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by dbg31415 4y ago
The old bouncy screensaver.
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by dbg31415 4y ago
A few things here... 1) Work is work. The percentage breakdowns here don't seem too far off from any other company. It would be interesting to see what the author feels the percentages should be. My gut feeling for anyone willing to wa
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by dbg31415 4y ago
> In the end it's just business. You either make a client happy or you don't. Spot on. 1) Do good work. Be patient and kind to clients. Remember when someone asks you to do something for the 8th time, "Hey, it's their
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by dbg31415 4y ago
I like Kodi. I have a NAS with a bunch of movies, and Plex was fine but it had a lot of features around streaming to friends and I don't have any desire to share content outside of my living room. Kodi meets all my needs.
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by dbg31415 4y ago
Thanks, honestly I missed this. Kinda funky UX. https://i.imgur.com/GwNED5K.png
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by dbg31415 4y ago
I think it's funny everyone is complaining about Plex forcing you to sign in... and the first thing Jellyfin does when you click "see it in action" is force you to sign in. Just saying...
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by dbg31415 4y ago
Hold up. You know they got money from the government not to lay people off, right?
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by dbg31415 4y ago
The good die young.
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by dbg31415 4y ago
Two easy ways to block trackers and ads... without a firewall. Adding blockers to the hosts table still works with Chrome... hope they don't muck with that... https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts But if they do...
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by dbg31415 4y ago
An art exhibit containing mounds of dirt in the middle of the Nevada desert with a $30M endowment to keep people out... They did check for bodies, yeah?
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by dbg31415 4y ago
It's two things... Buttons are easier to find without looking. Nice tactile "you pressed it" feedback instantly. And the fact that all of the cars have such horrible touchscreen UI design. We're used to Apple and Android
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by dbg31415 4y ago
You know what's really funny? As a Google Fi user for all my cell coverage, but an Apple user for all my phones... Google doesn't let iPhone users send SMS messages to Android users out of the box. They've done something cust
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by dbg31415 4y ago
You're ducking right they do!
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by dbg31415 4y ago
Would assume stolen by Russia or China… espionage to reverse engineer our tech to see if they could find flaws or exploits to reduce its effectiveness, or ideas to improve their own designs. Makes me feel safer anyway since the bomb would b
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by dbg31415 4y ago
So let me get this straight... by making the workplace more hostile, Facebook plans on retaining top talent? Yeah, that's how it works alright. Spot on. They may weed out a few at the bottom, but it's going to cost them just as ma
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by dbg31415 4y ago
Hey Mate, This is the sort of discussion I come to HN for. I've loved reading through the comments. Thanks for creating this thread. Lots of good stuff here. ADHD is relevant to burnout fatigue. For me, burnout is easy to spot coming.
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by dbg31415 4y ago
> The biggest issue here is that the "proof" allowed essentially means recurring billing scams can run rampant without any recourse. Yup, every gym and pest control company just got aroused thinking about all the recurring char
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by dbg31415 4y ago
Takes money to make money... Have a valid idea. Build a business around it. Get an angel investor. But then they aren't indie hackers! Touche. But they are profitable. (=
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by dbg31415 4y ago
Right, well it's not really by design that they make so little... but the way most of them they run their businesses, is it any wonder? A lot of people do these as side projects. A way to sort of build a model train in their basement,
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by dbg31415 4y ago
https://www.qr-code-generator.com/ Works for Text Messages too! (= I made a QR Code for my contact info in a VCard and set it as the home screen of my phone -- when I go to conventions it makes it really easy to connect wit
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by dbg31415 4y ago
I wrote this as a comment the last time this came up. After reading what I could read, seems like there was a legitimate security concern, and rather than work on it the dev just sort of said, "Meh, I don't want to do non-dev thin
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by dbg31415 4y ago
Firefox is my default browser. That said... I now use Chrome for all video calls. Firefox just isn't battery efficient for those. Blame Google, blame Zoom, blame whoever. On EVERY service I've tested (check my post history, compla
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by dbg31415 4y ago
> If you bill £1,000 an hour, as some senior lawyers do, then any particular six-minute increment of time is available to be turned into £100. Can you really afford an hour in the gym? Can you really afford to call your mother or read a
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by dbg31415 4y ago
It's got that... "in progress" feel -- and probably always will. I love how many people it has fiddling with the code and storyline. I know it's not something that can realistically happen, but I'd love for all game
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by dbg31415 4y ago
https://endless-sky.github.io/ > Endless Sky is a 2D space trading and combat game similar to the classic Escape Velocity series. Explore other star systems. Earn money by trading, carrying passengers, or completing miss
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by dbg31415 4y ago
XCom has had a few re-makes. All were pretty solid. Especially with the Long War add-on. I wish they would have taken the air-combat equipment and combat management from XCOM Apocalypse... maybe a bit of a "real time" mode for som
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by dbg31415 4y ago
"Diablo, but on my phone!" - Nobody
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by dbg31415 4y ago
I hate all the different ways companies target people. I recently booked flight on American Airlines for my 80+ year-old father. I requested the golf cart to take him between gates. Immediately I got a call from "American Airlines Heal
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by dbg31415 4y ago
So why not be more transparent about what their goals are here? Nobody has to spell out specifics, but the broad strokes on what they are trying to achieve, or issues they are trying to solve, would be nice.
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by dbg31415 4y ago
There are, but... like most of the technical SEO stuff where you can be honest is done now. Use unique titles, don't have multiple H1s, etc. A lot of that stuff was actually useful 5-10 years back when most sites were really shit at th

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