breeny592

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by breeny592 5y ago
Making recordings of meetings that are setting out to make decisions or even just discuss things in deep detail means people who weren't able to attend, or are just interested in the discussion had, are able to watch it on demand.
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by breeny592 5y ago
> I personally like that Apple attempts to make websites feel more like applications by making the browser disappear. Now if they could provide a stable platform like they do for their applications versus the pain and edge cases Safari a
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by breeny592 5y ago
It's actually become an interview question for me of "is there a bonus scheme" where I'm hoping the answer is actually no. I've yet to work in a company that has a structured bonus scheme that hasn't resulted i
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by breeny592 6y ago
It feels like one of those things where the context of the meeting/call should be taken in: was the scheduled time of this call for an hour and you've left 10 minutes in, maybe a confirmation dialog is more useful than when you&#x
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by breeny592 6y ago
Epic put the prices at the same level that they already sell V-bucks for via the Epic game store. I don't buy the argument that they would jack those prices back up to the other levels when if they had the ability to process payments t
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by breeny592 6y ago
And to the average person who probably would just use the native app store, nothing would change. But people who are more comfortable with less polished apps that do utilities that they want to play with (or experiment with), they're m
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by breeny592 6y ago
> I rather give 30% of the money Epic takes for basically selling digital nothing to millions of teens to Apple. At least Apple is doing something with that money, maintaining the App Store, providing and developing tools like XCode and
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by breeny592 6y ago
Or sort by both artist, and original release date. But they also have a pretty good API with generous limits. Really need to find the effort to restart work on my "spotify shuffle/playlist" style app that uses your collection
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by breeny592 6y ago
Yeah I definitely sit strongly in the former camp (that is, navigation should be in the same tab for anything that is your content). When linking externally or to something that isn't yours, I feel it makes sense to go to a new tab the
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by breeny592 6y ago
> Complexity. This is the enemy, the second enemy is bad attempts to reduce complexity which often end up adding more complexity than they take away, just harder to find. This is true at every level of the systems design process - often
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by breeny592 6y ago
I get your sentiment but your reply implies online gaming really only came along after Skyrim. Skyrim came out in 2011, the online first/focus of at least AAA games was prevalent well before that.
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by breeny592 6y ago
What if your chatting was also at a lower volume for other groups so if one group organically disbands, can pre-hear what some groups are talking about to join in. Feels like a pretty natural experience in social gatherings.
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by breeny592 6y ago
Union busting is the norm sadly in the USA. Never forget the organisations that actually led to the workers of the world achieving a better standard of living* *until mass consumerism and racing to the bottom led to these massive organisati
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by breeny592 7y ago
But it's the difference between building the smallest wall to completion first versus going the whole way around the outside layer by layer. Showing one thing that is complete is better than partial progress everywhere.
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by breeny592 7y ago
And look at the companies that publicly advocate for things such as battery storage, typically they have vested interests in things such as lithium. Nuclear gets thrown about because it's an easy pivot for mining companies - especially
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by breeny592 7y ago
Imagine what possibilities there would be if humanity finds a way to power all its current and future needs that produces no harmful side effects rather than trying to equate science fiction with reality. > (Energy storage isn’t advanced
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by breeny592 7y ago
> Renewables will not get us there in time, even if they might be viable at some point. Construction of new nuclear plants takes on average 7.5 years, and are extremely prone to cost overruns and delays. Renewables are a much faster and
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by breeny592 7y ago
Nuclear gets pointed to because the mining companies still have a large role to play in digging material out of the ground for nuclear energy. Lobbyists gon' lobby. As an asset, much like coal power stations, they require huge Governme
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by breeny592 7y ago
> Too much of the "new" stuff is not just a good natural evolution of people solving problems I guess it depends on what you're lumping in with "new stuff". I've experience the opposite quite a lot of refusa
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by breeny592 7y ago
Smells of bad UX/design process - some senior "wants" this particular solution, despite their users showing direct feedback that it doesn't work for their needs.
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by breeny592 7y ago
I'd be curious to see the download numbers of Atom since VS Code's meteoric rise a few years ago. As an ex-atom user, I was initially hesitant to move over as I found VSCode "awkward", but many quality of life patches so
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by breeny592 7y ago
Failure to standardise is a sign of a disfunctioning organisation - effectively the embodiment of Conway's Law ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law ) Have worked in organisations where they would rather bu
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by breeny592 7y ago
> Today, Unix powers iOS and Android How about the vast majority of the web? Have we hit the tipping point of technology ubiquity where people identify their phone more than the sheer size of the internet that actually enables this devic
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by breeny592 7y ago
This falls back to the classic thing - if your market is commoditised, then your product needs to be an experience to drive your revenue. And in all likely-hood, dog walking is not an industry "ripe for disruption" with enhanced e
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by breeny592 8y ago
Great work from the React team on this release - it's exciting to see some big enabling features like suspense and lazy being baked into the library (rather than falling back on solutions like react-loadable).
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by breeny592 8y ago
Because there's standardisation beyond just where the app/server/whatever is going to run in production - having a standard way to spin up, describe and control applications & their dependencies that works cross OS lets d
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by breeny592 8y ago
One thing looking at this (and other solutions like CSS modules etc.) is how to automate E2E testing when you don't have predictable CSS names. Seems like the discussions some communities (like with Cypress) where dedicated unchanging
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by breeny592 9y ago
Yep - the main thing that Jest gives out of the box is jsdom, so allows for dom based testing without needing phantom (or more modern now, headless browser). I also find it's faster and has better features than Mocha (for instance, cov
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by breeny592 9y ago
I think tooling is coming a long way to help with these - take for instance BEM. CSS modules is a great way to avoid needing BEM, as the bundler is handling the uniqueness of the classname for you (during minification etc.). This is just th
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by breeny592 9y ago
>Your interpretation of the quote is that middle managers don't provide value, but I think that may be too broad. I understood it as "highly formalized process often rewards middle managers", which I do think is true. I ag

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