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by rufius 9y ago
I feel similarly with Ulysses. In my case, I organize my thoughts in sheets from a legal pad. This maps nicely with sheets in Ulysses. I want to like Scrivener but it's not quite the right fit. I'm glad it exists though - this is
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by rufius 9y ago
Gobo is a cool district - one of my favorites. I used it for a while in college with good success. Back then I recall the process for packaging being a little rough. I should give it another go to see how it has evolved.
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by rufius 9y ago
Lol no. AMP is a trash experience. I hate it so much.
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by rufius 9y ago
To give you a little idea of scale - they've been at this for at least 4 years. It started while I still worked in Windows.
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by rufius 9y ago
Technically - Source Depot is a fork of Perforce. Not entirely invented at MSFT :).
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by rufius 10y ago
Ditto.
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by rufius 10y ago
Working for Big Company... Three year rolling cycles for servers. That is, you're not replacing hardware all at once but incrementally. Similar for dev machines. If you imagine a dev has two dev boxes and a laptop, spread that over the
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by rufius 10y ago
I'd agree with author. I have noticed better battery life than the author, usually in the 9-11 hour range. I tend to aggressively close tabs by habit so that likely helps. Rest of setup is running Atom, Mail, Outlook, and OneNote. Spri
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by rufius 10y ago
My sister-in-law is going through this right now. Her husband passed away a little over a year ago. So much of this resonates with her own experience and what she's told me... it's as if the article was written by her.
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by rufius 10y ago
The usage of Electron, while convenient, is continually irritating to me. Power consumption matters and "hur dur lets repurpose our web app for desktop" is annoyingly bad for power. I get why companies do it, I just wish they woul
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by rufius 10y ago
Getting quickly to my position would be a frustrating proposition. A considerable portion of how I got where I am is because of the mistakes I made. I wouldn't want to have gotten here faster and the pursuit of getting to "senior&
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by rufius 10y ago
Agreed. When I joined this team we used to hop around a lot on projects. I came from a low level team in a much bigger division and so I'd spent the first 4 years of my career focusing heavily on fundamentals. After getting comfortable
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by rufius 10y ago
One big project that includes a lot of smaller projects like: reliability, performance, deployment, new features. It's a platform so lots of room to pivot around. Then I always have a side project I'm playing with for new ideas. S
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by rufius 10y ago
Agreed. AV will not save you from a determined attacker. It's a vaccination, not a magical cure.
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by rufius 10y ago
Credit is uninteresting to me. I don't do most of what I do for credit. I either do it because it interests me or because it's what I feel is right. I suppose there's also the self preservation aspect where I do what I do bec
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by rufius 10y ago
WARNING: Snarky Response I just write it down on a notepad rather than buying a $150 device. That said, you do you. If y'all like it, have at it and I won't be one to criticize the way you spend your money.
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by rufius 10y ago
While I do understand the author's point about the void - the particular example of the Amazon Echo and Google Home is something I really don't get. I find those devices invasive and irritating - I'm not sure I see the attrac
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by rufius 10y ago
I'm not sure - I use a gaming keyboard on my desktop at home (Steel Series) and while it is mechanical with deep travel, you barely have to tap a key to get it to register. That is, you don't need to fully press a key to trigger i
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by rufius 10y ago
I'll just go ahead and contradict the running opinion and say: I like my 2016 MacBook Pro 15". I've owned a few Macs and this one is my favorite. Despite my initial impressions, I really like the keyboard. I'm also qui
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by rufius 10y ago
Yup :). It's a common misconception I hear/see a lot. My source: I work for MSFT, not on Azure but I work with their team a lot and I used to work on Windows.
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by rufius 10y ago
The primary backbone of Azure is an OS known as "Red Dog OS". It's based off of Windows, with much of the core kernel tailored by Dave Cutler. When you're running Linux on Azure, it's via Hyper-V or rather the Azur
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by rufius 10y ago
Azure runs on Linux? What? Small portions do, but it's misleading to say it "runs on Linux". Edit: clarifying
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by rufius 10y ago
Source on VirtualBox being faster? Couple of benchmarks I've seen put VirtualBox at considerably slower[1] and Fusion slightly to considerably faster than Parallels. 1- https://www.tekrevue.com/2015-vm-benchmarks-parall
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by rufius 10y ago
Some might argue it's the only real metric that matters for user perception. That said, if it's hitting your battery that will be hard for user to perceive.
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by rufius 10y ago
I see Parallels isn't in that list of software. Is there a reason you don't use it?
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by rufius 10y ago
Full transparency - I work at a "Big Company" and I've got gigabit. So when I say internet is good, it's quite good. No latency issues and no hardware issues in the 1.5 years I've had it. Either way - fair enough. Y
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by rufius 10y ago
Well when I say big box, I mean big box per dev but I get your point. The message I'm getting from folks is that if you do contract/client work, you want everything local for many reasons. In my case, I work for a Large Software C
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by rufius 10y ago
Ya - that was my assumption though I can't envision spinning up more than one a laptop at a time. That said, I don't do client work so my context is relatively static.
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by rufius 10y ago
Regarding internet - are you referring to cafe wifi or your own home internet connection? What exactly is insufficient about internet? I work from home 2-3 days a week so good internet is key - especially since my main machines need to be d
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by rufius 10y ago
Got it. Thanks!

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