nirvdrum

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by nirvdrum 3y ago
I've read this a few times and I unfortunately can't understand how you meant this since it can be read a few different ways. Those links are for government data requests, but what's being requested in a privacy report for ap
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
I was apprehensive about the JetBrains one at first, but they sold me on having the perpetual license. It may have even just been a mental block. I was paying almost annually to upgrade IntelliJ IDEA (and sometimes RubyMine) as it was. The
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
> It's a huge improvement in flexibility and paying for what you use. Not to mention the software is always updated, so you don't need to worry about whether your image editor you purchased 7 years ago supports the RAW format o
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
And some of the top grossing video games of all time have voice acting. The modern Rockstar and Naughty Dog games would be less attractive and have much less emotional impact without the characters coming to life via voice. Character models
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Seinfeld.
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Despite its name, people are using WebAssembly outside of the browser. And it could be useful to have a GC in those contexts. Hooking in something like V8 is counter-productive in those cases.
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
I've found it refreshing to be able to ask a performance-related question and not get a trite reply about premature optimization. It's frustrating reading a well-researched, obviously informed question about a specific thing and t
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Fair enough. I'm sure Amazon has a legal team that's examined this far deeper than I have. If that's the case, it furthers my belief that GPL-like licenses aren't really providing what many are after.
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
I think what we're seeing is people want something in between. It's hard to codify social norms. Many devs I know don't want to deal with the additional work that a partial GPL ecosystem involve. Most don't even care tha
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
That's fine. But, communication is a skill and like all skills, can be improved. For my part, this is the first time I can remember seeing MIS used in the wild (i.e., not in university). Given the tech industry's propensity for ov
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
For the first couple of years Chrome crashed pretty regularly for me. I hated its automatic updates because it would completely break with more-than-acceptable frequency. I got pretty tired of the glib "Aw, snap!" page. To their c
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
My recollection may be a bit off, but I recall the Google Toolbar got bundled with everything. People were regularly installing it and not realizing it because it got added to installers for a whole bunch of unrelated things (accounting sof
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
If you can't tell which site is open, that's likely due to Chrome's poor tab UX. Constantly shrinking the click target makes tabs harder to work with. Not being able to read the tab title doesn't help either. Thus, Chrom
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Large purchasers dictate pricing or discounts on suppliers everywhere. Walmart is famous for it. I can certainly understand the frustration, but the flipside is most people on Medicaid couldn't afford market-rate services anyway. Since
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
If I'm deleting my account there's a reason for doing so. I don't want the company I'm trying to leave to continue to hold on to my data for any reason whatsoever. If I did, I'd just cancel or deactivate my account.
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Either way, it's poisoning the well. It's a shame that many (most?) SaaS applications lack data portability. I get that part of it is it's easier to have a custom schema than adhere to an established file format (or creating
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
That's fair, but I don't think either Google or Microsoft (being the two alternatives proposed) are terribly forward with their downtime notifications either.
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Particularly when that rapid growth involves price dumping. I've bootstrapped businesses before. It's really difficult to compete with free offerings when you have to pay the bills. Your competitors can burn a pile of cash to flus
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Thanks. This ultimately did what I was looking for.
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
I guess I don't really care what the auth mechanism is, so long as I'm not required to use Google or Facebook. The Mastodon experience is pretty good (not great) in my experience, so I was basing my mental model on that. Really, I
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Discourse is a nice experience once you're in, but the lack of federation is problematic. With NNTP, IRC, or even email lists, I can participate in multiple communities from one screen. With Discourse, I need to register on different s
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Is there a way to make Cmd+Tab work with fullscreen windows? If I can't remember if I've made an app fullscreen, I have to three-finger swipe up to see the list of maximized applications and if it's not there, start Cmd-Tabbi
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
I can't commit to a timeline, but can say the work is progressing nicely. I plan to blog more about it as we have details to share. The GraalVM commercial license change seems like a positive change to me. But, I'm not a lawyer an
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
The Rails initialization process is commonly called "booting", probably owing to the presence of the config/boot.rb file. It's the loading and execution of code necessary before a request can be processed. Beyond the cod
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Your phrasing could be misconstrued by those not familiar with the history. Shopify hasn't been developing TruffleRuby for 10 years. The entire TruffleRuby project is 10 years old, including the first 12 - 18 months where it was a humb
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
No one is "stuck" or "resorting" to anything. It's an effort to improve tooling, performance, error reporting, and working with Ruby in general. We could maintain the status quo (which does indeed work) or we could
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Cool. Please do share when you write up about your experience with the language and ecosystem. Positive or negative, it'd make for a good read.
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
> To be pedantic, browser APIs are already a standard library. The behavior of the HTML parser is 100% defined even in the case of imperfect (to say the least) input. Things like classlist, dataset, history, tab index, event handling...
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
There's two primary reasons for me: * Convenience * Tooling It's more convenient to keep tabs open. With Tree Style Tabs on Firefox and Orion's vertical tabs I can retain the relationship. The browser generally keeps
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
I think your summary is a bit too reductive. I laid out a fairly comprehensive list of issues that are unique to the JavaScript ecosystem and you highlight one point I made about wasting resources. I don't see as many parallels with th

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