ryanoshea · HackerTrans

7 yıl öncediscuss

Sure, though my use case would look more like treating multiple destination devices as one logical AND, and running the backup only when all are present. I wouldn't need any guarantees w/r/t which files land on which device or the order they're written to, only that if sum(destination device storage) > size of folder to be backed up, everything from the folder makes it onto one of the devices.

ryanoshea

7 yıl öncediscuss

I've used Bvckup 2 for years and found it the most reliable solution for PC-driven backup and replication jobs on Windows. It has a few high-level feature limitations that have bugged me (splitting a large folder backup across multiple smaller drives, for example), but it nails the core competencies better than anything else I've used.

ryanoshea

7 yıl öncediscuss

Chrome's DevTools handles developing large unbundled webapps better. When your loader is reaching to the fs for thousands of source files for a single page load, Chrome performs significantly better than Firefox. Same goes for Ctrl+P jumping to files and debugging performance.

It's gotten a lot better over the last two years, especially when FF DevTools got support for source maps and TypeScript debugging, but it still lags enough to keep me using Chrome for my job, Firefox at home.

ryanoshea

8 yıl öncediscuss

Haven't read the full decision, but here's how I see it. Governmental agencies do not instruct users to get in touch via Twitter. There are dedicated phone lines, email addresses, offices, and websites that serve that purpose in an official capacity. Agencies who do conduct business in response to inquiries on Twitter do so as an added convenience on top of the other readily available public channels.

When Trump uses Twitter as his primary method of addressing citizens and announcing administration policies, then selectively prevents citizens from viewing those communications, he's doing something much different (in my mind) than a private company restricting the access of a person to a service whose terms of use they have violated.

The equivalence you drew doesn't seem valid — US citizens have no expectation or right to send communications to the Office of the President and have them read or acted upon. They do have that expectation/right to have equal access to public communications by the President.

ryanoshea

9 yıl öncediscuss

> It was a brilliant mix of graphs for flow control, premade boxes for all common data manipulation and scripting for that extra feature if needed

I work for a startup that builds a dataflow app platform that fits that description nicely. We support gathering data from databases, files, APIs, etc., full graph-based flow control, strong .NET types on everything, tons of premade boxes for common operations, and support for C#/Python/R/F#/VB for custom data manipulation. Here's a quick example dataflow: http://blog.composableanalytics.com/2016/09/25/querying-data...

ryanoshea

9 yıl öncediscuss

Out of curiosity, what customizations did you make to your UEFI setup? I run BitLocker and did the Anniversary and Creators updates without issue.

ryanoshea

12 yıl öncediscuss

Exactly. It's not new. It's just well done. Spotlight, Quicksilver, and Unity Lenses all had that functionality too.

ryanoshea

12 yıl öncediscuss

I agree. There's no lost functionality with the new screen, except not being able to see your desktop while you're in the Start screen. Let's think about what you can do in the traditional start menu:

- search for and browse for applications and settings (you can do this in the start screen)

- have quick access to favorite programs (this is what tiles are for)

- have quick access to settings shortcuts, like "Devices and Printers" (you can search for these)

- shut down/standby/power commands (these have been moved to a charm, but will return in 8.1 Update 1)

The only thing that has been changed, that people might not like, is the design, the layout, and possibly the change in UX getting from the start screen to a given action. But as far as I can see, every action you'd want to do on the start screen is just as accessible as it was in Windows 7.

To me, pressing the Start key on my keyboard and typing the first few letters of literally anything I want to do on my system is the most important UX component of Windows 8 & 8.1. Windows Vista introduced it, Windows 7 improved it, and now 8 and 8.1 made it shinier and faster. It's amazing to me how many people I see trying to use their computers without taking advantage of this functionality.

Of course, I might have just forgotten something. But it seems like people are mostly just complaining because it's different, regardless of whether it's actually worse.

ryanoshea

13 yıl öncediscuss

Make sure none of your extensions are blocking the Google AJAX Search API

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