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by mtone 4y ago
I think low-code/no-code is misleading since it means vastly different things. For example, Zapier is a flow automation tool in the broad RPA category - they automate triggers and steps between different existing applications. The &q
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by mtone 4y ago
There's a relevant term called "DDD Trilemma" (I like it because it's easy to find back articles on it). It states that you can't have both a pure, complete and performant domain. For example, I think what you descr
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by mtone 4y ago
I don't have numbers but I thought the motivation is that they make more money by making it safe for people to use - it encourages use and nets them more transaction fees. It probably helped kick off online shopping.
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by mtone 5y ago
On FF desktop it doesn't bother me too much, but on iPadOS Safari I was having quite a challenge editing a URL param due to selecting all on touch with no obvious way to switch to cursor mode (!). My solution: touch to select all, touc
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by mtone 5y ago
As teenagers when they realize that you (or any family member with access to the server) can look at all their emails, they will most certainly never use it for anything personal and/or move away to gmail as that would massively improv
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by mtone 5y ago
It's not just idiomatic but pretty much standard in C# to have a single file per class so it's a fair criticism.
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by mtone 5y ago
I also agree that relying on database schema is a show stopper. First counterpoint: As long as data type information isn't completely messed up, I can dump excel spreadsheets in a database, or dump database CSVs in a data lake, and sta
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by mtone 5y ago
I'd say Microsoft already has this with Dataverse/Power platform? It runs on Azure SQL Server but it is not exposed directly nor uses SQL server's ACL. Instead, the available access points -- mainly its web API -- honor the p
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by mtone 5y ago
So the 15" M1 laptop will let you custom boot if you manage to decipher its undocumented internals, but the 10" M1 tablet will actively shut down attempts on the next update. Great.
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by mtone 5y ago
They did it on iOS countless times to prevent rooting the device. Not sure how that's supposed to be different as the tech converges, but I never owned a Mac so that's all I know of Apple.
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by mtone 5y ago
Unsaved work should be a concern of the app, not the OS. The app should obey the commands of the OS, and handle auto-saving on its own to keep fulfilling its duties to the user. Apps that let you risk losing work -- from not just shutdowns
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by mtone 5y ago
Here our tests are written in BDD (behavior-driven development) style, mimicking user actions and data expectations. During development, these are run against mocks (either in-memory DB or a mock repository). Individual small scenarios are
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by mtone 5y ago
Not sure what % of motherboards support USB BIOS Flashback but I remember AMD in Ryzen 2 era shipping out "loaner cpus" exactly for that purpose -- so people could buy a CPU/AM4 motherboard combo that needed the BIOS upgrade
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by mtone 5y ago
In the JavaScript ecosystem, most the challenges with repos are not the code but the tooling. SOLID principles are not going to solve that. In our monorepo, few changes are cross module. But its a grand day to reduce total package count by
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by mtone 5y ago
> By that logic any proprietary product that provides an interface with an open source tool is guilty. In my view, the entire PaaS ecosystem modus operandi is building on top of open hardware & software, allowing and enticing people
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by mtone 5y ago
Instead, just don't run executables from untrusted sources. Torrents, email, mobile apps (like that fake banking iOS app that looks like the legit one) or otherwise. The transport method doesn't matter much.
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by mtone 5y ago
I would think 2FA-in-masterdb still protects you against some website hacks, most browser exploits and phishing sites, using your password on other potentially compromised devices (public wi-fi, work, etc.) and probably some keylogger scena
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by mtone 5y ago
And public sentiment is not the same everywhere - for instance, the US tends to be more suspicious of government than of (large, public) corporations whereas elsewhere it's the complete opposite.
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by mtone 5y ago
I’d argue that in some cases it can be more testable than code. With a small, strict subset of a turing-complete language and constrained input choices, you can often auto generate test cases for any valid expression in a given context. Sta
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by mtone 5y ago
Xbox Game Bar is very limited. It only captures a single window not the actual desktop, so you won't see any other window, dialog or context menu. I noticed it when I tried to record a demo of a git merge flow in an IDE. Fail! I wish t
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by mtone 5y ago
Connecting to a Microsoft Teams of Office work account from home gives you the fantastic "Use this account everywhere on your device". It has 4 effective choices [0] with no clue about what's going to happen to your windows a
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by mtone 5y ago
I just use FTP.
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by mtone 5y ago
I still use it to sync folders to my iPad (from Documents Readdle). Since walled gardens don't leave much options open, it's basically either that or a cloud provider -- and no free cloud plan has enough space to store these folde
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by mtone 5y ago
Indeed, they will perform the same or very close (the query plan might differ a bit due to the different orderings). Not sure where the author got that from. I'm complaining about the docs only.
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by mtone 5y ago
> This syntax is not as commonly used as the one above This is going to need some sources. Is it true today? And why did they put parentheses in the ON condition? Worth nothing that there were variants of the WHERE syntax to support left
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by mtone 5y ago
My iPad Air 1 is aging, slow, and I loved it but I simply won't replace a machine where a publicly-funded news/docs store app in particular gets laden with unskippable ads. Half a thousand bucks for this frustration, no thanks! No
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by mtone 6y ago
I've asked a few times my team whether they see value in our daily meetings, mentioning that it can easily disrupt flow, might have less value than ad-hoc focused meetings or chats on particular topics, and worse of all for me - might
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by mtone 6y ago
What worries me is the testability. Too many variables, especially external unpredictable ones injected by browsers and user stylesheets, means accessibility testing combinations explode further than they already are. Full-page zoom - somet
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by mtone 6y ago
What is the use case for font-only zooming? I just tried it on a few sites and it either doesn't change much/anything or breaks stuff -- either by overlapping text, or not increase the width of text zones so you end up with few wo
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by mtone 6y ago
Assuming we're talking about VMs (2021 etc.), for a SME is there any downside to giving 2TB of space to your discs and let dynamic allocation do the work? Perhaps consolidate/defrag once a year. Even monitoring total usage more of

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