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rcgs

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About rcgs

Engineering Manager

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    Enjoyed this – very entertaining!

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    Comment #43544326

    I've used Notational Velocity for years, but couldn't get a working binary on latest MacOS/Chips and the newer variants I found seem to miss the mark on what made Notational Veloci…

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    Comment #35985704

    It still feels like these dialogues are really only something lawyers could think is a good solution to companies employing invasive/overbearing uses of customer data. My gut feel …

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    Comment #34549320

    Early Bird Edit: https://earlybirdedit.com/ I hate scrolling through twitter, so I built a service to email me the best tweets in my feed. It's self signup and there's a discount c…

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    Comment #32211043

    It’s shocking Amazon aren’t doing anything about this instance when the issue is raised directly. How can a store be complicit in selling bootlegged items and when confronted with …

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    Comment #31893932

    Surprising no one who has been paying attention.

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    Comment #30755805

    As much as this may really damage the sector I work in, I’d cherish the clarity a stance like this could provide. There are many businesses trying to be compliant whilst maintainin…

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    Comment #29750700

    Just sharing my experience - you may be dealing with something slightly different. I burned out in a job, and went straight into a new one that was less demanding. I didn’t try to …

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    Comment #28826717

    What a meandering read.

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    Comment #26286290

    gf is a game changer! Great article – hard to soak up so much knowledge at once. Bookmarked.

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    Comment #24670934

    The difference really is that the Apple store is a monopoly. It’s like there’s only one supermarket where you can sell your products, but they can still compete with you as you des…

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    Comment #21759829

    Mobile devices interpret it differently because of the hide/show browser UI they often have.

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    Comment #17245950

    This mirrors my experience in the MENA region (where a lot of staff are from asian cultures). It's hard to encourage people to work independently when they're coming from a "do wha…

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    Comment #16123213

    What do people make of ICO's recommendation for production servers to have antivirus software installed? Is this a standard approach to Windows? Is it generally accepted? Please ex…

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    Comment #14306862

    I think this is the 3rd or 4th time Opera has been reborn in recent memory? I actually quite like where they're going with the user experience. But who owns Opera now?

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    Comment #11343719

    It's a shame really. 2.5hrs a week isn't a huge commitment, especially if you're able to work it into your day, e.g. commuting to work.

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    Comment #9826384

    Hey, you put CSS in my JavaScript! Surely this could be done in a smarter way, using one of the many CSS preprocessors to replace the variable mapping done by `classes()`? After al…

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    Comment #9421921

    It is possible to do that without the variable assignment in JS... [].forEach.call(document.querySelectorAll('div'), function(el) { el.classList.add('new'); }); But I don't disagre…

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    Comment #8481556

    It's a vim plugin that prompts you to commit your changes after saving a file `n` number of times (20 by default).

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    Comment #6661592

    > Which is how we got the Ribbon. It was intended to place the most commonly used features front and centre. So how come we ended up with something that placed all the features fro…

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    Comment #6462280

    To pay someone $500 and then not want to spend an hour with them making them understand your product/idea/whatever seems like a bit of a waste of money to me, likely making the res…