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by gindely 5y ago
> > Imagine being able to unzip a build of your software to a blank windows/linux server and expect that it work flawlessly 100% of the time, regardless of any prior/lack of configuration or other supporting dependencies on
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by gindely 5y ago
> One big argument for Docker is no dependencies, but Go and C# already can create fat native binaries that have no dependency on anything else (no .net framework or even VM, all native, same thing in Go). I believe Rust too offers the s
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by gindely 6y ago
Well, the conveniently indicated grams on the packet are not units of weight - they're units of volume. So you've got two kinds of units of volume in your recipes: milli/centi/decilitres, and grams of butter. But it&#x27
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by gindely 6y ago
Well, tell that to Europeans, who don't use millilitres to measure their flour or sugar by volume - they use bizarre units of volume called "grams of flour" or "grams of sugar". Check their cup measures! It's c
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by gindely 6y ago
Which is why most recipes say something like "1 cup of flour, sifted" - you have to measure it, then sift it.
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by gindely 6y ago
But you have to admit, a gram of flour and a gram of sugar are very strange units of volume. Better to just use millilitres or cups or something.
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by gindely 6y ago
Australians, Indonesians, Germans all measure recipes with two kinds of spoons (!). Australians also use cups (that are 10-12 mL bigger than American ones); other countries may too. I wonder if the ideal country where no-one uses units of v
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by gindely 6y ago
LOC? Line of Code? Surely 1-2 LOCs is significantly less than any recipe.
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by gindely 6y ago
Why will Virgin be treated differently than Ansett? (I was pretty young when Ansett went bankrupt, but Virgin's reputation seems to have been "trying to be Ansett and make a duopoly again".)
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by gindely 6y ago
Oh, another of Apple's hidden features. Once upon a time, one button mice were a feature so that features weren't hidden and even beginner users could quickly become power users.
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by gindely 6y ago
In the days when computers were places you stored your data, ROX was great. It was the first GUI that made me manage my files using a mouse. Nowadays, computers are mostly glorified web browser containers. And the way Gnome is so integrated
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by gindely 6y ago
Well for many programs there isn't really any separate designer, particularly for line of business apps. That was really where I was coming from - the person who designs the app is simply someone who was trained in coding. In any case,
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by gindely 6y ago
Yep okay, so I guess that's not inline by my definition (since it overlays the text). I have definitely seen webpages that change the size of the containing box to add in the confirmation message and buttons. I guess it's an betwe
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by gindely 6y ago
You're radically misunderstanding that definition. It has to do with the notions that are expressed by "can, should, might, must, has to" etc. These words (most of them are called "modal verbs" in English) modify a
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by gindely 6y ago
What does that mean? Force clicking? You apply so much pressue that it breaks a touchscreen/touchpad so that it makes a click noise when you tap?
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by gindely 6y ago
Yes but have you seen software - almost anything that's been developed since the growth of mobile platforms has basically done the exact opposite of what that field of science teaches. This seems to confirm the op's point.
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by gindely 6y ago
> Come on, we're all adults here. We can take a few 90 degree angles. I know that 90 degree angles on webpages are not more dangerous for children, parents, adults, or any other known subcategory of humans than for any other known s
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by gindely 6y ago
Yeah I think nowadays a lot of people think "modal" means "a dom element positioned with respect to the viewport that prevents interaction with the rest of the webpage". The classical sense of "a collection of relat
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by gindely 6y ago
That isn't actually true. I think I have UI experience, but I would actually have preferred some mockup examples instead of 1 bit bmp pseudo-thumbnails to represent his ideas. Surely it would be better to show some good user interfaces
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by gindely 6y ago
Since you deny a weird context switch for your eyes, are these actually inline elements? That would imply the size of the containers is changing. Which would surely be a weird context switch. But at least I can have no doubt what my action
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by gindely 6y ago
Well yeah, but if the person who is in charge of the modal is the implementer, not the designer, then they may not have the expertise to design a good ui. And many designers are artists ("designers") not ux engineers, so their mai
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by gindely 6y ago
I also didn't use RISC OS - I came close in school, but the ancient machines always got replaced the year before me. However, I have use ROX for a long time - called RISC OS on X - it is/was basically a file manager based around R
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by gindely 6y ago
Well, on MacOS they come straight from NeXT so it's no big deal. But what's interesting is that they were on other systems in the 80s too - whereas in the 2000s they were one of the things that made people say MacOS is better than
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by gindely 6y ago
if you push a fail it might be nice to have it autobisect tho.
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by gindely 6y ago
What's the advantage of this? Surely they're better off pricing it at 2x the expected ad revenue, since then they can expect to get twice as much now as they otherwise would get eventually ? Indeed, even if it were 1.01x the ex
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by gindely 6y ago
Vulnerabilities are a massive trade off. I want my devices to be open to me, not to anyone. Seems like it should be straight forward to give you access to the device (like "scan this qrcode on the inside of this panel" and you get
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by gindely 6y ago
If true, that would be logical and fair.
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by gindely 6y ago
(ot: should that be clueless^Whelpful, or is there some new convention I'm not aware of? ^ still means "ctrl" right?)
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by gindely 6y ago
Hm, as a vi user i have escape there. so if i want to delete something without stretching too much, it's left thumb stretch back one left index stretch down out one (i'm on dvorak too). But since i'm also a kinesis user, i ha
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by gindely 6y ago
I switched to Dvorak before I started uni. I have been typing dvorak the majority of my typing. Still discovered the hard way that I needed an ergonomic keyboard. I use a kinesis advantage, but frankly a Microsoft one will do. It just needs

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