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Ask HN: What's your favorite software-free keyboard and mouse?
9 points by mastry 4y ago|21 comments
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by mastry 4y ago
SweepWings has some great build videos (and kits, for those interested). Not affiliated - just a fan. https://sweepwings.com/collections/frontpage/products/flinch...
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by mastry 4y ago
That is great - I starred the repo. Are the original articles available somewhere?
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by mastry 4y ago
Agreed. I cut my programming teeth on the Dr. Dobbs/Al Stevens "D-flat" series which was a text-based windowing system in C. Some of the most fun I've ever had programming. The hardest part was waiting for the next issue
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How Much Does Bad Software Cost DoD?(fcw.com)
2 points by mastry 4y ago|0 comments
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by mastry 5y ago
If this is a long-term (on-going) project I would consider building an app for the museums to track their collection data. The app would sync to your central storage system. You would need to support a lot of import formats, but the app wou
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by mastry 5y ago
Near the end of the article, Steve Blanks is quoted... Alternatively, Beijing may seek to negotiate with or coerce Taipei (or both) in order to allow China sole access to TSMC and block chip exports to the United States, thereby securing C
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by mastry 5y ago
Does anyone know if this can be used for effective performance testing? It’s not clear from the Playwright documentation, but I know Selenium (a similar tool) does not recommend performance testing.
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by mastry 6y ago
Yep. I can’t get into the azure portal.
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by mastry 6y ago
I don’t see anything wrong about targeting a small audience...or doing something just because you enjoy it.
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by mastry 7y ago
I have seen the same. One of our clients stood up 25,000 Azure VMs (Win 10) in a single day. No problems so far.
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by mastry 7y ago
The Great Influenza by John Barry for some perspective on current events. A good read so far.
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Saturn's largest moon may be the only place beyond Earth where humans could live(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
245 points by mastry 7y ago|386 comments
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by mastry 7y ago
Just moved to the Charlotte, NC area. Love it here. Highly recommended. Cost of living is reasonable compared to SF/LA and tech jobs are plentiful.
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by mastry 7y ago
In my opinion, the truth is somewhere between what the author is suggesting and what most developers actually do. I recently came across The Fallacy of Premature Optimization on ACM [1], which I think is a much better take on this topic. It
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by mastry 7y ago
I’m curious... how could c# cost more when the language is open source and Visual Studio Community is free?
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by mastry 7y ago
PBS has an informative episode (2014) about the coywolf [1]. [1] https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/coywolf-meet-the-coywolf/860...
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by mastry 7y ago
FAANG or no-FAANG, if they won't offer what you think you are worth, then walk away. I'm assuming you're a seasoned professional and not straight out of college. If the latter, are you sure you know what you're worth?
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by mastry 7y ago
I love his “thurman” idea.... definitely going to use that the next time someone asks me for help with a computer problem. Ehh, maybe only in April since it’s a little mean.
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by mastry 7y ago
We stare at text for hours on end, every day. We want the text to be functional... and pleasant to look at. I change fonts frequently, just to spice up my life - it's a little like changing your desktop background on a regular basis.
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by mastry 7y ago
That it is. It's also the most enjoyable part, in my opinion.
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Emoticon First Used 37 Years Ago Today(cs.cmu.edu)
2 points by mastry 7y ago|0 comments
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by mastry 7y ago
Teams does have a "Do not disturb" setting. Either right-click the taskbar icon or click your user picture in the app.
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by mastry 7y ago
>> "Never let a good crisis go to waste" -- Winston Churchill, probably Possibly, but Rahm Emanuel said it about 11 years ago [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mzcbXi1Tkk
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by mastry 7y ago
How? You can only have one (on SQL Server anyway). Maybe I don't understand your point.
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by mastry 7y ago
It depends on how much data you have in the table you're adding the index to and how much traffic you're dealing with. I deal with this every day (SQL 2017) and I assure you that adding an index to a large table has noticeable ove
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Ask HN: What Was NASA817 Up to over California?
2 points by mastry 7y ago|1 comments
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by mastry 7y ago
That’s pretty surprising coming from you. I would have guessed.... stand up comedy.
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by mastry 7y ago
Building drones - sometimes I actually fly them.
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Robot Navy Wars: The Next Big Threat?(nationalinterest.org)
2 points by mastry 7y ago|0 comments

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