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by spronkey 11y ago
Most of the time on Windows you want full screen (PrtScrn) or a single window (Alt+PrtScrn). Windows definitely wins here vs Apple's Cmd+Shift+3 and Cmd+Shift+4, with the additional modifier to copy to clipboard instead of save to desk
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by spronkey 11y ago
Problem is the novice-expert transition in Apple devices is nonexistant. To become an expert you basically have to read a manual, or do things that a) have no affordance, b) have no clear feedforward, c) have an unknown effect and may be de
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by spronkey 11y ago
The time scale "decades" is reserved for the materials we use today. To use better woods, for example, you need timescale of many centuries.
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by spronkey 11y ago
Pretty sure both Goldman and Google pay their employees market rates.
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by spronkey 11y ago
Well, to be honest, for almost all "core" pieces there are enough alternatives that for a really small businesses it doesn't make much sense to budget for paying for libraries. And it's reasonably standard practice in co
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by spronkey 11y ago
Yes, yes, wealth distribution. On the latter, these days it's getting too risky for people who aren't already wealthy to innovate, and disrupt. Corporations are getting increasingly large, and the number of viable competitors in s
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by spronkey 11y ago
Knowing a few childcare centre owners, they're very profit driven, and they're generally doing pretty damn well. The staff are paid peanuts, and it shows in the quality of the care. I don't think I'd ever send my kids to
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by spronkey 11y ago
I think one of the issues with the better woods in particular is sustainability of growth. Basically every house built today in NZ will be using Pinus Radiata, which is a less dense wood that grows very very quickly, and is very sustainable
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by spronkey 11y ago
But they weren't because money. So people die.
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by spronkey 11y ago
I'd go one step back and say what on earth were backup generators doing in a basement in the first place. This just completely blows my mind. It is literally the worst vertical level they could have put them! I guess they took defence
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by spronkey 11y ago
Sure. But what percentage of users would that be? Single digits?
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by spronkey 11y ago
Perhaps, but it seemed to do a pretty poor job of remembering me... At least with Google, despite them being a pretty poor example of good auth UX, you only ever have to type in your password (+ 2fa code etc)
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by spronkey 11y ago
Well, to be fair, it wouldn't be all that complex if we just had one standard instead of many many many to learn. I don't find OAuth2 as implemented by most all that complex, and I didn't really find OAuth1 all that bad eithe
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by spronkey 11y ago
Came here to say this (about the name). What corporate pointy eared would buy a product called FogBugz over one called JIRA? I mean really. No contest right there.
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by spronkey 11y ago
Completely agree. Maintaining a node project is a nightmare job if you rely on any more than a trivial number of packages. The ecosystem is quicksand.
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by spronkey 11y ago
Lack of alternative++. Python is too dynamic and slow, gradual typing will help but it's still slooooow. For web work, PHP and Hack are popular but often very amateur, node.js works best with microservices and can quickly become diffic
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by spronkey 11y ago
It's only cheaper to invest in automation right now because those individuals who are paid to create said automation are paid well under what they should be. What if software engineering, hardware design, and all the other positions re
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by spronkey 11y ago
There's really nothing wrong with what they're doing. Open source absolutely doesn't mean it has to be available before a product is "finished". Sure it's not a community built product, but that's not what
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by spronkey 11y ago
For any nontrivial service that wants to build a large audience, something with the glacial performance of Laravel (and I use Laravel, so I'm not completely knocking it) has the downside that things you would normally do when much mo
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by spronkey 11y ago
The 'hack a demo' problem highlights one of the rationales behind having a Definition of Done in Scrum. Unfortunately Scrum doesn't put hard and fast rules behind what should be in it, but most good Scrum teams take principle
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by spronkey 11y ago
Sounds like a problem with the organisation and engineers. Unless of course the externally facing APIs had to change regularly because of requirements changing, in which case welcome to software development, you were probably lucky that tho
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by spronkey 11y ago
This is a poor article on many levels. Even basic facts don't check out. Agile didn't "grow up in web consulting", and it wasn't about dealing with finicky clients who couldn't be "managed". It came f
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by spronkey 11y ago
Agreed with many of your points - although I don't think that the purpose is to identify low performers, per se. It's more about breaking down development into small chunks at a time, so that if there are performance (or specifica
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by spronkey 11y ago
No.. I didn't quite get it either. People blindly including every js lib under the sun and not optimising at all, sure. Using "tools" ? What. Surely he wasn't suggestin people reinvent the wheel?
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by spronkey 11y ago
I don't necessarily agree that adding features decreases agility. Sometimes it can massively increase agility - especially if your product is built in a way that a new feature can immediately gel with other features. But apart form tha
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by spronkey 11y ago
www.mapworld.co.nz sells similarly sized wall maps, for those who don't want to go to such hassle :)
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by spronkey 11y ago
Fast security patches don't excuse the steaming pile of crap that is WordPress' codebase.
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by spronkey 12y ago
Sorting directories separately is the best thing ever.
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by spronkey 12y ago
And it's awful. It only completes once, and it doesn't give you a visual set of completions.
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by spronkey 12y ago
If there was one thing I could take from Windows and shoehorn into OS X, it would be Explorer. By far the best, by far .

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