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by kakuri 8d ago
Notes provided an amazing platform. I think its fatal flaw was that it targeted unskilled developers. The result was a bunch of poorly made applications which were naturally hated by users. Also targeting unskilled developers resulted in a
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by kakuri 10mo ago
I am a frontend dev and use Firefox as much as I can. But I can't use it for development. Firefox's dev tools need to be better. I use Chrome for development because Chrome has great dev tools.
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by kakuri 11mo ago
I've been trying to use GIMP for years (since Corel destroyed Pain Shop Pro). I don't do a lot of photo manipulation so I don't put in a lot of time learning. PSP had a UI that was discoverable for an amateur occasional user.
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by kakuri 11mo ago
Yeah I'm not finding it compelling to listen to someone's ideas about "taste" when they think that font is tasty.
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by kakuri 11mo ago
If you are having problems with Windows RDP then the problem is somewhere else along the pipeline, not RDP itself. No other remote solution I've used is even in the same ballpark as RDP in terms of responsiveness and quality. RDP on a
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by kakuri 1y ago
Keep in mind that many (most? all?) LLMs are not trained strictly on factual data, and are probably not trained to differentiate between factual and non-factual information. If you ask an absurd question you will likely get a (delightfully)
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by kakuri 1y ago
I interviewed for a software engineering position at USAA. After seeing the incompetence of the interviewers none of the nonsense they do surprises me.
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by kakuri 1y ago
> I’ve said this before, but Apple is forcing third party devs to be in service of Apple I got my first taste of computers on early 90's Macs and was enchanted. Within a year I discovered DOS, Windows - and freedom. I did tech suppo
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by kakuri 1y ago
I loved Chrome's debugger for years, then build tools and React ruined debugging for me. Built code largely works with source maps, but it fails often enough, and in bizarre ways, that my workflow has simply gone back to console logs.
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by kakuri 1y ago
My thoughts exactly. JSX provides the best templating syntax I have seen - it's just JS, and it uses curly braces to delineate JS. Putting JS, or worse, custom syntax in strings is terrible, and every other delineator choice is less id
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by kakuri 1y ago
npx http-server (keep the "r" at the end, it's more up-to-date than the http-serve package) https://github.com/http-party/http-server
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by kakuri 1y ago
I really feel like this article should also mention the rate of formation of new stars. According to [1] Universe Magazine the James Webb telescope has revealed that more than 3,000 stars are formed every second. [1] https://univ
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by kakuri 2y ago
GIMP is astonishingly bad. I got by for many years with Paint Shop Pro, even through its steady decline after Corel acquired it, but eventually they destroyed it. In desperation I turned to GIMP but it is so bad that I now use Photopea. I w
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by kakuri 2y ago
Remote development is VSCode's killer feature.
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by kakuri 2y ago
This is what you get when "frontend devs aren't real devs" and every job wants a "full-stack dev" (surprise, they can't do frontend!).
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Ask HN: Why has ecommerce become incompatible with uBlock?
6 points by kakuri 3y ago|2 comments
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by kakuri 3y ago
I have seen several Waymo cars stopped for no good reason or blocking the street while very slowly trying to figure out what to do.
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by kakuri 4y ago
I spent a week learning Laravel and modern PHP for a project that never materialized. I am so grateful the project never materialized, because for all the past 2 decades of improvement PHP remains a language I never want to work with. There
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by kakuri 4y ago
Sounds like you have had the misfortune of using terrible banks. I have never had this issue with home mortgages or car loans, it was always easy to make extra payments directly to the principal.
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by kakuri 4y ago
Staging can be a helpful alternative to micro commits. I'll write some code, make some progress, revise, and once I get a small changeset that I'm happy with I stage it. Then I'm free to make a bunch of exploratory changes an
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by kakuri 5y ago
I have a bit of a preference for this approach as well, but having worked on numerous large projects I have to agree with Josh's arguments against it. Maybe on a small personal project it can succeed but on large ongoing projects I fav
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by kakuri 5y ago
I went to the article hoping for more context, but it just leaves that statement about more than half of the crew dying without any explanation.
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by kakuri 5y ago
I failed a technical interview at a large financial institution and I'm sure the interviewers thought I was stupid. As I gazed at the atrocious code they wanted me to make changes to and listened to them misuse programming terms as the
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by kakuri 5y ago
Razer is a terrible company, which is tragic because they started out as an amazing hardware company. When they pivoted to being a spyware company I stopped buying their hardware. I've been happy with SteelSeries so far. Their Rival 50
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by kakuri 5y ago
As a front-end dev who works with JS all the time and never writes shell scripts, every time I have to deal with shell scripts I think "I'd really rather use JS for this".
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by kakuri 5y ago
Process Explorer (from sysinternals) lists processes as a tree so it's easy to find and kill the root Chrome process. At a glance it looks like all non-root processes have a "--type" parameter given to them. The root process
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by kakuri 6y ago
What are the cases where Dropbox works well for people? Years ago I used to regularly have people tell me "my computer is slow, how do I fix it?" I look at their running programs, uninstall Dropbox, and their computer is no longer
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by kakuri 6y ago
What is the obsession with laptops? While I fully understand they have their uses, I don't understand why someone who is employed full-time doing programming would cripple their own work environment by using a laptop. I've been he
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by kakuri 6y ago
Subnautica is a wet-your-pants game of sheer terror. However, if you disable damage and aggression you can focus on beautiful and peaceful exploration and building and gardening. A very iyashikei experience for me.
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by kakuri 7y ago
Razer went from making great hardware and drivers to making terrible drivers that require you to sign in to a Razer account and constantly run Razer software. I was a Razer die-hard for years, but with their transition from a hardware compa

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