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by petilon 5y ago
> https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb/issues/580 What's a Page Designer? Do you mean forms for data entry? Or report pages (read-only data)?
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> How does this affect you? Are you kidding? The original iPhone was a revolutionary product. iOS was a revolution in user experience. Steve Jobs showed the world that you can build a complex, sophisticated product and still make it si
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It wasn't. EVERYTHING beautiful is skeuomorphic. The page turn in iBooks, page curl in maps, cover flow, the shred animation in older versions of Passbook, the date picker (all in iOS 6), rotating settings gear (when updating iOS 6), t
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Let's consider Jony's performance on software design first. This is what some prominent people have said about iOS 7, which was the first flat-design iOS: The Verge wrote in their review: "iOS 7 isn't harder to use, just
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> Jony Ive was only able to get away with the damaging push to flat design after Steve Jobs died Sadly, true. > and since Ive has left Apple, beautiful skeuomorphic gradients, lighting, embosses, drop shadows, and photo-real elemen
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> Thank goodness for Obamacare Yes, without Obamacare it wouldn't be possible for me to even imagine retiring early. > Thanks to Obamacare, individual plans have the same coverage as employer plans. Not quite. The network is
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See 60 minutes story on hospital bill for covid. The patient died. Bill from the hospital for about four weeks of his hospital stay came to a little over $4 million. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-deaths-families
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> rich enough to never work again Congrats... but be careful. Some young people underestimate the amount of money needed to "never work again". If you're not working then you don't have group health insurance. You&#
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The sad part is that many Thai and Chinese restaurants serve a highly Americanized version of their cuisines. Sometimes so Americanized that it has little to do with the original other than the name. For example a Chinese restaurant I went
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> We let North Korea print their own $100 bills for years as a form of off the books aid That's very hard to believe. Citation needed!
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OK, so what is your estimate of net worth for a software engineer retiring today after 30 years in the industry?
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Here's what a FAANG software engineer can expect to have at retirement: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ryu_-mVYxSdJbW8lmf1z...
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> You can adjust the scaling if you're really bothered by fractional scaling. Yes you can, but if you change it from the default then the fonts are either too big or too small.
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When something so consequential happens we have to determine how and why it happened. We have to prevent such mistakes in the future, and if this was an accidental leak due to carelessness then there is reparations to be paid.
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Hackers got past Windows Hello by tricking a webcam(arstechnica.com)
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Does license allow use of symbol font on the web version of my app as well?
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The Mystery of India's Plummeting Covid-19 Cases(npr.org)
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> as if personal experience doesn't occupy the same space as facts There is some overlap but it is not the same space. Humans tend to extrapolate and generalize. For example based on your personal experience with one (or a few) pe
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Non whites
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> Most times, a frontend framework is added as well to handle the rendering of these pages, increasing complexity further. This is true, but it doesn’t need to be this way at all! Here’s a single page app written without a bloated fram
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If they can start a company and hire a few thousand people then why stop them?
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Larry Ellison, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs would be denied visas according to the new policy since they don’t have CS degrees.
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I got this from the doctor: Magnesium is interesting. A lot of these vitamins and minerals interact, in ways many doctors have forgotten. Magnesium is essential for calcium metabolism, so I often recommend it for anyone who takes calcium.
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I am sorry but Windows Terminal is the suckiest Windows app ever and gives me a headache on a daily basis. Try opening multiple instances of this app in overlapping windows, like most developers do. Then fill them with text. Now see if you
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Should there be laws against depriving shareholder rights in this manner?
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Excerpt: "We enabled stop sign and traffic light recognition and braking for our Early Access Program users at the end of Q1 and to the wider public in April 2020". That's awesome! They may very well release FSD in a year or
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You could use an existing MVC framework such as this one: https://github.com/theabdulbari/mvc-router
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> Care to provide source? There is some info here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/world/asia/india-coronavi... The US is #1 in infections for a reason: we are doing it wrong.
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I am far more confused by hooks than by classes and 'this'.
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But that took the simplicity away. Everyone that knows modern JavaScript knows classes. Now they have to learn this alien concept called "hooks". Now regarding reusability: I have been doing UI code for many many years and I have

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