771–780 of 891 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just try to interview as a front end engineer these days. Someone at Airbnb laughed at me because I used a for loop instead of lodash on an array. He said "wow, you write it old school." Why write fast code when you can write triple transpiled bloats bullshit vis a vis Babel, flow and jsx.
Come check us out at https://massdrop.com
I'm gonna echo on Winamp. Now a Linux user, I really miss a real good mp3 player. Winamp was light, aesthetic and very good on its design. One feature I still miss is the global hotkeys, you could map Ctrl+Shift+Z to go back one song, on any window you were (hence the 'global'). I used to map the Z-X-C-V-B (the default bindings for Previous/Play/Pause/Stop/Next) to the CTRL+Shift+$key binding, and I felt like a wizar…
IMB Model M keyboard [1] [1] http://clickykeyboards.com/
Macromedia Freehand, in particular deleting bezier points but keeping the shape intact (ie simplifying). Illustrator still hasn't quite caught up. For any illustration, it's useful to have as few control points as possible. This is particularly useful when making SVGs for the web; it renders faster, and an ability to hand edit the SVG is useful for animation etc. Every font design package has this feature; Illustrato…
I'm now using Inkscape and only that, but it's not even close to the quality and precision of freehand.
Such a shame.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fellow Grooveshark refugee here. Spotify doesn't quite come close: small library (only 'real' artists, and sometimes not even those), no way to put custom stuff in there and sync it at least with your own devices, Grooveshark not only had customer support but damn good customer service , and then there are broadcasts with the chat feature and song voting... Yeah, all the good bits are gone. I had a paid subscription…
Grooveshark is still functional right? I just registered on it after reading you.. playing stuff right now!
Flash. No, really. JavaScript hasn't quite caught up to what was possible ten years ago. I'm tire of waiting for browsers to agree on video formats and protocols. Sometimes a benevolent dictator really is better.
But there were too many downsides with it when it combined coding and it was a constant battle, so overall I'm actually very much OK since I've stopped developing with it since 2007.
It's just another reason with I don't like Adobe and I'll do my best to avoid paying for their products.
4DOS. Tab complete in DOS! Wikipedia says its now open source. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4DOS
Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're pretty much the equivalent of the Japanese soldier who got stranded in the Philippines and kept fighting WWII until the 1970s. HTML mail won . If you work in an office they will use either Exchange or Google Apps; Exchange's default configuration is a fuck you to text-based mail clients. Hope you like all your email looking like this, because the only response you’ll get from your sysadmin should…
You can just pipe your email through something that removes HTML. Outlook seems to just ignore line breaks by default. But, there is probably a mime type to get around that.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Compare it to a board made in the 70s or 80s. I can buy Scrabble for $20, rather than $40 in 1985 money.
Please let me pay $40, or $100, for something that will last a lifetime. That 70s-80s board my mother has is still in near pristine condition, and it has been used a hell of lot over 30 years. My friend owns one that is a couple of years old, rarely gets used, and yet some of the letters are nearly illegible; more than a few of the point values have rubbed away. The board is cheap, the tiles are junk, and the racks m…