matthewking

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by matthewking 10y ago
2014 13" Retina Macbook Pro on a Rain mStand alongside my Thunderbolt display. On the desk I also have a mechanical keyboard with cherry blue switches, Logitech G502 mouse and Apple desktop trackpad. Not machine related, but very impor
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by matthewking 10y ago
> .NET IS NOT a viable stack for developing on Linux and it's an inferior one in macOS. .NET isn't, and wasn't officially meant to be. That's your problem. I've been working on a .net core web app on my mac exclu
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by matthewking 10y ago
> Windows's Virtual desktops are no worse than MacOS's. Bit late but just to chime in on this, to my knowledge on Windows 10 you cannot: - Save desktop arrangement so your setup persists through shutdowns. - Assign apps to spec
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by matthewking 10y ago
For me the other issues I can overlook somewhat, but the killer is the keyboard. It seems to divide people strongly one way or the other, but to me its horrendous. There's basically 0 key travel, the keys just click. I average about th
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by matthewking 10y ago
Maybe Apple need Steve Ballmer to remind them what's important ;)
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by matthewking 10y ago
Yes I've seen people doing that, and I do appreciate a mechanical keyboard, is the typing position a bit high though? One thing I saw someone mention is that because the new keyboard is wider you might not be able to rest a poker on to
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by matthewking 10y ago
6% of leave voters have changed their mind, compared to just 1% of remain voters: http://www.britishelectionstudy.com/bes-resources/brexit-bri...
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by matthewking 10y ago
These are all lies told by the leave campaign, not the remain campaign?
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by matthewking 10y ago
Yes its the brand new keyboard that I was referring to, a friend got one from his workplace, space grey looks amazing and the larger trackpad is nice but as mentioned, keyboard is a no go. I really hope the reasoning for it wasn't to s
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by matthewking 10y ago
I think the keyboard is tipping me over the edge on the new MacBook Pro's, its horrendous. There's no travel at all, the keys just immediately click. Interested to see what other people think about them as they start getting their
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by matthewking 10y ago
Along with seemingly everyone else, I had a quick look at my options to migrate away from Apple over the last few days. First thing I looked for was a decent mail app, was immediately put off the whole idea, exactly as you describe.
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by matthewking 10y ago
I think his point was that the Apple/Mac ethos foster high quality design and attention to detail, which is applied when developers build apps for the Mac.
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by matthewking 10y ago
> Who will pay $1,500 on a laptop that has second-grade components, a rather standard keyboard, etc. etc. People that really like macOS and have no other choice. I'm not happy with the new hardware at all, I can see other alternativ
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by matthewking 10y ago
> laptops with mechanical keyboards are almost nonexistent due to the extreme bulk required Here's some hope for the future: http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade-pro It's big, but because of
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by matthewking 10y ago
That is a seriously nice gaming laptop. Id like a 15" version with the trackpad in the usual place though, id consider that for my main machine.
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by matthewking 10y ago
Not .NET specific, but I use WKHtmlToPDF[1] - you feed it a html file via command line and it converts it to PDF using the Webkit engine. Works well for my uses and I actually prefer maintaining html templates. [1] http://wkhtmlt
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by matthewking 10y ago
When I was first learning programming at a young age, probably 14-15, I was so engrossed by my new skill that I carried on with pen and paper when I was dragged away from my computer to go on a family holiday. I guess there's worse pri
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by matthewking 10y ago
I'm on my third of fourth attempt, this time it seems to have stuck, although I'm working from macOS. Every other time there was something crippling with dotnet core but so far so good this go, the only thing I've noticed is
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by matthewking 10y ago
I've considered a Sql Azure instance for this purpose, for a small dev database its pretty cheap. Not ideal but Sql Server for linux is coming so might be ok as a stop gap.
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by matthewking 10y ago
The part that I didn't really understand is people accepting pull requests should be gate keepers for code quality, so amateur or not hopefully this shouldn't pollute the codebase. But you've touched on the core being reasona
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by matthewking 10y ago
Came here to say this, its sad really, quite convenient and I miss the noise of the electric milk float at 4am, always knew that meant it was time to stop coding and go to bed! Depends where you live though, still heard it in Dorset.
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by matthewking 10y ago
> The Wordpress codebase [plugin api included], though, is utter garbage. I've always heard this and never actually used Wordpress myself. Has anyone ever studied WHY its garbage? and how did it get to that state? is it getting bett
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by matthewking 10y ago
In remote teams issues with daily accountability are definitely a thing. I've tried a few approaches, full on project management is sometimes a little heavy, especially for non IT workers. I don't like to count bums in seats I jus
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by matthewking 10y ago
Seconded, I've been writing c# with asp.net core solely on OSX for a few weeks now, I've not run into a single thing that I miss from full Visual Studio yet, living the dream!
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by matthewking 10y ago
I too miss BoS forums, never really found another community like it, HN and /r/programming are ok but they don't quite cover the "programmer AND in business" demographic that BoS captured so well.
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by matthewking 10y ago
Some benchmarks can be found here: https://github.com/aspnet/benchmarks
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by matthewking 10y ago
The amount that your dev's will benefit from the distraction free environment depends how much they're distracted in their day to day environment, unless that's a lot then a 2x productivity increase seems unlikely, more like
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by matthewking 10y ago
Where is that? EU wide? In the UK its £9.99 which I've always found too expensive compared to services like Netflix, NowTV, Amazon Video etc. Personally I feel the price point should be around £5 or less, otherwise I can buy an album e
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by matthewking 10y ago
Having a degree doesn't guarantee that you're automatically better than anyone without one, there will be good and bad people on both sides. People that don't take the traditional education route will generally be self studyi
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by matthewking 10y ago
Curious what shortcomings you're finding in Spring Boot that Dot Net Core would solve?

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