markn951

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by markn951 7y ago
>No actual transit (the kind that runs on rails) What an arbitrary way to decide what " actual " transit is. There are about a thousand other, very valid, very useful, very modern ways of building transit that have nothing to
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by markn951 7y ago
What are you talking about? Tipping makes servers actually care about doing a good job. Servers in Europe in my experience almost never care about you or the service they're providing you, because it doesn't matter how good a job
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by markn951 7y ago
Funny enough just yesterday they announced a completely redone Windows client that they built collaboratively with Microsoft to use the right APIs etc. There’s a bunch of news chatter about it right now.
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by markn951 7y ago
I personally know of at least 3 or 4 engineering teams of 30+ developers who use it daily.
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by markn951 7y ago
what
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by markn951 8y ago
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by markn951 8y ago
Andrew Yang has never worked for a VC as far as I can tell. What are you referring to?
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by markn951 8y ago
I mean, again I'm not a lawyer and I don't spend time reading EULAs, but to me that seems like a pretty uninteresting hold-harmless agreement that happens to specify the harms from getting hacked and distributing malware, like wha
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by markn951 8y ago
IANAL but I really don’t see anything problematic here, it’s all standard boilerplate digitally distributed software stuff. Maybe he thought the ownership clause was a little too broad? https://tableplus.io/blog/2018&#x
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by markn951 8y ago
>But it's not.snappy.enough. I was following you until this line... In general I agree about Electron though probably not to the same degree as you. But for me VSCode runs amazingly well; I think the only thing that tops it is Subli
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by markn951 8y ago
I love your comment on the projection math and it reminds me so much of the projects I’d work on growing up. I think when we’re young excited programmers we just want to build cool things, but we don’t know any of the underlying principles
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by markn951 8y ago
LogMeIn | Boston, MA, USA | Senior Software Engineers and Agile Coaches | Full-time, Onsite LastPass is the most popular cloud password manager on Earth. 16.5m people rely on us to secure their digital life and provide seamless access to th
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by markn951 8y ago
Best not hold your breath. You are an old-school power user and 99.9% of users no longer know or care about any of the functionality you're talking about. I don't have any specific retorts to your points other than pointing you to
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by markn951 8y ago
For working with MySQL on Mac, I really enjoy Sequel Pro [1]. Full native (and kinda old-skool, if you dig that kinda thing) Mac experience/design. Works fast. Is free. [1] https://sequelpro.com
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by markn951 8y ago
What are you talking about? 95% of advertising/marketing trades on people's insecurity.
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by markn951 8y ago
Weirdly enough I’m almost exactly the same way, and you’ve described it much more eloquently than I’ve been able to in the past. Maybe there’s more to it than just your brain being some sort of one-off anomaly.
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by markn951 8y ago
...what? What is your life like that most people you know don’t have a _microwave_? I don’t think I’ve ever met _anyone_ without a microwave.
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by markn951 8y ago
Nope, that’s absolutely the issue. But we figure we can do both at the same time, and type safety hasn’t hurt anything.
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by markn951 8y ago
We’re going through a similar process at my company - how do we refactor the decade old startup-style JS without 1) spending a year rewriting everything from scratch generating little business value and potentially introducing regressions i
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by markn951 8y ago
Oh :(
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by markn951 8y ago
Stuff like this make me long to live in NYC. Only city in the US with the density, technical expertise, and money for this kind of thing to happen.
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by markn951 8y ago
And here I am, writing down “get milk” like a rube