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BlueDingo··on Microsoft buys corp.com so bad guys can’t
Don't the issues of intent only come up after some legal kerfuffle? What law-breaking event would cause an investigation here?
BlueDingo··on Windows 10 Hosted App Model
The app being able to snap the screen is different than the user.
BlueDingo··on Working with Errors in Go 1.13
Unless edited, I don't think that's what GP said. Panics are the way to get stacktraces, not the way to routinely handle errors.

Your top level comment about 403 errors made me assume you did not know about panic. Obviously your particular situation may have prevented it but I've always built Go programs from source (not linking binaries) which means I could always panic whenever I needed a stack trace.

BlueDingo··on Capstone, a Tablet for Thinking
Yes! When I first got into OneNote (2007 version?) I put a lot of effort into using and customising tags but quickly hit limits. Even if other features never updated, an overhaul of the tags system could drastically increase OneNote's usability.

It always felt odd that the same app that reliably converted my handwriting to text a decade ago had a small, fixed number of tag slots and no ability to import icons. I remember thinking "well surely this was a v1, they'll improve it in later versions" but no, not even the tiniest change.

BlueDingo··on Why Zig When There Is Already CPP, D, and Rust? (2017)
I think you nailed it. I'm so comfortable seeing words that symbols can blur into the background and require extra effort to focus on. Languages with multi character symbols and chains of symbols add to the discomfort.

Once I've learned the language and internalized the semantics they mostly fade away, except in cases like C++ where you get multiple asterisks and whatnot.

I'm not the above poster but I also dislike the symbols usage I've seen in Rust. I'm on mobile so I can't show examples (and I don't know the language at all) but it has the same smell as symbols in C++ though not as bad. Like character silhouettes in Team Fortress 2, symbols need to appear distinct. Chains of them should be limited. My first impressions of Rust felt like the symbols or operators were less than ergonomic. Small or blending together.

Disclaimers about preference, solo vs team, personal vs enterprise, APL vs La-Z-Boy.

BlueDingo··on The diabolical genius of the baby advice industry
While this is true, infants do not eat grains and many are breastfed almost exclusively especially if money is an issue. A $5 bottle of D3 vitamin drops to supplement breastmilk for months is much cheaper than buying formula.
BlueDingo··on New Surface Pro
Regarding drawing and CAD programs, have you heard of Moment of Inspiration (MoI)? The interface is designed to be suitable for stylus input with fewer and fatter buttons, scrubbing, etc. More importantly, the workflows also seem to be designed around this so repeating or chaining actions is easy and you never feel like stylus input is cramped or lacking precise control.

Other pros:

  -fully customizable HTML UI
  -fast, lightweight but powerful
  -advanced actions (cloning along a path) aren't archaic hidden abilities for advanced users, they're discoverable and usable by new uers
  -reasonable price
Cons:

  -not as serious/enterprise as some people might need
  -due to semi-indie status it probably won't serve as your ONLY 3d modeling tool with only a handful of file format option
All said, it makes for a fantastic addition to existing toolbelts but could also be a complete game changer for a certain class of users.
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