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by approxim8ion 8mo ago
that's ap15 launcher. It's a good one!
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by approxim8ion 10mo ago
MacOS has a frustrating tendency to depend on external utilities for basic functions, but I've found Maccy to be as good as if not better than Windows clipboard manager. You can summon it with a keybinding or click on an icon in the me
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by approxim8ion 2y ago
HTML supports video just fine and has for years. Can't imagine why it would be an issue.
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by approxim8ion 2y ago
Facebook does (or at least used to when I left it a few years ago) this too. They give you a huge dump of your data and photos, with an html file to help you navigate it better.
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ZeroWriter- Open Source E-Ink Typewriter Project Based on Raspberry Pi Zero(github.com)
1 points by approxim8ion 2y ago|0 comments
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by approxim8ion 2y ago
The majority of these "mom and pop e-commerce stores here in the states" are dropshipping enterprises that deserve to die.
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by approxim8ion 2y ago
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made, by Jason Schreier Not particularly deep, but a pretty good read about more modern AAA games and crunch in the industry.
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by approxim8ion 2y ago
Yeah, that makes sense I suppose. My Java background also means the verbosity and structure doesn't bother me much.
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by approxim8ion 2y ago
To offer a differing experience, I've been working in Angular for a couple of years now and personally like it quite a bit. I don't like frontend frameworks in general, but given the choice I prefer Angular over React.
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by approxim8ion 3y ago
I'm glad it worked out for you, but this is also survivorship bias.
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by approxim8ion 3y ago
Bob and Brad ("the two most famous physical therapists on the internet") are an absolute treasure. Always good to see them get some appreciation online.
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On Keeping a Logbook (2010)(austinkleon.com)
73 points by approxim8ion 3y ago|32 comments
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Don't Write Your Own Email Validator (2008)(nullprogram.com)
3 points by approxim8ion 3y ago|0 comments
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by approxim8ion 3y ago
CLRS or some Algorithm Design Book, but you could easily be talking about TAOCP or SICP or Clean Code or any of 1000 other books.
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by approxim8ion 3y ago
We made the jump from 8 to 17 this year! Some of our developers of course still write 1.6 level code, of course
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by approxim8ion 3y ago
Where I studied, every classroom had a blackboard and a projector, with the rollable white screen just above the board. When you show slides, roll out the screen. When you need the board, either use the portion beside the screen or roll up
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by approxim8ion 3y ago
Move fast, break things, pretend to be sorry about breaking things, move fast away from the broken things, keep at it as long as there's someone else left holding the bag.
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by approxim8ion 3y ago
Ten years later this company, its product, the money that went into it, and most evidence of its existence barring this post and another article covering it, seems to have vanished into the aether. The author of course seems to be doing fin
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by approxim8ion 3y ago
Because they're talking about their experiences with QR Code Menus, the majority of which are the way I described them.
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by approxim8ion 3y ago
The problem is that most of the time a "QR Code Menu" means a QR code pointing to a PDF hosted on Google Drive or alike, a digitized version of a paper menu which was never meant to be read on tiny phone screens and is a pain to r
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by approxim8ion 3y ago
I use OneTab, it is perfect for me, with the caveat that it has no categorization or sync, neither of which I really need.
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by approxim8ion 3y ago
This has always been such a misguided little thing. Print out as many menus as you have tables, laminate them and use them for years. or, If you're going QR code, go all the way. Specific QR code for each table that links to a site tha
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by approxim8ion 3y ago
They offer a "JetBrains Mono NL" variant where the NL is for No-Ligatures. I use it daily on Eclipse.
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by approxim8ion 3y ago
Seems like it's treating each individual message as a new thread? > I got guns in my head and they won't go > Spirits in my head and they won't go, I been looking at the sky 'cause it's gettin' me high...
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by approxim8ion 4y ago
I'm going to leave the job I'm not qualified for but hold on to the jobs I'm even less qualified for!
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by approxim8ion 4y ago
Does it wield well if the person involved has a healthy mix of both incompetence and malice?
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by approxim8ion 4y ago
In another comment, you ponder whether it is a "cultural problem". Yeah, sorry, but it absolutely is.
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by approxim8ion 4y ago
It's good old-fashioned racism.
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by approxim8ion 4y ago
Thanks for sharing! The state of application development is rather sad, that screenshot just conveys a feeling of speed and efficiency to me that is lacking in modern software.
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by approxim8ion 4y ago
the battery life on the new SE is dreadful from day 1. Everything else is broadly true.

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