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by marpstar 8y ago
I'd wait until Beta 2 at the very earliest. Lots of new bugs are going to surface over the next few days.
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by marpstar 8y ago
Let the market decide which bakers stay in business.
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by marpstar 8y ago
This seems like the most likely case. Who's really taking the time to move their production repos to GitLab over the weekend based on a Friday rumor?
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by marpstar 8y ago
I can envision something like "Deploy to Azure" support as well.
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by marpstar 8y ago
Agreed. I see MSFT keeping GitHub as a "simple" choice for repo hosting. VSTS is awesome, and quite feature-packed. Maybe Microsoft will use GitHub specifically for repo hosting, while offering VSTS as an CI/CD/ALM pla
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by marpstar 8y ago
UW-P is a public university in Wisconsin. And you're right: the chair of the department when I was there was a huge proponent of COBOL. I know classmates who went on to do quite well working with COBOL in finance industries. I'd n
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by marpstar 8y ago
> Despite the fact that virtually no one learns COBOL anymore Is this true? I mean, I know coding boot camp programs aren't emphasizing in COBOL, but I graduated from University of Wisconsin-Platteville in 2010 and was required to
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by marpstar 8y ago
Seconded. Many hours in college that I should've spent studying were spent "stumbling". Digg came along, and later Reddit and HN and I spent a lot less time using StumbleUpon, but it was AWESOME for its time.
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by marpstar 8y ago
I forgot all about Netvibes.com! I remember setting up a personal dashboard with my emails, news, Digg, etc way back in ~2006. It may very well have been my first foray into RSS, now that I think about it...
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by marpstar 8y ago
A relative of mine is currently attending university who decided to blow a $50k college fund on TWO years of a four-year degree. I didn't even pay that much for four years (this was 10 years ago). A lot of the younger generation don&#x
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by marpstar 8y ago
I learned this playing a "Drugwars"[1] clone in the late 1990s, borrowing money from loan sharks to finance operations. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drugwars
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by marpstar 8y ago
Same here. When I started my undergrad degree in 2006, my university had just built the first new residence hall in 20+ years. Since since I left in 2010, they've added two new academic buildings and two more 4+ story residence halls.
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by marpstar 8y ago
Wow. I first came across Microsoft Chat in the late 1990s, at age 11 or 12. To this day it seemed ahead of its time... avatars with multiple options of facial expressions, comic book layout. I miss it.
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by marpstar 8y ago
I don't. I've got the rest of my life to tackle some tasks on my list. I have deadlines and personal priorities, which naturally float to the top of those lists, but until I decide that I'll never do one of them, I just let
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by marpstar 8y ago
For me, it's peace-of-mind. If I write it down, I don't have to keep it in memory.
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by marpstar 8y ago
I use the email-to-board feature of Trello and just include the address as a BCC when replying to clients, or just forward it if I'm not replying. Everything goes into the "Incoming" column which I can then prioritize. Works
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by marpstar 8y ago
This is basically what 56k modems do, isn't it?
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by marpstar 8y ago
something that's always worked for me: slow your breathing and take medium-deep breaths while continually telling yourself nothing but "I am breathing deeply". I'm usually out in 5 minutes.
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by marpstar 9y ago
Same here. I don't need a notification for every single "like" I get on Twitter/Instagram. In fact, it's similarly rewarding when I come back to the app and see a bunch of notifications waiting, knowing that they di
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by marpstar 9y ago
sure, but would we even be here talking about VS Code if it had been written in those languages? Would the extension community have grown as quickly? Would Microsoft have continued investment in the product if it hadn't? I'm not s
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by marpstar 9y ago
why?
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by marpstar 9y ago
iOS' "Do Not Disturb While Driving" is a good example of how they're trying. Sure it's touted as a "safety" feature, but it's doing what they need to do: encourage the user not to use their phone all
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by marpstar 9y ago
It's not so much about "sites", as it is "apps". The most recent instance I recall is this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16467387 Open this page in a browser other than Chrome: https:/
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by marpstar 9y ago
Yes, fairly regularly. We do "agile" at my 9-5, and we have at least one code review per user story that we complete, usually when the story is about 2/3 of the way done. How big is your team? Do you all work in the same phys
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by marpstar 9y ago
there's a reason the article states "diner food is best consumed when drunk"...because quality and nutrition go out the window for convenience and good vibes.
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by marpstar 9y ago
So what's driving Zuck to stay in the game? Does he really believe in the work he's doing? Is he feeding his narcissism? Does he really want more money? Can he just not let go of his baby?
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by marpstar 9y ago
I've been on the other side of that argument. In my case, a client had spent $50,000 on a pretty plain static brochure website. They're not tech-savvy, so they wanted to move to a CMS they could manage on their own. When I told th
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by marpstar 9y ago
On my most recent app, I started with Hapi but was starting to get bothered by the number of "official plugins" that did not include TypeScript typings. After waiting weeks for official Hapi v17 typings to make it into DefinitelyT
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by marpstar 9y ago
Site literally just keeps telling me to up my budget. Apparently nothing fun to do when you're flying out of DBQ.
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by marpstar 9y ago
Facebook built the internet?

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