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by nxc18 6y ago
Should the Europeans ban American equipment? We know the NSA intercepts shipments and tampers with network equipment, on top of everything else they do. We also know a foreign agent (with considerable Chinese debt who was elected with the h
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by nxc18 6y ago
I want 5G. There, you heard it. I’m not a telecom CEO and I’m not a politician. Edit: I want fast, reliable telecommunications everywhere I go. I want ultra fast reliable telecom in crowded cities. I want cellular that is competitive with c
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by nxc18 6y ago
I don’t really see how any of that is relevant. Surface RT was running underpowered Tegra with 2GB ram and still does 60fps on the entire desktop/Start experience. Have you used the Windows 8 multitasking interface recently?
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by nxc18 6y ago
It’s very bad because if you’re a C# developer you now have to worry about which COM apartment your Window is in and you get silverlight era error messages when something breaks.
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by nxc18 6y ago
Not really, a bunch of apps from the WinRT era are very broken under Windows 10. It’s disappointing given how much from the early 90s still works, but code from 2013 is now totally broken.
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by nxc18 6y ago
I pulled out my Surface RT yesterday and it is almost exactly what iPad multitasking is. It really is mind boggling that Microsoft fumbled that so bad - great tech but some really user-hostile business decisions cost them dearly.
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by nxc18 6y ago
It might be worth revisiting the Windows 8 interface. It was maligned at the time but it’sa very fluent, intuitive interface now that people are used to iPads. The multitasking is exactly the same as iPad now, only difference being you pull
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by nxc18 6y ago
I think what I'd personally prefer is office as coworking space - go there when onboarding, have space for meetings/events/sessions, and have a few offices available for the people who prefer that. Best of both worlds - cost
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by nxc18 6y ago
C:\Users\user\Documents\Visual Studio 2019\Projects\myrepo\src\MyProductDeluxe9999LimitedUnleashed\Branch\MyProductForms\myapp.Android\obj\Debug\90\android\bin\classes\mono\android\support\design\widget\BottomNavigationView_OnNavigationItem
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by nxc18 6y ago
You're forgetting about the comparison to a linux desktop though. I personally would really love to switch to Ubuntu full time, but I'm not going to forgive it soon for bricking my machine after a software update. Unfortunately fo
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by nxc18 6y ago
The issue isn’t that things are delayed, the issue is they are saying an item isn’t going to get here until May when they know full well that it’s been put on a truck and will arrive today. They are advertising their shipping speed as being
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by nxc18 6y ago
The issue is with forms and the like, the tooling creates a lot of intermediate files based on the names of classes and whatnot. If you’re following the ‘best practice’ naming patterns, and have your code in a user folder, it’s likely you’l
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by nxc18 6y ago
I’m not sure what’s going on with Amazon recently, but they’ve on multiple occasions told me that an item won’t ship or arrive until well into May, only for it to turn up next day. (edit: this is over the last 3 weeks for context) I wonder
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by nxc18 6y ago
I work with C#, Xamarin, and Visual Studio. 80% of the time build errors are transient and go away with another F5. Sometimes a build works but is reported as a failure because of a tooling error. ‘Clean’ing the build doesn’t actually do wh
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by nxc18 7y ago
It’s worth highlighting that in the iOS ecosystem, Apple makes money on the hardware, apps, and in-app-purchases, with few exceptions. On Android, Google makes money on the apps, and some in-app-purchases, but the OEM makes money on the dev
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by nxc18 7y ago
Cream cheese is a great hack for making scrambled eggs extra creamy and rich. I find it buys me some inattention when making scramble.
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by nxc18 7y ago
Double tap to zoom to paragraph has been a standard touch gesture for the last ~10 years at least.
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by nxc18 7y ago
I’m wondering if I have an unfair bias against android. I think perhaps the ecosystem has evolved in the last few years and it sounds like even the more affordable devices are offering good performance now? I’m going to pick up a G6 and see
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by nxc18 7y ago
What’s the alternative? You can buy cheap Android but if you go much below $399 you’ll be replacing it a lot more often. iPhones have been shipping with processors a few years ahead of android performance for a while now, and that gives the
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by nxc18 7y ago
Although typically thought of as primarily a GIS/location data tool, ArcGIS is powerful for data management & app-building in general. The John Hopkins COVID-19 dashboard [1] you've almost certainly seen by now is built with A
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by nxc18 7y ago
Weather app is not impossible to remove and hasn't been for a long time. source: I just deleted mine
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by nxc18 7y ago
Its very hard to maintain an Android app to the same quality that people expect from Apple. I can see why they'd want to shrink that headcount or redirect to a more productive endeavor. As a bonus, Apple devices get a better weather ap
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by nxc18 7y ago
Can you please point to where WHO is saying people shouldn’t use homemade masks? I’ve never seen that claim, but if it’s true it indeed doesn’t make sense. I’ve only seen CDC dissuade people from using surgical and N95 masks. Perhaps there’
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by nxc18 7y ago
There’s a big difference between a nuanced message and a lie. If you see The WHO statements as a lie, you lack the understanding of the situation needed to make a thoughtful decision, and it’s for the best that you were misled. People who r
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by nxc18 7y ago
People are stupid and use them wrong. I saw people while out shopping this week who absolutely did not handle their masks correctly; while the mask still probably helped them, I’d rather see that mask go to a medical professional who will u
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by nxc18 7y ago
1. China’s early failures were quickly remedied. They enacted a massively costly economic shutdown early, and bought the west weeks or months. What did we do with that bought time? We wasted it by denying the threat, failing to stockpile, a
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by nxc18 7y ago
Unfortunately, I think a more significant cause of the continued existence of these diseases is failure to vaccinate, either by choice (anti-vax) or due to circumstance (cost of vaccination, access to health care, etc). There are several di
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by nxc18 7y ago
Boeing needs to be broken up. Parts critical to national security can be federalized. The rest can be restructured to restore competition to the market and eliminate the 'single point of failure'. Boeing's efforts to consolid
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by nxc18 7y ago
Its pretty clear at this point that the shareholder value revolution has been a disaster for many people and the planet. Today, a few generations of people are unfamiliar with the idea that a corporation could act in ways that are consisten
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by nxc18 7y ago
I’d advocate for the opposite: VB is never going to get first class support. It was clear that I should jump ship when first learning it back in 2010. Microsoft should just kill it (aka put it into mature support) and give clear guidance th

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