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by wvenable 2y ago
Like many other things in Windows, I will find some way to disable it. Or maybe I'll find it useful -- anything is possible!
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by wvenable 2y ago
I find it funny that on website called hacker news, it's still assumed that anyone who customizes their system must also be an idiot that knows nothing about being safe online.
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by wvenable 2y ago
I fit into that Paradox -- I rewrote my own personal website in modern PHP without a framework or database. It's mostly a static site but uses PHP to add headers, deal with lists (for blog posts), etc. I found it slightly more conven
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by wvenable 2y ago
Is there a business with a "house brand" that doesn't do this?
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by wvenable 2y ago
My company is finally upgrading away from a product that is written in a 4GL language. This product probably started out on a Unix but was ported to Windows decades ago. It has both a web and classic VB front ends. All the source code is
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by wvenable 2y ago
The other good reason that Google has is that it puts them entirely in control of the lists. If they don't want Chrome to block ads on Google properties they can opt them out of the block lists.
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by wvenable 2y ago
It's basically free money. You get money from people who subscribe and nothing from people who don't. Since so many companies are simultaneously doing this app-powered subscription based value extraction there is no competitive d
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by wvenable 2y ago
Nobody used them -- except maybe for Silverlight -- but we all know why that model (along with Flash) was retired.
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by wvenable 2y ago
I grew up before the Internet and we still craved connectivity with our computers. I remember dialing into BBSes and playing turn-based text games and it was amazing. It was also the best way to get software; my computer would be pretty b
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by wvenable 2y ago
I've significantly improved the performance of queries by undoing someone who did #5 when it wasn't strictly needed. Sometimes breaking a query into many smaller queries is significantly less efficient than giving the query optim
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by wvenable 2y ago
Personally I hate software customizations. I prefer to build from scratch using proper software development tools than use whatever piss-poor customization system commercial software typically provides. I recently sold my director on build
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by wvenable 2y ago
One advantage of building in house is that you're only building for your own company. This is significantly less work than building commercial software for multiple clients (which I have also done). I can't overstate how much
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by wvenable 2y ago
My impression is that most people don't understand just how awful most commercial business software actually is. One thing our business does that every other business does is vacation and overtime tracking. We have a custom in house a
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by wvenable 2y ago
Nearly all our long-term tech debt come from having to work around limitations in the commercial software we use.
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by wvenable 2y ago
I've had the opposite experience. Any attempt to adapt processes to an off-the-shell tool have always been a subpar experience for everyone. I've brought a few of these in house as fully custom software and the end result has be
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by wvenable 2y ago
Why would anyone want to support an ad-supported website by allowing cross-domain tracking? I think that's a stretch.
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by wvenable 2y ago
Request headers aren't going to do anything. Browser settings, maybe. If browsers were not owned by advertising companies, they'd just disallow this tracking and that would be the end of it.
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by wvenable 2y ago
I would think you only have to generate enough legacy mouse messages that your application works. I'm sure I'm probably missing some catch here but I know plenty of applications that simulate input. (Calling them "legacy&quo
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by wvenable 2y ago
I was trained to do waterfall in school (and also Agile). But I suppose if you are under a certain age you would have never done it.
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by wvenable 2y ago
What 10+ year old existing commerical OS should Microsoft move their users to? You aren't really addressing the point. To users, OS X was the next version of Mac OS. Apple took NeXTStep and added a pile of classic MacOS UI and added
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by wvenable 2y ago
The selling point of TW is that it is, effectively, styles. That's what distinguishes it from what I could call just normal CSS. It has value over inline styles -- otherwise it wouldn't exist -- but it's still the same prin
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by wvenable 2y ago
I'm not a fan of devices with a built in non-replaceable power cord. With the T100 I've already replaced the cord with a longer one. I can also run it on batteries, if necessary. T100s aren't known to be failure prone.
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by wvenable 2y ago
In the case of the TS100 it doesn't turn off, it just cools down. I've never had it guess wrong -- my hand isn't so steady that it will turn off while I'm using it. If it's on and on the table, it is still visibly
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by wvenable 2y ago
> Pick a temperature you like and leave it there. It's hard to argue because that's mostly what I do. But it feel really odd for a soldering iron not to have a temperature control right on it. Especially given competitor iron
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by wvenable 2y ago
I have something like this on a TS100 and it works fine. You set it down for a while because you're still soldering but you need to move stuff and it reduces the heat. Then you pick it back up and by the time you've gotten to pa
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by wvenable 2y ago
I would recommend a TS100 or TS80 over the Hakko FX-600 for occasional hobbyists. Those are both closer in design to the iFixit iron. Digital display, standard (replacable) power connectors, safety features, etc. Even more compact.
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by wvenable 2y ago
They had to spend an additional year of development adding the Carbon API so OS-9 apps could be ported. They had to alter the UI. They picked an already established operating system. You're replying to a post where I said users and d
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by wvenable 2y ago
Apple did nothing of the sort. NeXTStep was already old and established, then they had to add a whole classic compatibility API layer because developers balked and they had to change the UI to make it more classic Mac OS like. They only b
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by wvenable 2y ago
As long as you ensure compatibility then software doesn't have to be obsolete or incompatible. The Windows API is so stable that it's the most stable API available for Linux. I can already run VMs and that seems like a more total
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by wvenable 2y ago
What is gained by this? What would you get by virtualizing a WinAPI environment for app in Windows? (MS DOS compatibility is already gone from Windows). You get a whole bunch of indirection and solve a problem that doesn't exist.

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