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sthomas1618on Amazon Chime

Zoom competitor?

sthomas1618on D3 v4.0.0 released

http://oli.me.uk/2015/09/09/d3-within-react-the-right-way/

https://github.com/Olical/react-faux-dom

sthomas1618on .NET mocking frameworks, a comparison

Agreed. I find NSubstitute incredibly easy to use compared to others.

sthomas1618on Squash your commits

I find SourceTree to be surprisingly effective. Also, try setting Sumblkme Text to be your core.editor in git

sthomas1618on What Science Fiction Movie or Novel Is Most Prescient Today?

A: Brave New World

sthomas1618on Volkswagen – detects when your tests are being run in CI, and makes them pass

....uhhh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_violation...

sthomas1618on Linus Torvalds did not commit this

I don't think that could happen:

1. The content of the PR will stay the same. In this case, the only thing changing is the number of commits. Unless you expect someone to blame (or praise you) for the number of commits? 2. Git will track the Committer and Author separately.

sthomas1618on Linus Torvalds did not commit this

You are correct, the Author will stay the same and the Committer will be the person who squashed.

sthomas1618on Why Open Offices?

Not all noise-canceling headphones are built alike. Its my understanding that it really depends on which ones you buy:

http://productivity.stackexchange.com/questions/7213/do-nois...

sthomas1618on Why Open Offices?

While its true that headphones are associated with hearing loss, there are lots of headphones out there that have noise-canceling capabilities without being excessively loud.

sthomas1618on Valve has put Ultimate General: Gettysburg on the Steam store main page

The revisionism happened almost immediately after war ended. Basically, the South felt bad they lost a war over a really evil cause.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy

sthomas1618on Valve has put Ultimate General: Gettysburg on the Steam store main page

The Confederacy never stood for state's rights. That's part of the Lost Cause historical revisionism. In reality, the Confederacy used both state and federal legislature in attempts to keep slavery legal when necessary.

sthomas1618on C# 7 Work List of Features

1. Resharper can sometimes really slow things down. Turning off Solution Analysis will often help with that. Also, I seem to have much better performance with VS 2013.

3. Did you try adding "*.csproj merge=union" to the gitattributes? I have never had a csproj merge conflict since adding that.

4. That really comes down to a preference. For me I feel the IntelliJ style keymap is better, but I would take the window layout of VS over WebStorm (just naming one i use often) any day of the week.

5. If your team decided to not have namespaces match the folder structure, thats their prerogative.

6. "Go to Declaration"?

7. NuGet has solved this problem for me.

But you're right, the C# ecosystem is certainly not perfect. Most people seem to agree that msbuild is frustrating to work with. And I really really wish csproj had wildcard support for including files.

sthomas1618on Google Glass sales halted

I think the concept is ahead of its time, but definitely not the technology. The whole problem with Glass is the technology simply isn't there yet: it is way too big. If you could fit Glass into the size of regular pair of sunglasses, I think it would have a huge appeal. (Or in my dream sci-fi scenario, contact lenses). As it is right now, its obvious and cumbersome. The mere sight of it is intrusive and awkward to those around you. I want the HUD capabilities of Glass, but without the weird stares of those around.

sthomas1618on Police allow car break-ins to become a Seattle growth industry

I'm not sure about that. I don't know about SF, but in many other CA cities, they have plenty of positions open, but are having trouble finding qualified candidates. Being in law enforcement is not very appealing.

sthomas1618on A 33-Year-Old NPR Story Convinced Me Google Glass Will Stop Looking So Dorky

I think that is a fair criticism of Google Glass. But I'm worried about my privacy in regards to governments, not fellow citizens. In fact, I think wearable computing like Google Glass could be a game changer in keeping governments accountable. It could be really convenient in recording what you believe to be police misconduct here in the States (instead of blatantly fumbling for your mobile). Or, provided it is affordable, it could be powerful tool to be handed out to people in the Sudan.

sthomas1618on RedScript – like CoffeeScript, in Ruby

I always felt CoffeeScript was closer to Python then Ruby. But maybe its just the significant whitespace that stands out to me.

sthomas1618on Google Chromecast

Will I be able to use free Hulu on Chrome through it? If so, this could make subscribing to Hulu Plus unneeded.

sthomas1618on A new Gmail inbox

Have you tried enabling keyboard shortcuts and pressing "d"?

sthomas1618on A new Gmail inbox

Go to your gmail. Enable keyboard shortcuts. Press "d".

sthomas1618on A new Gmail inbox

I love the new compose also.

sthomas1618on Exposed Webcam Viewer

Wow, this is both terrifying and fascinating. The FAQ mentioned viewing these is a legal grey area. Anybody know about the legality of this in the United States?

sthomas1618on Predictions holds true: "Facebook is a Ponzi Scheme"

I find myself clicking ads on only two sites: Reddit and Facebook (among the 20 or so sites I don't adblock). Facebook has been pretty good at personalizing ads towards me (although I had to hide the ads that went along the lines of "learn to code at so-so online uni"), but what gets me to click is the "This many friends liked this". Digital word-of-mouth really is effective. Maybe I'm some extraordinary exception... I would still think Facebook has an amazing potential make a profit. I mean, it sure helps that it has 900 million customers/products.