geekles

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by geekles 3y ago
I agree with this statement. Twitter as a platform and product works better today than it did a year ago. Less bots makes a huge difference. It's also not hard to imagine why they lost 50% of their advertisers. 50% kind of lines up wit
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by geekles 5y ago
They should have been doing this, but California is currently mis-governed.
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by geekles 5y ago
As if this will be limited to "iThings". If you don't think this tech is coming to all devices, you're not paying attention to the state of the world.
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by geekles 6y ago
Mac support in games is less important now than ever before. Services such as Shadow are how I game on my Mac now.
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by geekles 6y ago
The word "should" implies non-conclusivity.
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by geekles 7y ago
Meanwhile, Poetry just announced 1.0: https://python-poetry.org/blog/announcing-poetry-1-0-0.html
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by geekles 7y ago
You've never encountered badmouthing from a pro builder about other tool brands? How many did you talk to? Builders make the Ford v Chevy debates look minimal in comparison.
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by geekles 7y ago
Sidecar adds a Touch Bar on the iPad to all Macs that support Sidecar.
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by geekles 7y ago
The new Microsoft Edge has prefers-color-scheme as well.
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by geekles 8y ago
Hyper2 is pretty good for windows. Also the built in VSCode terminal is serviceable.
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by geekles 8y ago
No, actually, it doesn't. What helps to prevent spammed low quality apps is the app review process. Those who are spamming the app stores with low quality, keyword dense apps are those who are looking to make a quick buck, and they do
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by geekles 8y ago
The point of a PWA is that the app store is not needed. Why would you be trying to get a PWA into the app store?
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by geekles 16y ago
HN would disagree with the one rant the author spent the longest time on.
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by geekles 17y ago
Perhaps the Wave protocol could be adapted to this sort of purpose. It seems designed for it, really.
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by geekles 17y ago
I got started in grade school. We had a bunch of Apple IIc's and IIe's. We learned basic. I believe my first "real" program was a graphic of Spuds McKenzie, the Budweiser dog. I didn't do much serious programming until I was about 24, the p
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by geekles 17y ago
Offtopic: Everytime I see XMPP in print, it makes me think of that media player I use to use in fvwm way back when.
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by geekles 17y ago
The challenge should be LOC total, including the LOC of the libraries used. That is the only possible way to compare apples to apples. Otherwise, what is to stop you from wrapping the entire solution into a "library" and just making a simpl
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by geekles 17y ago
I'm glad I looked at this list, hadn't seen a couple of these projects before. It should be called 2009 Ruby Top Ten, but interesting all the same.
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by geekles 17y ago
I really dig smalltalk, especially the Pharo project, which I believe is a fork of Squeak. The development environment is a joy to use, although unfamiliar to the uninitiated, but very powerful indeed. Some people do not like the image idea
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by geekles 17y ago
This sounds like due diligence to protect shareholder interests. "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." - overheard in an interview somewhere.
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by geekles 17y ago
Is it possible to use this with Chrome? I haven't seen a way yet. It seems kind of silly to leave out support for their own browser. Google toolbar requires IE or Firefox.
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by geekles 17y ago
Personally I like that. The more google records for me, the closer to a true lifestream we get. Saves me some work.
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by geekles 17y ago
The problem with GWT is java, which makes it meh.
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by geekles 17y ago
Google is the exobrain. All the world's knowledge in the palm of your hand.
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by geekles 17y ago
If the rumors of this being a VoIP only phone, with a data access only plan are true, this is a "big deal". This could be the beginning of the end for consumer telephony.