dpatriarche

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   by dpatriarche 2y ago

   Thanks for an amazing game! It provided one of our all-time top TTRPG experiences, and years later we're still laughing about what went down.
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   by dpatriarche 3y ago

   For the large majority of Canadian residents there is nothing technically stopping them from traveling to the US for healthcare, paid out of pocket. Some people do that, in some situations, particularly for those who live just north of the
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   by dpatriarche 5y ago

   The notarization process is super painful, no doubt. I had originally written shell scripts to automate the process for my company, but recently switched to the excellent command line tool 'xcnotary' ( https://github.com
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   by dpatriarche 6y ago

   Java is not commonly used for consumer desktop applications, where it often is necessary/desirable to invest in fully native apps for Windows and MacOS. But desktop Java is quite common in business desktop applications, for example,
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   by dpatriarche 8y ago

   I’d like to recommend checking out Numenera, from Monte Cook Games. It’s kind of a sci-if/fantasy mashup. It takes place on Earth one billion years in the future. Eight great civilizations have appeared and disappeared in that time, le
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   by dpatriarche 8y ago

   One downside of getting US citizenship is that if you later move to another country (your original country or a third country), you will obligated to continue to file US income tax returns, and potentially pay US income taxes. Depending on
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   by dpatriarche 8y ago

   Thanks for posting this recommendation, I've been looking for a static blogging tool like this.
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   by dpatriarche 9y ago

   Secure websockets (wss://...) works fine for my company's service that runs behind haproxy (version 1.6).
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   by dpatriarche 9y ago

   I love Eclipse for working in Java, and I love IntelliJ for working in Kotlin. My impression is that people who don't like IDEs haven't put the effort into figuring out how to use them effectively -- modern IDEs have incredible po
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    by dpatriarche 9y ago

    Here's what Chris Lattner said about Kotlin this past June: "Lattner: Swift and Kotlin evolved at about the same point in time with the same contemporary languages around them. And so the surface-level syntax does look very simila
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    by dpatriarche 9y ago

    WW2 made Europeans and east Asians anti war -- the people in whose countries the wars were fought. It's only Americans and Canadians who view WW2 as the "good" war. Our countries got to play the hero role and beat the super v
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    by dpatriarche 9y ago

    > what exactly should be done with the program? While the US is already committed to the F-35, discussion of the plane's shortcomings is important for NATO and other allies who haven't yet signed up to buy the plane (e.g. Canad
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    by dpatriarche 9y ago

    Yes, you're right! My father was an Air Force pilot and then flew a private plane into his 60's. for 40 years he religiously followed the checklists, calling out and pointing to the relevant part of the plane for each item on the
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    by dpatriarche 10y ago

    Yes, particularly for the HiDPI support for Windows. If Java 9 slips to summer 2017, I'm going to have to bite the bullet and manually scale our Windows GUI on HiDPI (shudder) unless Darcula ( https://github.com/bulenkov
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    by dpatriarche 11y ago

    On my Yosemite system /usr/local was created by default when the OS was installed.
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    by dpatriarche 11y ago

    Hopefully in a couple of weeks WWDC 2015 will tell us that it's in.
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    by dpatriarche 11y ago

    Having the index page prominently display large icons for an erect penis, a vagina, and various breasts seems like a terrible decision. And aside from the whole NSFW aspect, is that really what you want to lead with? Is there a large pent-u
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    by dpatriarche 12y ago

    I use the MAS version of the Authy BT app. It pairs correctly about 90% of the time. The remaining 10% it refuses to pair up, even with the iOS app open, but I'm pretty sure that's Apple's buggy BT drivers, not Authy. That 10
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    by dpatriarche 12y ago

    Thank you very much for posting these documents! This will save my small medical tech startup a huge amount of time and pain.
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    by dpatriarche 12y ago

    I particularly liked one of the points that Grey made towards the end: what do we do about all of the people who will be "unemployable through no fault of their own"? Right now our economic system is predicated on rewarding those
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    by dpatriarche 13y ago

    Which is great! My business is based on cloud computing. I totally see the value of syncing my business notes through the cloud to my other devices. But I need the option of flagging certain notebooks as private and not to be synced. So I g
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    by dpatriarche 13y ago

    I guess it depends on what you keep in your notebooks. Business notes in the cloud, fine. Personal stuff I keep notes on -- medical history, financial info, etc. -- all in the cloud, possibly encrypted with some key owned by MS also in the
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    by dpatriarche 13y ago

    I've been looking forward to OneNote on the Mac for years. I installed it and found out there is no option for offline notebooks; all notebooks appear to be synced through the OneDrive cloud. WTF? There's not even the option to e
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    by dpatriarche 14y ago

    I'd be interested too.