nirvdrum

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by nirvdrum 14y ago
I'd posit that reducing the barrier to switch doesn't improve the whole user experience. Granted Apple would staunchly disagree with me on that. But when I engage in a 2 year contract, that's on the carrier-side. I should be able to use
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by nirvdrum 14y ago
Thanks for responding. I don't think I necessarily agree, but then again I rarely rebase because I distinctly dislike rewriting history, but I think I understand the rationale a bit better.
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by nirvdrum 14y ago
Sorry, pardon the ignorance, but how does past tense imply something that would be affected by rebase? It may not be linear history, but it definitely happened in the past. I guess I always looked at more as: "here's a patch", "what did y
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by nirvdrum 14y ago
It's weird because it kinda goes the other way too. Why in the world does GitHub truncate my commit messages now? The 80 char thing is a guideline. If git is willing to dutifully accept longer commit messages and my team and I are willin
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by nirvdrum 14y ago
While I agree that supporting multiple browsers & devices is a PITA, we as an industry are still employing some mindnumbingly bad testing practices. There are a lot of solid testing products out there that ease the pain. Testing as a
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by nirvdrum 14y ago
I think your history is a little skewed. When IE6 came out, it was an awesome browser for the time. It was light years better than anything else out there and yes, it embraced/extended HTML & CSS, but really, no other browser out ther
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by nirvdrum 14y ago
I actually go well out of my way to avoid pixel-perfect stuff. The cases I mentioned all affect opacity or position by > 30px. There's actually a lot that can go wrong given the different windowing systems. I'd expect there to be mor
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by nirvdrum 14y ago
That may be the case, but it's quite possible you just didn't catch them. Most people really don't do a rigorous comparison and even if they do, it's so menial a task that the brain shuts down and things slip through the cracks. I've dedic
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by nirvdrum 14y ago
To be fair, IE introduced the first JavaScript profiler I had come across. The problem is the toolchain is locked at the time of the browser release. They need to have something periodically updated if the browser isn't going to update th
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by nirvdrum 14y ago
The admin interface sucks. Downloading software and getting your keys couldn't be much easier though. I haven't had to deal with the accounting end of it yet, so I can't speak to that.
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by nirvdrum 14y ago
Indeed. Sorry, don't recognize your username and your profile is a bit thin. I graduated in '04 and '06.
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by nirvdrum 14y ago
AS far as browsers go, I think Opera innovates better than anyone. The speed dial interface you see in other browsers now was copied from them and poorly at that. Unified search & address bar appeared in Opera first (at least that's t
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by nirvdrum 14y ago
Standards-compliant seems to have taken on an odd shift. Most of the cool new stuff people want to use aren't in any published standard. They're draft specifications and implemented through browser vendor extensions. So, it's more like a
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by nirvdrum 14y ago
A BizSpark account will cost you $100 over the course of 3 years. You can get every OS they've released and run them on whatever you want. Yes, you'll have to spend time installing the OS, but Win 7 installs pretty quickly these days and
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by nirvdrum 14y ago
Just keep in mind that the reservation is also for a particular availability zone. You need to stay within that zone to get the discounted rate.
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by nirvdrum 14y ago
The maintenance contract is another $10 for the next year (assuming you're still < 5 people). And you get software updates during that period. It's not particularly devious.
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by nirvdrum 14y ago
I'm not refuting the value of documentation, I'm just acknowledging the referential integrity issues with it. All too frequently I've encountered cases where a config file gets updated but the wiki doesn't. Since all configuration files a
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by nirvdrum 14y ago
I didn't say include every possible option. But it sure is handy when I modify one and there's a nice comment telling me "hey, if you change this, you absolutely must go change this other value too, otherwise all hell is going to break loo
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by nirvdrum 14y ago
It's fairly common to annotate that data. While every entry in my postgresql.conf file is documented someplace, it'd be an absolute nightmare if defaults couldn't be commented inline or if I couldn't relay why a value is set to a particula
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by nirvdrum 14y ago
Unless I'm grossly mistaken, there's no tax benefit to incorporating in Delaware. Their franchise tax is actually pretty high. The reason to incorporate there has to do with reducing legal costs, AFAIK, which is a separate matter.
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by nirvdrum 14y ago
We'll just have to agree to disagree. I'm still trying to decide if I'm just being trolled. But no, when I program, I have a lot more going on. I have Postgres, Cassandra, and redis doing some work, another JVM instance running RubyMine
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by nirvdrum 14y ago
I started a lengthy reply before realizing you're just going to continue to pick sentence by sentence, ignore the spirit of the discussion, and then even bizarrely ignore the same points you previously attacked. I'm confused as to what you'
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
I bought the 15" Serval Pro (sp7). It weighs about the same as my 17" MBP did. So, same weight, but smaller screen. Naturally it's thicker. I went with the 15" because at the time of purchase that was the only one with a matte display o
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
No. I don't like the iOS-like direction Apple is heading in starting with Lion. I didn't feel the need to enumerate all of them. Incidentally, Lion chugs resources when compared to the same exact hardware on Snow Leopard. I never said t
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
I've recently switched from a MBP to a System76 laptop, after about 5 years of running MacOS X, and I couldn't be much happier. The new MBPs are extremely harsh to type on between the sharp edge and the keyboard. I ultimately had to buy a
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
Well, there's at least one pretty major difference: you have persisted data. That might not be ideal for test, although in production you will already have persisted data so test with an empty store might not make sense either. But for a
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
True. But the argument I hear most often is that they can't run as many processes because of the SSL overhead. But, that aside, even if the latency is the problem, that's certainly not going to be solved by XP supporting SNI.
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
While I concede this is a problem for those wanting to do mass hosting of SSL, I'd hardly say that's what's holding back the secure web. Way too many devs outright refuse to run on SSL in situations where it would work just fine. Some hav
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
It can make reverting a feature easier if the branch being merged had intermingled with master several times. You could avoid that by rebasing your topic branch before merging, but that's lying too. I personally never rebase unless I need
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by nirvdrum 15y ago
I agree. The entire Internet would have you believe that OSS just didn't exist before the advent of git. I like git and prefer it, but SVN gets the job done. My only real gripe with SVN is it makes it harder for those without commit priv

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