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by slantyyz 8y ago
I'm on a weird cycle of switching every 10 years or so. Mid 80s to mid 90s: Apple 2 and Mac Mid 90s to mid 00's: Windows Mid 00s to Mid 10s: OSX Mid 10s to Present: Windows 8/10
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by slantyyz 8y ago
My municipality even sands our sidewalks in the winter, but not a whole lot gets into my house past the shoe mat. But I kick my shoes/boots off vs using my hands, so maybe that's why.
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by slantyyz 8y ago
I find it odd that "so many" reports are related to a grain of sand. I get a lot of dirt in my keyboards, but never sand. But maybe that's because I don't use a laptop on a beach or construction site? A grain of salt (ah
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by slantyyz 8y ago
It might be, but it's a lot of work putting together and maintaining a Hackintosh. You can try using VMWare but you will lose video acceleration. I run Mavericks in a VM to do Mac builds for Electron, and it works fine if you've g
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by slantyyz 8y ago
The Apple 17" laptops were about the same size (maybe even smaller) as large 15" laptops though. Presumably, an Apple 17" laptop in this day and age would be pretty manageable size-wise.
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>> I assume Apple is a rational organization equipped with a better understanding than I have of its products. I know - big assumption - but let's assume it's true. What reasons would Apple as a company have for improving th
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>> Employers in general complain that they can't buy filet mignon for the price of hot dogs, and that's suppose to be the employee's problem. The real underlying problem is that most employers I've encountered thin
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by slantyyz 8y ago
I wonder if these can be worn over prescription or reading glasses, as they seem to be close fitting. They wouldn't be very helpful for people who can't see anything while wearing them.
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by slantyyz 8y ago
>> At least migrate some things from mobile, such as more cameras, touch, accelerometers, payment systems, etc. Why can't I pay online as easily on my laptop as I can on my phone? Where's the facial recognition logon? That&#
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by slantyyz 8y ago
Groupy is great. You can create your own "Coda" (the Panic app for Mac) by grouping Sublime, a shell and a browser in the same group. Makes development and testing much less painful on a single screen. I usually throw in a db quer
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by slantyyz 8y ago
Pixelmator and Things are hardly new. I've been off Mac for maybe four years, and I had been using those apps for at least a couple of years before I switched back to Windows. As for Bear, Highland and Drafts, Bear is the only one wort
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by slantyyz 8y ago
I'm not sure I understand the point of asking for the names of " major new software for Windows". Most major areas of consumer software have been satisfied in some form or another on both of the dominant operating systems. I
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by slantyyz 8y ago
In the meantime, there is Dead or Alive 5, which is built on the same engine and has a few VF characters in it (and more importantly, the ones I like to use). IIRC, DOA6 has been announced too, and I would expect that to show up on PC.
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by slantyyz 8y ago
>> In my experience 10" is too small for a laptop. 13.3-14" is perfect and still quite portable. These things are so variable from user to user-- speaking for myself only, 13.3-14" is too small for me to use as a daily
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by slantyyz 8y ago
Such a device exists though, albeit not from Microsoft. It's called a GPD Win 2.
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by slantyyz 8y ago
>> It's called "The Cloud". > And it's shit. Perhaps the answer is "the cloud" but not the way you see it now. We're at the point where streaming games running on a remote server is actually a thi
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by slantyyz 8y ago
The big sea change for me over the past four or five years is the number of games that are getting a simultaneous release on Steam. I play mostly fighting games (when I can find the time), and those, for the most part, used to be the exclus
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by slantyyz 8y ago
>> its developers want it to be a first class desktop/laptop OS above all else with no server/mobile/other kitchen-sink-isms muddying the water In today's terms, that sounds a lot like an iPad (with an attached key
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by slantyyz 8y ago
Serious question - does anyone use Haiku for anything more than playing? I was a huge BeOS fan back in the day, and bought the Intel version when I had a Pentium ][ computer. I was so excited for OpenBeOS (now Haiku) after BeOS got acquired
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by slantyyz 8y ago
>> shorthand used to be very common and it's funny to see it now observed as a curiosity on HN Seeing this Wikipedia link made me feel old. Shorthand was indeed very common, my older sister took Pitman shorthand courses in high s
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by slantyyz 8y ago
>> If I can't adjust the air conditioning while looking at the road, I don't want it. Is this even a problem on a Tesla? My 2005 Honda with climate control can do this. I rarely adjust my a/c or heat. On a super hot or
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by slantyyz 8y ago
Laptops with 128GB RAM are now a thing [1]... in case you find yourself wanting more than 32GB [1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/laptops-with-128gb...
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by slantyyz 8y ago
There's a law firm in Toronto that specializes in tax issues, and in their advertisements on the radio, the reason why they tell you to hire them over an accountant/accounting firm is that they have the benefit of attorney client
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by slantyyz 8y ago
>> The Mac app ecosystem is hands down the best there is. That is an individualized thing, as different people use different stuff. There is a lot of great stuff on the Mac. iLife, iWork, Coda, Pixelmator, Transmit and other apps are
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by slantyyz 8y ago
If you want a painless process, you've basically got to go through the compatibility lists and find a laptop that is easily hackintoshed. More often than not, it's not the laptop you have or want to buy.
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by slantyyz 8y ago
Those clones weren't too bad though. And IIRC, Power Computing did way more to evangelize the Mac platform at the time than Apple did. Their ads were great.
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by slantyyz 8y ago
>> I sadly gave up on the Mac. My next personal device is a Dell XPS. Switching is a mixed bag. I notice (at least on HN) that there are two types of people on Mac. People who are highly sensitized to details and those who are not. If
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by slantyyz 8y ago
> The most dangerous thing here is that the public is increasingly getting the message and idea that Apple's mac hardware is decomposing. Not sure "the public" is very aware of any of the stuff going on (or more accurately
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by slantyyz 8y ago
Well, if sci-fi is the model of where the tech is going, we'll probably be using contact lenses or implants when the tech "crosses the chasm", so to speak.
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>> He understood it was a “necessary evil” at the time Looking back at those days, I'm not sure it was a necessary evil. None of my friends, including myself, owned any originals, and incurred real expenses (buying tons of floppi

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