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by markmark 7y ago
Microsoft will never make Teams great, it will be just good enough that corporate bean counters won't let you pay for a competitor when you already get Teams "free".
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by markmark 7y ago
When I decided it was time to knuckle down and learn to type properly I bought myself one of those Microsoft ergonomic keyboards for exactly that reason, to help force myself to use the correct fingers. I ended up loving it and now use a Ki
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by markmark 7y ago
Not sure how quickly that message is getting out, mobile phone use while driving is very common here. It's _really_ noticeable when you're on a motorbike, your view is clearer, but also being a little higher you can see the phone
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by markmark 8y ago
Typescript is a superset of Javascript, you can literally submit the faster JS programmes as the TS ones.
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by markmark 8y ago
They've probably been working for 10 years without needing to write a sort algorithm by hand since it's built into every language these days, and get annoyed at having to re-learn it just for an interview.
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by markmark 8y ago
I think people might just work on projects smaller than I'm used to. I set up a build on day one of a project and then just it for the next six months or year or whatever, so I really never see it as a pain point. As you say, well wort
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by markmark 8y ago
Yeah, I'm a bit surprised by the comments like "who would want this". A phone that you can unfold into a tablet when you want more screen? It's awesome. Now I don't want this particular device, or the Samsung one, b
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by markmark 8y ago
People want larger screens but smaller devices.
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by markmark 8y ago
Concentrating on selling their product to companies with lots of money seems to be working out pretty well for them so far.
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by markmark 8y ago
I have never had this happen on my mac running Slack.
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by markmark 8y ago
Personally I think just leave it to users to vote with their feet. If I think a site is too slow to load or too slow to use, I'll stop using it. If I'm happy to wait for 10Mb of js to run a web app, then let me.
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by markmark 8y ago
"git caught on despite mercurial being much superior" mercurial wasn't superior.
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by markmark 8y ago
I'm not sure about "scale" but Linux, as an open-source project where external actors want their code included, can push arbitrary amounts of work onto those actors with no additional cost to itself. They can say "to get
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by markmark 8y ago
To add to the generic feel they've changed the font for "slack" to be very similar to the fonts used by every other tech company ever.
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by markmark 8y ago
It's tough when your competition can give away their product and fund it through their bottomless pockets and money they make on other products. I used to work for a great company in the developer tooling area, one of the big players c
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by markmark 8y ago
Cool, I work remotely, can you point a webcam at your wall of cards please? Also remember to record your tactile chats in front of the wall so the rest of the remote team can hear them.
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by markmark 8y ago
Literally just copy imessage feature for feature, or are they too beholden to carriers to do that?
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by markmark 8y ago
You did it, they heard you, Messages is now Youtube Chat and Hangouts has been replaced by a confused looking goldfish.
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by markmark 8y ago
I've done a bunch of WPF in my time, but I struggle to see what I'd use it for now. For line-of-business type apps I'd do it on the web, and for anything that had to be desktop I'd need to be really, really sure that it
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by markmark 8y ago
Yes, every time I've seen an article on wooden bikes I've looked and they are crazily expensive while being ridiculously heavy. I also tend to think they're ugly.
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by markmark 8y ago
I have plans to look more deeply into Vue when I have some time since so many people like it, but that's the impression I get from it, it does a heap of the stuff I didn't like about angular, why would I go back?
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by markmark 8y ago
v1 and v2 were completely separate frameworks with essentially no upgrade path. I don't know anyone who used angular v2+ (although I'm sure many did) but have personally been on two teams who ported to react. It burned a lot of pe
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by markmark 8y ago
I was wondering the same, the feature he is talking about is excellent and done better than any other editor or IDE I've used, but somehow I don't think that's what he means.
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by markmark 8y ago
Some would argue VSCode can be lighter because these 33 things aren't baked in for those who don't want them.
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by markmark 8y ago
Just had a click around to confirm, Chrome on a mac, everything is instantaneous. I thought they must have been heavily pre-loading it opened messages so quickly, but I checked the network tab and it's making requests.
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by markmark 8y ago
Exactly. I read this thread this morning and found it a bit frustrating that is was being called a bug. This isn't a bug, it's a documented feature that still exists for backwards compatibility. You may not like it, or may not agr
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by markmark 8y ago
I _think_ strava is just when a user actually posted to srava, it used to be when they did the ride, but you would miss friend's rides if they only update strava the next day. I slightly preferred the old way, but it isn't too bad
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by markmark 8y ago
This is an excellent point, not sure why you've been voted down. So now functional components can't be guaranteed to maintain their best property? Weird.
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by markmark 8y ago
> the days of Angularjs 1 and the beta versions of Angular 2 are behind us There is still a _heap_ of Angular 1 code out there since the 1 -> 2 move basically meant you couldn't upgrade without a full rewrite. Both my last two jo
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by markmark 8y ago
I think credit has to go to Anders (or perhaps just the whole team). I think the experience of already shipping multiple languages that were used by millions and learning lessons from those has helped enormously in building a language that

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