DragonMaus

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by DragonMaus 2y ago
This is entirely typical of especially VB scripts. When I was a software engineer for a Fortune-20 company, I spent more time debugging (and trying to normalize, though that met with mixed levels of resistance) VB applets than anything else
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by DragonMaus 2y ago
The initial roll out for Industrial Annihilation was really janky. With Planetary Annihilation, they did the Kickstarter thing and it worked pretty well (if I recall correctly, it was the highest grossing Kickstarter of all time at that poi
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by DragonMaus 2y ago
Determining liability is actually quite simple and straightforward in this case. Making it stick, however, will turn out to be very complex.
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by DragonMaus 2y ago
I spent so many hours with POV-Ray when I was younger, rendering LEGO models I had made with MLCAD. Some of those renders even found their way into a project I did in school for CAD class.
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by DragonMaus 2y ago
Microsoft have consistently pushed the idea that they own your computer, and are merely leasing it to you, for decades.
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by DragonMaus 2y ago
A rushed product pushed out before it's ready is a very small price to pay in the endless race for ever increasing profits. The tech companies who "really should know better" do know better. It just isn't something the
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by DragonMaus 2y ago
In my experience at $OLDJOB, working under Scrum, there were two types of user stories that came in. The first would be issues from the QA team that absolutely had to be fixed. The other were commands from On High that absolutely had to
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by DragonMaus 2y ago
Honestly, my first thought was that this might be the kick of the pants the general Linux community needs to close ranks and actually solve some of the longstanding usability issues it faces (amongst the general populace).
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by DragonMaus 2y ago
What brand/model is it?
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by DragonMaus 2y ago
I actually went in the opposite direction. I replace notepad.exe with AkelPad[0], which perfectly satisfies all of my basic-text-editing needs. If I have to do anything more complex, Neovim is the end-all-be-all. [0] https://akel
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by DragonMaus 2y ago
Would this be the logical extrapolation of the "it's not the destination, but the journey to get there" mindset?
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by DragonMaus 2y ago
Do you mean NanaZip?
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by DragonMaus 3y ago
Or the irreplacable trinket that your aging grandmother sent you.
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by DragonMaus 3y ago
Vi(m) has had a bad reputation for abstruseness for so long that it's become enshrined in meme culture, and nowadays it's unlikely that sites like this are created out of any legitimate frustration or difficulty. What I don't
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by DragonMaus 3y ago
I have fond memories of creating LEGO CAD models and running them through POV-Ray for hours on end to turn them into gorgeous renders.
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by DragonMaus 4y ago
Could you elaborate on that? I too am quite unhappy with the mess my %USERPROFILE% has become.
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by DragonMaus 4y ago
I want to love OsmAnd. I've tried it many times over the years, but the only functionality that it does better than other apps is bookmarks/favourites (it actually allows you to organise them into folders , if you can imagine suc
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by DragonMaus 4y ago
> Some sites seem to do something to block it In my experience, this is often not a matter of "doing something", but rather a matter of "not doing something [correctly]". If a site does not properly tag an input field
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by DragonMaus 4y ago
> And the list goes on. I would be keen to see more of this list, as two of the three items you mentioned are not at all interesting or useful to me (and, I would presume, to a majority of other users). Even the other item (#1) is somewh
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by DragonMaus 4y ago
You can add my favourite font to that list: Fantasque Sans Mono (zero clearly different): https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans