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by pkamb 10y ago
As a ThinkPad external keyboard user it's my primary navigation to go Back. TrackPoint, no mouse. Primary scrolling navigation is the Home/End/PgUp/PgDn group. Backspace for Back fits amazingly in this workflow.
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by pkamb 10y ago
In Dvorak, CMD-T and CMD-W (K and ',' in QWERTY) are a nice middle-finger curl pair on the right hand. Far away from Q. Easily paired with a right-thumb press of CMD. Strange to remember that two of my easily most-pressed keyboard
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by pkamb 11y ago
That's the `diff` tab on the PR
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by pkamb 11y ago
After completing a feature (or part of one) I often "squash" manually by performing a mixed reset from the tip of the in-development branch back to a good parent commit. This leaves all of the feature's changes in your workin
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by pkamb 11y ago
I'm waiting for the code review tool that takes a massive squashed PR and cuts it up into a series of clean, atomic commits that can be reviewed individually.
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by pkamb 11y ago
Interesting that the call to action is "Text Me". I was expecting a phone number to appear, but it only links you to options for "Kik", "GroupMe", and Twitter. Does "text" not mean SMS/iMessage a
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by pkamb 11y ago
Glad to see Craig Kilborn getting some work.
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by pkamb 11y ago
> who was tragically underemployed for years because of his low GPA in college. Is this really a thing? Just don't list your GPA...
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by pkamb 11y ago
Strange that she's "Alexa" to begin with. "Echo" seems like a pretty strong brand, good enough for the hardware at least, and would be a perfectly fine name for the AI as well.
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by pkamb 11y ago
I've never understood why airline miles follow each individual person rather than the company that's paying for the weekly business class seats. Seems like the Senior Manager who just joined the firm should be bumped up to first c
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by pkamb 11y ago
I thought Carousel looked really cool, eagerly installed it on release. Then I discovered that when Carousel is installed, the Dropbox app stops automatically uploading photos from your phone. You have to now open Carousel to do so. Broke m
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by pkamb 11y ago
And it's not as if non-Sandboxed applications won't be used. They'll just be distributed outside the app store. So all of the potentially "dangerous" apps are one-more-step removed from Apple's oversight and ab
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by pkamb 11y ago
And for those potentially dangerous Mac apps that need to touch your home directory or essentially become a key logger, I'd want them to be as watched by Apple as possible. Keep them in the Mac App Store, with a strict permission &#x
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by pkamb 11y ago
It's not the existence of the Mac App Store that hurts, it's the existance of this (theoretically) great marketplace that we can't use to distribute normal, useful OS X apps. Especially if you had a great little app going
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by pkamb 11y ago
Many OS X apps are utilities that help you work with other apps. Running all the time in the background, monitoring, looking at keyboard input, observing folders, etc. These types of apps are fundamentally at odds with the Sandbox. But they
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by pkamb 11y ago
> Apple has not pulled off a successful App Store concept for MacOS yet They really did, for the first year or two of the Mac App Store's existence. It was great. All of the "$10 utility apps" would be there today if no
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by pkamb 11y ago
> but also encourages "pump-and-dump" development Not only encourages, but forces . Any non-sandboxed apps that were released in the App Store prior to the sandbox mandate can be updated for "bug fixes", but any new
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by pkamb 11y ago
> The first American into space is not going to be a chimpanzee. I want test pilots!
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by pkamb 11y ago
What is the sophisticated UK alternative to Venmo?
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by pkamb 11y ago
> It was riding the twitter wave in letting you interact with handles (usernames) over SMS. I'm curious, were any of these SMS service comparies successful as interactive SMS services? It seems like most of the services like Twit
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by pkamb 11y ago
As someone surrounded by the new construction in Seattle, these things are hideous. Predominant materials include cinder blocks, a random orange wall, corrugated metal, yellow windows jutting out at a weird angle, and one wall made from rec
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by pkamb 11y ago
There seem to usually be a few available at any given time on eBay or Amazon. But yes, getting harder to find unfortunately. And now I have competition...
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by pkamb 11y ago
Not wireless, and no trackpad, but this is a replica of the best T-Series keyboard and is very good: https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/documents/pd005137
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by pkamb 11y ago
The "ThinkPad USB Keyboard with TrackPoint" is the updated version of the OP's keyboard, with nice improvements such as the "big delete key" and slightly more modern build quality. Sold from ~2009 to ~2013. https:&
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by pkamb 11y ago
I'm surprised that name made it through App Review. No issues?
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by pkamb 11y ago
> and the first plant in the Pacific north-west. Strange style choice, when "Pacific Northwest" is available. Does not seem like British English rules for cardinal directions should supersede the region's proper noun pl
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by pkamb 11y ago
> To enable novice programmers to incorporate gestures into their UI prototypes, we present a “$1 recognizer” that is easy, cheap, and usable almost anywhere in about 100 lines of code
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by pkamb 11y ago
The AlphaSmart seems to have similar hardware to your MailStation, and has a bit of a cult following as a device for writers. Plus easy text export. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaSmart
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by pkamb 11y ago
I too sometimes see the file system syncing lag in SourceTree. ⌘R refreshes the repository and usually fixes the issue in my experience.
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by pkamb 11y ago
"tweet" became a verb and noun.

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