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by nobleach 3y ago
It seems like "EVERYTHING" Apple has done in this arena just ensures I'll have to use a search function to find what I want. Same is true for Windows 10+. "I just want to format a USB Thumbdrive!!! why do I have to searc
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by nobleach 3y ago
I called it that too! My backup was, "well, when your UI is designed by Hasbro". It really did have that Duplo Block look to it. When run at very high resolutions, it did get a bit better.
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by nobleach 3y ago
It got to a point with Apple where I had to tell my mother, "just tap everything... there's really no indicator if anything's a button anymore". While material/flat can look pretty, it is counterintuitive to communi
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by nobleach 3y ago
For the same reason almost ALL old companies that have existed in the tech sector for more than 20 years use more than one language/framework/programming practice/etc... Things grow, things get acquired, things languish.
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by nobleach 3y ago
I am pretty sure that was it! I read Hacking Exposed back in the day. That's where I learned about it!
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by nobleach 3y ago
I still recall coming across the "Sams Teach Yourself Tcl/Tk in 24 Hours" book at my office. I had been doing Linux Samba administration at that time and some of the tooling was written in tcl. So I brought the book home. It
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by nobleach 3y ago
Carbon Black is one of the most evil pieces of software I've ever seen. Back in the late 90s, early 2000s there was a trojan that did pretty much all the same stuff this thing does. The worst part about it is that I could barely use my
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by nobleach 3y ago
Yeah, I do tend to repeat "Penfold, hush" and "crumbs chief" to myself.
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by nobleach 3y ago
That machine taught me Wordstar... but I agree, otherwise, it was a mess.
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by nobleach 4y ago
I lived through Microsoft purchasing Hotmail and trying repeatedly to migrate it from FreeBSD to IIS/Windows2000. We may have a good 20 years.
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by nobleach 4y ago
I don't have such a problem with browser makers putting their own ideas into their software. If Google wants to put a Flutter runtime into Chrome, great, go ahead. Where things fall apart is when they prioritize these projects ahead of
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by nobleach 4y ago
I used the original vMac! I had a Mac SE that I tried to pull the rom from. I ended up having to find a rom from "the internet". It was the holy grail at that point in my life. I had the demo version of Excecutor (from ARDI - a cl
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by nobleach 4y ago
That's not Java. I believe they're demoing in Typescript a pattern they like from Java/Spring/Quarkus/Micronaut.
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by nobleach 4y ago
and as I posted a pic of their menu board elsewhere in the thread, they really are/were charging under 3 dollars for drip coffee. I'll admit, the ambience was really the selling point, the coffee was just okay.
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by nobleach 4y ago
I don't know how these folks are doing it: https://goo.gl/maps/tjbhowGy9nWa7hHKA
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by nobleach 4y ago
You have described my Starbucks experience perfectly. I actively seek out the mom-n-pop shops just because I believe (perhaps erroneously) that they get in the game because they're artisans (like this post mentions) and their coffee is
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by nobleach 4y ago
Darling little place... great view: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Buccaneer+Cafe/@33.1770639...
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by nobleach 4y ago
That's fair. By the time I retire, 8 dollar coffee will probably be quite cheap.
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by nobleach 4y ago
A few years ago I was staying at an AirBnB in Carlsbad/Oceanside. I wandered down to a little coffee shack/breakfast place across the street from the beach. As I sat out front, enjoying my cup of coffee, I thought, "this is e
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by nobleach 4y ago
All these years I assumed it was George W....
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by nobleach 4y ago
As soon as the parent mentioned memorizing keys, the FCKGW key came to mind!
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by nobleach 4y ago
Yup, I had a stylelint rule specifying no more than 2 levels.
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by nobleach 4y ago
That decorator syntax thing was a mess. The original syntax seemed like it was far enough along. Many folks adopted it because it seemed like "a sure thing". I ended up pulling it from a project in 2017 because so few of the folks
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by nobleach 4y ago
QGIS and PostGIS were my jam when I worked in that space. We were an ESRI shop so Oracle/SQL Server with SDE (topped with ArcGIS) were the official tools. Some of us were always looking for ways to subvert the culture by building tools
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by nobleach 4y ago
This is what I kindly refer to as the "Comcast Be Good Stick". They're tyrants about things like data caps, speeds, etc. Then the fiber trucks roll in with a Ditch Witch and they're all of a sudden ready to play ball. Th
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by nobleach 4y ago
Oh yeah, that one's a bit trickier to explain. It's a bit like telling people, "no, You CAN NOT currently run real Chrome on your iPhone... yes I know you see an icon that says 'Chrome' on it..." I'm not s
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by nobleach 4y ago
I'm certain that's it.
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by nobleach 4y ago
They use a Cocoa feature called [WkWebView] ( https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/wkwebview ) which is an embedded webkit browser. Any functionality that differs from Safari is not part of the actual &q
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by nobleach 4y ago
My son uses Opera! He keeps telling me (an engineer) I should use it. I'm like, "do not cite the deep magic to me kid, I was there when it was written. It does give me hope that not all folks are lemmings. Just like during the IE6
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by nobleach 4y ago
Indeed! I am just a cog in their work machine. But the reverse is also true. They're simply a funding source in my "life machine". I do get some joy out of engineering and building stuff but, the paycheck ensures the rest of

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