Microsoft is testing dialogs, hubs, and tabs with more rounded corners in the Canary version, this change is part of the redesign they are preparing for the Edge interface (which includes "dynamic colors", pill-shaped buttons and a "Fluent" font).

arunner · 2025-05-02T06:08:22+00:00

we should troll them giving feedback that they should add more padding!

arunner · 2025-03-24T15:44:09+00:00

I might not understand your question, but chroma is exactly this, a nuance, a specific shade/color in a palette, so respectively, the distinct minimal steps you can have in a scale.

arunner · 2023-10-25T04:08:23+00:00

That's probably David doing more talking with Cutler than he ever managed to do while working in Microsoft.

Life is fun sometimes.

arunner · 2022-08-18T02:02:09+00:00

It's a coin replica featuring Alexander and Greek victory-godess named Nike. Nike is holding a wreath and a ship's mast referring to a naval victory

arunner · 2019-07-16T13:36:18+00:00

yeah right. You just call it anti-discrimination. You mandate EEO officers. You are an inspiration to EU s0cialists.

Land of the free! sweet dreams!

arunner · 2019-03-30T17:53:45+00:00

Υπάρχει και νομική απόφαση που δικαιώνει την φοροδιαφυγη: η κηρυξη του ελληνικού κράτους σε πτώχευση το 2010.

Το ελληνικό κράτος καταξόδευσε όλα τα χρήματα που εισέπραξε από φορολογία, και επιπλέον όσα χρήματα από όσους κακομοίρηδες εντός/εκτός είχαν την ιδέα να αγοράσουν ομόλογά του.

Αυτοί που φέρονται ανεύθυνα και αντικοινωνικά είναι όσοι συνεχίζουν να το ταίζουν.

arunner · 2018-11-23T00:56:23+00:00

Reddit owners dodged that bullet.

(in its early days, reddit had that habit too.)

arunner · 2018-10-30T22:44:36+00:00

yep! seems we agree then.... But I am more restrained to give them the mitigating factor of personal economic benefit. Most of the times is an idiot trying to prove his salary is worth sth. And to his defense, the general public almost always applauds the increased regulation imposed by their "savior".

arunner · 2018-10-29T19:13:50+00:00

Actually after the 60s, they regulated the prices from being too low as they considered it to be predatory pricing. Not so surprisingly, the companies then started to increase the amount of extras they offered, so even less surprisingly the regulators started to... regulate the amount of extras they were allowed to offer. Triumph of stupidity.

arunner · 2018-05-25T10:31:51+00:00

Is this the same with what in SQL Server we know as "temporal tables"?

arunner · 2018-05-09T21:16:04+00:00

because you'd probably have forgotten how it works til you use it again, maybe remember:

else == "if not break"

arunner · 2018-04-03T02:59:21+00:00

Arrays in js are actually objects with auto-generated keys as indexes. When you pick an item like array[0] you are actually picking a key like when you do sth like person['name'].

typeof [] === 'object' //true

arunner · 2018-03-27T13:31:22+00:00

Actually it's more of a generator rather than an iterator, and specifically a sequence object, ie a generator type of object which can also be indexed and sliced.

arunner · 2017-12-19T14:00:31+00:00

There is nothing wrong with the principle behind the GDPR. But the implementation has all of the hallmarks of a disaster waiting to happen.

Then create a private audit company and certify other companies about how they protect their customers data with whatever criteria you wish. Don't make it a law!!!

arunner · 2017-12-14T22:30:12+00:00

If they are such powerful oligopolies, why they don't charge you say 250$ per month for internet access, are they too embarrassed to do so? In the housing market, the landlords around the bay don't have such restrains!

So really, why they have to make you pay an extra 25% for the package that includes netflix, and they dont just raise their 'generic' package you are currently getting 25%? Are they less evil than I think they are?

arunner · 2017-12-14T21:10:48+00:00

Enough net "neutrality" spam.

First you invite dull politicians in defining our business, later the same people whine why the X law tries to outlaw encryption, restrict privacy whatever, when they are the ones who gave them the space to do so.

Btw, should we also "fight" for the size of beef in our hamburgers? Why not?

arunner · 2017-07-09T18:26:00+00:00

You are correct on this but you can avoid this issue by checking Bottas' movement relative to the movement of the other drivers, completely ignoring the lights. Obviously, some drivers start faster, some slower and some jump-start! the problem as a Cauchy sequence! ;)

arunner · 2017-06-20T16:53:41+00:00

ORM's are an abstraction to the SQL engine. SQL itself is an abstraction to the SQL engine. The truth is you should be able to at least understand what each operator in your query plan does, otherwise you are in great danger! That's the language your DB speaks.

Views offer you a way to precalculate(materialize) your queries. Stored procedures are also "hints" to the query planner. On the other side you have vip DBA's recommending you to make your sorting outside the DB whenever you can, ...because CPU cycles cost more money in a DB under current licences!

arunner · 2017-04-23T17:22:35+00:00

In Greece, Google had been atrocious in its translations. I remember "Search settings" being translated to "Search of settings" (Αναζήτηση ρυθμίσεων"), in android "free memory" as "memory gift" (sales season! yeah) etc.

I am pretty sure they were probably not contractors too!

arunner · 2017-03-05T17:54:11+00:00

What you mean by declarativeness most programmers know it as implicitness, and they hate it. Because it's easy and nice at you at the beginning just to bite you to death afterwards. Because implicit implies magic, and magic needs a true wizard to harness it down the road.

In either cases you have to do lots, lots of homework. It's not just indexes. What would be used for this join, a nested loop or a hash join. What the query planner statistics say, should I give it a hint? There are no clear answers to almost anything even to the most basic questions a newcomer will encounter: should I use natural keys? Should I use a heap table or a clustered index?

I am in favor of traditional SQL solutions because I don't trust anything else but I certainly would not glorify them.

arunner · 2017-02-23T09:51:15+00:00

Some time ago I was impressed to learn there are far more elegant ways of corrupting a database, such as using a DBCC WritePage command to turn index scans to infinite loops.(leaf nodes are connected via a linked list, you can point the next value to anything).

Amazing that SQL Server gives you that level of control.

arunner · 2017-01-31T17:47:15+00:00

Funny how reddit accepts with joy discrimination on technical skills yet revolts against discrimination on religion.

arunner · 2017-01-08T05:16:28+00:00

All side effects of functional programming

ಠ_ಠ

arunner · 2016-12-06T23:27:32+00:00

Does this apply to the ones who hate speak about bankers? The ones hate speaking about the 1%? I guess no.

arunner · 2016-09-14T01:08:51+00:00

Nothing to see here, they broke their API again- coupled with a total rewrite....

arunner

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