steve1977

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1. 1951.▲
   by steve1977 8y ago

   Browsers aren't real tools. They are designed to make for smooth information consumption Well yeah. They're browsers, that's what they are. "To browse: an act of casual looking or reading."
2. 1952.▲
   by steve1977 8y ago

   There was one enormous hidden expense that my profit and loss chart didn’t show: me. My living expenses were rapidly eating away at my personal savings. Between my $3.3k/month Manhattan apartment, private health insurance, food, and u
3. 1953.▲
   by steve1977 8y ago

   I guess that's why they've just announced a price increase ;)
4. 1954.▲
   by steve1977 8y ago

   Are they trying to be great or are they trying to be perceived as great?
5. 1955.▲
   by steve1977 8y ago

   I don't know if 24fps is bad as such, but it's probably what the director of photography had in mind/saw when he shot the movie.
6. 1956.▲
   by steve1977 8y ago

   Yes and no. It is, but the the OS and the hardware probably help (and inspire?) 3rd parties to develop this software.
7. 1957.▲
   by steve1977 8y ago

   Maybe they asked how to do website security on Quora...
8. 1958.▲
   by steve1977 8y ago

   > How can I possibly justify that sort of investment in meditation? It's just another craft really.
9. 1959.▲
   by steve1977 8y ago

   > Admittedly the deployment of web applications is much better and they can run on different devices. But is it really, if you take into account all the incompatibilities between browsers and the different UX paradigms between classes of
10. 1960.▲
    by steve1977 8y ago

    I rarely shutdown my Mac to be honest, I usually just reboot if I have to after updates. Otherwise it just sleeps and comes back online pretty much immediately.
11. 1961.▲
    by steve1977 8y ago

    I just know that I have browser extension that prevents exactly that ;)
12. 1962.▲
    by steve1977 8y ago

    This could also mean that Android native apps are just worse than iOS native apps.
13. 1963.▲
    by steve1977 8y ago

    > For a webapp the installation is "Add to homescreen" on a webpage. It then behaves like a native app No, it doesn't, I'm sorry. It's often a far cry from how a native app would be behave, both in terms of usabi
14. 1964.▲
    by steve1977 8y ago

    Also, aren't unicorns kinda unlikely by definition?
15. 1965.▲
    by steve1977 8y ago

    > in many places it goes like this: you're very much treated like a cog, managers -- and "project managers" especially -- won't have any real understanding of what engineers do, there is disorganization, lack of plann
16. 1966.▲
    by steve1977 8y ago

    It was obvious you couldn't trust Facebook back in 2008 already.
17. 1967.▲
    by steve1977 8y ago

    That seems typical for Google. Since when do they pay content creators properly?
18. 1968.▲
    by steve1977 8y ago

    I guess it's really a matter of taste. I prefer Eclipse over IntelliJ for example (in terms of GUI). But I also prefer Eclipse over the current MS Office GUIs for example.
19. 1969.▲
    by steve1977 8y ago

    Which, considering the small size of our dear country, basically makes "the stretch of land between EPFL and ETH Zurich" more or less the whole of Switzerland ;)
20. 1970.▲
    by steve1977 8y ago

    Another vote for Julian Jaynes. I'm aware his theories are contested, but they're very interesting and thought-provoking nonetheless.
21. 1971.▲
    by steve1977 8y ago

    Until they start blocking URLs because of... well, they'll find a reason ;)
22. 1972.▲
    by steve1977 8y ago

    Sokal hoax 2.0?
23. 1973.▲
    by steve1977 8y ago

    I mainly use macOS for example. At least on the systems where I use Emacs. I use Linux for servers, but I rarely do much editing directly on those systems.
24. 1974.▲
    by steve1977 8y ago

    Or - yikes - doing work, instead of just communicating about work.