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cocolos commented on Zulip – Threaded real-time chat for distributed teams   zulip.com/... · Posted by u/capableweb
brink · 3 years ago
I've never used it. What's wrong with it?
cocolos · 3 years ago
UI is not great.
cocolos commented on New Lenovo ThinkPad Range with Ryzen 4000 and 4000 Pro Mobile   anandtech.com/show/15772/... · Posted by u/awiesenhofer
mrslave · 5 years ago
Hilarious. Long time Thinkpad fanboy here until I finally needed Lenovo support and it took 1 month to get a faulty part fixed under a next business day support plan.

The replacement was faulty. Replaced again (a little quicker this time) but there were still problems. They consider their job done. Never shopping Lenovo again.

Then for a new role I got a brand new XPS 13. Put Ubuntu on it and everything Just Works(tm). Very happy Dell user now. (Shame the sticker price is so high but it is a quality system.)

Also the Lenovo performance was never as good as it should have been. It turns out while it had a then current generation CPU it was a cheaper version than the competitors.

cocolos · 5 years ago
Same experience with the X1 Yoga. Power board issue. It took 6 weeks for them to finally tell me they couldn't fix it. They just refunded me, which was nice.
cocolos commented on Tree Style Tabs   addons.mozilla.org/en-US/... · Posted by u/gamma-male
chrismorgan · 7 years ago
Right clicking on a tab, I have an item `Tree Style Tab → Bookmark this tree…`. I use Firefox Nightly; this may be a Nightly feature, I don’t know.
cocolos · 7 years ago
It saves the tabs but it doesn't keep the hierarchy. I will try Nightly. Thanks!
cocolos commented on Tree Style Tabs   addons.mozilla.org/en-US/... · Posted by u/gamma-male
cocolos · 7 years ago
Anyone know of a way to bookmark the tree structure in TST?
cocolos commented on To-Do Lists Are Not the Answer to Getting Things Done   medium.com/personal-growt... · Posted by u/ingve
renaudg · 9 years ago
My personal experience is 100% in line with this, and it's beyond me why none of the major todo list apps feature drag & drop calendar integration.

I'm reluctantly using Things, and the closest thing it has is due dates and "hide this task until that date". Surely, it wouldn't be that hard to implement a daily planner view that brings up your day's calendar in the right pane, a list of upcoming tasks in the left one, and lets you drag them across ?

I feel orphaned ever since Google acqui-hired then shut down the only app that really nailed this workflow : Timeful. Its AI-based autoscheduling was only a bonus, the UI was marvelous. See https://gmail.googleblog.com/2015/05/time-is-on-your-sidewel... or for some background info: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2014/08...

Parts of Timeful have been added to the Google Calendar app but it's lacking, and nowhere near as close to a complete, magical and satisfying system as Timeful was.

More than a year later, I'm still desperately looking for good alternatives. "Plan" (https://getplan.co/) looks promising but not quite polished enough, and "Skedpal" seems overkill.

Anyone else in this situation ?

cocolos · 9 years ago
Agreed! I've looked for alternatives but they all miss the mark. I was considering building my own but haven't found the time.
cocolos commented on How a hacker's typo helped stop a billion dollar bank heist   reuters.com/article/us-us... · Posted by u/pavornyoh
FlyingLawnmower · 9 years ago
As someone totally ignorant in this space, how does opening a .PDF document allow for email hijacking (assuming it was actually a PDF)?

I think I'm stuck at how code is able to execute when opening a document inside a PDF viewer or something of the sort. Thanks for sharing your story!

cocolos · 9 years ago
If it's a pdf it could be a bug in Adobe Reader that allows the hackers to spread a virus
cocolos commented on Interview Questions for Hiring Top Performers   firstround.com/review/hir... · Posted by u/gkop
a3voices · 10 years ago
This would be very politically incorrect, but I'd wager the best way to find top performers is to ask "What do your parents do for work, and how much money do they make?" There is a very high correlation between the success of parents and their children.
cocolos · 10 years ago
This reminds me of the freakanomics episode: Parent's don't matter (http://freakonomics.com/2011/06/15/how-much-do-parents-reall...)
cocolos commented on Experimental Ebola drug cured 100% of monkeys tested   usatoday.com/story/news/n... · Posted by u/zefi
cocolos · 11 years ago
Last I checked I thought we were more closely related to primates not monkeys--not sure if that's of any significance.

u/cocolos

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