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by tolger 4y ago
Yes, Windows 7 was the sweet spot. Clean, uncluttered and functional.
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by tolger 4y ago
I second this. WSL2 is very well integrated. You just open a terminal and have your Ubuntu (or Debian or whatever you set as default) environment ready to go. Even though it's running in a VM, whenever I start Tomcat, I can access it f
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by tolger 4y ago
I second the Garmin Instinct Solar as a really good everyday watch. I got tired of charging my Apple Watch everyday and getting annoying notifications all the time. I just wanted something to keep track of my walks, track my sleep and give
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by tolger 4y ago
He was one of my favorite authors. I remember reading "Eon" many years ago. I thought it was the best book I had ever read. Then I read "The Forge of God" and found it even better.
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by tolger 4y ago
No one is forcing you to upgrade. I still have a 2008 Mac running El Capitan and I can do everything I need to do on it.
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by tolger 4y ago
Yes, I hate the trend to apply mobile paradigms to a desktop OS. I will stay on Monterey for as long as I can.
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by tolger 4y ago
I am one of those people who still have a lot of PostScript files. I have many scientific papers from college in my collection. I know I should convert them to PDF, but it sucks that they quietly removed support for a file format that'
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by tolger 4y ago
This is a very cool use for a watch. You can use any watch, but some watches, like the Seiko Alpinist, even have a rotating bezel with the compass points. This makes it a lot easier to find the other directions. One thing the article forgot
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by tolger 4y ago
I also work from home. I only use my laptop when I travel once or twice a year. I much prefer my desktop computer.
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by tolger 5y ago
Very useful. Thanks!
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by tolger 6y ago
I say this as a Java developer, but I hate UIs written in Java. Native UIs are always superior. IntelliJ comes to mind. I used it for many years, and it always felt "different". There were weird inconsistencies in rendering, focus
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by tolger 6y ago
As the article states, many developers have degrees other than CS. I have a BS/MS in Mathematics and have worked as a developer for the past 20 years. Interestingly, back in the early 2000s, it seemed that having a degree in Math was a
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by tolger 6y ago
This makes me sad. I thought the Microsoft Store at the Domain in Austin was very cool and I visited from time to time. There was also an Apple store in the same location so I could visit both! And there was a Borders Bookstore, which I lov
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by tolger 6y ago
I can say the same thing about a legacy Java codebase that I had to work with at a big "enterprise" software company a few years ago. The code was so convoluted, with some files over 12k lines long. You can write spaghetti code in
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by tolger 6y ago
That's good to know. I will definitely check it out. Thanks!
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by tolger 6y ago
This is great news! I was really excited about Perl 6, until I realized it was a different language, and it never quite jelled into a usable thing. So I kept using Perl 5. I write mostly modern Perl code, so this is exactly what I wanted. I
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by tolger 6y ago
I'm in a similar situation. As a UNIX, command-line user I've noticed that every release they make things harder for us. Yeah, Homebrew is great, but Apple doesn't support it and they could break things anytime. Lately, I&#x2
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by tolger 7y ago
I really like the Windows 95 UI. That's why Windows 2000 was my favorite version of Windows, ever. It was very consistent and functional throughout.
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by tolger 7y ago
Interesting write-up, but it sounds like he didn't want to succeed. I have been using WSL for two years now as my primary development environment and it works great. Yes, file I/O is slow, but unless you do a ton of I/O it re
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by tolger 7y ago
Why?
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by tolger 7y ago
I agree with the article, I hate infinite scrolling. It just doesn't feel natural, and sometimes the performance is bad which makes everything feel sluggish.
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by tolger 7y ago
I agree. Sensationalist trash. The article claims that Ive’s design decisions affected not only Apple, but other brands like Samsung and HTC as well. Really? If they were terrible decisions then other companies wouldn’t have been forced to
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by tolger 7y ago
This kinda sucks for me, as a Linux based developer who’s also a gamer. I’ve been gaming on Steam with the Proton compatibility layer, and most of my Windows-only games work flawlessly. If future Ubuntu upgrades break this, then I won’t upg
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by tolger 7y ago
I remember running A/UX on a Mac IIsi. It was a quirky UNIX, based on SysV r3. I remember the first thing out of the box was to compile GCC with the included non-ANSI C compiler. Then you could actually start compiling everything else,
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by tolger 7y ago
I have a 2018 Mazda CX-9 with the touchscreen. I almost never use the touchscreen, because there's a much more convenient scroll-wheel positioned in the center console and within my right hand's reach. There are also controls in t
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by tolger 7y ago
This move by the US to sabotage Huawei will, in the long term, harm American competitiveness. I haven't yet seen or heard any concrete proof that Huawei poses a "threat" to national security. The fact that Trump mentioned the
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by tolger 8y ago
As someone who studied Voronoi diagrams in college, I find this really fascinating. It's a really cool way of visualizing the data.
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by tolger 8y ago
That was definitely worth reading. I feel the crunch as a software engineer. I am still able to max my 401k, but after taxes, insurance premiums, mortgage, and a few nights out with the wife, I have little, if any, to invest. I feel like I
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by tolger 8y ago
I agree with this article. The Touch Bar is a useless gimmick. Not only that, but it removed the actually useful Esc and F-Keys. Oh, and it made MacBook Pros more expensive. I admire the author for finding ways to make the Touch Bar somewha
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by tolger 9y ago
What would you say are important features missing in C++11 that are in the current standard? I ask because I'm trying to get back into C++ development after many years and even C++11 seems like a new language to me.

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