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slightly worse :)

80 char line length in 2019?

The jetbrains editors are amazing, if you learn the keystrokes. I see few bother to explore/learn them though... I haven't found an editor that matches the features. My main prob w…

almost all retail credit card transactions go over the internet and commerce seems to continue fine. but if you want to be safe, have a cellular backup network. seems way simpler t…

Jenkins is fundamentally broken. Upgrade any plugin and you risk everything breaking. And you won't necessarily know until you run every corner case of your build system.

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it's cool, but can't scroll them w/o mouse/trackpad. cursor keys don't work :(

a good concurrency story looks 2 years out :( 5 will lay some foundations, hopefully Swift 6 will complete the story. a "systems" language w/o a concurrency story isn't very compel…

i'm surprised no one has started a snake vs camel case debate here! https://jsonfeed.org/version/1

I think much more widely for sleep than depression.... it was originally an anti-depressent but had a nasty side-effect of making one very sleepy.

There are many problems with the plugin ecosystem. The big ones: * Many don't work with pipelines (scm sync config plugin for example). And you don't know this until you try * Upgr…

How about a right click/keystroke to copy current file path to clipboard?

Kotlin native sounds great to me! There is a big world outside the bloated JVM! We've seen 1/10 the memory usage on golang vs java with similar performance, so properly executed th…

checked exceptions? They lead to very un-robust code like try{...}catch(Exception e){//ignore or log, continue along like everything is grand!} or (much better) every method declar…

property value is much higher in cities than burbs due to supply/demand

"I don't want to make a big investment"

Are you seriously complaining about Apple continuing to update Macs? They should be updating them every year!

I love laptops. Easy to carry, always has my stuff on it. I connect to a big monitor/keyboard/mouse at my desk both at home/work... use a laptop when I travel or work from the coff…

Cell connectivity is a big deal and will increase its usefulness. But a watch can't replace a smartphone. There are core functions of a smartphone that a watch can never replace: t…

this flies in the face of all the mobile trends... smartphones are getting MUCH faster/more powerful every year.

you should at least get the makefile support from C++ in there.. people use makefiles for bootstrapping docker all the time. https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEABKL-5173

I just switched to this, problem solved. But I tried sevarl other solutions and found many were out-dated and no longer worked well, with no doc on which version of doc the approac…