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by marrs 5y ago
That’s a lot of presumptions. It may be as simple as noticing that teams with a higher attrition rate are more productive on average and faithfully treating that observation as a causal link. It may be successful in the short run, but that
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by marrs 5y ago
if you are on mobile it doesn't matter. I think you've got the wrong end of the stick. I'm not saying that I'm ditching the Twitter website for the native Twitter app. I'm saying that I'm ditching Tw
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by marrs 5y ago
Is there any JS being used in that video at all or is it all HTTP requests?
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by marrs 5y ago
I think open standards address your issue just as effectively. You mentioned newsgroup readers and mail user agents, for example. The web apps that I enjoy using are the ones that enable real-time collaboration. I think that's where t
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by marrs 5y ago
I'm not dismissing the utility of tags, and I like your idea. I'd definitely install it as an application and give it a go. I'm really addressing the argument that tags are a revolutionary change that should replace the direc
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by marrs 5y ago
YouTube-dl is your friend. As for your attempts to learn Angular, maybe Google was doing you a favour ;) For the maths, look up Eddie Woo on YouTube
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by marrs 5y ago
I still belong to a WhatsApp group, but I’m plotting a course out of the social media empire. We should still have web apps where they add value - I’m writing one at the moment - but I’ve reduced my reliance on Google Suite in particular an
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by marrs 5y ago
Good to know you’re out there somewhere!
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by marrs 5y ago
> So your solution to organizing files... is more files? How would multiple files use the same "tag" under that scheme, without duplicating it everywhere? You could put the same file in multiple directories. You could have a fi
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by marrs 5y ago
I was referring more to the web as a runtime for apps. YouTube is full of great content but the app on my TV is pretty rubbbish. The website’s not bad in fairness
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by marrs 5y ago
Screenshot at the command line. Isn’t that just pipe to file? ;)
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by marrs 5y ago
Ripgrep will compile a list of all files in your home directory in seconds. Combine it with dmenu or fzf and you’ve got yourself a pretty handy search tool
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by marrs 5y ago
I use it as a place to put files I’m working with in the moment. Once I’m done with them, I either file them away or delete them. Although I don’t use a desktop on Linux anymore, I still use the directory for that purpose.
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by marrs 5y ago
On Debian Stable, pretty much all updates are security updates.
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by marrs 5y ago
They should be separate. On a well implemented system, you’d be able to apply those automatically
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by marrs 5y ago
I think we can safely assume that the answer to that question is “no” for most of the people in this thread complaining about the desktop!
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by marrs 5y ago
Or alternatively they do update and their critical application stops working.
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by marrs 5y ago
echo “medium.com 127.0.0.1” >> /etc/hosts # works too :)
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by marrs 5y ago
I hope you’re right. Personally I think that epoch peaked with jQuery. I’ve been watching the culture of web development steadily descend from what you describe to whatever it is we have now. But software history is circular, so maybe those
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by marrs 5y ago
I’ve thought about that, but for now I can manage with rsync. I’ll look at it again if I have to collaborate with non-technical people though.
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by marrs 5y ago
So put them in the same directory and be done with it? I’m not really sure what you’re hoping for
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by marrs 5y ago
This tagging idea resurfaces every few years. I have to confess I don’t really see where the revolutionary improvement is. Filenames are already namespaced tags and symlinks allow for multiple tags. Not quite the same thing, I know, but clo
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by marrs 5y ago
It used to be used by people who were moderately to hardly tech literate. Not sure if that’s relevant but it feels like it should be
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by marrs 5y ago
I think some are getting quite good. I’m following Manjaro/Phosh, and it’s showing promise. I’m not using it for much yet, just watching it develop. I believe other distros are further along.
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by marrs 5y ago
I’ve been switching away from the web and back to native in a big way and it’s making my life much easier. The web sucks. It’s the worst part of modern computing by far. It’s like wading through treacle. Even this article took an age to loa
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by marrs 5y ago
No it doesn’t. You might get a refund or some stock advice, but don’t expect any help beyond that
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by marrs 5y ago
I don’t think you quite understand what security through obscurity means. It’s not an invitation to help malicious actors pen-test your system by publishing information about it.
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by marrs 5y ago
How come the quite thoughtful comment you’re replying to is downvoted while your snotty little reply isn’t?
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by marrs 5y ago
Actually it is. Risk management has to be proportionate to the risk.
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by marrs 5y ago
People are intimidated by CLIs. Simple as that

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