mtrower

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by mtrower 4y ago
The doors are iconic. Honestly I think they're about the last thing you could drop if you want to invoke "DeLorean". Of course, the steel would not be far behind that, and yet...
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Maybe! Or maybe not. The more settings you have, the more inevitable this becomes... Assume for a moment that any given default you set, works well for 99% of your userbase. Then, the number of users satisfied with every last default brea
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by mtrower 4y ago
> My issue is these <redacted> imagining that the web outright doesn't need design at all and that CSS is a terrible waste. While you do have some going to that extreme, I think it's mostly pushback against the insane amo
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> It is extraordinary claims, require extraordinary evidence, or experience/proven competence. But they don't. All they require is for you to evaluate the claims, on their own merits, without examining the speaker for their cr
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> I can't reliably alt+tab on a MacOS to switch between windows and apps Why do you expect alt+tab to perform identically to the Windows version such?e > window tiling is trash How's the built-in window tiling on Windows? &g
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> If you are a software engineer, you are no longer the target audience for the MBP lineup. If you are a software engineer developing for Linux . Seriously. I don't get the sentiment here, at all. It's like buying a (insert
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Where is FUSE in the POSIX or SUS standard?
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> Not really sure what you're getting at. Pretty sure they're saying that mouse accuracy trumps trackpad for cut/paste operations. > What seems missing from all this is the notion of gestures. The two finger scroll, sin
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> it broke dead after about a year. For clarification --- the trackpoint broke, right? Not the whole damn keyboard?
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> macos doesn't have systemd Some would consider this a feature. Unfortunately it does have launchd, essentially the model from whence systemd sprung... so joy for those folks would likely be short lived.
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> ignore the fact window management is garbage. All I can say is that I'm flabbergasted by this statement. Expose was lightyears ahead of Windows window management at the time (10.4!), and it took Microsoft until Windows 10 to in
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> When this hit pieces some against an entire tech-stack, always check the author's job, past expereince. What is this, if not appeal to authority? > Try getting a Job in any sizeable company by building your entire experience wi
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by mtrower 4y ago
> * Easier to navigate? Resoundingly, the first. The second one is full of huge tiles that take up so much screen real estate, it's hard for me to scan over what is available. Crammed at the bottom are a ton of links, in no partic
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Mostly, the idea is that you write it yourself. I suppose there are things such as Markdown converters if you require some level of abstraction. I thought Dreamweaver was great when I first encountered it. That lasted until I happened to
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> Yeah it seems like date formats are inconsistent. Maybe they need some other stuff than HTML. If you need any sort of "stack" to fix the problem of "my dates are inconsistent", you're in serious trouble, my fri
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> Learning HTML is fine, but learning HTML while avoiding CSS is not very useful, except as an esoteric hobby (like 6502 assembly, but much more complex). Using handwritten HTML if you're after content creation is unnecessary legwor
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by mtrower 4y ago
Yes, unfortunately it's easy to get caught up in your tools even for simple work. Go on YouTube and watch woodworking videos, you'll see shops full of 5 figures worth of tools, and probably get the idea that you need the same. A
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by mtrower 4y ago
It sounds like someone forgot that HTML and CSS are separate technologies, with one being born years before the other. In the beginning, the web was HTML. Sure, CSS is useful. But a lot of it is over-designed. The web in general, is over
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> the rest of the real world I think you'd be amazed at some of the barebones functional systems that non-trivial segments of the world are satisfied with.
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Print is also not a text only format; it's a designed space, with a mountain of effort given to typesetting and presentation. Yet the market for text only novels is staggering.
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> current best practice is to stop messing with themes and just use modus Bold statement. Those look mostly terrible to me.
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by mtrower 4y ago
Does it? Or is it possible that 1% is still pretty large?
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> that all its components I didn’t say all of its components, I said components making use of GPL licensed components or code. His math code could totally be licensed MIT, depending on how the program is put together. His UI code is ine
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by mtrower 4y ago
The other half of the dual license is commercial. They can purchase a license and use it under the commercial terms, or use it for free under the GPL terms. Under the GPL terms, the derived work becomes GPL (this is why people call GPL inf
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Is the advice to be trusted though, or merely considered?
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> Why? How strong would their [0] arguments be? I imagine the strength of their arguments would be approximately related to the strength of said arguments merits / demerits. You don't have to present an unyielding argument if
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> I don't like the idea that our goal is always to make the most efficient code possible. It's not, it's to deliver business solution as efficiently as we can with the resources available. Just like you wouldn't want
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by mtrower 4y ago
It looks to me like there's some confusion here; Carmack is talking about inlining for purposes of source code management; compilers inline for purposes of performance optimiziation. The two seem to be getting conflated in this thread
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Could it be an issue of experience perhaps? (As in, different experience bases, not overall quantity of experience). Do you have much background in procedural or data-driven programming?
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Also worth noting what his idea of a "small efficiency" was; he goes on to note that, say, 12% efficiency, easily gained, is not small at all! He never says to throw all ideas of performance out the window when writing your initia

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