shaan7

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   by shaan7 8y ago

   This ^
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   by shaan7 8y ago

   (As an aside, we the techies need non-tech hobbies but that's just an opinion.) +1 to that as well. I've picked cooking and it has been awesome :D
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   by shaan7 8y ago

   +1 on "hate doesn't work". Just adding a perspective that you might be missing. The stuff that OP described doesn't really feel like "work" to him. To him its the exact thing you described - it helps him rechar
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   by shaan7 8y ago

   Hate doesn't work, I'll give you that. I'm hopeful that OP takes your feedback :) But you're very mistaken about the "disregard for convenience". Almost every human strives for convenience, even the folks you a
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   by shaan7 8y ago

   Hmm, did you make the 240p vs FLAC strawman deliberately? Or is the bug (as you're able to reproduce it) really that bad? I know OP was using high-end headphones but I expected at least a slight hissle. (My attempts to reproduce were w
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   by shaan7 8y ago

   Its not an issue on Android devices as well, I've no idea whats broken on OP's setup.
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   by shaan7 8y ago

   I have a colleague whose Mac has the same issue as you (2015 MBP 15" Retina). Chrome runs awesome for him, Firefox crawls. However, I have the same model and for me Firefox is as snappy as anything. You're right that this needs to
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   by shaan7 8y ago

   Actually the content of the article makes this comment slightly unwarranted (unless I'm misreading the tone). The author has described, quite well, on how typography isn't about just subjective artistic choice but largely its func
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   by shaan7 8y ago

   2) You are the one making people laugh here :P
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    Ever look at Dell XPS 13 ?
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    > so who cares if you waste a GB or so I wonder if that sounds arrogant to just me. As a user I DO CARE. Its frustrating to find applications shipping their own copy of libraries wasting precious disk space. When I was using a Mac, I had
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    Try the Nokia phones by HMD, they're almost stock Android (only diff is you can't remove some Nokia apps without root)
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    I'm really happy that you prefixed that with "Pointless". Updates are not a problem. Wrongly done updates are.
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    Um, that they can be different websites?
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    As it happens in security, something isn't secure by default, you need to verify it is so. I have ZERO way of knowing that UIDAI is following good practices in securing MY[ ] data. Its not secure till I have proof its secure (well, as
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    yep, and wouldn't it be a paradise for a malicious person to install software on that authentication machine which sniffs off the biometrics and sends that to his server?
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    Will that be enough to do a dark theme? :P
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    Depends on your usecase, really. Static linking has been there for a long time and it has its disadvantages. I have more than a dozen programs on my system that share the same Python runtime and libraries. Compare that to every Go program s
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    And Mattermost's UI team was considerate enough to have a dark theme. Something Slack couldn't be bothered for.
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    Unfortunately I don't think it will last. Indian government + its agencies are very conservative and I'm sure they will be making attempts at censoring Netflix in India.
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    There's another angle to this which I think is quite important. 4 years back, I joined a team where the tech lead would always warn developers about the abstraction problem described here. Very regularly I'd hear "Code duplic
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    I've worked with a 2013 MBP 15" for 4 years and then switched to XPS 13 + Kubuntu. The touchpad is butter smooth - be it taps, clicks, or two finger scrolling (and three finger gestures thanks to comfortable-swipe). Any XPS 13 (93
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    by shaan7 9y ago

    See the comment on the same thread https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18517#issuecomment-27051...
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    by shaan7 9y ago

    And I'm playing this in the background https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lERqGULWxs
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    by shaan7 9y ago

    There is, just make it easier (and in some cases, even possible) for people to pay for content (see the comment above https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15920913 ) There are always people who are ready to pay and people wh
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    by shaan7 9y ago

    Just keep a copy of the `.git` dir before you try the complex operation. If you screw it up, restore it back and voila!
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    by shaan7 9y ago

    I use KDE Neon, it has the latest Ubuntu LTS as base but with latest KDE. See http://neon.kde.org/
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    by shaan7 9y ago

    QT = QuickTime :P
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    by shaan7 9y ago

    Sure /s. We have a Qt app with GUI completely written in Qt. Scales pixel perfect on HiDPI out of the box as long as you make sure to not hardcode pixel values.
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    by shaan7 9y ago

    Same goes for the macOS window manager, its utterly irritating for everyday tasks (think moving a window to another monitor and maximize in one go). Spectacle eased the pain a bit but I feel much more productive just back to Neon and work.