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by alxlaz 7y ago
There is an old adage about this: Q: What happens if we provide education and training to our employees and they leave? A: Well, what happens if we don't, and they stay ? Growing a company's knowledge and skill base is an investm
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Previous experience with the Internet shows that all this would achieve would be a boom in the Temporary Phone Numbers as a Service (TPNaaS) market, so that trolls, bots and cybercriminals could get validated as easily as my grandma, while
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by alxlaz 7y ago
It's not just about privacy -- you're one data breach away from having your phone number leaked to a bunch of shady gangsters who, for bonus points, can also read through the Twitter posts from the account associated with it. Pull
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by alxlaz 7y ago
> Really? I personally doubt users would prefer Skeuomorphic buttons. Have you tested this assumption, or is it simply something that you suspect? There's nothing wrong with having an opinion, but don't mistake it for an analys
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by alxlaz 7y ago
I think that if vertical space were indeed the reason, then we wouldn't have huge, touch-sized widgets everywhere and 32-pixel titlebars. There are applications where simply reducing the padding on most widgets to sane values wins you
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Hey, I remember wmx! That was pretty fun actually! Back in my super-minimalist phase, right between WindowMaker and ratpoison, I actually used it for a while!
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by alxlaz 7y ago
WindowMaker, then FVWM were my drugs. I used tiling window managers for a while, when my typical workstation was a laptop, but now that I have a large-ish screen (27") on a desktop they're pretty bad -- everything is either too wi
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by alxlaz 7y ago
If anyone wants a trip down the memory lane, http://www.xwinman.org/ is still up. A long, long time ago -- but still quite some time after it stopped being (too) regularly maintained -- I emailed Matt Chapman to ask him to
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by alxlaz 7y ago
The tech behind Wayland is pretty solid and reliable. I've been using it in embedded systems for at least four years now, and I've been somewhat late to the party. Whether it's going to take off on the desktop or not is a com
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by alxlaz 7y ago
I'm gonna piggyback on your comment to give another shout out to Essential COM. I haven't touched COM in ages but that book is so good I still pick it up every once in a while -- and it was a lifesaver back when I did touch COM
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by alxlaz 7y ago
> All resulting in an unclear direction, where the engineering teams usually lean towards their boss' opinion. What other opinion are they supposed to "lean towards"? Their boss' opinion is the only one that actually
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by alxlaz 7y ago
This was all in the context of large teams, larger than the Agile methodology recommends. How much useful stuff do you think a developer can fit in 20 seconds of speech -- which is about all they get if you want to fit a 15-people meeting i
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by alxlaz 7y ago
I find stand-ups pretty fun, too, but that's all -- and it's definitely not an experience that everyone finds enjoyable. We all like to talk about what we're doing. Some of us, myself included, gladly jump at every chance to
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by alxlaz 7y ago
If it asks me to identify traffic lights, for example, I also include a couple of squares that aren't traffic lights, like a tree on the side of the road. I'm more selective than a random algorithm, so that correctly gets me label
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by alxlaz 7y ago
> Lead developers and managers can't keep track of all the minutae that people have worked on in their careers. Keeping track of people's skills and expertise is part of their job description. If they don't, how are they
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by alxlaz 7y ago
> Depends on the size of your team. Why does it depend on the size of your team? Teams involved in agile development (where they do the whole daily standup kerfuffle) are supposed to not get to 10+ people. That's like the third th
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by alxlaz 7y ago
But as the article points out, knowing daily where everyone was with their tasks isn't something that needs a formal meeting. I've worked in highly integrated teams, too, and easily got by with one team meeting a week.
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by alxlaz 7y ago
> This makes browsing over a VPN frustratingly slow. This is my pet peeve, too. I browse over a VPN all the time and these things pop up all the time and I hate them. I wouldn't have a problem with this mechanism if it worked, but
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by alxlaz 7y ago
> Not sure I follow about the environment variables. I thought that environment variable passed via the Environment= options might not be correctly set, but it seems they are :-).
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Huh. I never thought of that, although it was so damn obvious (I feel twice as stupid now that I realize I do a version of that on my machine, albeit not in order to send mail). I guess that's what I get for going all "Arch Wiki
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Not that I have a problem with systemd, which I don't hate and I use extensively (both in my customers' products and on my machine because it's the default init system of the distro I use), but this thread illustrates a lot o
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Unfortunately, it's pretty hard to get all the security benefits of modern technology without the distraction, the sloppy user interface, the complexity (and attack surface) and user hostility -- in a word, without the incredibly poor
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by alxlaz 7y ago
> So it’s just a UI issue The same way implicitly-ticked "I agree to receive spam^H^H^H^H your newsletters every week" are "just a UI issue". Yes, it's implemented through an UI element, like most computer-relate
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Certainly, I'm convinced that neither you, nor the fine folks at BSD were/are clueless about these things. I think it's important to know why these decisions were made, and what trade-offs were involved, so that I don't
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Watching people try to teach John Nagle how to do networking is half the reason why I like reading the HN forums :-). I'm not one to defer to authority too easily, but it's my experience that, when someone with enough experience s
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Yeah, I also should have said that the response of the other part of the community isn't exactly sympathetic (or useful), either. Truth is, a lot of the reason why X11 works so well today is that a bunch of us put up with a lot of
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by alxlaz 7y ago
The uncomfortable truth today is that, while having to touch an X config file hasn't been a thing in more than 10 years, it will take you some fiddling with your favourite Wayland compositor (of which only three -- two massive DEs a
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Not OP but the most common reason I've seen is that this was an additional restriction that they imposed for their project. The standard library includes a perfectly working malloc. You override it so that you can't end up calling
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by alxlaz 7y ago
That's pretty close to what I did, except I didn't reference the user who requested removal -- it's just a token that says "data will be removed due to GDPR request". I think there's a requirement to log remova
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Not sure about the legal framework in the US but over here across the pond, it's enough if you remove the data when restoring the backups (reasonably easy to do; took me about a day to implement that on an old codebase that I wrote mor

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