whowouldathunk

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by whowouldathunk 8y ago
You realize that all of Pride and Prejudice is ~280KB, right? http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342 :)
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by whowouldathunk 8y ago
They do, they’re called scribes.
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by whowouldathunk 8y ago
XAML components ("controls" in MS terminology) contain both declarative markup and code. And it's flexible because the visual presentation can be completely overriden by the component's consumer without altering behavior
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by whowouldathunk 8y ago
> and now we're making traditional UI dev like web It's been like that on Windows since 2006 with XAML. In fact, if you squint at typical JSX, it looks like XAML. Disclosure: I work at Microsoft.
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by whowouldathunk 8y ago
Not really, that's how Windows works too since Vista. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa9... And it's what enables effects like this in Windows 10: https://d
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by whowouldathunk 9y ago
About the same here in Seattle. It makes saving for a down payment even more depressing. I don't understand who is able to buy these houses when my partner and I can't as software engineer + physician assistant. Maybe it's ju
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by whowouldathunk 9y ago
We're on a small rock flying through an infinite universe. Our lives exist in a small blink of time. Computers run billions of operations per second using software with countless defects at every level of the stack. We're lucky an
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by whowouldathunk 9y ago
A small example is my girlfriend getting charged for a pregnancy test in the emergency room even after she told them she doesn't have a uterus.
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by whowouldathunk 9y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. XAML definitely supports complex widget composition in markup. Since the XML is basically just describing an object graph, it's a more concise way of writing the equivalent imperative code:
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by whowouldathunk 9y ago
One cost of all the guns is all the extra security. Schools resembling prisons, TSA, metal detectors and surveillance everywhere... doesn’t that also infringe on my freedom in a way?
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by whowouldathunk 9y ago
Missed opportunity for "reticulating splines"
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by whowouldathunk 9y ago
RIP Ursula. I just finished The Left Hand of Darkness and am in the middle of the Earthsea series and it's absolutely fantastic. Love her writing.
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by whowouldathunk 9y ago
The estate tax is justified as a means of reducing the concentration of wealth. However, the truly wealthy and their estate planners avoid the tax. The low yield of the tax is a testament to the ineffectiveness of the tax as a force for re
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by whowouldathunk 9y ago
The cost of electricity is artificially low because it doesn't include the cost of the associated pollution.
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by whowouldathunk 9y ago
The market is ignoring externalities. https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
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by whowouldathunk 9y ago
> The concept was tried with Windows 8; they had to go back to offering both desktop and touchscreen options. Still using the same platform. The idea is to use responsive design rather than different UI frameworks. Disclosure: I work at
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by whowouldathunk 9y ago
Hopefully this means the iPad Pro will gain support for trackpads and mouse input.
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by whowouldathunk 9y ago
Apple Watch has a crown and a touch screen. iPad Pros have keyboards, pens, and a touch screen. Apple TV has directional and trackpad input. All support voice input. All work fine with basically the same UI toolkit.
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by whowouldathunk 9y ago
That's an orthogonal problem. Why should the Apple platform arbitrarily require you to use different toolkits for different form factors or input modalities? They already support phones, tablets, TV's, and watches with the iOS too
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by whowouldathunk 9y ago
Same experience for me. The University of Washington headache clinic recommended Vitamin D and Magnesium supplements and it made a marked difference in my mood. Turns out having constant mild headaches is pretty depressing.
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by whowouldathunk 9y ago
Wow. And this: https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/save-energy-money/help... I really don't want utilities making value judgements for me.
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by whowouldathunk 9y ago
You need electricity to power everything you do online. I don't think anyone would support being charged different rates based on what you plug into a power outlet.
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by whowouldathunk 9y ago
Best thing to do is probably to contact your representatives and senators in order to get Congress to act on net neutrality.
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by whowouldathunk 9y ago
That's exactly how it works. It took about an hour after linking my Vudu account before they showed up on the Movies Anywhere site and iTunes.
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by whowouldathunk 9y ago
Nice, my UltraViolet codes for Mad Max and The Revenant now show up as 4K HDR versions on iTunes. And I even got the Black and Chrome version of Mad Max as a bonus "iTunes Extra." This is a very pro-consumer move.
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by whowouldathunk 9y ago
On the contrary, developing a good intuition about stuff like this so you get it right the first time is a big time saver in the long run. Especially when it's no extra code to do the better thing to begin with. Good developers have ba
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by whowouldathunk 9y ago
I would bet there would be less bugs overall if everyone was always using the latest version since it would reduce the test matrix.
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by whowouldathunk 9y ago
You're arguing in favor of OS segmentation on a developer forum. Please no! Disclosure: I work for Microsoft.
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by whowouldathunk 9y ago
The dumbest is that their "auto" modes aren't as good as phones. I bought a Fuji X-T20 and am really disappointed with it; it is definitely capable of much better results than my phone as long as you have the time to switch a
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by whowouldathunk 9y ago
Sounds good. Just a word of caution to make sure you're ready for future UI design direction changes: https://fluent.microsoft.com/ DirectComposition powers a lot of that and I bet web devs will want that kind of stuff

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