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by alfredxing 2y ago
I love Sublime and am probably the only one at work still using it. LSP support is nice but there doesn't seem to be great support for a TypeScript LSP server that works reliably with large projects. VSCode is slow here, too, but there
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Cloudflare Radar(radar.cloudflare.com)
4 points by alfredxing 4y ago|0 comments
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by alfredxing 5y ago
Related — I did a deep dive a couple years ago on emoji codepoints and how they're encoded in the Apple emoji font file, with the end goal of extracting the embedded images — https://github.com/alfredxing/emoji
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by alfredxing 5y ago
In the keynote Apple said the M1 Max should be comparable to the performance of an RTX 3080 Laptop (the footnote on the graph specified the comparison was against an MSI GE76 Raider 11UH-053), which is still quite a bit below the desktop 30
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by alfredxing 6y ago
No, it's available as a self-serve upgrade from the admin panel. Sales might be able to give discounts, but that's not very likely for an "enterprise" with 1 user :)
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by alfredxing 6y ago
To be clear (and this is mentioned but not highlighted in the article), the previous Business plans were never guaranteed unlimited storage for orgs with fewer than 5 users ($60/month), the 1TB limit those orgs were supposed to have wa
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by alfredxing 6y ago
Based on the Newsroom release [1], cost is $500 and the hardware is a loan. [1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/06/apple-announces-mac-t...
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by alfredxing 7y ago
Their CDN hostname, `cdn.netlify.com`, resolves to a DigitalOcean node, so it seems like they are rolling their own instead of delegating to a third party.
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Building Slack Dark Mode on Desktop(slack.engineering)
6 points by alfredxing 7y ago|0 comments
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by alfredxing 7y ago
The article title states "reportedly"; this is not official. Can the title here be changed to reflect that?
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by alfredxing 7y ago
The custom emoji upload flow now includes previews for both light and dark mode! Doesn't help with existing custom emoji, but is hopefully helpful when adding new ones.
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Dark Mode for Slack(slackhq.com)
166 points by alfredxing 7y ago|115 comments
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by alfredxing 7y ago
This might be an unfair comparison — the AMD numbers are from a single benchmark, and the article is comparing this against the aggregated scores of the i9-9980XE. A few i9-9980XE multi-core scores on Geekbench reach higher than 60k as well
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by alfredxing 7y ago
Netlify is a great tool, my biggest issue with it (and why I continue to use GitHub Pages) is that the "Global CDN" is a cluster of DigitalOcean nodes, which I don't trust as much as e.g. Fastly in terms of performance and re
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by alfredxing 7y ago
The AMEX SimplyCash card has 1.25% cash back. Still nothing compared to U.S. cards though, and pretty much only usable online
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by alfredxing 8y ago
Electron is built with Chromium. It's usually behind by a few versions (though the team is really focusing now on getting things up to date), and there are differences and additions.
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by alfredxing 8y ago
I agree they aren't universal, so it's not so useful for first-time users, but once you get to learn them I find they help a lot with scanning and recognition.
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by alfredxing 8y ago
I don't love the design, but what bothers me more is that I disagree with many of the premises informing the decisions, for example: - Github tab icons are purely decorative - Because we simplified the whole header, we don’t need
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Sonos files for IPO(bloomberg.com)
4 points by alfredxing 8y ago|0 comments
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by alfredxing 8y ago
I agree jQuery was very useful early on, especially since it abstracted cross-browser differences and APIs. However in my experience, a couple of things were key to creating a negative view of jQuery: 1. Security and unsafe defaults, for ex
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CryptoKitties, Explained (Mostly)(nytimes.com)
1 points by alfredxing 9y ago|0 comments
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by alfredxing 9y ago
Being limited by CPU/GPU depends a lot on what kind of hardware you have for each. For example, I have a 1070 and an i5-4690k and I'm CPU limited in some games (below 80-100fps)
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by alfredxing 9y ago
FAT/exFAT have good support across the three OS's, but they are very far from being "modern" filesystems. One of the most fundamental cons for me is the lack of journaling on these filesystems; it's very easy to cor
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by alfredxing 9y ago
Hmm, that's a good point! However I don't think this would be a major hurdle: file permissions offer OS-level security only, not disk-level security/encryption, so it would still make sense for different OS drivers to impleme
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by alfredxing 9y ago
What's interesting to me is that there doesn't seem to be a modern filesystem that works across all major platforms. btrfs has Linux and this (unofficial) Windows driver; ZFS has Linux and OS X support but nothing for Windows. NTF
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Rebuilding Slack’s Emoji Picker in React(slack.engineering)
1 points by alfredxing 9y ago|0 comments
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Designer's guide to DPI(sebastien-gabriel.com)
66 points by alfredxing 9y ago|11 comments
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by alfredxing 9y ago
If you want to use a precompiled version from a repository, nginx has its own, which always stays up to date: http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html
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by alfredxing 9y ago
Just a couple of days ago, Apple held a small press meeting discussing the Mac Pro: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14031619
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by alfredxing 10y ago
I'm surprised that the article doesn't mention anycast, which is more or less the "correct" way of using a CDN on an apex domain, since for the user's purposes it's just a static IP address. I find anycast to b

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