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approxim8ion

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    Comment #46696641

    that's ap15 launcher. It's a good one!

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    Comment #45874081

    MacOS has a frustrating tendency to depend on external utilities for basic functions, but I've found Maccy to be as good as if not better than Windows clipboard manager. You can su…

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    Comment #41889204

    HTML supports video just fine and has for years. Can't imagine why it would be an issue.

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    Comment #41889195

    Facebook does (or at least used to when I left it a few years ago) this too. They give you a huge dump of your data and photos, with an html file to help you navigate it better.

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    Comment #41667508

    The majority of these "mom and pop e-commerce stores here in the states" are dropshipping enterprises that deserve to die.

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    Comment #40375605

    Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made, by Jason Schreier Not particularly deep, but a pretty good read about more modern AAA g…

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    Comment #39802666

    Yeah, that makes sense I suppose. My Java background also means the verbosity and structure doesn't bother me much.

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    Comment #39777644

    To offer a differing experience, I've been working in Angular for a couple of years now and personally like it quite a bit. I don't like frontend frameworks in general, but given t…

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    Comment #39676856

    I'm glad it worked out for you, but this is also survivorship bias.

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    Comment #38406140

    Bob and Brad ("the two most famous physical therapists on the internet") are an absolute treasure. Always good to see them get some appreciation online.

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    Comment #37813315

    CLRS or some Algorithm Design Book, but you could easily be talking about TAOCP or SICP or Clean Code or any of 1000 other books.

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    Comment #37543545

    We made the jump from 8 to 17 this year! Some of our developers of course still write 1.6 level code, of course

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    Comment #37492950

    Where I studied, every classroom had a blackboard and a projector, with the rollable white screen just above the board. When you show slides, roll out the screen. When you need the…

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    Comment #37470345

    Move fast, break things, pretend to be sorry about breaking things, move fast away from the broken things, keep at it as long as there's someone else left holding the bag.

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    Comment #37463956

    Ten years later this company, its product, the money that went into it, and most evidence of its existence barring this post and another article covering it, seems to have vanished…

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    Comment #37250181

    Because they're talking about their experiences with QR Code Menus, the majority of which are the way I described them.

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    Comment #37249802

    The problem is that most of the time a "QR Code Menu" means a QR code pointing to a PDF hosted on Google Drive or alike, a digitized version of a paper menu which was never meant t…

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    Comment #36290958

    I use OneTab, it is perfect for me, with the caveat that it has no categorization or sync, neither of which I really need.

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    Comment #36095283

    This has always been such a misguided little thing. Print out as many menus as you have tables, laminate them and use them for years. or, If you're going QR code, go all the way. S…

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    Comment #35925871

    They offer a "JetBrains Mono NL" variant where the NL is for No-Ligatures. I use it daily on Eclipse.

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    Comment #35685641

    Seems like it's treating each individual message as a new thread? > I got guns in my head and they won't go > Spirits in my head and they won't go, I been looking at the sky 'cause…

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    Comment #34076983

    I'm going to leave the job I'm not qualified for but hold on to the jobs I'm even less qualified for!