tomtheelder

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by tomtheelder 10y ago
I appreciate a lot of the sentiment of this article, but not the self-congratulatory, sanctimonious tone. It refuses to acknowledge that there are people out there who are less productive when working remotely (for example, me, which I disc
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by tomtheelder 10y ago
I'm sorry, but this is rude, discouraging, and flat out wrong. This sort of stuff happens all the time. I personally work for a company whose founders implanted them in an incredibly calcified industry despite no industry experience, a
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by tomtheelder 10y ago
Complaining about the lack of a feature in a FOSS project that you haven't contributed to is kind of a dick move, though, and it's extremely discouraging to developers. If they violate community standards or put users at risk (bre
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by tomtheelder 10y ago
> Would also be nice to know how they deal with boilerplate, which is a big annoyance with Elm in my opinion when you come from, eg, Haskell. Elm certainly has a lot of boilerplate compared to Haskell, but that might not be a fair compar
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by tomtheelder 10y ago
Sort of. What people are upset about is that there is no longer a real "Pro" option. If it had become the "Macbook Air Pro," that would complaint would still be valid. The arguments would be framed differently ("why
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by tomtheelder 10y ago
Your argument would make sense if it weren't pay what you like, with the option to pay zero, and the default option being less than the price of a sandwich. You mention that investors have lots of money and are therefore able to take o
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by tomtheelder 10y ago
I would strongly disagree. Windows works pretty flawlessly nearly all the time these days. My only real complaint with it at this point is that so little of my dev stuff runs natively. If that weren't the case, I'd probably switch
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by tomtheelder 10y ago
You can get laptops with extremely good hardware at a better price than the MBP. For example, Dell's XPS series is the best example. Fantastic screen, fantastic trackpad, good build quality, and equivalent specs despite being a model y
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by tomtheelder 10y ago
> copy paste with a highlight+middle mouse button is frankly awesome in GNOME Oh my gosh, this is my least favorite thing about using gnome! I accidentally paste all the time and can't turn it off particularly easily. Very sad.
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by tomtheelder 10y ago
First, your F keys already change binds based on what's on screen. Second, you are ignoring all the things that are worse. You can't really touch type any more, you have to take your eyes away from the screen, and you get greatly
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by tomtheelder 10y ago
But "full colour multitouch interfaces" are awful compared to keyboard keys! Getting to switch back to my mouse + kb after using my phone is so fantastic. This bar is all the bad stuff about a touchscreen (limited/no tactile
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> I want dynamic, context-aware buttons. The buttons on your keyboard are already context aware. All this does is make them difficult/impossible to touch type (I touch type my F-keys), forces me to look away from my display to perfo
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by tomtheelder 10y ago
I'm fairly sure he was attempting to agree with the OPs problem.
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by tomtheelder 10y ago
I actually custom style HN just a little because I find the solid black text to be way to stark on the background. I use #222 instead and find the experience a lot more pleasant. I think this is a preferences thing. For me, solid black text
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by tomtheelder 10y ago
Because people buy the bigger ones. The market seems to have established that the 5-5.7" range is where the money is to be made. Anecdotally, 5" is pretty perfect for me, and using an iPhone 5 is a very frustrating experience.
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by tomtheelder 10y ago
Eye of the beholder! To me, the Pixel is quite a nice design, and the new Xperias look awful.
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by tomtheelder 10y ago
> To be a competitor to the iPhone at the same price point, the Pixel has to really shine. This is the rhetoric going around, but I'm not sure it's really true. Sure if their goal was to instantly knock the iPhone off in one ge
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by tomtheelder 10y ago
Exact same pricing as the iPhone 7. Not a coincidence.
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If we reject the $80 VR thing lets make it $880 or so, including the cost of a phone. That's still a lot less than the ~$3000 it costs to get a legitimate VR headset plus a gaming PC. Add onto that the fact that virtually everyone is g
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by tomtheelder 10y ago
I don't think the actual device is really any different. I mean its just two lenses in a box, really. I think the idea (who knows how this will play out) is that Google is going to create a meaningful VR ecosystem, which currently does
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by tomtheelder 10y ago
Depends how big your hands are. I have a 5.0" inch and can use the whole screen no problem one handed no problem. 4.5-4.7" would exclusively be a downgrade for me.
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by tomtheelder 10y ago
Have you considered that maybe he's using this pricing model because it's novel and entertaining? Perhaps maximizing his profits isn't his goal; it doesn't always have to be. Plus, any logos he doesn't sell in this
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by tomtheelder 10y ago
> Every time I see a colleague using command line to do git operations I get itchy and think to myself "oh, come on! I could've done this in gui in seconds". What operation could you possibly perform significantly faster i
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The process that you are describing in language is incredibly far from being ideal, it's just a reality because language is truly distributed. It would be far better if we did not overload words, leading to a period of ambiguous transi