“I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft” (2004)

Post by dexterhaslem » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 10:37 PM UTC

plainnoodles wrote: post #63

ydnaclementine wrote: post #61

Naive question, today can you work at microsoft as use a mac for development on the job? (non windows specific development of course) I think about how if you work at apple, you're probably strongly pushed to not use an android phone (I'm sure some exist). Compared to google, you could probably use either android or ios (even with google "owning" android), or mac, windows, or their own flavor of ubuntu for developmen…

IME device/os choice is usually more around IT security than weird cultish things. I.e. my current job, we only use iOS/mac because then IT only has to worry about keeping a fleet of iOS/macs patched and secured. Instead of Windows and a million different linux distros. I also personally think they picked osx because devs using windows probably won't care (since windows is already not great for dev), mac people are h…

Post by Saris » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 10:46 PM UTC

drcongo wrote: post #42

Back around Vista time I went to watch a talk by one of MS's UI designers about all the time and effort they'd put into designing the Vista interface. He gave a demo showing a walk-through of some set-up "wizard" and talked about all the details he thought were important. At no point did he mention the fact that depending on which screen you were on the "next" and "previous" buttons would swap places with the "cancel…

Post by thaumasiotes » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 10:56 PM UTC

stavros wrote: post #117

sjackso wrote: post #105

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Alternative to escape in vi and vi-alikes: control-[ I recommend committing this to muscle memory. It takes two fingers, but is more comfortable than reaching for escape on most keyboards. I prefer mapping caps lock to control rather than to escape, but that's another good alternative. But in any case it's nice to have another option for quitting vim in case something terrible has happened to your escape key, as it s…

Map Caps Lock to both! Tap is Esc, hold is Ctrl.

Post by Jedd » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 11:01 PM UTC

trashcan wrote: post #114

sjackso wrote: post #105

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Alternative to escape in vi and vi-alikes: control-[ I recommend committing this to muscle memory. It takes two fingers, but is more comfortable than reaching for escape on most keyboards. I prefer mapping caps lock to control rather than to escape, but that's another good alternative. But in any case it's nice to have another option for quitting vim in case something terrible has happened to your escape key, as it s…

ctrl+c also works if you are using vim (and not vi). one handed!

Post by brundolf » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 11:18 PM UTC

webmobdev wrote: post #128

brundolf wrote: post #124

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I use either Slack or Dropbox, both of which work fine

And what if your friend doesn't have it on their non-Apple device? You waste time because you have to use third-party solutions for something that is built-in the device but restricted due to the software (ios limiting Bluetooth or Wifi Transfer to not work non-Apple devices).