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by cobar 24d ago
Front page of Hacker News seems like a good bucket list item. And not a bad thing to have on your resume either.
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by cobar 29d ago
If you have an extra NVME slot you could look at picking up an Optane 800P drive. Extremely low latency reads and writes, which makes it ideal for swap. They're available for ~$100 on eBay.
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by cobar 29d ago
Same problem I've had. On a 24GB MacBook Air, I can have a VMWare VM, Lima and an IDE and a bunch of Chrome tabs loaded and the system is fluid. Meanwhile if I try something similar on a 32GB Linux system, it will sputter or outright f
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by cobar 4mo ago
Overall experience is very good with AMD graphics. Most games run on Steam out of the box. There are also emulators for all the systems I've wanted to use. I use Faugus Launcher for other stores like BattleNet and Epic Games (Magic Are
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by cobar 8mo ago
I've had better luck since the switch to Wayland. I don't play many FPS games but mouse input & overall smoothness for strategy games has been great. Check your mouse settings, you might need to set a higher USB sample rate. P
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by cobar 1y ago
While product often does operate in a waterfall model, I think this is the wrong mindset. Good product management should adopt a lot of the same principles as software development. Form a testable hypothesis, work to get it into production
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by cobar 7y ago
It's possible to map the Caps Lock key to Escape as long as you don't need Caps Lock functionality.
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by cobar 8y ago
My bad, I had misread the comment the poster made and didn't see that the quote was there. I stand corrected.
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by cobar 8y ago
There is a certain cost in time and energy required to separate yourself from harsh statements like that identify it as such. While it's pretty easy to say, yes he's not suggesting physical abuse, the statement implies this guy is
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by cobar 8y ago
I can relate to this as I'm quite sensitive and when I was younger had an incredibly hot fuse, largely related to being socially awkward, getting teased in school, and not knowing how to deal with it. That carried on into the work envi
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by cobar 8y ago
They should be pretty minor. I've found that it's rare you need to rely on any of the Electron APIs. For the most part, Electron just provides a shell to load HTML/JS/CSS and that's where the overwhelming majority o
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by cobar 9y ago
They actually ported JavascriptCore over to Android. The only time it uses V8 is if you run the code through the Chrome Debugger. Not sure what the benefit was perhaps performance or lower disk usage.
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by cobar 10y ago
Development time is a lot quicker with RN. Not only are you targeting a single code base instead of maintaining two apps, but the React environment helps you to be productive. The React way of managing views makes a lot of sense - change a