seanp2k2

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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Symbian s60 was amazing and I can’t believe that Nokia isn’t part of the current smartphone landscape. Same with Palm TBH. Even Windows Mobile had smartphone apps, GPS, camera, browser, high-speed data (HTC Apache etc). They were just so im
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
PHP is actually pretty great these days, you should have a look at what modern PHP has become if you’ve been out of the loop for a while. Have a look at https://phptherightway.com/ if you’re interested.
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
It’s even funnier when those same devs who struggle with packaging and distribution in their best language go on to work at Fortune 500 companies and require constant devops assistance to actually make what they wrote work in even a test en
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
And we’ve increased latency an order of magnitude each time. We have computers that are orders of magnitude faster, yet using a spreadsheet in a browser today is less responsive than it was in DOS decades ago. But the developer experience i
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Also, WAAS https://www8.garmin.com/aboutGPS/waas.html
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
I’ll be overjoyed the day that the compass in the vehicle can tell my phone what direction the vehicle is pointed to avoid making a left instead of a right out of a driveway. Yes, there are solutions to these problems in theory, but in real
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
hauls our old grindstone of GChat refusing to do XMPP federation Pretty sure this was the start of the downfall. If we had a time machine, go back and convince the Google and Facebook PMs / mgmt who made the decision to not try to ex
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
New iPad has up to 16GB and I wouldn’t be terribly shocked to see an M1 or similar in the next iPhone pro maxx.
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Almost like those reasons for using Electron about developer productivity are really exaggerated. I wish they would invest in a few people to help optimize performance to improve UX, as it affects every one of their users.
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
The thing that bothers me so badly is that if they just took all the resources they put into RGB-everything development and “gamer” branding and put that into tactile improvements, better trackpads, more solid hinges, less chassis flex…I be
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Never understood why they don’t just offer RAM at closer-to-market prices instead of giving you a 4GB stick that will get tossed or sit in a drawer unused. Surely they’d rather make $20 on RAM instead of $0? It’s not like they refuse warran
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
On my last team, we would do QA on devices that ranged from “decade old + notoriously buggy implementation” to “new hotness, not even available to consumers yet”. The latest greatest stuff was more useful so the mfgs could understand what w
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
There’s also the latency issue: https://danluu.com/input-lag/ My normal desktop has a 240hz monitor and going between that and 60hz is an immediately noticeable downgrade in performance. Why did we accept 60hz as good
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Imagine how many students would cheat on tests if the penalty was not a failing grade, but only a “wrong answer” counted for every question they could somehow prove you cheated on. Ooh, and you’d get to bring in experts to argue with them o
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
I’m not at all optimistic about the US making the significant infrastructure investments required to make this happen. Some places still have coin-op parking meters. Like many other things, it’ll benefit the wealthiest class first, then may
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Ah, but we can defund, ruin, then shut down public schools too!
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by seanp2k2 5y ago
Totally agree, just for some reason it’s unfathomable in this country that there could be a government-provided service that runs at a loss because it’s something that everyone benefits from that needs to be a government service precisely b
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by seanp2k2 6y ago
> If there were two shops offering you the exact same breakfast, but one was charging 50% because it paid its employees more, would you patronise it? I do not believe that this situation truly exists, so this argument falls apart for me.
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by seanp2k2 6y ago
It does scale, because the assumption is that you’ve built your life around that previous level of income. Going from a few hundred K/year down to 60k/yr would probably be devastating for most. The thing that people seem to forget
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by seanp2k2 6y ago
>Would you be willing to patronise a shop that charges 50% more for coffee than the shop next to it because it pays its workers more? I'd bet not. I would, assuming that it’s not just the exact same product. I really enjoy going to
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by seanp2k2 6y ago
If everyone keeps saying this long enough, eventually they’ll be correct. How many economists is everyone aware of who are themselves millionaires?
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by seanp2k2 6y ago
FTA: Perry, who also served as the Secretary of Energy in the Trump administration, made the comment in an interview with Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. Looks like Perry is (R) since 1989 and (D) before that http
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by seanp2k2 6y ago
Something I don’t see anyone else talking about: power. They don’t just come in and offer you a fat campaign contribution check on behalf of those they represent while strongly encouraging you to vote a certain way on that one bill that wou
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by seanp2k2 6y ago
I would also just like to remind everyone that there are many video sites out there that aren’t explicitly porn sites (but do generally allow some level of porn) that are not YouTube. They also tend to have NSFW / scammy ads as those a
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by seanp2k2 6y ago
It’s not that it’s so hard to set up Redmine, just again that GitHub has strong network effects and a lot of convenience. I can go star stuff and come back later. Bookmarking a random open source project that self-hosts and hoping it’s stil
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by seanp2k2 6y ago
This. Some media outlets have decent live reporting, but going through the available apps on a PlayStation, which is what we use to watch video on a big screen via a projector (we also have a Shield and a Mac mini connected to it, but those
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by seanp2k2 6y ago
What is to stop any European companies from starting their own social networks? They are not monopolies, and are much less of monopolies than other de-facto monopolies which are allowed to exist without being regulated as such, such as ISPs
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by seanp2k2 6y ago
IMO that last point is because we’re still trying to govern the Internet based on telecom laws from decades ago. Tech moves way faster than laws, especially tech that is helping politicians get elected. The financial and political incentive
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by seanp2k2 6y ago
Strong network effects + capitalism. They found a good way to make lots of money, which allowed them to pay lots of skilled people to spend their time getting more people into the system and looking at ads. The problem, IMO, is that most us
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by seanp2k2 6y ago
And what that means, practically speaking, is that unlike other places in the world, we can speak out against the government and not worry about going to prison for it. That was the intention of it, and we still have that. Whether content c

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