Might be a net improvement, as the quality of the devices was headed downward even when the organization was fully staffed. I'd be content for the devices to be left alone in stasis instead of having someone tinker with something and break it, just as they made reliable Bluetooth connectivity that I used to take for granted into a daily exercise in frustration.
A happy customer! What a rarity. It was immensely tough to get the basics working on top of Symbian (Maemo was a breeze) so the experience was wonky and, frankly, kind of crappy. QML and Qt Quick were going to be the salvation, but we ran out of time. I hate what we did to Trolltech.
I wanted to jump in and praise this project. After INSTEON suddenly shut down last month, I was able to set up Home Assistant and restore control to the perfectly functional network of devices orphaned by their makers.
I don't know if the Moment.js folks are reading this, but THANK YOU for your commitment to stability and security fixes.
Not all of us are in a situation where we're iterating through the JavaScript new hotness every couple years and still have significant legacy systems to maintain and support.
I pulled in moment.js 5 years ago for a suite of state death and birth certificate registration apps we are working on.
Due to the amount of “business logic” and small staff size on these, they take years to roll out. I appreciate that this library will “hold still” for a few years.
Not all of us are churning out a new e-commerce app every 3 months. E.g. we replaced the birth certificate app from the 80s, and I expect some version of our app to be around for at least a decade, albeit with patches for new browsers on the front end and new Java app servers on the back end.
Santa's Map to Christmas is an app for Android and iOS devices where I've been geocoding classic Christmas stories for the holiday season. I read through the stories, extract the contexts where places are mentioned and geocode those places so readers know where places like Bethlehem or Ebenezer Scrooge's offices are located. For places where I can find illustrations, I include images with the entries for a rich location-aware experience.
I hope HNers find some joy in this creation, and have a very happy holiday!
Lovecraft kind of covered this in his Randolph Carter stories. Check out "The Silver Key"[1] as a prequel and "Through the Gates of the Silver Key"[2] as the payoff. It's not the typical horror he's known for, but definitely incorporates his larger cosmic themes.
I upgraded my late-2008 iMac with Mavericks to see if it performed better than Mountain Lion given that my machine's maxed out at 4GB of RAM and my experience thus far has been that overall, the system is more responsive, but there's a lot more latency in doing things like restoring backgrounded applications that haven't been quit, but are still running. It may be that my machine is too old, but Mavericks has just shifted the latency around in this case.
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