roryisok

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by roryisok 8y ago
Literally just saw this on the verge, nice project. Sadly I don't have an old kindle. I do have an old nook but I don't know if its possible to do the same with that
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by roryisok 8y ago
Actually I find choco to be miles better than apt-get. With apt-get I often have to add repos before I can install some app (usually something which fixes some basic part of Linux). This, for me, negates the whole point of having a package
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by roryisok 8y ago
does that matter? surely that's just poor marketing on their part. knowing a free service also had a paid option wouldn't put me off. in fact, it would be more likely to encourage me to use it, because if they're making money
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by roryisok 8y ago
> and I'm not interested in Windows That seems to be the general consensus around here. If you're a dev, you either run MacOS or Linux. As a dev who runs Windows and MacOS I don't really get this. Windows 10 is excellent f
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by roryisok 8y ago
I switched to MacOS last year for work and one of the first things I did was remap keys to swap CTRL and CMD. Now I press CTRL-C to copy on Windows or Mac. It makes it a lot easier to switch between machines
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by roryisok 8y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your comment, but I wouldn't consider having an optional paid version of your free product to be sketchy practice? I use feedly and I've never paid a penny. Sure, they've tried to upsell me a h
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by roryisok 8y ago
I go through cycles of being horribly depressed about the climate, and about mine and my family's future. In fact, I'm not even going to read this article because I know it'll set me off. I've learned that the only way t
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by roryisok 8y ago
Static typing, compile time type checking. Those are the big ones.
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by roryisok 8y ago
> my uncle was conscripted as a mechanic on the Starfighter for the Royal Norwegian Air Force in 1979-1980 Fascinating! Did you get any cool tours as a child?
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by roryisok 8y ago
F-104 is Vietnam era, as far as I remember. But then the F-14 was developed in the 80s. I would certainly buy into the theory that the point is to confuse the enemy.
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by roryisok 8y ago
Fighter numbers always confuse the hell out of me. Where did they pull 117 from? There's no F-116.
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by roryisok 8y ago
Me either. I wanted the full, exact windows phone start screen and I did not get that
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by roryisok 8y ago
I might do that. I backed up all my gmail using a third party tool last year so it is possible, but my issue is more that I have so many profiles tied to that gmail address that losing it would be a nightmare. If they started charging for g
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by roryisok 8y ago
My field (programming) has been well covered so I'll share books about my side-field, writing. - On Writing - Stephen King - Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott - Story - Robert McKee (screenwriting) - Do the work - Stephen Pressfield (he'
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by roryisok 8y ago
> As a programmer turned musical theatre composer Wow, that's a fascinating career path! How did you end up making that transition?
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by roryisok 8y ago
The TDD book only applies if you ascribe to the TDD philosophy, which not everyone does. The others are fairly universal though.
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by roryisok 8y ago
Getpoe.com, my distraction free writing app for windows. Rewriting in vuejs and it's going beautifully
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by roryisok 8y ago
Yes, that's what I meant by it not being a standard. They should be making a special rule for gmail
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by roryisok 8y ago
I've also yet to find a website that isn't fooled by gmail's dot trick. They all thing myname@gmail.com is a different address to my.name@gmail.com. In fairness this is not an email standard, but you'd think devs would h
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by roryisok 8y ago
This is why people should write proper code to parse and validate email addresses and not use regex
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by roryisok 8y ago
Where do these appear? I've honestly never seen them
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by roryisok 8y ago
Contrary to most of the posters on here, I have had nothing but positive experiences with Windows 10. I don't get served ads in the OS (or don't notice them). I don't see any upsell. I don't get blue screens. Edge is a c
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by roryisok 8y ago
In fairness, this is the way you remove any android launcher, it's not some crap MS cooked up.
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by roryisok 8y ago
Discontinued doesn't mean out of use. But I get your point. Maybe it doesn't work on ie7 either. I should just "get with the times" and move to android or iOS. But we're taking about text not rendering correctly on
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by roryisok 8y ago
Keepvid was always perfectly usable while it was still going.
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by roryisok 8y ago
I've never even heard of YouTube++ but it sounds like I need it in my life
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by roryisok 8y ago
> some of the best software I have ever used That's some hefty praise, do you mind explaining why it's so great?
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by roryisok 8y ago
No text on IE mobile. https://i.imgur.com/Naqr8Xg.jpg I know nobody supports IE mobile but I thought id report it. It's a shame because I was looking for exactly this app, and it seems to work otherwise
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by roryisok 8y ago
I had literally no idea that Somaliland existed, and I consider myself to be pretty up to date with the political world map. It's fascinating to read about a country you knew nothing of, even an unrecognised one. No, especially an un
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by roryisok 8y ago
Pretty sure its on YouTube

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