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Your approach to pay is really refreshing and attractive as an engineer, and also seems like the exact type of thing most VC or larger tech firms would really hate. That alone feels like evidence of your conviction

If you're in this thread "I built a PC, all my stuff has RGB, it's fine but I don't get it", try setting them all to the same color - you might be surprised how nice it looks. I set everything to white, but my roommate has a nice shade of purple he uses for everything. My real golden rule is absolutely no motion. Can't stand cycling rainbows or whatever.

That's so interesting! I think the fact that they nail the tech so well makes it intuitively surprising that it didn't come first. Not pixar but similarly, when I saw the siggraph talk where Disney Animation showed off how they do snow rendering in Frozen I wondered whether the tech came first

Right now it's the opposite

People who want to get away from the ~big cities~ small towns and live a different kind of life with different priorities (and different legislative interests), shouldn't be totally shut out, should they? Even though I live in a ~giant urban area~ rural area, I wouldn't want to feel pressured to due so due to lack of political stake if I move elsewhere.

who's to say one direction is more important than the other? At least if we ditch the electoral college, individual voices always have the same volume

Anki Shutting Down 7 years ago

Honestly their toys always seemed really cool, but I'm surprised this didn't come sooner. They were _really_ expensive, which was justified by how advanced the tech was sure, but to a certain point most people just don't want to spend that much money on a toy

I think we have a ways to go. Typescript's type system is very feature complete (which is a good thing, but it also means there's a lot to learn, and I feel like I have to think about type definitions more than I ever did with other languages), but also, fantastic libraries like Ramda have a lot of trouble with expressing their types with Typescript. It's a tough problem to solve, and I still use both, but I'm just saying we're not there yet.

My custom build shows the motherboard logo at the correct resolution immediately on POST and never has to mode switch even through grub. It flashes off and on to load the nvidia proprietary drivers, but never has to do so when I boot to windows.

Dugout Loop 8 years ago

They keep calling it public transportation, but say it will be funded by the boring company?

So is it going to be publicly owned and privately operated?

Surely, such file browser can't be that hard to develop as a user space application, right? I mean there are explorer alternatives on windows, a plethora of GUI file browsers on linux, and I have no idea but I can only assume there's at least one finder alternative on mac. I wonder why this hasn't been done yet.

This continues to be the feature that keeps me using macos for work - the search field in the help menu searches all the menu options, each of which displays its own shortcut key beside it

and, importantly, they can still pick up the metaphors even if they don't understand english (or the language of preference) very well. MAN pages often require really really good language skills in the given language to understand.

I think he's implying it's built in by default? I personally have never observed it, but I don't really use powershell so maybe I'm doing something wrong

GUI applications can have good documentation, which, if they do, makes your point moot.

If we assume a given tool has little or no documentation, a GUI wins out.

So the git client I work on has a built in kanban that syncs with github issues, and I work on that part of the application as opposed to the git graph itself - Having dedicated the last 6 months of my life to a kanban, I'd be really interested to see how they solve a bunch of the UX issues surrounding not having a drag and drop pointing device, which in my mind is like the central interaction in a kanban board. Thanks!