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by slantyyz 8y ago
As a non-American, I always found the GPA system a little strange. In high school, our marks were always scores out of 100.
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by slantyyz 8y ago
I think it depends. When I wrote the GMAT (albeit in 1992), a good score would get you into most Canadian business schools even if you had mediocre marks. My recollection of the GMAT's difficulty was that any high school grad with an A
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by slantyyz 8y ago
That's true for getting into undergraduate programs, but when it comes to graduate programs, dentistry, medical, law schools etc, I believe we still do use the same standardized tests as in the USA.
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by slantyyz 8y ago
Yeah, when I first started to use Notes, using modems over POTS lines to call HQ was still a thing, so that replication was a big deal. Hell, I don't even think all laptops had ethernet ports back then either. In a lot of cases, you ha
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by slantyyz 8y ago
IIRC, File Maker Pro Advanced is basically FileMaker Pro with additional features enabled. You would be able to use that in its place, but it might have a higher price tag.
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by slantyyz 8y ago
>> But here's the problem: at some point, the user wants the tool to do something beyond what the tool can do. Once again, this depends on the lens you view it with. With any solution that does a good job, it will eventually gr
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by slantyyz 8y ago
Does Filemaker Pro solve that problem?
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by slantyyz 8y ago
You're totally right. Most vertical market solutions were started by advanced end users trying to solve their own day-to-day problems. Chances are they couldn't afford to hire a team of developers to build them a custom solution,
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by slantyyz 8y ago
>> All of them are trying to abstract away the complex parts of the programming problem. You're right, but you're also looking at it from the lens of a programmer. From a user's perspective, they have a problem to solve
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by slantyyz 8y ago
I'll bite... 1 - Document Store (iirc, CouchDB was inspired by Notes/Domino) 2 - Replication - even past the 90s, it was one of the best tools for disconnected users 3 - Low barrier to application creation (it was about as easy as
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by slantyyz 8y ago
>> Tools like that can be extremely productive, and easy for people of no or low programming ability to utilize. Absolutely. BUT, in the early days, the value of return for end users is higher than the cost of development and maintena
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by slantyyz 8y ago
>> The moment that they need to scale, they become a liability, like... Yeah, but this is true of just about any home-grown solution, whether they are "low code" or not. There are surely a lot of VB and PHP ("high code&
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by slantyyz 8y ago
Yeah, Notes/Domino got a bad rap for a lot of stuff, like the cruddy 90s UI that never got updated, but it was quite powerful for what it was. A couple of things in particular were really good - reliable replication (which meant your w
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by slantyyz 8y ago
This is a real misconception a lot of programmers have about Lotus Notes shops. I also worked in a Lotus Notes shop for several years. We built apps on Notes/Domino and did some pretty cool stuff pre-dot-com, including a Project Manage
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by slantyyz 8y ago
>> On a laptop I don't really think so. An extended warranty runs about 3 years and most Macs I've had have lasted about 5. At that point I would just rather get a new computer anyway than bother sprucing up an old one. That
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by slantyyz 8y ago
When I was using an MBP and a Windows desktop, I got a gaming keyboard that let you remap the keys. I swapped the keycaps on the keyboard so that the Control key was where the Command key would be. Of course, this doesn't help if you&#
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by slantyyz 8y ago
I get that I'm in the extreme minority here, but I pretty much hate all touchpads, including Apple's. I hate Apple's the least, so I will concede that Apple makes the best touch pads. I wish all the PC makers would stop tryin
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by slantyyz 8y ago
Yeah, but once your computer is out of warranty, you'll definitely appreciate the ability to replace parts. I spilled soda pop on my 2008 Macbook's keyboard and fried it. Fortunately, the computer still worked (I ended up carrying
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by slantyyz 8y ago
The problem is the product lines are muddy now. "Pro" on the laptop line no longer has the same meaning as "Pro" on the desktop line. It used to mean "workstation class" on both lines. "Workstation class&q
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by slantyyz 8y ago
The great thing about those models. You didn't have to max out right away and pay the exorbitant prices. When I bought my 2011MBP, I slowly upgraded the parts as prices came down. My advice to people buying Mac laptops today is to max
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by slantyyz 8y ago
>> They should kill the Mac Mini. Why? I think it's still a pretty good value (albeit a better value with an up-to-date cpu), and it is great for people who want to keep their displays separate from their computing hardware. Prio
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by slantyyz 8y ago
> I'd take a MacBook Pro a pound heavier and several mm thicker in order to have more RAM. So basically, an old unibody Macbook Pro could achieve that. Even though I left Mac, that unibody design is probably my favorite laptop form
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by slantyyz 8y ago
Hardware-wise, my ASUS 15" Zenbook Pro (UX501VW) is about as polished as my old 2011 15" Macbook Pro (the 15" unibodies were my favorite Apple form factor ever). And I paid less than half of what I paid for my old MBP. Sure,
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by slantyyz 8y ago
If you're the type of user who actually needs 128GB of RAM in a laptop, you're generally willing to make the trade-off on battery life.
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by slantyyz 8y ago
FWIW, the refresh of the Skull Canyon, aka "Hades Canyon" is even more impressive than its predecessor.
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by slantyyz 8y ago
Forget 32GB, looks like 128GB RAM laptops have just arrived: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/6/13/17458712/l...
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by slantyyz 8y ago
>> Given that google is the de facto standard ATM and often returns irrelevant results, I'd wager that search isn't solved. Search has become a cat and mouse game where every time search is "solved" with an improve
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by slantyyz 8y ago
When I first saw the Dave2D video on Youtube a couple of days ago, I thought it would be a useless feature, but on further consideration, I'd totally use it. I have an Zenbook ux501 that runs on wired power most of the time anyways so
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by slantyyz 8y ago
Not all Win 10 tablets support the wireless projection. I think you can do it with a higher end one like a Surface Pro, but you can't with less powerful ones like the Asus Vivotab 8. You'll get an error message having to do with n
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by slantyyz 8y ago
As someone who hates touchpads, a touchscreen in its place is a wonderful idea. I have a retired smartphone on my desk showing a live feed to my doorbell cam, and I could see myself using that Zenbook's touchpad screen as a Zoneminder

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