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chuckdries

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About chuckdries

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    gitkraken also has an undo button

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    Comment #27296502

    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 feel…

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    Comment #25634444

    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 se…

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    Comment #24333817

    Yeah, why provide an API to disable the minimize button if they're going to reject your app for using it

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    Comment #23876835

    lmao it even took down my local stack

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    Comment #21575072

    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 …

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    Comment #20923400

    > I think the way a team/company handles an unusual high-stress situation is in many ways telling of the team/company dynamic in general What sorts of signals do you look for in th…

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    Comment #20761477

    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 i…

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    Comment #20746288

    I don't agree with the assessment that betamax was superior. Sure it had more advanced technology, but it was too expensive and much more complicated - it fit the business requirem…

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    Comment #19823613

    I think reposting is fine, I just think it'd be nice to have a list of previous discussions because I like reading them

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    Comment #19800486

    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 t…

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    Comment #19733379

    They say the registry info is available via API, so perhaps a simple bash script that calls curl would suffice

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    Comment #19298741

    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 ab…

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    Comment #18875049

    You can place the objects on the kraken!

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    Comment #18129491

    I prefer simple tools. - Heroku is cheap for personal projects. - A single Digital Ocean droplet where you manage everything yourself, is cheap for personal projects. - If you're w…

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    Comment #18126278

    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 pr…

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    Comment #17938483

    Are you arguing that these companies have their monopolies because of regulation?

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    Comment #17881000

    ZSH's z plugin does the same thing. Highly recommended for the ZSH users out there! https://github.com/rupa/z

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    Comment #17842613

    There is some empirical research that our attention spans are degrading on average. I don't have any of it handy, but there's a great book I had to read back in high school called …

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    Comment #17772266

    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?