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by pkamb 6y ago
Those fully vertical layouts are fine, I guess, if you keep your hands pinned to your sides sticking straight forward. And if the keyboard is the exact width of your body. Looks uncomfortable, personally. I prefer to lay my hands out slight
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by pkamb 6y ago
Have you considered an alternate or fully custom layout?
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by pkamb 6y ago
Give any keyboard most of the benefits of a split keyboard by angling your hand/finger columns like `////\\\\` rather than like `\\\\\\\\` (as is commonly taught). You should be typing "Z" with your ring f
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I hate what Pinterest did to Google image search(twitter.com)
4 points by pkamb 6y ago|0 comments
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by pkamb 6y ago
I use `hub sync` multiple times per day. Essential tool. It's the only way to stay sane in a repo with multiple other developers merging PRs. Updates all of your branches in the background to the current remote version.
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by pkamb 6y ago
I definitely don't want to use the site's search box. I just want a normal Google-style search... but ranking "discussion" sites highly.
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by pkamb 6y ago
Tip for mobile users: remap "ggg" to input "!g" to make the Google shortcut much easier to type.
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by pkamb 6y ago
I wish there was a search engine that dedicated the first X results to Stack Exchange and Reddit. Neither DDG or Google are very good at that, but those sites are consistently the best and most honest results. On Google many searches give m
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by pkamb 6y ago
iMessage (blue bubble) conversations are fairly good and well-featured, but I wish they would bring some kind of improvements to SMS text messages (green bubbles). I wonder how much of it is competitive advantage to push people to switch
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Disable pop-ups for “Sign in to WEBSITE with Google”(superuser.com)
1 points by pkamb 6y ago|0 comments
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by pkamb 6y ago
> Apps should allow a user to get what they’ve paid for without performing additional tasks, such as [...] uploading contacts WhatsApp gates many features behind Contacts access. Do the same rules apply to everyone, even Facebook?
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by pkamb 6y ago
> Smart Streetlight cameras
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by pkamb 6y ago
All podcast apps still primarily use the Apple Podcasts Directory to index/search the shows and episodes. "Indie self hosted podcasts" are still predominantly listed in the Apple Podcasts Directory.
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by pkamb 6y ago
AND he messes up the search results for my keyboard layout!
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by pkamb 6y ago
Patreon is trying to be a YouTube/Facebook-like community platform that controls the relationship between creators and paying fans. There's no reason to pay an extra 12% on top of credit card fees if you already control your own d
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by pkamb 6y ago
I suppose I like it as well... but the point being that in the case of these podcasts Patreon is only rent-seeking and not actually "building a community of fans" or hosting/delivering/surfacing the content. (And those
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by pkamb 6y ago
The name is really good.
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by pkamb 6y ago
After supporting the creator your get the RSS feed in an email: https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/213557023-Enab...
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by pkamb 6y ago
Many of the most successful Patreon profiles use the platform only as a way to provide a paid addition to their free podcast feed. You start supporting them, grab the private RSS feed and add it to your podcast app, then never visit Patre
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by pkamb 6y ago
These are the 2 bugs that I hit on a daily basis. - SourceTree Mac has a major UI bug that has not been fixed in 2 years: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Sourcetree-questions/Sour... - SourceTree breaks Copy&#x
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Has Atlassian stopped developing SourceTree for Mac?(community.atlassian.com)
4 points by pkamb 6y ago|1 comments
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by pkamb 6y ago
Go to Estate Sales on the weekend. You can get great older furniture and quality well-made objects for cheap.
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by pkamb 6y ago
Does the Facebook export tool preserve any metadata? That's the major annoyance I've had with FB photos, years later... none of the dates are correct. I've done the same as you, importing every family digital photo I can find
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by pkamb 6y ago
At the very least, turn off Google account creation pop-ups on every other random site: https://superuser.com/questions/1414410/how-to-disable-pop-u...
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by pkamb 6y ago
I would have assumed that double-clicking is functionally equivalent to selecting “Open” from the context menu. At least in Vista it was a separate command “Run as administrator”...
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by pkamb 6y ago
GameCube BBA emulation via the Wii's stock networking was recently added to Nintendont: https://github.com/FIX94/Nintendont/issues/144
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by pkamb 6y ago
I've thought about this as well. Tapping the URL bar on an iPhone should open a multi-line wrapping text block that doesn't require painful horizontal scrolling.
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by pkamb 6y ago
"Hi, I'm Sheriff Harry S. Truman for America Online"
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by pkamb 6y ago
They should fix this bug first: > Issue 1084406: Reappearance of "HTTPS://" causes URL text to move as you are selecting it > https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=108
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by pkamb 6y ago
The example url in the article is: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL#Internationalized_URL which is shortened in the address bar to: > en.wikipedia.org at the VERY least, I wish they would instead use: > en.

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