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by spronkey 8y ago
I agree, especially around subscriptions. Too many light burnings already. I use and love 1Password, but there's no way I'm switching to the subscription model. When my version stops working (either through incompatibility or seri
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by spronkey 8y ago
Shorthand isn't necessarily a good act to follow, as most shorthand requires a solid understanding of context, and it's not uncommon that the person who wrote the shorthand is the only one who can completely understand it in ori
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by spronkey 8y ago
Indeed. Though, will 200 hours spent learning Haskell gain you, well, anything productive? Surely a non-genius would require at least 1000.
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by spronkey 8y ago
I'm a tab monster and almost never have less than 100 open at a time, so no, I disagree that it's only great for those who can keep their tabs numbered. Putting scrolling in a tab bar doesn't allow the user to take full advan
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by spronkey 8y ago
That's quite untrue for more complex examples of 7 + 17. "Hey Dingbat, what's 10 percent of 50 times 33 times 125. Oh sorry, 10 percent of open parentheses 50 times 33 times 125 close parentheses". Even just talking it
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by spronkey 8y ago
Agree wholeheartedly. Firefox is basically dead to me because of this (that and it's now trickier than ever to fix it). I'll take 1px wide tabs over scrolling.
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by spronkey 8y ago
Pozidriv is the devil. It's impossible to distinguish visually in many cases between Philips and Pozidriv. Just use Torx, Square, or Hex. That way there is no confusion.
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by spronkey 8y ago
I prefer square drive to Torx for larger screws. But I agree with Philips... yikes.
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by spronkey 8y ago
Doubtful, the 860 isn't that old.
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by spronkey 8y ago
macOS is no better. It's getting worse too, High Sierra has been a clusterfuck all around.
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by spronkey 8y ago
Considering your "Go to curb.app" solution, to be brutally honest I think at least 50% of the world has no idea what the difference between "Go to curb.app" and "Download the Curb app" is. They are both practic
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by spronkey 8y ago
As nice as an HSTS preload list is, using .app and .dev for this is infuriating. Thanks for wasting about 6 hours of my time a few months ago by forcing me to change all my non-https local DNS entries to something other than .app and .dev,
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by spronkey 8y ago
IMO the fix is for our industry as a whole to stop reinventing the wheel with yet-another-incompatible-alternative. My personal imposter syndrome feelings are almost always related to either a) not knowing the "replacement" to an
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by spronkey 8y ago
I'd suggest there's quite a lot more inertia to overcome with Chrome (or any HTML/CSS-based tech) to get improvements in print features than with a non-web tech... But hey, no reason not to try :)
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by spronkey 8y ago
The number of people who discover this too late is absurd, and the fact that you can't jam a MicroSD in the iPhone, even if only for photo storage, is still incredibly dumb.
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by spronkey 8y ago
The first Unibody Mac was still a very nice machine, even if the display wasn't actually a unibody. The chassis felt like nothing before it, and it was so nicely machined with a super rigid keyboard. MagSafe with separate board. Extrem
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by spronkey 8y ago
The latter point is not really true. There are plenty in web dev that need Adobe tools to open files. There are plenty in corporate environments that need Office to edit docs (Open/Libre doesn't really cut it for heavier stuff). I
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by spronkey 8y ago
Ugh Xcode. What an awfully heavy piece of software. Makes Eclipse feel lightweight.
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by spronkey 8y ago
I think there's definitely some blame on laptop manufacturers here for their ridiculous ever-changing collection of SKUs. Even Lenovo Thinkpads are incredibly diverse in terms of the hardware you can find in them compared to any genera
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by spronkey 8y ago
I think the definition of a 'unit' here is possibly causing some strife. If your product consists of somewhat reusable libraries that you compose together, and extend when needed, having strong unit tests for the low level functio
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by spronkey 8y ago
IMO TDD has almost exactly zero to do with the design of your API. You can TDD top down by writing an end to end test, and recursing TDD down each level until you get to a single unit, repeat until all inception layers of the tests pass. Yo
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by spronkey 9y ago
It astounds me that something as simple as talking to people is in some ways objectively more difficult now than it was in 1990. What the hell are we doing?
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by spronkey 9y ago
And a good article it is. I've never been a great believer in learning styles, but I do know that for me, it's far, far more convenient to watch a video and read a smaller amount of text than to have to solely read a book. I read
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by spronkey 9y ago
Well, there's plenty of evidence that the opportunities aren't the same. But that doesn't say whether they are equal in value.
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by spronkey 9y ago
I agree with your latter statement - I've worked with a few teams now, and the best output always comes from teams that have designers with good foundation knowledge (i.e., of the psychology of design, alignment, balance, colour, gesta
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by spronkey 9y ago
If Apple make the move, I kinda expect them to do nothing, and make their customers deal with incompatible software. They've been super hostile to their customers of late.
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by spronkey 9y ago
So much this. When you're a small team, this sort of thing can basically mean having a product vs not.
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by spronkey 9y ago
I am the first to criticise Apple for absurd decisions with their newer hardware, and the declining quality of their software. But, 2016 MBP keyboard and touchpad aside, the build quality of Macs is a good step above the best ThinkPad or De
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by spronkey 9y ago
To be honest, Snow Leopard was an immediate improvement on the abomination that was Leopard. The only reason, to me, that I remember Snow Leopard as being so good is because Leopard was a steaming pile of slow shit.
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by spronkey 9y ago
I'd assume that these processors use the same 'race to sleep' philosophy that Intel CPUs have been using for a while, which would mean that peak power draw would be requested very frequently in short bursts. The degree of thr

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