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zbuttram··on Python in Visual Studio Code
Solargraph is pretty good, but RubyMine is still much better at least in my experience. Hopefully Solargraph gets there eventually and I can go back to using VSCode for everything.
zbuttram··on Python in Visual Studio Code
JetBrains still has some areas where they excel compared to VSCode, specifically Ruby for me right now. Maybe that will change as Solargraph[1] improves?

[1] https://github.com/castwide/solargraph

zbuttram··on Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name Is 'Butts'
I haven't run into this problem yet, but I certainly expect to at some point. Especially since my last name is even a bit more suggestive than simply 'butts' or 'weiner'.
zbuttram··on The Discord Store Beta
In my experience most games with in-game voice chat don't turn it off when you're dead anyway so it wouldn't matter.
zbuttram··on Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
There are some quality third-party clients on mobile. I like Apollo on iOS right now.
zbuttram··on Google Adds 'Kodi' to Autocomplete Piracy Filter
They only removed it from autocomplete/suggestions, not from indexing.
zbuttram··on 640k Really Is Enough for Anyone
In some cases there may be replacements, but they would require newer hardware as well (think expensive lab equipment, not just workstations), which brings the cost much higher than simply replacing the software. My father's environmental testing lab is currently in this predicament, but they finally got rid of their last Windows 3.11 (and older) machines a couple of years ago so it's not like they aren't trying, it just needs to happen incrementally.
zbuttram··on Trello Desktop for Mac and Windows: Get More Done Without Distractions
Yeah, whatever is doing the resizing isn't doing a great job. You can see the original looks fine if you remove the query string: https://blog.trello.com/hs-fs/hubfs/desktop-shortcuts-conden...

It's also pretty darn big though.

zbuttram··on Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta
Yep, but they fixed it already, fix rolled out with the last major Windows 10 update.
zbuttram··on Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta
No plans to support specifically, but a surprising amount of things work simply due to their effort making the rest of it work.
zbuttram··on Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta
From what I understand it's mainly translating system calls. It's been described as being like a reverse WINE, hence everyone replying 'Not an Emulator' at you. :)
zbuttram··on Ask HN: What programming blogs do you follow?
Surprised to see http://2ality.com/ missing. First place I go for every new JavaScript lang feature/proposal.
zbuttram··on Ask HN: HNers who got their “Show HNs” on homepage, how is your site doing now?
Same. Bulma is my favorite CSS library to work with.
zbuttram··on Ask HN: How do you backup your linux system?
Veeam Agent for Linux is a surprisingly nice and easy-to-use image-based backup for free. Backup my two home servers to my NAS, which syncs up to Backblaze B2.
zbuttram··on How to optimize React applications that use Redux
As others have said, it does allow you to get much messier with your code than the rigid structure of Redux so you have to be more careful with your structure. My first MobX app was (and in some ways still is) a bit of a mess in spots.

That said, my subsequent apps have gone much better and I definitely prefer it to Redux, but I can see the appeal of Redux's more structured approach.

zbuttram··on Windows 10 S won't let you change the default browser or switch to Google search
Apple also doesn't own a search engine though, I'm reasonably certain they would have tried the same thing if they did.
zbuttram··on Windows 10 S won't let you change the default browser or switch to Google search
If that applied to this situation then Apple would be in trouble here with iOS too. You can run any browsers available in the store, but can't change the default. At least Apple lets you change your search engine, but they also don't own one.
zbuttram··on In the Videogame Industry, Hiring People Is a Last Resort
Video games matter to many people, maybe not on the scale of a Sistine Chapel, sure, but there are legitimate efforts being made to preserve them like other works of art: https://gamehistory.org/who-we-are/
zbuttram··on Kodi Domain Seized by ICE – Homeland Security Investigations
Looks like it might be injected by CloudFlare though, judging by the rest of the `<head>`. Does ICE change DNS for seizures?
zbuttram··on Reducing power consumption for background tabs
Pretty sure socket.io will be fine unless it falls back to HTTP polling, which iirc it shouldn't do in the newest version of Chrome unless something is misconfigured on one end.
zbuttram··on GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code
Protocol? I kind of assumed things like Slack, Gitter, etc. were just using websockets that communicate with their backend.
zbuttram··on Apple proposes new web 3D graphics API
What people seem to be missing here is that based on available info it seems Microsoft isn't officially supporting Vulkan either. Sure Nvidia and AMD have released drivers for Windows that have Vulkan support, but we're talking about a web standard that would need to be implemented by browser makers and if Microsoft isn't going to use Vulkan, then what do they implement as the backing for this new standard in Edge? Probably DirectX. I think the idea is to sort out an API that would be compatible between all three due to Microsoft and Apple _both_ not wanting to officially support Vulkan over their own platforms in their browsers, regardless of the support at the OS level.
zbuttram··on Streama – A self-hosted streaming application with your own media library
From experience, that delay when you try to switch while it's using burn-in subtitles can increase quite a bit on slower servers, but as you said the switch does work (eventually).
zbuttram··on I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
And disabling DHT in your client. I've seen trackers that have that as a rule.
zbuttram··on Reddit overhauls upvote algorithm to thwart cheaters
Yeah, I'm also interested. That statement is like those local news promos people like to make fun of, "it's killing millions of Americans and you could be eating it for dinner, find out on tonight's news at 10!"
zbuttram··on Show HN: A DigitalOcean-like support community for your website in 3 minutes
Really looking forward to trying this out, but definitely need this first. Seems fine for users, but would rather not force my support team to log in with their social accounts.
zbuttram··on How We Knew It Was Time to Leave the Cloud
He technically only said they don't run on dedicated machines, not that they run on GCP. My guess would be Google has some sort of internal system that probably uses a bunch of the same software but is technically not GCP.
zbuttram··on Facebook is 1-2% responsible for the election?
Probably, but there does seem to be a trend according to some.

Haven't taken the time to confirm myself, but John Oliver's team pulled out numbers where stories being surfaced on the right were false almost twice as much as those on the left, though he points out the numbers on the left are not insignificant which is obviously still worrying.

zbuttram··on Ask HN: Will you really move away from Apple hardware?
Same here. I've done it a few times as a dual-boot with my desktop and had issues that caused me to uninstall after a month or two. I think the trick is going to be buying hardware that's 100% compatible from one of the lists people have put together.

I've had the same problem with every Linux distro I've tried, but I dumped them due to UX jank, not compatibility problems.

zbuttram··on Ask HN: Will you really move away from Apple hardware?
Thinking about Hackintosh-ing. Can take or leave the hardware for the most part (especially on desktop, but they do still have the best trackpad), but there's nothing better than macOS for what I want in my dev environment.
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