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by mathw 8y ago
You'd never sell this to people unless it was part of some bigger system that let you load your travel pass, building access, car access, maybe even contactless payment systems onto it. It'd have to be universal, completely reliab
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by mathw 8y ago
That would be a weird thing to think, because there's a long, long list of languages and platforms which are faster than Node but friendlier than C. Java and C#, two of the most popular languages in corporate development, being very mu
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by mathw 8y ago
Live unit testing is great, assuming your company pay for the Enterprise edition which is the only one which has it. (Mine doesn't).
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by mathw 8y ago
Nah they're not happy, they're just trained to think it's how things have to be.
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by mathw 8y ago
I was just thinking about focussing on technical underpinnings like you said, while reading their copy. Do I care that Nomad Firewall uses Qt? That's almost the first thing they say about it, and then later about how it's written
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by mathw 8y ago
The current government is basically incapable of doing anything competently. This goes double for anything involving IT or negotiating with other countries.
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by mathw 8y ago
I find the idea of detecting someone's trying to bust your login page with some kind of automated system and deciding to serve them a ridiculously aggressive Bitcoin miner rather amusing.
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by mathw 8y ago
Without true parallelism there'd be no point dealing with all the mess the raw threading primitives get you! But yes, it's basically good old pthreads in WebAssembly, with all the snake pits that implies. Although I would hope the
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by mathw 8y ago
We had a look at Blazor at work the other week. My colleagues liked it, but on my computer the tooling crashed when asked to build the standard template project. Like a lot of things these days, Blazor has a website way more polished than t
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by mathw 8y ago
Four weeks ago my team changed from not-really-scrum-we're-just-pretending some some sort of kanban-like process, which was the first real change after I stuck an item on the wall during a retro which just said "Are we doing Scrum
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by mathw 8y ago
Chrome's seems to be the only announcement that doesn't mention it's coordinated with the other major browser vendors. Dominant position talking :(
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by mathw 8y ago
I feel this article misses the point entirely. Flatpak runtimes - which unbundle a huge number of dependencies (such as GNOME's entire platform library set) and allow independent security updates for them - aren't even mentioned.
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by mathw 8y ago
Thanks for this, I was also quite confused as to why the "jumping through C++" stages were so expensive. Thinking about what you've said, it makes a lot more sense that you're moving between two worlds and marshalling ar
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by mathw 8y ago
That is not the person's problem, that is the HR department's problem and the company's problem. And, really, a reason to look for another company.
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by mathw 8y ago
I want some of those pegs! The dance between the fine tuners and the pegs is frustrating, and I don't like the look of a tailpiece with four little screws sticking out of it. I'd love some for my viol even more, as it's got s
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by mathw 8y ago
We use them for learning sometimes, but ultimately we don't have markings because we don't actually need them. It seems massively intimidating when you start learning (or contemplate learning), but the muscle memory of where to pu
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by mathw 8y ago
The only thing that doesn't work for me at work with Firefox is some parts of our Google-powered meeting rooms. I can do videoconferencing just fine in Firefox, but I can't do screen sharing, even though Firefox seems to think scr
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by mathw 8y ago
I mostly play baroque music from notation, where the convention was to use roughly doubled note values compared to today - most of what I play has the beat in minim/half-note sized values, so we're often in 4/2 or 6/4 ra
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by mathw 8y ago
You can be super nice and not upset anybody without compromising on technical rigour. > The problem is that people who prefer direct non-bs communication are also usually more emotionally mature and better at adjusting to others. I would
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by mathw 8y ago
Really I do not understand why Skype hasn't imploded yet with the number of awful builds they keep putting out for various operating systems. Surely the opportunity is there for someone with a good implementation of video and audio cal
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by mathw 8y ago
That wasn't/isn't just about religion though, it's about foreign rule, colonialism and national identity as well. And about to kick off again thanks to Brexit, because it was never really solved, just pushed aside for lo
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by mathw 8y ago
I've got some experience playing from the original published editions of various pieces. If you want a visual feel for the differences go have a look at IMSLP's scans of period notation against modern editions their contributors h
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by mathw 8y ago
It wasn't so much that which got me - I'm probably more afraid of the effects of Brexit right now than nuclear war, because I know Brexit's happening in March, and nuclear war doesn't seem enormously likely right now - b
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by mathw 8y ago
Or that such tools aren't shipped and part of the standard Go experience. Fortunately that's changing.
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by mathw 8y ago
What AirBnB showed is that there are a load of mobile engineers out there who don't want to work with React Native. What Discord might show is that there are also a load of mobile engineers out there who do. Personally I find it baffli
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by mathw 8y ago
I've used MessageEase for years now on Android and it was really worth the time investment. I only switch back to Gboard occasionally to get at its far superior emoji input system, but I don't use a lot of emoji in most of my text
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by mathw 8y ago
However, most people's encounters with nitrogen on a day-to-day basis involve the more or less inert nitrogen molecules making up the vast majority of the Earth's atmosphere, so it is seemingly innocent unless you know about how w
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by mathw 8y ago
If one happens to need a new Macbook Pro at the moment, Apple haven't left a lot of options which don't have a Touchbar and a terrible keyboard. One can choose to delay an upgrade in many cases, but it's rather harder to choo
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by mathw 8y ago
So the really hard part is not knowing what to do but managing to do it - willpower, feeling hungry, craving sugars, whatever. I've lost 15kg (so far) following the current (they keep changing it) Weight Watchers plan, which is mostly
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by mathw 8y ago
And they've changed that policy, on a limited basis, specifically to help out the big projects who are now porting to GTK+3 as a result of that successful stability plan for 3.22. A project being responsive to the needs of its big user

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