Illotus

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by Illotus 4y ago
Because settings related stuff is needed so rarely.
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by Illotus 4y ago
Wsl really did make Windows better developer platform than Mac. I'd still prefer straight up Linux, but that is not possible in all organizations.
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by Illotus 4y ago
Yeah, this is very unfortunate development. It is really tough to find good mobile first games that aren't infested with grind or micro transactions.
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by Illotus 4y ago
Docker has much better IO perf with lot of small files on WSL vs Mac. Currently doing Rails development and had to revert to running local straight up on Mac vs Docker because on Docker it was extremely slow. This of course means more testi
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by Illotus 8y ago
Back when I read the usability literature on icons about 10 years ago, the consensus was pretty much that text was pretty much the best, icon and text was worse and only icons was really bad.
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by Illotus 8y ago
Anything that looks like an ad will be largely ignored. This has been understood for over 20 years now. However, flashy looking boxes have always been the first idea that pops into anyones head, so here we are.
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by Illotus 8y ago
Self checkout at as implemented in local shops has odd value proposition for the shopper. Basically it is more hassle and marginally faster for the benefit of allowing the shop owner to fire some people. Compare this to handling bank transf
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by Illotus 8y ago
Indeed, the collective bargaining power of employees is less than it used to be. This will likely become more and more an issue in the current century as the benefits of automation will line mostly the pockets of the owning class. The curre
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by Illotus 8y ago
Don't know about Spain, but in some countries privatization means basically that functions that used to be handled by government employees or such are now handled by private enterprises, however the money still comes from public expend
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by Illotus 8y ago
With reindeers it is probably highly dependent on region. For example in Lapland of Finland there are way too many reindeers than the environment can support, so they are largely kept in pens during winter and fed protein feed, hay, collect
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Kubernetes upgrades
1 points by Illotus 8y ago|0 comments
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Why Python Is Not My Favorite Language(zenhack.net)
5 points by Illotus 8y ago|0 comments
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by Illotus 8y ago
> I'd be very interested how well dell notebooks last - do they have similar 'design flaws' as the current gen Apple notebooks (keyboard, display cable) I have 9360, it has pretty annoying coil whine. The touchpad has some
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by Illotus 8y ago
Basically it was a political decision to not continue. Researchers would have liked to continue with more resources: https://translate.google.fi/translate?sl=fi&tl=en&js=y&prev=...
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Feature Branch Staging Servers(mayerdan.com)
2 points by Illotus 9y ago|0 comments
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by Illotus 9y ago
I rather trust a fairly recent review https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3538484/
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by Illotus 9y ago
Paper towels are much more sanitary. Big part of washing hands is wiping the bacteria and viruses along with water into something. Drying just gets the water, leaves everything else.
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Stop using JWT for sessions(cryto.net)
2 points by Illotus 9y ago|0 comments
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by Illotus 9y ago
Very nearly every home in Finland has one these still.
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Is there data on the quality of management decisions?(danluu.com)
2 points by Illotus 9y ago|1 comments
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Engineers' Primal Instinct: Pre-Mature Generalization(no-kill-switch.ghost.io)
2 points by Illotus 9y ago|0 comments
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by Illotus 9y ago
Boxes, random pieces of paper and cardboard frames left after punching out board game chits are all very used toys for my daughter.
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by Illotus 9y ago
Except it is not a legit deal, because Ireland isn't offering it to all companies.
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by Illotus 9y ago
What? Working 8 hours a day leaves about 8 hours of freetime to spend with your kids even leaving 8 hours for sleep. Even if you change the numbers there is plenty of time to spent, it is just matter of prioritizing.
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Journey into WebSockets Authentication/Authorization(blog.stratumsecurity.com)
4 points by Illotus 9y ago|0 comments
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Dunning-Kruger and other bogus memes(danluu.com)
52 points by Illotus 9y ago|22 comments
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by Illotus 9y ago
Sorta, it does save bandwitdth, but more importantly it is used to keep users on your site longer by removing the decision point of browsing to the next page. Though for the best effect you need to do it background so that user never really
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by Illotus 9y ago
Don Norman may be over 80, but not dead I think ;)
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by Illotus 9y ago
Banking on discipline in any human endeavour seems to be fool's errand. You will get more reliable results by improving the environment, systems and tools. This can be seen in how much checklists have improved the quality and reliabili
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by Illotus 9y ago
In general there may not be that much novelty per project, but that isn't the novelty that one needs to worry about in software projects. The relevant novelty is the novelty to the project team. Also lot of the novelty comes not from t

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