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Please accept my sincerest thanks.

Ah, well, the default that comes on the distro was the culprit there. Fixed now. Thanks!

GitHub already deals with a window of half screenwidth poorly, as in requiring horizontal scrolling to see things. That's what I meant.

But I also need the horizontal space! I very often tile windows side by side to allow developing while seeing the results, or while reading documentation.

Maybe I'm just picky. I don't know. Chrome does the job pretty well though, even with the bookmarks bar turned on.

A vertical tabs bar would make it impossible to use many sites, like GitHub.

Ah, well, when you Google for "smaller firefox [interface/menus]" you just get results like:

"How to make the menus in Firefox larger" (no thanks)

"How to install a compact theme in Firefox" (which doesn't really help)

Thanks though! Between your response and notes on how much more responsive the new FF is, I'll give it yet another shot. :)

Manjaro Cinnamon. I love everything else about it.

I find curated lists better for exploration than search, but perhaps I just lost my ability to search whimsically. To each their own I guess.

I guess it's just Linux then. Ah well, I hope you enjoy it anyway. I'm still going to donate to Mozilla at the end of the year. If nothing else, competition is great and their documentation is amazing.

Thanks! Hadn't tried on Windows.

Maybe these are silly things to complain about with fellow techies, but the things that prevent me from switching to Firefox:

The menu bars are enormous even on a compact theme. Bigger than on Chrome. I only have so much vertical space to spare.

When opening a new window, the address bar isn't the first thing to receive focus, unlike on Chrome. With Chrome, I just bang out WINKEY + C + H + R + ENTER + part of query + ENTER and I'm pretty much there

Now if only people would stop using `@here` for every little thing, it'd be easier to separate "blue" notifications from "red" and Slack would actually be the perfect model of async communication. I could prioritize whether to pull myself from my current task to look or not.

Doesn't work when people just write "@here, making nachoes" all day.

`@here` should really be yellow. Only direct communications red. Or something other than the current system.

And yet what I struggle most with is identifying who, if anyone, benefits from this. Who, if anyone, controls this.

Or is it all just chaotic feedback?

This new flavor of conservatism is so strange in light of how bound to free market ideals most flavors of conservatism are.

In general, I really quite dislike Conservative/Liberal labels as political stances are not two-dimensional, but rather multidimensional. Parties are loose alliances of disparate groups. And somehow there's this rising contingent of neocons, who also happen to dislike SpaceX.

Does anyone understand this?

Edit: I want to clarify that the alternative to private enterprise competing for government contracts (usually military, again usually a conservative delight) is direct government sponsorship, i.e. NASA.

SpaceX is one of those cases where the free market actually has been more effective. So why not seize on it?

I've done development with all the databases, languages and packages installed on the host machine, as well as with vagrant. With the VM, I have to ssh in, or switch windows to run tests, whereas before I could just run the tests in vim. How do people achieve fluency with these?

I suppose I could install some more of my tools on the VM, but if you take that to its absurd conclusion, I'm just running a clone of my host on the VM.

It seems more useful, maybe, to just run databases and other services in the VM. Those are the more difficult bits to manage usually. A good programming language already has version and package management facilities.

Or perhaps am I missing something? Anyone have another workflow?

Prime number calculator in Game of Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68nEX5CEmZE

Yeah, it's not ethical to give those out without basically already having committed to interviewing the candidate.

I've always liked essay writing. I mean, not so much as an assignment, but they're satisfying to bring together; from perfecting the construction of individual sentences, to structuring the flow of paragraphs.

To that end, I quite like writing documentation, especially after finishing a large milestone. It's a good break from just coding, while also being very helpful for the team as a whole.

Really cool rocks, though.

I find it curious how one can implant code like this into existing codebases. It takes us a while to code review and deploy, and when we deploy we overwrite what's already on production

I should hope something happens. This is a monumental fuckup.

The engines, though, absolutely

What!? No Antarctica!?

Ah yes, the eminent moral authority of PayPal.

Each standard deviation of excellence earned along any dimension extracts a greater toll on all others. It's good to have a specialty along one or two axes, especially given that you may not care much to be good at the grand lot of the other available skills you could attain. But to truly excell (3 or more sigma, let's say) is time-expensive.

Worse if the manager is incompetent; quibbles over minor details in code review, yet railroads through massive PRs with endless methods just haphazardly strewn into monster classes with no modularity or sense.