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by markmark 8y ago
Probably the source of almost all of their sales too.
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by markmark 8y ago
I used to see future proofing all the time in boring corporate jobs. One example I saw multiple times was complicated "generic form builders" where the dream was users would be able to add their own forms quickly and easily. Then
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by markmark 8y ago
Porting to 1.0 was a pretty big headache, there was a lot of stuff in full .NET that wasn't in 1.0, and a lot of open source libs hadn't been ported yet. In 2.0 they had a bit of a rethink about how stripped down Core was going to
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by markmark 8y ago
Seriously. People have better things to do with their lives.
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by markmark 8y ago
Yes. Disgruntled employees leave companies all the time. Yet when one leaves Valve it's because their organisational structure doesn't work, not just that that person wasn't a good fit for the company. Meanwhile Valve probabl
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by markmark 8y ago
Exactly, standard keyboards are pretty bad for your left hand because of the way the keys are typically offset, so even if you hit different keys to the "standard" with your left hand things are shaped poorly.
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by markmark 8y ago
This isn't "oh they shifted where the arrow keys are" they removed an entire row from the keyboard. Sure you can adapt, but why bother when there are plenty of competitors.
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by markmark 8y ago
Since everyone has an opinion, I think the keyboard is utter garbage.
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by markmark 8y ago
Yep, I'm a long term Windows user and developing on a mac for the last 6 months, and I find it pretty terrible, I'd rather be using Ubuntu. But I'm happy to admit it's because of what I'm used to.
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by markmark 8y ago
As someone who came from "native" gui development and has only really been doing web stuff seriously for a few years, it's pretty easy now, particularly if you don't need to support IE, and even IE11 isn't _too_ muc
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by markmark 8y ago
"DDR4 would drastically decrease it from the 30 days of standby time that they get now to less than one week" Fine, I'll take 32Gb of RAM and a less than a week of standby time thanks.
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by markmark 8y ago
Dell's XPS is comparable in size and performance to the MBP and has 32Gb of RAM available. Does the standard DDR4 they use effect battery life? Possibly, but that's a trade off I and others would take for our $4000 laptops not to
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by markmark 8y ago
I would say there is plenty of competition for best display these days (I say this typing on a current model mbp15).
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by markmark 8y ago
Of all the things other copy from Apple, so few copy the 16:10 screen. At least the Surface display is what, 3:2 now? But everyone else is still bloody 16:9.
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by markmark 8y ago
I've been working on a mac after being a long time windows user, and as you say, most of the software I use is cross-platform. The biggest problem is modifier keys, and I still prefer how windows does window management (oh, and finder
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by markmark 8y ago
GitHub wasn't making anywhere near enough money to account for all the investment they took on, so they had to sell to _someone_. Better MS than Oracle.
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by markmark 8y ago
This is all about getting Azure in front of developers who aren't in the Microsoft ecosystem.
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by markmark 8y ago
Yes, that's exactly my point. Right them down in your program so that the compiler can check them rather than holding them in your head.
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by markmark 8y ago
The "huge spike" is currently at about 3k repos imported. Github had 67 million repos last year.
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by markmark 8y ago
When using a dynamic language you need to know what properties are on an object right? So you can work with them, access them, whatever. So just write it down so everyone else knows too. There, that was easy.
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by markmark 8y ago
MS just want you using Azure and don't care whose toolchain you use. If they bought GitHub it would be entirely so they could get people _not_ using other MS products onto Azure. So there is no way they kill off the OS toolchain and tu
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by markmark 8y ago
They already have a bunch of tooling to make it easy for users on VSTS to ship their software to Azure, but VSTS users are probably 100% already in the Microsoft ecosystem. Buying GitHub and then adding tooling to make shipping from GitHub
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by markmark 8y ago
I'd love a browser plugin that indicates a site I'm visiting is blocked in the EU. I'm not in the EU, but if I site cares that little about my privacy that they don't want to comply with GDPR then I don't want to us
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by markmark 8y ago
Without a system like this you don't get your quirky cat domain name, someone swoops in on minute 0 with a script and registers the top 1000 desirable domain names and squats them. Anything that wouldn't have been swooped up by sq
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by markmark 9y ago
I really don't like autopilot. It's good enough to make drivers trust it and not pay attention, but it's not good enough to not kill people when they do that. And when there's an accident Telsa come out and say "the
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by markmark 9y ago
There's a reasonable chance I'm older than you for what it's worth.
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by markmark 9y ago
I can't believe you've been down-voted for these two posts. If you convert your js projects to make you are going to be the only person on your team who ever touches them again for no pay off.
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by markmark 9y ago
I don't know enough about make to know if this is correct, but the post last week on using make for js started of by saying "If you are writing a frontend app and you need code bundling you should absolutely use Webpack" whic
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by markmark 9y ago
"Orwell's latest book is a rollicking farmyard tale of pigs versus humans held back by the author's political virtue signaling"
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by markmark 9y ago
It is not at all clear that code readability is reduced by var-like type hiding.

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