Ugh Logitech released a new flagship mouse and I can't stand it, so disappointed. Back to performance mx I guess.

Well if he called me I would have gladly done exactly that, and I do have a local non-profit alternative education group that focuses on giving inner city kids creative education (that has a web developmemt team) that I refer small business to regularly.

A quick email is not really a great way to get me to do something that takes more than 5 mins.

Yea I am a bit burned out at the moment but I figure most are, really hard to avoid.

another company with serious culture issues. This time they're more to do with everyone who works there being a creep though.

I use the mx 518. It's wired and old school but I absolutely love it.



I wish Apple made good mouses. That's the one area that they are lacking on.

Yeah I cart mine to and from the office etc so really like the convience of wireless. I heavily rely on both forward/back and page up/page down on my mouse so I like a bunch of buttons. But this thing (mx master) is so comically annoying I'm surprised they put it out there like this. Not only is it way too large for me and then probably 1/2 of women, it has this horrible horizontal mouse wheel? and the thumb buttons are like sharp? yeah. I mean I guess if you used horizontal scrolling a ton in like photoshop then sure but as a niche product maybe not your best/most expensive mouse.

tl;dr mice are serious business.

Links?

I can't stand any wire on my mouse. Pure torture. I still use the MX revolution that Logitech hasn't made for 5+ years.

Just for sync, there's a local copy of the DB on each machine.

Own network...I'm on a pretty iffy home network with dynamic IPs. It's quite the hassle to set up dyndns and the like+the network is not exactly reliable.
My initial thought was I could just put the DB on a usb key and plug it into the laptop/desktop as needed since I never use both machines. Only problem is that isn't so cool for the cellphone.

*Dinter, amirite?

Is there such a thing as having a folder on your lappy that doesn't store anything locally, just auto-uploads to a cloud account?

Like, dropbox is nice and all, but if you install it straight out then you d/l everything to your pc. If you have space constraints, that might not be the best solution.

So i'd rather something I can use like a local drive that's entirely cloud based, instead of something that stores locally and backs up to the cloud.

Is this a thing?

i'd want this too, something that basically auto-uploads and then deletes locally, but still has the icons for the files which you could then re-download on demand. i've never found anything quite like that.

well ****, if only there existed some part of this forum where a lot of people who write code could gather and spitball some ideas before making a working model.


unless you were being sarcastic because something like that totally does exist and i just haven't found it

Oh the horizontal scrolling is weird. Who the hell needs that?! 30 inch monitors ftw or GTFO! amirite?

But the one cool thing that the mouse has is it can be paired via bluetooth or usb. So it would be great for both my mac(bluetooth) and desktop (usb). If anyone has a link to something like that but without the 99.99 price tag, let me know and I will love you forever!

Google Drive almost does that but it does download things locally.

I think you can stop it from downloading things locally tho.

google drive is like exactly the same thing as drop box, as i just found out

they say you can disable offline mode, but at least on mac there's no obvious way to, so it's pretty much the same thing as drop box only with more free storage

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ahhh, you have to do it online

How many commits/lines is too much for a pull request? I made a mistake of keeping on pushing commits to one pull request and it eventually got to 900+ lines of code and 13 commits. Which is a pain for whoever is reviewing.

I could checkout a different branch, but what if it depends on the first pull request? Or does that not matter?

Same. Mine can now only last about 3 days before needing charge, and it's cradle is a fiddly bastard to make it connect.

My first thought when I clicked Grue's link was "Holy ****, that's a new MX Revolution!" but perhaps not quite as it seems.

My work paid a lot of money for an internal Box account and it is absolute dog****. Our creative teams sends link after link that get weird errors and don't work.

I thought Box was a rebranded Dropbox for the longest time.

There's a balance between pain of reviewing and pain for developing. I'd say my average PR is around 200 lines of changes.

You can branch from your first branch and everything will be fine as long as the first branch is going to be merged first. So if you have master, you branch for feature A1, and then you branch A2 from A1, everything is ok as long as as A1 is merged to master before A2 (or A2 can be merged into A1).

I don't do it very often, but sometimes I want something reviewed (and possibly merged) while I'm going to keep working on the same code.

So apparently Angular 2.0 is dropping controllers in favour of components and dropping 2-way databinding. And presumably changing name to Angureact.

Hard to get a sense for how it hangs together at the moment. The thing I super donotwant.jpg about React is scattering markup through code, so that would be the only dealbreaker.

This was in the works for many years. A new CEO didn't walk in and say "let there be open source." No way MS moves that fast. This was all in the plans under Balmer.

They are open sourcing things that were free anyways, and this doesn't matter one iota to the average person or programmer. VS community and is and always was free, but not Professional and Enterprise. The .NET was never paid, just closed source. Maybe this will help .NET on Linux and Mac, but when you have to pay for VS and SQL Server, it doesn't change anything really. FWIW, emacs is an awesome C# editor. Maybe better integration with PostgreSQL and MySQL will make .Net more palatable, but I'm not sure what is happening on that front.

Powershell is just awful. They can add whatever they want to it, but it won't be any better. Deployment doesn't make a huge difference. Win still has CR/LF, so Win -> Linux deploy isn't going to go very well in the raw, which sort of defeats the purpose. You can SSH into a Linux server using Putty, which is shockingly easy to do.

It is just the same ol' same ol': offer some crack for free, get you locked in, then hammer you with the bills when you decide "free" sucks. No real difference from their prior business model.

(I'm pretty drunk right now, so hopefully the rant isn't too far off-base)

I agree with you dave but I think it is too early to know their game plan.
I'm really pleased with how they are supporting the guys working on Nodejs.

Visual Studio Code runs really fast and debugging is way faster on it compared to debugging on Intellij's IDE. Yet Visual Studio Code is too lightweight for my taste and I think people will choose atom over it, even without the nice fast debugging that they are missing out on.

C# could easily do harm to Java if they got their eggs in order with multi platform.

On side note: thermal paste got replaced fine today, got unlucky with a screw and top broke off but doesn't bother me because laptop seems to be doing fine without it (Screw that holds down heatsink for GPU). Temps are great now.

I used to smoke (yay for quitting ~3.5 years ago) but smoke is the worst for computer components. Instead of a super light dust that you can easily blow off with compressed air, it would leave really thick brown nasty stuff that wouldn't ever come clean. I remember going at a case fan with a toothpick and rubbing alcohol for about 20min before admitting defeat.

You shouldn't have to buff the top of the CPU. The term for that is called lapping. It helps even it out but it's really overkill unless you're pushing the boundries of overclocking it.

Can anyone recommend a service that allows you to protect files (mainly video) by requiring users to authenticate before being able to stream them? Think of a situation where you may want people to purchase a license, and then once they've obtained it they can login and stream videos.

I have a good idea on how to roll this on my own but I'd rather use a third party service.

VS 2013 Community Edition which came out in November is essentially VS2013 professional and it is free.