev-focused site windows is 75%. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide
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by markmark 4y ago
I'm shocked they had 1100.
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by markmark 4y ago
Visual Studio used to (or maybe still does) have an issue where it wouldn't hit breakpoints after the 65,536th line in a source file. It wasn't something I ever encountered, I just came across the issue in the docs somewhere, but
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by markmark 4y ago
I'm considering getting an M2 Air even though I very much don't like OSX.
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by markmark 4y ago
This is local only over a pretty simple communication protocol. Hammerhead had previously licensed that protocol, but Shimano cancelled the contract when Hammerhead were acquired by Shimano's largest competitor. I'm not a lawyer s
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by markmark 4y ago
Not anymore they aren't. SRAM sell far more high end groupsets than Campy these days.
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by markmark 4y ago
Apple could have just stuck the touch bar above the f-keys instead of replacing them. I didn't mind the touch bar, but given the choice between it and f-keys I'll take the keys.
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by markmark 4y ago
I doubt it, bike thieves will just use a battery angle grinder with a cutting wheel on your bike lock, and everyone will absolutely ignore them doing it in the middle of the day.
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by markmark 4y ago
Every time I see the templated yaml used widely in devops (see helm charts for example), I'm reminded of this sort of XML used for declarative programming. It was terrible then and it's terrible now.
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by markmark 4y ago
I spilled half a pint of beer into my kinesis advantage (cherry brown switches) and it worked fine after opening it and giving it a wipe down and letting it dry. Switches failing just isn't on my radar. I'd be more worried about t
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by markmark 4y ago
Exactly. I went along to see Avatar because I hadn't seen a 3D movie and figured I'd go and watch the best version of the technology. I enjoyed the experience, and also didn't bother seeing any other 3D movies and haven'
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by markmark 4y ago
I've got a friend who is a long-time embedded C developer, about 20 years of experience. Really knows his stuff. I just hired him to write python and he got a massive pay rise to come over, because all the embedded shops in our area pa
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by markmark 4y ago
My whole team has moved from 50/50 macs and linux to 100% linux to escape a recent jamf roll out.
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by markmark 5y ago
Yeah, they were illegally distributing Google's copyrighted source code this entire time. It's just easier to prove the trademark thing, so Google lead off with that.
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by markmark 5y ago
WSL2 is just a Linux VM running on HyperV.
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by markmark 5y ago
I'd happily hire someone who can write clear, maintainable code in the framework-of-the-month over someone who can remember how to change the Apple status bar color without Googling it.

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