mvonballmo

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by mvonballmo 2y ago
I like to say that I don't care if it's inaccurate, as long as it's precise.
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by mvonballmo 2y ago
Hypertalk < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperTalk > lives.
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by mvonballmo 2y ago
I also think we should be thinking more long-term. How understandable is the history when you're trying to figure out why something changed? I usually try to tell the story of what changes are being made rather than treating every clum
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by mvonballmo 2y ago
+1 for SmartGit. It's much more intuitive and flexible than the JetBrains UI, which still inherits so much terminology and behavior from its "unified" view that includes being able to handle Perforce changelists. It's a
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by mvonballmo 2y ago
I would imagine that you could use it to write automated tests for Canvas code (maybe charts?) running in Node, e.g., jest with snapshots.
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by mvonballmo 2y ago
Thank you for summarizing this so well.
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by mvonballmo 2y ago
For me it was Termination Shock that finally convinced me to stop reading his books. He just likes to write really long, repetitive and wildly overly detailed books. I was entertained by SevenEves and Reamde but I'm open to the possibi
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by mvonballmo 2y ago
I'm using the [Bypass Paywalls]( https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/blob/ma... ) extension but it looks like that's been DMCA-ed in the interim.
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by mvonballmo 2y ago
It's not just you. My reading is that the flaw was toxic Java users made the developers feel so bad about the feature that they canceled it out of spite. I'm almost certain that's not what it was but that's the only info
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by mvonballmo 2y ago
I think that there's something up with that page. There may be a pathological path when suitable GPU support is not available. My machine slowed down tremendously, with a YouTube video in another tab pausing entirely until I managed to
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by mvonballmo 2y ago
I think the morality he's speaking to is the scalability of using that strategy. If everyone does it, then the system overloads and breaks. If only a few individuals do it, then those individuals willing to arrogate more resources to t
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by mvonballmo 2y ago
As they explain in the article, a row-less layout with columns is quite common in the non-web world. They acknowledge that some people are arguing that it's not needed because nobody's using it (on the web). Nobody's using it
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by mvonballmo 2y ago
A "row-less" grid fits very well in the current CSS Grid specification, in that it can reuse the very powerful column-definition property as well as sub-grids. Their examples very convincingly show how orthogonal these features ar
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by mvonballmo 3y ago
From the retrospective. > And yet I do know that you can write complex, relatively bug free code without tests, because I did it. > I do know that you can write complex, relatively bug free code without anyone looking over your code,
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by mvonballmo 3y ago
I honestly hadn't considered that when I asked someone to use Signal or Threema instead of Facebook Messenger that they would think I was a pedophile or drug addict. Food for thought.
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by mvonballmo 3y ago
It very much used to work like this, pretty much exclusively. More recently, though (especially, the last couple of years), browser vendors work very closely with standards groups, contributing there, and looking for feedback from other bro
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by mvonballmo 4y ago
I didn't read the article. Does this include money lost on NFTs and crpyto? ducks
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by mvonballmo 4y ago
> Azure is the worst of the 3 cloud providers. Horrible developer experience and documentation and reliability. Really? I find Microsoft's documentation for Azure (in English) to be quite thorough and helpful. Their tools are well-d
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by mvonballmo 4y ago
Agreed, it requires user-participation. However, LastPass could be proactive about this, perhaps including the number of rounds in its security check. It could tell you that your legacy account should be updated and guide you through it. Th
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by mvonballmo 4y ago
I was a longtime user of TimeSnapper, but stopped tracking time entirely for a while. I've recently started with ManicTime and am very happy with the UI and features. It takes very little time to track, even when you don't auto-ta
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by mvonballmo 4y ago
Documentation for internal consumption often makes assumptions that no longer hold outside of the company. It might reference internal machines or drives that will not be available. It might take shortcuts that will be confusing enough that
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by mvonballmo 4y ago
Also worth nothing, if you have multiple machines: the cloud-sync works flawlessly. Just boring.
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by mvonballmo 4y ago
Ah, the Strugatskys! Absolutely highly recommended. That was my favorite book of theirs as well.
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by mvonballmo 4y ago
Summa Technologiae (Electronic Mediations) by Stanisław Lem (1966) From my notes: "This is a non-fiction work translated from the original Polish. It is not a light work: it encompasses Lem’s complex and intricate musings and theories
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by mvonballmo 4y ago
Agreed. I wrote up some thoughts about the "Rebase considered harmful" article in one called "Rebase considered essential" < https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=3864 > "Who dec
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by mvonballmo 4y ago
Honestly, Azure DevOps is a solid replacement. The integration is really good and the "Boards" software really feels like they're eating their own dog food. Their Wiki software is Markdown stored in a Git repo (unlike Conflue
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by mvonballmo 4y ago
The author has been living and teaching in France for years now. He reads and speaks many languages besides French and English.
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by mvonballmo 4y ago
When you're writing holistically, the point often only comes at the end. Or, sometimes it's about the journey and the friends you make along the way. A commentator upstream declared that there is only one purpose to writing: to im
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by mvonballmo 4y ago
It's impossible for me not to think of this (Idiocracy, 90s, 2 clips): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py37IFuKxYw
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by mvonballmo 4y ago
I've been reading Justin's work for years. The length of his essays is not due to a lack of editing down his rambles, but that he has a lot to say. I think he's one of the most consistently interesting writers right now. Ther

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