mvdtnz

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by mvdtnz 1y ago
No one uses desktop apps. Maybe you should spend the engineering effort to make improvements to your phone apps. Like make it so the Android app doesn't load and then re-load every time I open it. Or support for offline mail.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
> new industry that is completely changing the landscape of the entire world I am begging you people to touch some grass. Go and talk to some real people. Not tech peers, actual normal human beings.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
It matters because engineering time can be better spent improving the app functionality itself.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
The author says "This one seems ready-made for a television medical drama." In fact an almost identical case was featured in House when a Romani teenager swallowed a toothpick. The episode was titled Needle in a Haystack in season
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
Large rails apps tend to be on older versions not because they're so very stable but because Rails upgrades are a nightmare at scale. Even point versions have lots of undocumented breaking changes. There was a lot I didn't like du
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
Most of what you read online is written by insane people. https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most...
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
> I really hate Strava. Strava (and anything that replaces it in the same function) exists as a pointless social media layer on top of what Garmin/Suunto/Polar provide. >There is really no reason to use it I use it for the e
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
> Strava literally only exists because of Garmin [and Apple, others] data. Largely true. > They offer no value, contribute nothing, and pretty much just monetize the fact that Apple and Garmin haven't shared data directly between
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
I won't comment on the validity of patents or legal stuff because I don't know. But Strava is playing a very dangerous game here with their user base. I would hazard that a very large segment of their users are far more enthusiast
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
Your em dashes never added any extra information to 99.999% of readers. No one cares and neither should you.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
I like the way Mark Seeman (ploeh) handles blog comments. He asks users to open a PR[0] with a comment on the post. Obviously the volume of comments is very low, but it sure is effective at targeting the right audience and keeping the bots
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
> "After years with Pi-hole, which now blocks over a million domains, I’ve become incredibly accustomed to a mostly ad-free web. Without realizing it, I’d forgotten what the typical internet experience feels like." I'm cur
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
I'm an identical twin so immediately I can see a pretty stupid obvious problem with this.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
> There was a time in the earlier days of EA where the company had value. That time has passed. The company that just sold for $55 billion?
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
It's always a possibility that the owners of the range have already considered this and found there is virtually no market for no-camera days. Excluding your most enthusiastic members to include a miniscule number of camera-shy weirdos
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
He's also getting noticeably fatter.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
Cloudflare workers are incredibly powerful and only getting better. This is just another step in the right direction for them.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
> Then, later when something breaks, it’s Shocked Pikachu all around This isn't really true. When something breaks it's generally "darn, we knew it would happen eventually".
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
> You should care because if the author cared enough to make descriptive atomic commits, they will help you understand why a particular change was done. This can often avoid unnecessary discussions. That's what the description field
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
Reading this post is like playing 2021 Internet Millennial Outrage Bingo. It's quite fun if you make a game of it.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
And most people roll their eyes and don't believe it. Which is why it's a good idea not to make it true.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
Reddit (both admins and many subreddit moderators) are extremely trigger happy with bans. Plenty of reasonable people get banned by capricious Reddit mods.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
And silencing these people only lends credence to their "they don't want you to know this" conspiracy theories. Because at that point it's not a theory, it's a proven fact.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
Post the rest of the sentence, > He was a member of the British National Party (BNP), a British fascist political party, from 2004 to 2005.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
Twitter famously eliminated as much ruby as practical from their codebase.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
If it's "obvious" it should be no problem for you to demonstrate it.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
Not just voters. You don't need to have voted to be doing something about what's happening in your country. You should blame Americans - all Americans - for what is happening over there.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
Don't police other people's language.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
Do sometime about the incredibly evil regime in your country before moaning about sanctions. They exist for a very very good reason.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
> If you want a large region (like Europe or North America) updated daily, use the excellent pyosmium-up-to-date program This is why naming matters. I never would have guessed in a million years that software named "pyosmium-up-to-d

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