brianwillis

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by brianwillis 3y ago
Hold down the option key. Hover your mouse pointer over the green zoom button in the top-left corner of the window. A "move window to the left/right side of the screen" option appears.
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by brianwillis 4y ago
>Tiling left / right etc? Doesn't exist. It sort of does, but it's not as obvious as it should be. Mouse over the green zoom button in the top-left corner of a window, hold the option key on your keyboard, and then &quot
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by brianwillis 7y ago
Yes, that's a reasonable explanation. I'm near enough to the middle of my town for that to be the cause.
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by brianwillis 7y ago
You got my GPS coordinates almost exactly correct. That's incredibly worrying. I mean, it's impressive from a technical standpoint; but still, worrying.
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by brianwillis 9y ago
> If a lambda has only one parameter then its declaration can be omitted (along with the ->). The name of the single parameter will be "it". > val notPositive = not {it > 0} This idiom took me by surprise. It's re
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by brianwillis 9y ago
We didn't replace it with anything. We still do formal performance reviews every six months.
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by brianwillis 9y ago
My employer tried and failed using a similar system with Salesforce Work.com. It all seemed a bit pointless and forced to me. In the early days of using it while it was still a novelty, managers were giving feedback to people so that they c
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by brianwillis 10y ago
It looks like that's exactly what they've done. There's a screenshot of the setting buried in here: https://9to5mac.com/2017/01/24/ios-10-3-beta-1/
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by brianwillis 10y ago
It exists, and demand for talented people outstrips supply. I find recruiting new people for my team to be tough. Literally had a candidate fail at FizzBuzz yesterday. If you're on the Microsoft stack then Xero and Trade Me are the mos
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by brianwillis 10y ago
10 years as a Software Developer here. Based in Wellington, New Zealand. 1. Change jobs more often. The only way to be paid market rates is to change jobs when your market value increases. Your employer has a strong financial incentive to k
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Twarrior(galactanet.com)
2 points by brianwillis 10y ago|0 comments
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by brianwillis 11y ago
Logos aren't mindless fluff or artsy wallpaper that you slap on a project before sending it out the door. They're often the first impression someone gets of your work, and using a thoughtless design says nothing good about what yo
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by brianwillis 11y ago
This might not be the hardest bug I've tackled, but it certainly took the longest to solve. It was the early days of SOAP, and I had been assigned the task of integrating my employer's software with a third party's, so that t
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by brianwillis 11y ago
Not really a start up, but I thought Wikipedia was an extraordinarily dumb idea at first. An encyclopedia that anyone can edit - what could possibly go wrong? I completely missed the value of having decent moderator tools (which no site h
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by brianwillis 11y ago
This doesn't seem to work right for negative numbers. The article says the rule is "each number must be larger than the one before it", but if you try -2 -4 -6 it says that pattern doesn't match the rule. Maybe I'm
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by brianwillis 11y ago
I'm so happy that Yo sponsored this. I can't think of anyone more fitting.
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by brianwillis 11y ago
I like these more for their aesthetic properties than for any technical or sales-focussed reason. I really have no idea how well any of these would convert. http://www.getjustlanded.com http://www.firewatchgame.com
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by brianwillis 12y ago
I spent five years working for McDonald's, and I'll say that I've never worked for a company before or since that was so easily distracted and unfocused. The general philosophy from head office seemed to be "everything i
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by brianwillis 12y ago
I'm really pleased to see Apple getting away from the "events" concept that iPhoto introduced. It was a good idea in theory - all your photos would be automatically grouped into albums based on the date they were taken - but
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by brianwillis 12y ago
This is the most extreme example of Atwood's law that I've seen so far of. Any volunteers for making an operating system kernel? Or has that been done already?
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Boring Little Story About My Windows Computer(dilbert.com)
7 points by brianwillis 12y ago|0 comments
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by brianwillis 12y ago
I'm reading through the sample on my Kindle now. His similes are a little forced ("battles like this one raged across Beijing like a multitude of CPUs working in parallel, their combined output, the Cultural Revolution"), but
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by brianwillis 12y ago
If you're going to read this (or really any DFW) don't skip the footnotes. Yes it's tedious flipping back and forth, but it's so very worth it.
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Everyone I Know is Brokenhearted(zenarchery.com)
15 points by brianwillis 12y ago|2 comments
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by brianwillis 12y ago
Can anyone outline a solution? The only ones I can come up with off the top of my head involve using a stack.
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by brianwillis 12y ago
You must be new here.
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by brianwillis 12y ago
I've been using the YNAB[1] app for expense tracking, and I'm pretty happy with it. It has a nice feature where it records the retailer's location using the iPhone's location services, so when you enter new transactions
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Outdated Browser(outdatedbrowser.com)
3 points by brianwillis 12y ago|2 comments
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by brianwillis 12y ago
This is awesome. I just ran ImageOptim over my blog's images folder and saved an average of 10% per file.
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Know when to use a JPG and when to use a PNG and always Squish them both(hanselman.com)
3 points by brianwillis 12y ago|1 comments

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