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by arendtio 6y ago
For me, HN counts too. Yes, the quality is different compared to classical news pages, but I think it serves the same desire to find something new. From my perspective, giving in to this desire is part of the problem. When I start my day co
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by arendtio 6y ago
I wonder what consequences it would have if I would use a cloaked photo for my passport...
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by arendtio 6y ago
Thanks, I didn't know iCloud includes applications.
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by arendtio 6y ago
There is nothing here. Just a form to collect e-mail addresses and the promise to 'be in touch shortly!'
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by arendtio 6y ago
Is there a way to use it on a different platform? I like to use Linux systems and even though Microsoft sells Windows, OneNote allows me to use it in a browser. Apple still seems to favor their walled garden so that you have to live with al
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by arendtio 6y ago
True, the quest to reach a small file size can also lead to various down-sides. Cryptic architectures and weird code are just two popular symptoms.
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by arendtio 6y ago
Actually this is one of the upsides of web development: Since every line contributes to the file size of your software and therefore to the loading time there is a motivation for keeping the code base small. Sadly, there are many projects o
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by arendtio 6y ago
A manager would certainly argue the other way around: The person who created the bug costs the company a lot of money. Fixing that single line was just necessary because someone didn't do his work in the first place. So fixing that lin
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by arendtio 6y ago
> Another quality I have noticed in very intelligent people is being unafraid to look stupid. At school, there was a guy who used to ask questions which made him look stupid, at first. After discussing said questions for a few minutes, i
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by arendtio 6y ago
I am not even sure, if it is legal to make the opt-in easier than the opt-out. But I guess that is some kind of grey area nobody really cares about, even if it is crucial from a UX perspective.
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by arendtio 6y ago
I find that first comment particularly insightful. However, I am not sure about the order of state and coupling. To me it seems to depend on the language, as for functional languages, avoiding state is king and in object oriented environmen
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by arendtio 6y ago
My biggest problem with games is, that they are wasted time. I would love to see more _good_ educational games, where you have the feeling that you spend your time on something meaningful and still have fun. So far my favorites are the Drag
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by arendtio 6y ago
Same problem here (FF on Linux).
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by arendtio 6y ago
I think 'doing it yourself' vs. 'search online to find a solution' are two sides of the same medal and we should be good at both things. An old friend of mine has a tendency to dig deep through searches and while I tend
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by arendtio 6y ago
First, I think it is great that you found a tool that suits your needs. A few weeks ago I was mangling some data too (just about 17 million records) and would like to contribute my experience. My tools of choice were awk, R, and Go (in that
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by arendtio 6y ago
~/Other People # containing one directory for every person; synced to Nextcloud ~/Documents # most of my personal stuff; synced to Nextcloud ~/Downloads # symlink to ~/Local/Downloads ~/Local
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by arendtio 6y ago
Just a few days ago, we had this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23358863 complaining about SQLite not being available in browsers and now we see an actual application using SQLite in a browser :D
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by arendtio 6y ago
I have no idea, but my guess is that it doesn't matter, as the deallocation is being done by the garbage collection.
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by arendtio 6y ago
I think this is a point where Go is very good at and JavaScript sucks pretty hard. Mostly because Go brings many things by default and JavaScript has such a high rate at which new tools become mainstream/obsolete and so many options to
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by arendtio 6y ago
SQLite is totally capable of delivering a good performance. The main problem is that you have to take care of efficiently opening and closing the file yourself. Naively doing it for every user/transaction will quickly put an end to you
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by arendtio 6y ago
Actually, I like having two screens. However, I arrange them in vertical order and one is my primary screen and the other is like additional space I can use when I need it. For many tasks, one screen is enough/better, but sometimes it
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by arendtio 6y ago
If you find turning off your ad-blocker, just install a second ad-blocker. Having to turn off two ad-blockers, makes it a whole lot harder ;-) uBlock Origin + DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials is the combination I am using.
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by arendtio 6y ago
Excalidraw looks great. Sadly the Firefox support for Tablets is very poor. However, after switching to Chrome, everything worked as expected.
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by arendtio 6y ago
In addition, you might want to add an entry to your system menu or place shortcut somewhere to start a new instance: /usr/bin/firefox -P my-profile --no-remote
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by arendtio 6y ago
For such use cases I use different browser profiles. It is a bit tiresome to set up, but afterward it works. For example, I have a profile for watching videos via Amazon and Netflix, which uses dark mode and some high-resolution extensions,
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by arendtio 6y ago
A few days ago, I came across kingpin [1] (a library for writing CLI applications in Go) which seems to have some kind of --completion-script-bash option which generates a completion script for you. It might be interesting in this context.
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by arendtio 6y ago
If you want to know which cli tools you can expect on every *nix machine, I can recommend this page [1] which gives a nice overview of the POSIX shell standard. [1] https://shellhaters.org
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by arendtio 6y ago
If you want to play the old SimCity again, 'Micropolis' is what you are looking for. The easiest way to play it seems to be this website [1] but some Linux distributions actually have packages for it. [1] http://micropo
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by arendtio 6y ago
Most of the time you need one framework (to give a best practice structure to your project) and many additional libraries to add functionality. So it should be obvious that the number of frameworks this world needs is quite a bit lower than
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by arendtio 6y ago
"When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity." ― Dale Carnegie I think my fr

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