Yes, Windows 7 was the sweet spot. Clean, uncluttered and functional.
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…
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,…
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.
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.
Yes, I hate the trend to apply mobile paradigms to a desktop OS. I will stay on Monterey for as long as I can.
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…
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…
I also work from home. I only use my laptop when I travel once or twice a year. I much prefer my desktop computer.
Very useful. Thanks!
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…
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…
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…
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…
That's good to know. I will definitely check it out. Thanks!
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…
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 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.
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…
Why?
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.
I USE CAPS LOCK ALL THE TIME. DON'T YOU DARE TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME! Seriously, I use it a lot when programming. I like to write my inline SQL in CAPS because it's easier to read. I also write contants in UPPER_CASE.…
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…
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…
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…
Yes, Windows 7 was the sweet spot. Clean, uncluttered and functional.
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…
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,…
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.
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.
Yes, I hate the trend to apply mobile paradigms to a desktop OS. I will stay on Monterey for as long as I can.
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…
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…
I also work from home. I only use my laptop when I travel once or twice a year. I much prefer my desktop computer.
Very useful. Thanks!
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…
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…
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…
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…
That's good to know. I will definitely check it out. Thanks!
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…
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 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.
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…
Why?
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.
I USE CAPS LOCK ALL THE TIME. DON'T YOU DARE TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME! Seriously, I use it a lot when programming. I like to write my inline SQL in CAPS because it's easier to read. I also write contants in UPPER_CASE.…
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…
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…
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…