NotATroll

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by NotATroll 6y ago
Meh, I just load up manjaro with XFCE and call it a day. Not much fiddling involved, very little about the user experience that I don't like. Only thing I ever really tweaked was running a more up-to-date kernel for an old soundcard I
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by NotATroll 6y ago
> Is PHP still a preferred platform for any sort of complex web development? It's "preferred" as in tons of people get a lot of good work done with it quickly, but wouldn't go out and proselytize how "great"
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by NotATroll 7y ago
> GIMP, Blender Both of which are known to have notoriously unintuitive UI's, especially when compared to their commercial competitors. > Libre Office Literally just copy & paste M$ Office UI, and honestly still manages to sc
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by NotATroll 7y ago
> Forget better frame, chassis, and body panel design to protect pedestrians! We won't need them if AI never hits anyone. Most car manufacturers have had this figured out for a long time with crumple zones and the like. > Forget
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by NotATroll 7y ago
The TODO is regarding documentation iirc. All the languages supported are in the init.example.el file seen here: https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs/blob/develop/init.exa... Uncomment them, run doom r
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by NotATroll 7y ago
I find undo-tree to be super useful in rare occasions, thanks to undo-tree-visualizer-toggle-diff bound on d. The quick diffs can be pretty darn helpful with complex changes.
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by NotATroll 7y ago
> I would feel more sympathetic to your argument if the companies wouldn't argue both cases at the same time. I don't really care about sympathy, so much as I care about reality. The companies will do as all companies do. Try t
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by NotATroll 7y ago
To be fair, they're the largest non-pornographic video platform. Making them an endless target for any and all abuse possible to grow channels quickly and earn ad revenue. It's inevitable that in such an environment the system the
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by NotATroll 7y ago
> Any language that compiles to JavaScript. What if I compile javascript... to javascript. So that I can have actually functioning javascript across the majority of fairly modern browsers, while using modern features. All I'm saying
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by NotATroll 7y ago
> What do you see as the problem: Scrum itself, or the cargo cult of folks who do it badly? Scrum itself. Sorry, but when you create a list of ScrumButs and indirectly deride everyone for not being able to take "Full Advantage of Sc
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by NotATroll 7y ago
I'm far from an agile-ista, but. > The alternative to Agile is Software Engineering, where you do important things like assess your requirements and capabilities, identify how to validate those requirements are functioning properly
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by NotATroll 7y ago
> What am I missing? Touching your mouse less. Might sound weird, but that's honestly my main reason for learning modal editing and emacs with evil. Less flip flopping between mouse and keyboard might not be "more productive&qu
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by NotATroll 7y ago
I just used (and still use) org-mode to track todos & projects, as well as keep time that was spent on each task. I tried not to over complicate my task keeping, because I've always been more worried about getting the tasks done, t
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by NotATroll 7y ago
Feature minimalism is a good thing to strive for usually . Wrote my own dirt simple lazy loader & slider libraries, because I didn't need many of the features other libs had. On the flip side, if I need a reasonably complex comp
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by NotATroll 7y ago
> And what, may I ask, are your pea shooters going to do against the firepower of a corrupt nation state? Kill and intimidate people. This a serious question? Yeah, in an all out war it's not likely to work. But an all out war again
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by NotATroll 7y ago
This is the thing I don't get. Who precisely is this concept even marketable to? People with high speed internet, that also can't afford a gaming console? But can afford a device capable of handling all of the inputs & playb
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by NotATroll 7y ago
Nah, I just spam M-x butterfly for 8 hours and then go home. No need to hold 3 modifier keys.
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by NotATroll 7y ago
Even as an emacs user, the answer is generally "No, I don't really use the function keys". I mean, you're right that I use them to change brightness or change volume. But the touch bar can still do that, so... Meh. It wo
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by NotATroll 7y ago
> I append words like "wiki" or "reddit" to get results that aren't SEO'd I'm not sure what you expect. I mean, yeah. I have to put OSRS in any search for "murder mystery" to get the result I
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by NotATroll 7y ago
I think it genuinely depends on what your users are nostalgic over. You can look cutting edge while taking advantage of nostalgia. To be entirely honest, the "flat design" doesn't look "cutting-edge". It looks basic
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by NotATroll 7y ago
> I personally doubt users would prefer Skeuomorphic buttons. I personally doubt users would know the word Skeuomorphic, let alone care what the button looks like. > and I honestly do not want any of my products to perpetuate this emo
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by NotATroll 7y ago
Plenty of people still use Emacs. I picked it up several months ago after using Jetbrains IDE's for quite a long time, and honestly haven't felt the need for any of what Jetbrains brought to the table. Mostly thanks to LSP. If you
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by NotATroll 7y ago
> just like PulseAudio does. I think part of it actually stems from people that had problems early on with PulseAudio, and have developed a vendetta against Poettering. Whether that vendetta is justified or not, I don't know. Person
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by NotATroll 7y ago
Again, just more insane elitism. You keep going to the "OH MY GOD, PEOPLE WOULD DIE" examples to try and make a fairly weak point. No one is going to die, because some noob made a crappy little site out of the millions of crappy l
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by NotATroll 7y ago
So how, precisely, is anyone supposed to get experience if it's unacceptable to hire them fresh out of "boot camp". Even if you go "INTERNSHIP". Well what, is everyone supposed to stick the unpaid intern on toy apps
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by NotATroll 7y ago
I concur. Manjaro solves a lot of the problems of the Linux desktop, and brings with it the great Arch community. And for keybindings, you're probably better off figuring out how xmodmap works. It's not pretty. But honestly, if yo
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by NotATroll 7y ago
> I think it's emcumbent on approach 2 to try and understand why people act like approach 1. Recidivism. As members of the public, it's highly likely that we've both seen others be burned by trying to take approach 2. And
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by NotATroll 7y ago
This article has sold me on not buying that book. I mean, what is this. Not even a point on how Expert Software Designers get bored and browse hacker news for 5 hours? Terrible.
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by NotATroll 7y ago
You, I like you.
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by NotATroll 7y ago
But it's not at all unreasonable to think some newbie may come along, copy & paste that solution, and then call Shuffle from multiple threads. Thread safety is something that needs to be touched on constantly, and it's smart t

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