mhenr18

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by mhenr18 10y ago
Sure, but the Windows APIs that I mentioned aren't historical. Those are all currently supported APIs. Carbon/Cocoa was the last time that OS X has had a dual-API situation but even then, Carbon was always referred to as the trans
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by mhenr18 10y ago
* You're right, but it took how long to get here? * The APIs are there now, but the hardware isn't on many machines. * * * Yes, I'm referring to graphics tablets. I've had to deal with the APIs for that stuff myself and
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by mhenr18 10y ago
A key difference with the Microsoft approach vs the Apple approach is that on Windows the API that exposes every single feature is such a beast that developers are expected to work at a level above that API. Whether it's WPF, WinForms,
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by mhenr18 10y ago
You wouldn't be commenting on things working at high DPIs on Windows if you've been using a Mac for the past few years. It's really one of those things where a lot of Windows users think that it's fine, but once you see
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by mhenr18 10y ago
And you don't notice any issues when you drag windows between the two monitors? One of the developers at my work can't do fine tuning of our styles because his Windows multi-display setup won't re-render apps at 1x when he dr
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by mhenr18 10y ago
* Free OS updates. * Better touchpad support throughout the entire OS. * Vastly superior HiDPI support (especially if you're using a multi-screen, multi-DPI setup). I cannot stress how poorly Windows 10 performs in this regard. This
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by mhenr18 10y ago
I'm unsure about the US but I know that where I live a solid third or so of my power bills are a fixed rate that you pay to access the grid (so pretty much line rental). It doesn't feel to me like that's a particularly unique
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by mhenr18 10y ago
Bingo. Many of us here in Australia complain about the prices being exorbitant - the same Apple computer that's marketed as $1,799 USD sells for $2,699 AUD. Take off the GST and you get $2,453 AUD. 1 USD = 1.32 AUD, and 1.32 * $1,799 =
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by mhenr18 10y ago
I wasn't trying to claim that Australia is somehow equivalent to the US in terms of what's protected (because it isn't - the US is undoubtedly more protective of speech than Australia), but more making the point that in the p
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by mhenr18 10y ago
No, we don't have internet censorship in Australia. The idea was mooted and then shot down after backlash. That government was also voted out. We also have no such regulation regarding the breast sizes of porn actresses. The refusal of
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by mhenr18 10y ago
Exactly. Limits only become reasonable when they're meant to stop you from uploading hundreds of megs worth of data and monopolising resources. A 1kb password or even a 1mb password supplied by a tiny fraction of a percent of users is
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by mhenr18 10y ago
Suppose you're of the view that a mass influx of people into your country that are willing to work for less than the locals are will do harm to the economy. If one country's economy is weaker than yours and is a source of immigrat
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by mhenr18 10y ago
If I'm born in my Australia, and my parents were, and their parents were, and their parents were, I'm not Irish or Italian or German or whatever majority-white European country you want to pick that I have a vague connection to. I
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by mhenr18 10y ago
> A persons skin color is part of their identity Unless they're white, at which point they get shunned if they even try to embrace that part of their identity. If a black man says he's proud to be black, that's perfectly f
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by mhenr18 10y ago
Two things: 1. You don't need closures at a language level to do event callbacks. Just the ability to refer to functions by reference and call those references. Closures certainly make it syntactically nicer, but you can work without t
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by mhenr18 10y ago
> Try managing the tax rules for 100 countries as a 1-2 person shop. Good luck. The same justification could be made for accepting international credit card payments online, but companies like Stripe are happy to provide you with a servi
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by mhenr18 10y ago
See, all of these "you won't have to carry a card ever" schemes that involve tapping a phone seem to not care that people have other cards to care about. Why bother with all of this effort to move payments onto my phone (wh
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by mhenr18 10y ago
Not OP, but I think I get what they're trying to say. The GPL requires others to follow its terms, because that's the only license of the code that's available to them. There is no clause of the GPL or any software license
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by mhenr18 11y ago
Doesn't that logic mean she should pull her music from all radio stations?
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by mhenr18 11y ago
It's curious that the USA has effectively standardized on a 4 point GPA scale, yet Australia is still a complete catastrophe of marks. The universities in my city use a 7 point scale with 4 being a pass and 7 being 100%, meanwhile the
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by mhenr18 12y ago
I remember having a few Google engineers coming to my uni to do a talk - afterwards they mentioned that internally they've been doing a large amount of programming work using internal tools on Chromebooks.
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by mhenr18 12y ago
Probably at the point of not voting in the people who make those laws in the first place.
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by mhenr18 12y ago
I love Dash, have recommended it to everyone at uni. Using a machine where Alt+Space doesn't throw up documentation feels really weird.
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by mhenr18 12y ago
This idea is cool, except for the gesture. There needs to be a way to summon a block with one finger so that one-handed use is still possible. I'm assuming that the drive to stay as close to the current experience as possible influence
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by mhenr18 12y ago
I'm not usually one to initiate OSX/Windows comparisons, but it is rather surprising that menu searching isn't a thing on Windows. While it's obvious that MS would have a reason, I have no clue what that could be. The on
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by mhenr18 12y ago
No it's not. Every day large chunks of the world's population are able to drive safely to their destinations. We have illustrated an ability to do this year after year and yet there's this idea that the best solution to stopp
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by mhenr18 12y ago
This isn't an objectively difficult one, but it's certainly one with a fun payoff. I hacked together a system of file system listeners and named pipes so that I can inject code into a sandboxed app on OSX and have it communicate w
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by mhenr18 13y ago
Well, that's entirely disheartening. As a CBA customer I'd expect an actual response, not just something that's effectively "It's all OK, stop asking" copied everywhere. A technology blog should be run by those
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by mhenr18 13y ago
Man, the mood swing part rings true for me. In my case they're usually 1-2 weeks. There's some anxiety/depression on my mother's side of the family but I wouldn't say that I've got any issues with it. Now I&#x2
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by mhenr18 13y ago
Yep. Half of my news feed is bullshit stuff that my friends like because they haven't discovered true content aggregators. They use Facebook for the sort of stuff that I use Reddit for and it completely ruins my experience. I'm th

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