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by 8draco8 9y ago
Nothing. Facebook could disappear tomorrow and I wouldn't miss it. It's broken ad/spam/lies nest that is probably unfixable at this point. The only reason I still use it is Messenger which is good for cross country, cros
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Ask HN: What is good book about hiring developers and team management?
10 points by 8draco8 9y ago|7 comments
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It's a real bug. Do not squeeze it. Turn off the screen an put a bright light next to the side for a night. Maybe you will be lucky and the bug will go away to the light. I wasn't so lucky and the bug died between layers of my scr
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by 8draco8 9y ago
Unfortunately the best way to find remote work is networking and word of mouth. You can try applying for jobs advertised as remote but it tend to be hard to get even to interview stage at those. I found that the good idea is to provide prod
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by 8draco8 9y ago
Movies no but I often watch comedy series like a "re run". Just turn it on when I am doing stuff in the kitchen to have Friends running in the background so I don't have to pay full attention to it. This is also not the full
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by 8draco8 9y ago
Europe is small in comparison to US and in EU borders virtually do not exists exactly like between states in US. You can go and work in any country in EU if you are EU citizen without any permissions or special paper. Plus there is a lot of
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by 8draco8 9y ago
The law/studio deals have to change. Netflix offers great movies and they lock it down to certain countries. For example I am big fan of Back To The Future. I can watch may favourite movie every month when I'm in UK but when I am
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by 8draco8 9y ago
Before Canonical decided to ditch Unity and go to Gnome I was using Ubuntu at work and Ubuntu Mate at home on laptop. Since Ubuntu dropped Unity I went full time to Ubuntu Mate and I am very happy with it. Apart from that I have KDE Neon on
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by 8draco8 9y ago
Consider using Adminer from https://www.adminer.org instead of phpMyAdmin, it's an one PHP file that you can upload anywhere without installation and just type the address in the browser and it will work out of the box. It
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by 8draco8 9y ago
My wife had exactly the same issue. We went to ER with pain that looked like appendicitis, but after the tests and a night at the hospital (they checked her in for the night) they found out it was just a cysts and we could go home with some
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Who Invented Copy and Paste Command? (2015)(unicheck.com)
1 points by 8draco8 9y ago|0 comments
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by 8draco8 9y ago
My chaotic good character says release it! Or at least write a blog post about it, how it is exploitable etc. but either don't give the information about company or preferably say who it is, proof that this can be done but don't g
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by 8draco8 9y ago
Short answer is: I don't. In my home office I have external monitor and laptop screen is used just as email/slack screen to keep an eye on notifications. In rare occasions when I am on the go this small screen in enough. It's
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by 8draco8 9y ago
Recently Thinkpad X230, i5, 8GB RAM, SSD. Honestly I don't need more for web dev, mostly backend. I have custom build PC in storage with AMD FX8520, 16RAM and some Nvidia GPU that I could use and objectively would be faster but my X230
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by 8draco8 9y ago
As an Amazon Fire Stick user I am somehow glad that they did that. YouTube is part of my daily TV watching and it would be be if I would have to change the device just to watch YouTube videos. Amazon s should open more widely their app sto
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by 8draco8 9y ago
It's cheap, it's sticker! How company can sell "laptops and all-in-one powerhouses meticulously crafted to run Linux." and put a sticker on one of the keys because they couldn't "meticulously" prepare keyb
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by 8draco8 9y ago
One more thing: > designed and customised to run Linux - and only Linux. But super key still have Windows logo.
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by 8draco8 9y ago
Don't want to sound rude but: "created"? Or just resold whatever Compal/Clevo are building with hand picked some components like WiFi card that happen to have drivers in Linux kernel?
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by 8draco8 9y ago
Yes but in those cars traction control is usually off. In Tesla extremely precise traction control may work in your favour giving only as much power as tires can handle effectively allowing to near zero time loss on regaining tracktion. In
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by 8draco8 9y ago
Despite the spectacular failures of hiring teams I don't think that recruitment process of those companies was entirely wrong. Of course there is a space for an improvement but big companies with big teams are looking for different peo
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by 8draco8 9y ago
Once I found very nice forum about linux servers. I found it thanks to my friend saying I have to check it out. After spending some time there this forum started to showing up on first page of google every time I looked some solution for my
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by 8draco8 9y ago
It's even worse. Buying bleeding edge phone today will bring you less features than before. No headphone jack, need to use dongles, no home button and very convenient finger print reader for authentication, awkward gestures instead of
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by 8draco8 9y ago
UK is a bad idea considering Brexit. You should really choose country that you are living in. If you want to go trough a trouble of company in another country you can look in to Malta, Ireland, Austria or Estonia.
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by 8draco8 9y ago
The status is in correct because access to repos is also down, not only website.
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by 8draco8 9y ago
Investigating - Following reports from customers starting at 12:45 UTC, Bitbucket Cloud became unavailable. Our engineering team is currently investigating this issue. We will provide an update as soon as we have further information. Oct 1
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by 8draco8 9y ago
(EU citizen living in UK) Yes. Brexit tipped it over the edge. Because of brexit GBP went down which become big lost for me when investing outside of GBP. Even more interesting, current startup that I am working for, decided that it's
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by 8draco8 9y ago
It's not the problem of Silicon Valley it's the problem of investors throwing money at anything that is located in SV. You can still make some good money in SV you just have to invest in a startup with real future not just a good
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by 8draco8 9y ago
Recruiters are there for a reason. I respect them even when they are a little bit annoying. We as tech industry are so spoiled with jobs looking for us not the other way around that we forget how great it is to have a recruiter that you can
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by 8draco8 9y ago
I am not fan of replacing classic pricing model with recurring payments but instead of forcing recurring payment, allow that option for extra feature. Make the base app as it is now and add something on top of that for small fee. Like I sug
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by 8draco8 9y ago
Yes. They could make some kind of small cloud service to pay for on a monthly/yearly basis. I would gladly pay for a service that would allow me to share my Sublime settings, addons and projects across all my Sublime installations. Thi

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