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by owenwil 7y ago
...all of which is because the drivers/config are proprietary
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by owenwil 7y ago
This isn't the actual story—the story is that Apple killed two machines today: - The non-touchbar MacBook Pro (RIP, function row) - The 12" "MacBook" (which I adored, largely because it was so tiny) What's strange i
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by owenwil 7y ago
This isn't the story—the story is that Apple killed two machines today: - The non-touchbar MacBook Pro (RIP, function row) - The 12" "MacBook" (which I adored, largely because it was so tiny) What's strange is that
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Apple discontinued the last MacBook Pro with a function row(twitter.com)
4 points by owenwil 7y ago|4 comments
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by owenwil 7y ago
Uh, Apple has less than 8% of the market[1]. Why do you think it has the "vast majority" of sales? I'm assuming there's confirmation bias here but the vast majority of laptop sales are definitely not Apple, and not even
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by owenwil 7y ago
This seems like an incredibly good place for a data center, particularly given it already even comes with multiple fibre uplinks...and incredibly low temperatures.
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by owenwil 7y ago
But "just plugging in one USB device" wasn't even what happened in this post. The amount of steps described inside literally were 10x what it takes to just build a PC, boot it, install games and play ️
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by owenwil 7y ago
I swore off Sony when my TV got an update to add advertising to the volume slider on the screen, which was the last straw. Weirdly enough, I replaced it with a Samsung, which appears to have ads if configured into any North American count
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by owenwil 7y ago
Huh, Paper was the first time I thought Dropbox might actually be able to go beyond files. It's one of their best products since their original, simple tooling was released.
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by owenwil 7y ago
iCloud has been on Windows for years and this is the same unusable, out of date app...they just listed it in the Microsoft store.
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by owenwil 7y ago
And you can visibly see that quickly disappearing. How are people not able to see past the now like this?
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by owenwil 7y ago
I don't think that really means what you think it means. It's very similar to the way "Apple Pay has a Web API"—websites may implement it for authentication BUT it won't allow users on a Linux/Windows machine t
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by owenwil 7y ago
Docker is nowhere near as close to the metal as what Microsoft has done with WSL2—it's got better performance and runs as near-native as you could possibly get.
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by owenwil 7y ago
Even in the last year it’s actually a dramatic shift in the landscape. I use WSL as my full-time development environment with Docker/PHP/Node.JS, and have few problems getting anything working–no more than any other platform.
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by owenwil 7y ago
It’s fascinating, really, that Microsoft has narrowed the gap so rapidly with WSL. I read these steps–which I performed for years over the space of a few machines–and am amazed at how janky the tooling is. WSL/WSL2 are clearly pushing
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by owenwil 7y ago
It’d be WSL, and about as few steps as the article describes–I’ve documented it here: https://char.gd/blog/2017/how-to-set-up-the-perfect-modern-d... . You’ll just be using Aptitude to install packages instead–or y
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GitHub's new features show it’s finally listening to developers(char.gd)
75 points by owenwil 7y ago|30 comments
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by owenwil 7y ago
Early WSL was a pain, but they’ve come a long way. My entire web dev stack works natively on WSL these days–and WSL2 is due any day now, which should make it entirely on-par going forward.
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by owenwil 7y ago
The modern X1 carbon does not have this problem. I’m using the 8th generation and the trackpad is very good, along with a screen that accomplishes full-on HDR, and much better color depth.
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by owenwil 7y ago
I’ve never seen a spam message in Gmail, and can’t say the same for the latter.
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by owenwil 7y ago
I don’t really understand why the author is being annoyed about a model that takes time to figure things out based on what it learns from the user. I use these buttons all the time, and they’ve grown to be more useful/accurate as thing
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by owenwil 7y ago
Yeah, I enjoyed the story telling but the sarcasm watered it down as a ragey customer who was being unreasonable—and it made it really hard to read. If you want to get a company to ignore you, all you have to do is get pissy, and it's
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by owenwil 7y ago
I've actually been really impressed with Laravel after switching back to PHP for a few projects. Not only is the developer tooling experience some of the best I've experienced, it's just really the only framework I've ev
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by owenwil 7y ago
Sure! just ping me: owen [at] char.gd
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by owenwil 7y ago
In the accessibility section[1] they discuss the problem of using true black: OLED Smudge. If you turn off OLED pixels and the display suddenly needs to turn them back on, they usually are too slow to do so, and cause a visual artefact that
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by owenwil 7y ago
I left a development career to pursue a career as a journalist (in technology) and spent a number of years doing that, but eventually burnt out on the click-driven fest that is that space. I'm now self-employed, but I make a great livi
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by owenwil 7y ago
`Based on a modern stack` is a huge implied bias that something like PHP is old or bad. Who says that this is required for a modern CMS? If you ask me, PHP is a better bet for stability, predictability and well-known problem domain. Betting
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by owenwil 7y ago
<3 thank you! I'm working out a plan for our next iteration at the moment, but I'll totally let you know if I need help or feedback.
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by owenwil 7y ago
It's only expensive in the US...
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by owenwil 7y ago
I run a one-person ‘SaaS’ that delivers morning tech briefings each day for industry insight, without ads, that I wanted to see, called recharged: https://char.gd/recharged . I both write the newsletters + develop the platfo

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