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by jrcplus 4mo ago
Any idea what the relation is between this (Aluminum OS?) and Android Desktop Mode?
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by jrcplus 5mo ago
Elaborate please
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by jrcplus 6mo ago
Greg Christie My memory is hazy, but I thought drawers had a preferred side but would open on the other side if there was no room.
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by jrcplus 7mo ago
+1. I got excited but https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/ doesn't seem to be in English or any other European language. If you guys are hoping for Europe-wide adoption, start there.
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by jrcplus 10mo ago
I remember.
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Skeleton v4.0 has launched (Tailwind-based component library)(github.com)
2 points by jrcplus 11mo ago|0 comments
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by jrcplus 11mo ago
Another factor: I'm pretty sure it's more common that people have debit cards than credit cards in Europe, which equals less credit card fraud.
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Lumo: Privacy-first AI assistant from Proton, based in Europe(lumo.proton.me)
4 points by jrcplus 1y ago|0 comments
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by jrcplus 1y ago
Yes!
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by jrcplus 1y ago
Scrappy co-creator here. As an old-school Mac user (from the days of desktop publishing) I do know the difference between hyphen and en-dash and em-dash :) We used AI sparsely for wordsmithing and definitely not for generating the text. Bel
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by jrcplus 1y ago
Scrappy co-creator here. I fully agree that software longevity is important. We designed Scrappy with a local-first architecture, so we have no traditional backend. Our only cloud dependency is a lightweight sync server. (We hurriedly added
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by jrcplus 1y ago
Scrappy co-creator here. It was a surprise to us that this blew up on HN. We've hurriedly added an FAQ to the write-up. In regards to this question about the "Scrappy backend": Scrappy is local-first, so data is stored locall
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NYT: The Physics of the Perfect Pour Over(nytimes.com)
1 points by jrcplus 1y ago|0 comments
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by jrcplus 2y ago
Idea: everyone, anytime you hit a bug or error, post a screenshot to the social media of your choice and tag it say #applesoftware. Over time this might start attracting PR attention, which seems to be most effective at getting Apple to do
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by jrcplus 2y ago
I worked at Apple on Mac OS X until 2008. For QA, Bertrand believed in a lightweight touch, with dedicated QA staffing only at the top of the stack (plus a few key places like the filesystem), with the idea that any bugs will bubble up and
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by jrcplus 2y ago
I worked at Skype from eBay to Microsoft. The clients were rewritten, sometimes from scratch, sometimes redesigned to chase after the latest UI trend. But rewriting clients didn't address the fact that the OG widely successful Skype wa
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_WHY_ AI Works by Bertrand Serlet (Apple SVP of Software Eng. 2003–2011) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by jrcplus 2y ago|1 comments
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by jrcplus 3y ago
Tweet from Sam, decoded by @hellokillian: “i love you all” I L Y A “one takeaway: go tell your friends how great you think they are.” https://twitter.com/hellokillian/status/1725799674676936931
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by jrcplus 3y ago
I would gladly pay money for a commercial version of this. I don’t have a cat, but I have a mother who has dementia. I started looked at tracking devices (in case she starts to wander) but battery life is generally miserable. The power mana
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by jrcplus 3y ago
Meh. “open source” vs “Open Source”.
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by jrcplus 3y ago
I worked at Apple during most of the golden Steve Jobs era. Back in the day, Apple was a fraction of its size, but Apple almost singlehandedly set the agenda for the computer industry. It's fascinating and sad to see Apple now chasing
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by jrcplus 3y ago
A comedic take at the same topic: "A Disrupter's POV on the Silicon Valley Bank Collapse" < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A13erYPcDVI > by Michael Kosta (The Daily Show).
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by jrcplus 4y ago
I worked at Apple during the second, golden Steve Jobs era. It's easy to assume that the culture of secrecy and need-to-know disclosure was for marketing/PR benefit and/or old-school Silicon Valley "only the paranoid sur
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by jrcplus 4y ago
Remember, even the original iPhone still had physical buttons/switches for Home, Sleep/Wake, Ring/Silent, and Volume Up and Down.
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by jrcplus 4y ago
"You can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work for a successful company." —jwz
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Agile and the Long Crisis of Software(logicmag.io)
4 points by jrcplus 4y ago|1 comments
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by jrcplus 5y ago
What's the need for this on GE's side? What was the product manager thinking? Is the idea to collect and monetize usage data, or something else? There must be a reason (?).
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Article by Vladimir Putin ”On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians“(en.kremlin.ru)
74 points by jrcplus 5y ago|54 comments
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by jrcplus 5y ago
Grönska Stadsodling | HW & SW engineering | Stockholm, Sweden | ONSITE Grönska develops technology for vertical farming and operates one of Europe’s largest vertical farms. We are hiring engineers for our GrowOff product line of indoor
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by jrcplus 5y ago
Grönska Stadsodling | HW & SW engineering | Stockholm, Sweden | ONSITE Grönska develops technology for vertical farming and operates one of Europe’s largest vertical farms. We are hiring engineers for our GrowOff product line of indoor

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