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by DominikD 6y ago
I don't think I've seen anything covered by NYT in the past few moths to a year or two that wasn't misrepresenting things. BLM coverage, before that epi coverage, before that many other things (remember how they portrayed Nao
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by DominikD 6y ago
They do that (or used to at least). Each book has a single scanned copy that only a singe person can have "checked out" at any given time. There's a waiting line you sign up for.
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by DominikD 6y ago
Kernel has been ready for prime time for ages now. It's the distros - fragmentation and quality - that's still the problem.
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by DominikD 6y ago
One minute in and it's already humanity in a bottle. One person draws world map, another writes n-word across the African continent. Sigh.
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by DominikD 6y ago
Dos Navigator was such a great productivity tool! Guys who made it (Ritlabs) went on to develop TheBat! email client which was also pretty amazing.
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by DominikD 6y ago
This was discussed before here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15843631
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by DominikD 6y ago
I wouldn't rely on a confidence as a stand-in for skill. Maybe it's cultural, but I don't trust people who are extremely confident during interviews. Interviews are stressful experience, people who come across as super confid
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by DominikD 6y ago
This article is short on explaining the consequences. What steps will be taken to prevent virus from spreading at the facilities, people from getting sick and, as a result, ending up dead? I really hope that this doesn't boil down to &
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by DominikD 6y ago
Scooters need to be charged every night so juicers collect randomly abandoned scooters before the complete battery failure that would prevent company running the service to track its fleet. So charging for time up to infinity may solve the
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by DominikD 6y ago
The tl;dr of this article reads to me like "when building, make sure you know how to lobby local government to maximize private profits utilizing as much of public resources as possible". I did not see this coming. Outderegulating
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by DominikD 6y ago
Scooters dropped at random places are a massive problem for blind people and people with mobility disabilities.
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by DominikD 6y ago
Fun fact: physical controls on the second generation Zune (released 2008) were squircles.
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by DominikD 6y ago
All studies that point to it being airborne are from medical setting or are misrepresented in the media. For example there's a new one that circulates abbreviated to "air conditioned restaurants make SARS-CoV-19 airborne". Co
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by DominikD 6y ago
I'm tired of reading that it spreads through the air and so we should avoid indoor spaces where we share air. It spreads through droplets large enough for the gravity to pull them down relatively fast. It's not measles, you can&#x
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by DominikD 6y ago
Honest question: is there a single desktop manager that conducts usability studies and isn't guided by hunches and conventions? Or more broadly: any open source software that does?
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by DominikD 7y ago
It's down to monies. There's no hard limit on spending (yet) so larger teams can and do invest more. On top of that smaller teams have to buy some of the components from the larger ones and integrate those into their designs. This
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by DominikD 7y ago
Thank you, this is exactly what I meant.
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by DominikD 7y ago
1. There are no zero cost abstractions. But Rust ones are as close to zero as possible. You may not want to pay for these on the smallest Cortex M devices but I would sure take them over the pain that is debugging C code on stuff like TM4C1
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by DominikD 8y ago
This must be new (maybe related to tons of experienced devs moving to other teams in recent years?) When I worked there around 2008 it was very rare for people to break Windows builds. Some teams were better than others but in general brea
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by DominikD 8y ago
Mobile terminal doesn't prevent you from doing that. :-) That's what I do if I want to skip on the "no, lemme pay" banter. What I find curious though is that there are places in Germany where one can pay using plastic. ;
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by DominikD 8y ago
Is this actually the case though? Even if your card is taken by the staff and you don't see being charged, you are still being charged and some entity is processing the payment. I find it hard to believe that there are no fees just bec
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by DominikD 8y ago
The ideal solution would be to tip adequately so that one doesn't have to be embarassed during payment.
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by DominikD 8y ago
This is not correct. Language is much more than words. At times you have social structure encoded e.g. via honorifics. You have concepts and phrases that derive from previous experiences. Whether you take Sapir-Whorf hypothesis for granted
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by DominikD 8y ago
You would not be preserving anything, you'd be stomping on a culture. Old and lesser known languages are rarely well researched. You're lucky if you have morphosyntax written down. But the moment you start using existing language
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by DominikD 9y ago
This tells me that author was never involved in recruiting people. He may be smart (even exceptionally so) but that can only be validated through a direct interview. However since a lot of people (and I mean A LOT) cheat in their CV and eve
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by DominikD 9y ago
And then another developer kindly explained why he's wrong. It's fun to listen to Linus' rants, sure, but he's not always correct.
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by DominikD 9y ago
Not everyone lives in the US. $100 for me or you may not be worth putting hundreds of hours into making a bunch of videos but it may be for others. My father's late friend used to do that since he was disabled and had few other options
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by DominikD 9y ago
I'd argue that .NET on server is the only valid scenario. ;) ASP.NET has pretty good security track record (10 CVEs in 14 years of existence with the most recent ones in 2010) and the entire stack (compiler, core libraries, ASP.NET cor
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by DominikD 9y ago
Password recovery through email is ubiquitous. So password is in no way a second authentication method to your email. That said, email is an identity, not a secret. But for the most part I'd rather protect my identity alone than my ide
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by DominikD 9y ago
Sure thing, reading through the repo I understood it was used to learn stuff. But it may not be immediately understood by a novice. And thing with the Internet is: people will start using code from your repo and get into all sorts of issues

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