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901.
by shantly 7y ago
Really? I'd never dream of trying something like that except from a position of strength.
902.
by shantly 7y ago
That's where Microsoft's old TerraServer got their stuff, too, IIRC, which is the first place I remember seeing anything like that online. Wasn't that much worse than Google's version, really, considering how much earlie
903.
by shantly 7y ago
I think free (spyvertising supported) and free or steeply discounted (operating at a VC-backed loss) commercial offerings both being so common dampens enthusiasm to work on and demand for open source software, especially the user-facing stu
904.
by shantly 7y ago
Maybe they're A/B testing or they've changed. The ones I've seen took you through a screen or two of options and such before adding whatever you'd selected to your order, with the "just friggin' add it&quo
905.
by shantly 7y ago
Did you figure out what's with the 60x bloat? Badly denormalized and storing tons of metadata? Storing images/video?
906.
by shantly 7y ago
The couple I've seen have had bad menus (what? Options? I just want the damn thing like usual, there are options? I don't care, where the hell is the "just buy it like normal" button?) and have suffered from the same jan
907.
by shantly 7y ago
> The other side of that coin is that on mobile the article is painful to read and the layout is horrible. Looks reader-mode-compatible in Safari, which solves the problem for any site that's mostly content.
908.
by shantly 7y ago
I'm convinced at this point that attempt to combine PM planning & projections, IC planning, tracking for management, bugtracking, et c., all under the same roof, are doomed. I think some of those things cannot co-exist with the o
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by shantly 7y ago
> So how are (seemingly most) parents getting 4 hours of sleep for extended periods of time If this is happening and you're not a single parent and your kid's not got chronic health issues, you're doing something wrong. An
910.
by shantly 7y ago
I mean at the point you're writing a symbol table and associating it with an object so you can figure out which method to call in its context, probably it occurs to you that you're entirely re-creating a feature the language alr
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by shantly 7y ago
My TouchID drops to like a 10% success rate if the humidity's much different from it was on whatever day I set it up. Or if I've done any work with my hands in the last week or so and roughed my fingers up a bit. Or if I've l
912.
by shantly 7y ago
If someone comes out with a point-n-shoot that's about as good as a semi-recent iphone camera, does live photos(!), and has backup-over-wifi I'm back on a dumbphone on release day of that device. And yeah, entirely for kids.
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by shantly 7y ago
I bet there are quite a few of us watching each of these announcements waiting for exactly that to happen, ready to click that buy button. The only thing I'd miss dropping to a watch + decent point-n-shoot instead of an iPhone is live
914.
by shantly 7y ago
Simplicity does not necessarily imply clarity.
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by shantly 7y ago
> The positional order seems like it would be easy to work around if they allowed you to pass in a key. Not sure why that isn't available. IIRC it's because they implemented their own method lookup table (!) to associate with t
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by shantly 7y ago
> it had a just fine object model, that no one ever took the time to understand properly Plenty of the people who dislike Javascript's prototypal inheritance model and (relatedly) scoping rules do understand them.
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by shantly 7y ago
> "Shaken" is the word. It was all anyone could think about for the rest of the day. Best essay I've read that captures the experience of the few days right after in the parts of America that weren't especially close
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by shantly 7y ago
> I was a senior in high school. Almost every classroom had the news on (except for one teacher who insisted on holding a calculus quiz as scheduled). We watched the towers come down as it happened. Same but a year behind, right down to
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by shantly 7y ago
> Also helps explain the fact that they've stuck with a mostly server-side-rendered app, despite it being a fairly complex tool. Probably why it's remained tolerably snappy and light on resources while the "SPA" world
920.
by shantly 7y ago
> I just do a full code search for 'def method_name` and it usually brings up the function I need. Not in Rails. Too much metaprogramming-generated never-defined stuff going on. Often makes diving into inherited Rails codebases pret
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by shantly 7y ago
I've seen programs switched out on top of databases more often than I've seen the reverse. Most DBs are much, much better if you commit to them and actually use their features. I dislike the practice of treating them as interchang
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by shantly 7y ago
> Another one was: The project has a non-negotiable deadline and feature list and it looks like it's going to be late. What do you do? If both the deadline and feature list are actually non-negotiable and I'm quite certain it&#