asjw

23 ms·

181.
by asjw 7y ago
And that's the reason why arts don't follow these rules. Imagine Van Gogh on HN...
182.
by asjw 7y ago
> equal to 3*window.innerHeight So basically is regular loading.
183.
by asjw 7y ago
That's another issue entirely and has nothing to do with communism > It’s almost 2020, and 2 million Americans still don’t have running water, according to new report https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/it
184.
by asjw 7y ago
And you think it's bad I guess... But people don't need cars, they mostly need a way to commute, possibly for cheap Would you say that the policies that San Francisco is implementing now, banning cars from the city centre, are a c
185.
by asjw 7y ago
> Growing up in communist Poland I remember having to bring to the store empty milk glass bottles to swap them for filed ones It was common practice in Italy bas well, until the 80s. [Including schools everywhere and inexpensive public t
186.
by asjw 7y ago
I know the type Used to be like that when I was young I also know that there's the guy that never writes tests, is incapable of writing non reduntant-code, pushes everything to master as a blob of unrelated changes, using git as the ba
187.
by asjw 7y ago
> I find it amusing that we recognize grand masters in chess What would you consider the chess of software development? How would you rank the participants?
188.
by asjw 7y ago
Outside of the US The world is a pretty large place...
189.
by asjw 7y ago
When you stop responding, AKA reacting, you are not solving the problem, you are making it worse. In fact I would say that "don't feed the troll" is the root cause of the huge spike in trolling that we have now. Do not feed t
190.
by asjw 7y ago
They will get some other addiction It's in the human nature, instead of fighting it it's better educate people to not abuse of anything
191.
by asjw 7y ago
I wonder where those people not living in the city go to work or at school... Oh, wait! Rome is a city with less than 4 million inhabitants, they become almost 6 millions during a normal workday.
192.
by asjw 7y ago
I come from a city where public transport is unreliable, so everyone use private cars. Which are reliable until you hit traffic jam (always) or have to park them (usually the time to find a spot is a large percentage of the entire trip) The
193.
by asjw 7y ago
> The car gets you where you are going a lot faster than the bus Of course, you pay more! It's even impacting the environment more, cities cannot plan for it and chose the path they should follow and ,in the end, why didn't you
194.
by asjw 7y ago
Said the country where fresh vegetables are more expensive than junk food and cooking real food is for TV shows...
195.
by asjw 7y ago
Or you could pay someone to do it If you depend so much on that code, if the security of your software depends on someone else's free work, why don't you hire that person to fix the bugs?
196.
by asjw 7y ago
> if you use open source code in your code, you should expect there to be security vulnerabilities You should be able.to fix them yourself That's the premise of OSS if you don't want to pay for a cab or a driver, you should be
197.
by asjw 7y ago
That's not what my experience tells me. There is a lot of negative energy, hidden under that thing we call downvotes They should be punishing low value content or outright trolling, but it's instead a measure of how much the comme
198.
by asjw 7y ago
> So most of the time I had to just guess the dose of drugs to be given. I'm sorry for your loss. Just a question: isn't this the doctor's Job? My mother suffered from high blood pressure for the past 50 years, we have thi
199.
by asjw 7y ago
Before the eMac, the iPod made Apple cool again, AFAIK
200.
by asjw 7y ago
The money wasted on the BeBox killed BeOS
201.
by asjw 7y ago
I'm not making a case for the safety of consuming alcohol, I'm just saying that alcohol is a broad and complex phenomenon, we as human have been drinking it for thousands of years, it is engrained in many cultures, it requires a m
202.
by asjw 7y ago
Let's talk real numbers. Alcohol kills directly through alcohol poisoning 2 thousands people / year in the US It's around 6 people a day In US about 19.5 thousands people/year die for accidental poisoning It means than f
203.
by asjw 7y ago
I work in healthcare in Italy, where we live more than anyone else in the World, on average, except for the Japanese. You are overestimating the causality between consumption and actual damages. Consumption is ok, abuse is not. Even too man
204.
by asjw 7y ago
Do you know the difference between "completely safe" and "not that harmful"? Not even walking on the streets is completely safe Unintentional injuries is te the leading cause of death in US for people aged between 1 and
205.
by asjw 7y ago
So are wasted fumes coming from your car, without the benefits The same can be said for barbeques When will people stop pretending that changing one thing doesn't really change anything in life in general? Drinking is like everything e
206.
by asjw 7y ago
> I used to go to parties, drink too much, and then act like a jerk Alcohol doesn't make people worse, it just make more evident what they really are.
207.
by asjw 7y ago
> It's worth mentioning that retiring early is an important goal in and of itself Is it really? I'm not sure retiring early is such an important goal per se. There are many categories where it isn't true: researchers, scie
208.
by asjw 7y ago
> If you stop a moment and think carefully, you'll realize that normal car drivers should wear helmets, and passengers too. If you stop a moment and think carefully, they already do! it's called airbag and it's been a requ
209.
by asjw 7y ago
Ironically these are the same dangers bike poses to pedestrians And with the boom of food delivery,mostly done by bike, the situation got a lot worse Just two hours ago a guy working for glovo merged on the sidewalk while I was trying to cr
210.
by asjw 7y ago
This! It's what I've been doing in the past few years, nobody noticed that I stay at work a lot less than the others and the quality of my work has improved

More ›