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by 8draco8 9y ago
I think they finally faced the truth that over 90% of users was using "beta" version (actually their words and stats) and listened to some comments on HN. Good job guys! I'm glad that my favourite editor is finally out. EDIT:
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I don't read programming magazines. Blogs are better for that content. I am buying and reading car magazines and, because I'm Polish and a gamer that doesn't have time for gaming anymore, I am buying truly great CD-Action mag
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by 8draco8 9y ago
Linux on laptop is a big success but only for specific audience. Dell have a lot of sales with their XPS Developer Edition and Project Sputnik http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/01/dell-talk-linux-laptops-d...
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Your Windows installation is insecure full stop. No matter when you patched. Even if all vulnerabilities would be patched then there are still backdoors siting and waiting to be exploited.
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90% market share is a sum of marketing, good enough product 30 years ago, backwards compatibility and user habits. Many users, especially those living in browser, don't care about OS, they are perfectly fine on Ubuntu but they either d
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by 8draco8 9y ago
It seems like the best solution is to have monthly subscription model. That's what most companies are doing. Personally, as a customer, I like the idea of paying for an update. Let's consider Adobe CC subscription. Currently it&#x
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by 8draco8 9y ago
Audio Technica ATH-M40x at home and AKG K92 with upgraded ear pads. For 95% of the time I am using K92, they are light, comfortable (with new earpads) and have surprisingly good sound quality. I've moved to them from full time ATH-M40x
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by 8draco8 9y ago
Glassdoor is a great place to start your research https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/spotify
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by 8draco8 9y ago
First of all I can't believe that there was not even one decent junior dev among 400+. Last year I was in the same position as you but received far less applications (15-20). 3 of them was decent, one of them we employed and he turned
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I met couple of them: Soldier in the navy, served enough to fully retired. While being on retirement he learned HTML, CSS, PHP (around 2000s) and he is contractor to this day. Manager in warehouse. He was working there for 5+ years starting
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by 8draco8 9y ago
Trading one paper clip for a house https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_red_paperclip
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by 8draco8 9y ago
Buy used. It's cheaper and you can find great deals. Before you buy anything do your research, find which models are most reliable, which engine in each model is most reliable (there can be big differences), find websites where you can
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Go with VPS like Linode, Vultr or Digital Ocean. AWS is to expensive and complicated. If you choose DO you use promo code coderdigital which will give you $10 for free (2 months of cheapest server)
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I like Voxxed Days series of conferences https://voxxeddays.com . They are doing them all over Europe, good content and not crazy expensive. Here you have Voxxed Days Bristol https://www.youtube.com/channel/
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by 8draco8 9y ago
On macs with without SSD UX is lagy
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by 8draco8 9y ago
This is not supposed to be thrilling story. It's a news.
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by 8draco8 9y ago
This is seriously ugly design. It adds bulkiness to the phone, removes Earpods charging (which the official case does), removes automatic pairing after opening the case, and it just looks ridicules. I don't know whats wrong about carry
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by 8draco8 9y ago
Currently about 200GB of photos on local RAID1 Synology NAS mirrored to Backblaze in case all drives dies.
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by 8draco8 9y ago
Do not assume if you don't have sufficient information https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14751153
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by 8draco8 9y ago
No, they are buildin Pop! OS https://system76.com/pop About the quality. If you don't believe me about S76 quality please read this https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/48y2db/sys
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by 8draco8 9y ago
I wanted to check it out. Installed sox on Ubuntu 17.04 and it's not working sox FAIL formats: no handler for given file type `coreaudio'
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All of the above plus System of a Down, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park and various other nu metal bands.
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by 8draco8 9y ago
Linux on mac will always have shorter battery live. That's mostly because of Apple proprietary code required for power management.
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That's the reason - you resigned. You knew for weeks or maybe months that you will be going away, it was not a surprise to you that it will be your last day at work, if you wanted to sabotage your employer you would to it before inform
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by 8draco8 9y ago
But way harder to correctly aim in first try.
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Ask HN: What app/library would make your live easier?
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How they did that?
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Microsoft confirms layoff(techcrunch.com)
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They are not even close to MB quality and they are not worth it. They are also making questionable decisions regarding supported OS. Apparently they are going away from Ubuntu and wants to fork Ubuntu with Unity 7.
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Macs are unstable and lack of some features under Linux. Read about compatibility before putting any distro on it.

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