thimp

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by thimp 3y ago
Yeah good question. I do a lot of email on planes and travel where there is no internet. In fact I refuse to use any software that isn’t offline first these days. I was a Fastmail customer for many years but moved to apple’s iCloud+ when th
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by thimp 3y ago
A very good point.
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by thimp 3y ago
Someone had to stay behind and muck out the stables...
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by thimp 3y ago
This. Just silo the monolith out into tenants. Salesforce, not exactly a small monolith company, did this for a very very long time.
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by thimp 3y ago
Got it. Fuck that. JSON has no part in an email stack. Have we not learned from our failures as a species. Edit: I've got 99 problems and 98 of them are JSON on a regular basis. Poor parsers, problems dealing with numeric values, terri
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by thimp 3y ago
I like the look of it but I don't know what JMAP is and what the advantage is over say IMAP / SMTP.
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by thimp 3y ago
I envy you :)
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by thimp 3y ago
The web site whitelist is global on iOS if all engines are Safari. As are any VPN tunnels. Which is the issue.
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by thimp 3y ago
Yeah he was persuaded to do it, ironically considering YT is Google, using a video on YT which was trying to sell him VPN software. I blame the paranoia from the constant VPN industry adds being forced down your throat really but the point
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by thimp 3y ago
It's pretty obvious. They're not disallowing it. They are removing the integration with the home screen so that it will run in third party browsers. That limits it to the smallest common API surface which is "open link".
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by thimp 3y ago
ALL problems are human problems. Don't try and write this off with that one. I can go all day on these. Second one ... corp Android phone. App update ships own browser engine to display about box. Flaw in about box implementation allow
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by thimp 3y ago
I'd like him to leave for Mars. I'm not bothered if he gets there or not...
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by thimp 3y ago
Well exactly. The point is that both sides of the argument are somewhat more nuanced as they are disingenuously promoted.
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by thimp 3y ago
This is actually a big problem on Android. My ex father-in-law literally had his bank account ripped off (£18000) from rogue app installed from outside the app store. And Google's stewardship of the play store is terrible. Note I'
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by thimp 3y ago
Yep. Microservices! AWS! Everything Gartner and Thoughtworks says! It'll look good on my resume... ..several years later.. Escalating cloud costs, high staffing cost, staff turnover, heavily reduced margins, decreased productivity, b
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by thimp 3y ago
Perhaps this is just "all we could deliver by the compliance deadline without compromising platform security" ? The truth is usually a lot less interesting than the hypothesis.
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by thimp 3y ago
Ah yes, the poor end users suffering and the security being bullshit. I really can't wait to clean the first malicious browser out of a relative's iPhone and try and unsubscribe from Tim Sweeny's app store with his own 30% ma
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by thimp 3y ago
I've heard this a lot over the years but I disagree entirely. It's a matter of self motivation. I started on BASIC in 1981. They taught us Pascal at university. I moved to C on Unix and eventually into embedded C. Then back out to
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by thimp 3y ago
I like clown-fiesta. That's accurate. I've been a clown. It's about plastering layers of shit on top of something which was never designed to do the job it is doing by people who have no idea what they are doing and selling t
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by thimp 3y ago
No they haven't but they have destroyed usability, my laptop battery and left a lot of brain damaged people who are incapable of seeing when a simple solution for a problem will do. Case in point, a number of years ago I built a static
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by thimp 3y ago
Ban anyone over the age of 60 from politics. It’s all senile old men trying to kill each other with younger people.
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by thimp 3y ago
Glad to know that :)
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by thimp 3y ago
I had a girlfriend who unpackaged a lot of stuff she bought at the checkout so she wouldn't have to deal with the trash. I thought it was insane for a bit but no it's quite reasonable actually when you think about it.
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by thimp 3y ago
Yeah that's about it. They slowly made them prohibitively more expensive. I've actually had the same shopping bag for 27 years and have gone from being seen as a hippy weirdo to never being questioned. It was just normalised that
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by thimp 3y ago
Precision 7670 with OLED screen
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by thimp 3y ago
I dislike dark mode because I have to use a laptop with the shittiest reflective screen ever made (Dell for ref). Anything dark and I can see myself better than what is on the screen.
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by thimp 3y ago
It's somewhat more difficult to start their own companies and eat though which is why a lot of us eat shit and work with project managers.
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by thimp 3y ago
It's worse than that. Any sufficiently motivated person can phrase data any way they choose, particularly when their bonus is tied to it. Nor does the consumer of the data always validate that data. I've never seen a manager read
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by thimp 3y ago
I think that's a vast simplification. It doesn't have to be repeatable at all. Objectively repeatability is about elimination of waste and expenditure. The big one is qualification and testing because that's what filters all
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by thimp 3y ago
I’ve seen agile done well once. Yes it does happen. The process was not described, spoken of or even considered. It just existed between a few like minded decent engineers. Their manager got an “agile PM” forced on them and it broke. The pr

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