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by barnacs 10y ago
I don't get this whole trend of trying to cram everything into browsers. People have been working on PDF viewers, media players, document editors and a whole bunch of applications for decades. Some are more lightweight, some are more f
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by barnacs 10y ago
On the other hand, clean energy is getting cheaper and more widespread globally so power efficiency probably matters less for electric appliances. At the same time, I'm not sure how efficiently humanity is dealing with waste and if we
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by barnacs 10y ago
Yeah I did some math on that too but it's a bit more complicated than that. First of all, I don't trust a new fridge these days to last 10 years but I can easily see this one purring for another 20 with minor repairs. Secondly, th
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by barnacs 10y ago
It depends on your definition of opportunity cost. Recently my ~20 year old fridge stopped working and I spent the better part of the day diagnosing the issue, getting a replacement part and fixing it. Sure, I could have spent that time doi
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by barnacs 10y ago
The irrational step is when people start to believe that they need money, when in fact they need fish. When people start to believe that they need loans, when in fact they need nets and boats. In the end, they deem this made up number calle
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by barnacs 10y ago
I too switched from chromium to firefox a few years ago when my system ran out of its 8GB RAM regularly. Chromium was using about 7.5GB, it was quite noticable. I then reopened the exact same tabs in firefox, made sure they are all loaded t
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by barnacs 10y ago
At least this time they killed the product _before_ rolling it out to users. Google is improving every day!
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by barnacs 10y ago
Only if you forget to pay your hosting bills do your services become serverless.
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by barnacs 10y ago
This is capitalism at its finest. Everyone just redoes the same things, occasionally with a slight spin on it followed by heavy marketing. Noone cares about interoperability, noone cares whether all the data and content we're generatin
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by barnacs 10y ago
If you don't believe in humanity, you can't believe in any system. Communism is the purest form of ideals: it assumes people will recognize and do the right thing because it's in their best interest collectively. Capitalism a
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by barnacs 10y ago
For some reason I was expecting a bowling ball to fall and crush the teapot. More like: http://bit.ly/2bhClHV
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by barnacs 10y ago
I'm not suggesting that the applicant should withhold any relevant information. Obviously, the whole point of the application process is to get to know each other. I believe if I see your job posting, research your company a bit and ge
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by barnacs 10y ago
I'll try to keep my response short. Ideally, everyone should be working for something they actually believe in and everyone should work with people whose skillset is valuable to achieve their common goal. If there is no mutual respect
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by barnacs 10y ago
Just skip the resume. They're worthless anyways. If you find a position you like, send an email. Tell them why you're interested, what you could bring to the table. You can mention your history if it's relevant, casually, jus
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by barnacs 10y ago
It pains me to see that people can't apply common sense without law anymore. If a potential employer asks about my previous salary, I refuse to answer. Similarly, it never even occured to me to hide my salary from my coworkers regardl
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by barnacs 10y ago
> Do you actually have a problem that any of those are causing? User experience. - long, unskippable animation on site load - navigation keys (arrows, page up/down) do not work at all without changing focus first (which takes 4 tabs
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by barnacs 10y ago
Indeed, academia as we know it is somewhat broken. We can either fix it or replace it completely (eg. by some crowdfunded model) and give it a new name. Either way, democracy would greatly benefit from an independent information source. Whi
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by barnacs 10y ago
Democracy can work but we all need to practice and support it. The citizens need to have leftover mental energy and time from everyday life to think and learn about politics, form opinions and engage in discussions with each other. Academia
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by barnacs 10y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if your smartphone was listening to you, but sadly these particular feats would be feasible simply based on all the information these people have been willingly sharing with google/facebook/etc. If a l
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by barnacs 10y ago
This is just sad. Yet another messaging app. This time with ads built right into your private conversations. And the crowd cheers :(
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by barnacs 10y ago
As long as you have to interface with "the fiat world" for income and spending, this sounds like more trouble than it's worth. The gateways (fiat->btc, btc->fiat) know your identity, take a higher fee than banks and you
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by barnacs 10y ago
"forget the hype, make sure to learn node and start building bots" That aside, a lot of the more generic points make sense.
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by barnacs 10y ago
About 15 years ago a fraction of that memory was enough to run an OS and open two news sites and a forum with the same functionality. Something went terribly wrong along the way...
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by barnacs 11y ago
Privacy issues aside, please don't. These kinds of features are outright harmful to our society. Human communication and our social skills in general have already detoriated a lot by replacing face to face conversations with audio only
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by barnacs 11y ago
Reader browser: I would argue that it should be a reader/writer browser, where authoring, changing and interlinking documents is just as trivial as browsing them. Application browser: but then why limit it to JavaScript?
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by barnacs 11y ago
Now people will have to live with n+1 independent, closed messaging platforms for private messaging. Thank you, Twitter.
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by barnacs 11y ago
But it's not about git itself. Issues, PR comments, the wiki and such things make github what is. Personally, I'd prefer a nice graphical desktop app to handle these, and either have a terminal embedded or run it alongside the gui
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by barnacs 11y ago
"Native apps are looking to gain the web's advantages too [...] If we stop, we lose." Who is "we" and why are they competing against some implied "them"? When are we going to accept the shortcomings of bot
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by barnacs 11y ago
What you describe would be some kind of a natural selection among lower level abstractions. Maybe they would indeed converge into a "few standard engines", maybe not. Either way, they wouldn't force your hands: you could alwa
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Do we need browsers?(blog.justletit.be)
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