johnasmith

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by johnasmith 1mo ago
Compose Multiplatform is an interesting framework that can render to a web canvas, including full accessibility support.
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by johnasmith 6mo ago
Canonical Serviços De Software Ltda.;
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by johnasmith 1y ago
I'm curious, what does having control over the update process give you? Isn't it replacing one unauditable black box system for another? Are you concerned about a regression and don't want to be in the vanguard cohort?
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by johnasmith 2y ago
Google has two billion lines of proprietary code, conformant to their style guides and proprietary requirements. I can't imagine they'd poison their model with non-conformant third party source.
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by johnasmith 2y ago
The English translation of the (Dutch) "strandbeest" is "beach animal".
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Construction of the Sodium Reactor Experiment(whatisnuclear.com)
4 points by johnasmith 2y ago|0 comments
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by johnasmith 2y ago
Not all John Smiths are bad, promise.
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by johnasmith 2y ago
The article suggest that it was neither. That rather it was an engineering decision: the product did not have staffing to be properly maintained, and rather than staff it up, it was easier to turn it down.
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by johnasmith 3y ago
Google is no such place. I've worked in several product areas, and while there is no formal one-size-fits-all process, generally engineers build products specified by PM written PRDs, often informed by UXR, designed by UX. At least for
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by johnasmith 3y ago
For Firefox to succeed, it has to differentiate. There are two meaningful ways it does, or will do, in the near future: 1. Mobile extensions: that's a unique value prop 2. Fight for the user: manifest v3, web environment integrity, and
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by johnasmith 3y ago
There are build systems where this guidance isn't terribly valuable. With Bazel for example, you typically have build files in each directory, and a test target for each test class in that build. But bazel allows you to select and run
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by johnasmith 3y ago
One of the newer things I've appreciated from guava is ListenableFuture to Kotlin suspend functions interop.
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by johnasmith 3y ago
That's a fine argument to make, but the article didn't.
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by johnasmith 3y ago
The article conflated ad selection and search query results.
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by johnasmith 3y ago
Mozilla's office in SF, pictured in the article's first photo, is literally neighbor to Google's SF office, making that a particularly apt photo and headline pair.
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by johnasmith 4y ago
We can assess the analogy on its merits, but random opinions are circulated in docs at Google all the time. From this article, 186,000 employees, therefore lots of opinions. This is a random employee who's made an analogy, not a leader
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by johnasmith 4y ago
I mean, I've worked in search, android, and c&c, and the above is pretty close to my experience in all three.
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by johnasmith 4y ago
The way it's meant to work is tether acts as a market maker, always willing to buy and sell tokens at parity. Nobody would buy below that if they know tether is around. Tether, having issued the coins, should have sufficient capital to
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by johnasmith 4y ago
I wrote myself a Chrome extension that does this, using http://l/foo style links, and using Chrome's sync to share across devices. Works well enough but limited to desktops. Some large orgs maintain internal shorteners
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by johnasmith 4y ago
Looks like this was an actual bug, not deliberately removing a feature: https://twitter.com/dannysullivan/status/1560010093294489602 https://support.google.com/websearch/thread//1527
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by johnasmith 4y ago
I've been using Stadia since day one. It's a really terrific execution of cloud gaming. It would be a real shame if it did get shut down. I hope the rumors are false.
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by johnasmith 4y ago
Shopify CEO Tobias Lutke was a core Rails developer. He's tightly connected to the Ruby & Rails communities.
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by johnasmith 4y ago
I'm Québécois from birth (Trois Rivières). I voted in the incredibly close '95 seperation referendum. In my view, separation or sovereignty would be bad for us. Separation is mainly predicated on the idea that Québécois are cultur
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by johnasmith 4y ago
I found the Schmidt suggestion surprising, but here it is, apparently made seriously, to change your name upon arriving at adulthood: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704901104575423...
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by johnasmith 4y ago
The Arstechnica article Doctorow is linking to: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/04/shameful-insteon-loo...
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by johnasmith 5y ago
No difference except you did it from source and spent the build time yourself.
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by johnasmith 5y ago
You can buy a pixel device and flash it to AOSP here: https://flash.android.com/ Install a launcher of your choice and be on your way: https://www.tomsguide.com/uk/round-up/best-android-launchers
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by johnasmith 5y ago
They compared across breeds ("51 dogs of various breeds", 9 of which were pugs or 'small' [1]), but some breeds are... dumb as hell. I'm skeptical the statement holds across all breeds. My friend's pug will run
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by johnasmith 5y ago
I'll give you $5 for it.
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by johnasmith 5y ago
In google source code: https://cs.android.com/search?q=%22wtf%22%20f:java$&ss=andro...

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