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by tdicola 11y ago
Yeah I've used those VMs and it's nice but they're only valid for 90 days and IMHO the licensing is kind of murky (it says they're only for testing IE). You also don't have a choice of 32bit vs. 64bit VM (I've
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by tdicola 11y ago
This is a very odd blog post in my opinion coming from MS. It acknowledges the pain of dealing with source distributions on Windows and gives excellent advice on how to overcome the issues. However I think it really misses the forest thro
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by tdicola 11y ago
Assuming you're doing a typical full day interview loop pay attention to the first few interviewers, they're likely more of the junior employees. Ask them lots of questions about the work environment, boss, etc. Obviously don&#x
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by tdicola 11y ago
So will the bash prompt not see any tools like windows python in the windows system path? That seems like an odd decision if so.
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by tdicola 11y ago
Linux docker? I doubt it--there's a lot of low level kernel stuff docker needs like creating a chroot. That said MS has been working on a docker version for Windows. I dunno if they ever released many details on what exactly it is t
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by tdicola 11y ago
Install git (the real git from https://git-scm.com/ , not a fancy GUI) and use the git bash shell today. It runs msys and has a full set of Linux utilities like ls, etc.
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by tdicola 11y ago
If anything it's going to make it worse. When you type python in a command prompt which version is going to run, the windows version or the Ubuntu version? Even worse when you pip install a package what pip are you running, windows o
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by tdicola 11y ago
Even if the cars drive themselves there's still not enough lanes to let them flow right now, much less in 20+ years. There was a study done that found Seattle's needs _22_ lanes of highway to meet the current demand. However bec
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by tdicola 11y ago
Ehh, Seattle and Washington's government isn't any better than other cities and states. You just don't hear about the junk going on unless you live in the state. Our state funding for education is a complete joke and the st
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by tdicola 11y ago
Absolutely not. This is an echo chamber of people interested in technology and startups. To extrapolate out to the broader entire web user audience is a massive logical fallacy. I would hope that's obvious to almost anyone.
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by tdicola 11y ago
I'm not asking that notifications be completely removed from the spec. I'm pointing out that popping a distracting dialog when you visit the root of a domain is a poor design decision that should be re-evaluated. We don't d
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by tdicola 11y ago
You keep suggesting this in replies but I don't know if you're actually serious or not. Disabling Javascript will break the vast majority of websites today from even rendering. Asking users to break rendering of the web just to
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by tdicola 11y ago
> If people didn't want web notifications, they wouldn't have been explicitly added in to the specs. Web standards aren't a democratic process that all the web users vote on. They're defined by a consortium of compan
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by tdicola 11y ago
When you visit an SSL encrypted website a little lock icon appears. It used to be when you visited a site with an RSS feed a little RSS icon would light up. I see no reason why notifications shouldn't be exactly the same. Give some
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by tdicola 11y ago
> Most people want them. Source?
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by tdicola 11y ago
Why does it have to assume when I vist a site I want the distraction at all? How about we put it in a setting or other page I have to explicitly visit and opt in to receive notifications. Just like signing up for emails, etc...
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by tdicola 11y ago
Awesome, now how about we make this default to on just like we default on pop up blockers etc?
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by tdicola 11y ago
I don't, I like having long stretches of time without distractions. Then I can choose when I want to catch up on mails and when I want to get to work. Please let me keep browsing the web like this too.
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by tdicola 11y ago
Because I'm old enough to have seen stupid trends like this come and go. I like to browse the web on my terms and not be bombarded by useless information. I know it's a crazy concept for some young people these days but sometime
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by tdicola 11y ago
Yeah it's the principle of the thing though, when I'm browsing around and constantly getting yelled out (dialog pop ups, etc.) to subscribe to notifications it's really no different than the bad old days of pop ups and pop un
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by tdicola 11y ago
I agree entirely. Maybe we'll be lucky and they rip the feature entirely out soon like the app launcher no one wanted: http://blog.chromium.org/2016/03/retiring-chrome-app-launche...
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by tdicola 11y ago
Asking permission is spamming IMHO.
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by tdicola 11y ago
> Normal people do not spend $35-40k on a car. We're still talking about a high-end vehicle. I don't think you've been car shopping much recently. 'Economy' cars like the Honda Civic, Mazda 3, Toyota Camry, etc.
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by tdicola 11y ago
Their manager will have a stern talking to them about how 'this isn't how we operate' and 'you broke protocol' and 'made everyone look bad'. They'd be reassigned to the most boring and menial tasks u
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by tdicola 11y ago
Why would Microsoft be sued, what law specifically would they be breaking?
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by tdicola 11y ago
Oh weird, huh this must be more fallout from the canceling of Astoria that they're spinning off into a standalone thing.
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by tdicola 11y ago
It's not super clear but I think that step is actually installing g++, etc. on the Linux host (and in reality they probably mean you should apt-get install build-essential and not just g++, gdb, etc. individually). It's having yo
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by tdicola 11y ago
I'm curious is it using MSBuild as the build system on a Linux machine, or does it integrate with existing makefile, CMake, autotools, etc. style projects? It seems like a total nonstarter to expect Linux developers to switch to MSBui
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by tdicola 11y ago
Completely different. Git bash is based on msys which is a suite of Linux/Unix tools ported to compile and run natively on Windows. This is taking actual Linux programs and running them as-is on Windows. Wherever the Linux programs
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by tdicola 11y ago
I'm with you. Interesting novelty, but I would absolutely not bank on doing anything missions critical with this. Wait 5 years for the excitement to die down and lets see if the team stuck maintaining this is even going to be around

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