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by spanhandler 6y ago
Mobile or desktop dev (not Electron or React Native). See how the other half lives. Last I checked Apple TV recommends a markup+JavaScript development process for standard TV streaming applications. It's not a web environment, but it s
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by spanhandler 6y ago
> There's a golden window for touch-typing where most people in the U.S. grew up typing on computers constantly (especially IMing in multiple windows concurrently) and before smartphones arrived. It's nearly impossible to keep
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by spanhandler 6y ago
MacOS’ English keyboard is great for typing in Spanish and French. As I’ve posted recently in other threads like this, I don’t know why other operating systems don’t copy them for their defaults. Default English keyboards in Windows and Lin
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by spanhandler 6y ago
MacOS’ cmd is a thumb press for me, except “cmd+space” which I just reposition my whole hand for, and making caps lock a control (a setting available in the system settings, not an addon or command line tweak or anything) means no more scru
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Free, and they already have gmail. Android pushes it. Seems super-popular in schools. Ties in with their education offerings, I think, and lots of schools use chrome books.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Didn't need shady, just... any javascript, really. No other browser was any better so I don't think anyone thought much of it until Chrome came out with the amazing new feature of per-tab crashing.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
FF was really crashy/hangy around when Chrome came out—the main appeal of Chrome was that it'd do the same thing but confine the damage to one tab. Also IIRC its dev tools were on par with or better than Firebug (remember that?) e
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by spanhandler 6y ago
> What OS bundles Chrome? Do you mean ChromeOS? Android. [EDIT] and Chrome was better enough that it got power users switching (this is before "Google has become very obviously evil" was common geek opinion yet, which helped),
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I'd say if they wanted to do a moon-shot-but-actually-achievable non-browser project against a slow, bloated, closed, locked-in, shitty product that everyone uses anyway (so, like IE back when they took that one), they'd target
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by spanhandler 6y ago
... and the installer would download very quickly on your mom's dial-up, unlike the full Mozilla Suite which was huge, and it was much lighter-weight, better-performing, and had better default features for people who didn't need a
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Nerd and power-user evangelists are the only reason FF ever had any market share to begin with. We installed it on everyone's computer we had access to. We did this because even non-nerds could tell it was better than the OS' defa
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Modern FF makes Mozilla Suite look svelte and respectful. It's heavy and loud. I use it when I'm not on macOS or iOS and need a full-fat (and then some) browser, but I'd have a hard time recommending it to anyone.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
FF (Phoenix, Firebird) gained market share because a bunch of geeks & power users installed it on any computer they could get ahold of, because it was an obvious safety, performance, and usability win over default browsers, and especial
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Judging from market share, does anyone who's not a power user even run Firefox these days? I know I stopped religiously installing it on non-nerd relatives' computers and stopped evangelizing it to my friends years ago, when it st
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by spanhandler 6y ago
You're right. Phoneix/Firebird were basically a clone of the obviously-best-to-copy Opera features but without the ad bar, with a more native-feeling UI, and maybe (IIRC?) even lighter and faster to launch. Built-in popup blocking
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by spanhandler 6y ago
They've grown too big to do the thing we all want them to (focus on a high-quality open source browser), because they don't need nearly as many people as they have to do that, but also can't cut 75+% (I suspect more like 90%)
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by spanhandler 6y ago
The world's 50,000th best yoga instructor can probably make a living running a yoga studio. I'm not sure the world's 50,000th best yoga instructor can make a living selling online yoga classes.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Ah, so that’s why the site’s so trigger-happy with the excessive-activity bans that it’s nearly unusable unless you’re logged in.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Maybe 50,000 is when the battery starts to degrade badly? Agreed that something like 200,000+ isn’t unreasonable for a car made after 2000 or so, when they all started getting way more reliable and long-lived.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Thanks for your work on it. I've found Redux super-helpful and pleasant to use for multi-platform JS UI work, in particular, to bundle HTTP client (and other network services, if not in the browser) libs behind a common, small, well-un
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I think React hooks are silly but Redux is an OK solution to a certain problem, and one of the nicer major libraries in all of JavaScript land, wildly better than almost anything else of similar prominence (it's fairly small and IIRC i
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Yep. An ER has to make sure you're not actively, immediately dying but after that you're cut loose and they don't have to do a thing. Good luck with that cancer or whatever. Plus if they do anything I'm sure they still
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Tell me about it. I'm shopping for non-employer family health coverage right now and I bet if people in the rest of the OECD knew what that looked like here they'd lobby the UN to send peacekeepers and relief aid. Country's g
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Oooooh I have a couple sets of those kicking around, if I double them up, that might work. I wanna start doing some other big compound lifts, too, but that'd be better than nothing.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
That last sentence is interesting. The state of things is that a few lawmakers, mostly Democrats, support a national ID, but then most Republicans and a bunch of other Democrats strongly oppose it. It's semi-bipartisan to hate the id
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by spanhandler 6y ago
The most frustrating thing is they seem to know—or be able to get if they want—everything about us until that information would help make life easier, then suddenly they're clueless and you have to go round up all the info for them, so
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Right: false positive from the perspective of catching fraud, false negative from the perspective of accepting good ballots, is what I mean, exactly. Same thing, different way of phrasing it. Anyone know what the rejection rate for in-perso
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Looks like 1) about 1/2 of them are due to plain ol' User Error (not that there isn't room to improve the "UI" so that happens less) like not signing, not including required parts, simply leaving the ballot out of t
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by spanhandler 6y ago
The other day I looked into rowing machines (ergs). The one that seemed like the no-brainer best choice according to basically everyone is sold out everywhere. Heavily used ones are going for like 20% over retail on Craigslist. So much for
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Mine are too, if I devote a lot of time to futzing with them and tolerate a lot of nice-to-have features being absent or a pain to get working. Stripped-down Linux in something like dwm or i3 is really nice but you have to baby it to get it

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