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by alxlaz 7y ago
I've spent a couple of (very satisfying) years in the medical industry and spent some time with tech (and non-tech) writers because I'm reasonably good with words. I can certainly confirm what docker_up is saying; there is a conno
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Just for the fun of it, I figured I'd try to log in and see if Google has any info on stuff I've purchased. I'm over VPN so they insist this device isn't recognized (even though I've signed in from this exact machin
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by alxlaz 7y ago
E-mail is also often misused for spamming purposes, and Gmail -- which is easy to sign up for and trusted by mail servers worldwide -- is often used for scams. Should we expect it to be terminated as well? Any solution that allows you to
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> I'm not going to talk about antivirus time because if you're using antivirus in 2019 you deserve whatever happens to you If you develop enterprise applications (which many Electron applications are, in fact :-) ), you really
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by alxlaz 8y ago
It's not ridiculous. We write off executable size as something that's irrelevant in an age where you can get a 4 TB drive for (what most of the HN audience would consider) peanuts, but it's not just disk space budget that&#x2
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by alxlaz 8y ago
The legal definition of "opt-out" is exactly the same as the "usability" definition: if you need to click anything other than "OK" in order to opt out of being tracked, then it's opt-in.
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> Turn off all notifications except the unread messages count badge and check it when it overflows. ...then keep a straight face while your super Agile manager berates you in front of the entire team because you're hard to communic
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> I would only add to that, that not only can your "job make you dislike what you do", but also the environment you do your job in. Yeah, I meant "your job" in the generic way, including everything there is about it.
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by alxlaz 8y ago
There's an advice that I tend to give to my younger colleagues who ask about this stuff: love your profession , not your job. I love my profession -- I wanted to be an engineer for as long as I can remember. But that doesn't mean
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by alxlaz 8y ago
I found out that a good way to make this easier is to donate when I get my annual bonus. It's not a lot , but then again, I'm a single person, and I'm a developer, not a company owner. I depend on open source projects to do
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by alxlaz 8y ago
It really is, and it's a very enriching way of experiencing art. For a long time, this is how stories propagated -- they were told and retold by various people, who sometimes added details or even entire story twists of their own. Impr
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by alxlaz 8y ago
I have a friend who visited it and came back with one of the funniest post-Cold War stories I know. It's representative enough of this stuff that I'm going to recount it, even though most of its value resides simply in being funny
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by alxlaz 8y ago
One of the things I enjoy about his renditions is how much you can discover (and re-discover) about a piece. Dvorak's 9th symphony, for example, which lends itself a lot to personal interpretation, has a lot of variety in its rendition
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by alxlaz 8y ago
It's hard to say. What's not hard to say is that crap like “Healing the Symptoms Known as Autism” belongs on the other side of the line. Stuff like this baffles me. Like, yes, it's hard to say where you draw the line between
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by alxlaz 8y ago
It's a BSD world thing :). Local (i.e. non-system) executables and libraries go under /usr/local around here (i.e. libraries under /usr/local/lib, binaries under /usr/local/bin and so on, the hie
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> Docs aren't hard to write, and if you have to, you should just copy paste them from your comments and/or unit tests (unless you haven't written any of course). I've seen some companies doing that (worse, I've s
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by alxlaz 8y ago
I run Linux (edit: and a bunch of OpenBSD virtual hosts, I guess?) and don't own any Apple device. Sorry :).
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by alxlaz 8y ago
The size of the market alone is not a good indicator. Macs are routinely sighted among C-level executives or journalists, and among their family members. And it looks like the kind of issue that could be exploited as part of an APT. It&#x27
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by alxlaz 8y ago
There's always another side. Some programs only need maintenance because they work very well and provide a great deal of value to the company. Others only need maintenance because the organization that develops it is chronically underf
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by alxlaz 8y ago
Pretty much this, I'd say. I know people who like its design and find it very comfortable. I'm definitely not one of them but fortunately no one heeded the calls to just build one desktop environment to rule them all :).
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by alxlaz 8y ago
I've been using Linux since about the same time, and while I find the five-broken-implementations thing rather exhausting at times, I am more than thankful for it. It's one of the reasons why Linux (and FOSS software) is so damn u
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by alxlaz 8y ago
YES! This is particularly important for young professionals! It's super important for fresh graduates, who enrolled in CS/CompEng because of how enthusiastic they are about technology to hear this stuff! Why? Because, while we&#x2
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> was that a connection that could have been made in a QA engineers mind? That's not a connection that should be made in a QA engineer's mind, it's a connection that should be made in an architect or team lead's mind,
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by alxlaz 8y ago
I have to use Windows on a few machines, so yes, I have "actually used Classic Shell", and have occasionally hit some of the bugs. I dug into one of them but it's been so long since I've written any Windows-related code
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by alxlaz 8y ago
Classic Shell is no longer maintained. It works okay-ish today, but while it was still maintained, its developers had to regularly fix it, because it does rely on undocumented APIs. It's a pretty safe bet that it won't work in the
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by alxlaz 8y ago
I sympathize with this guy, and I feel sad and awful every time I read about something like this, because all I can think is man, this could happen to me any day. It also serves as a very unfortunate reminder of a couple of things: 1. Just
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by alxlaz 8y ago
There is a patchset that enables deterministic behaviour on Linux ( https://www.linux.com/news/event/elce/2017/2/inside-real-tim... has a few pointers). Much of it has been mainlined, and it does hav
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by alxlaz 8y ago
It's purely circumstantial :).
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by alxlaz 8y ago
Most of the programs I've seen do what the author calls "Initialization by Instruction" anyway. Bootstrapping and initialization are notoriously tricky to do in hardware, and a lot of us have been bit by this before. Besides,
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by alxlaz 8y ago
Frankly, this is the kind of email that makes me reach out to them over some other means of communication to tell them that I've received a suspicious email which makes me believe their email server has been hacked. At least two of the

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