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by dotdi 8y ago
Cool game! Congrats to your brother. Doesn't work on current Firefox.
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by dotdi 8y ago
I concur with other comments that this can be a sign of burn-out. I've been there as well. However, I never doubt that I'm in the right profession, but I do know that, as a human, I'm bound to have ups and downs with any topi
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by dotdi 8y ago
I hope OP took that into account. Seems like pretty low hanging fruit when cleaning your data.
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by dotdi 8y ago
Take that all you people crying "Scala is dead" after Java 8+ comes out. /s Anyway, I've personally seen (and interviewed for) jobs that were advertising Scala (or plans to move to Scala, or that Scala experience is a pl
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by dotdi 8y ago
I don't remember the last time I was this impressed by a post on HN. Bravo!
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by dotdi 8y ago
Classical whatabout-ism. Linus was arrogant, condescending and abusive in his emails. Those guys were arrogant and condescending. Being as bad as Linus when dealing with other people is really not something worth striving for and not someth
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by dotdi 8y ago
How does this differ from Pale Moon? Are the developers/maintainers now working on 2 different browsers?
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by dotdi 8y ago
One reason might be that you need to shell out $99 every year to be allowed to publish official Safari extensions. It is, theoretically, possible to distribute without the App Store, but users need to activate Developer mode and do quite a
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by dotdi 8y ago
I always found managing all my Stylus/Stylish styles too cumbersome and then I found this a while ago. Instantly donated. It's amazing. The only gripe I have is that it is a biiit heavy on the resources.
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by dotdi 8y ago
I really wanted to read the article, but, by principle, I leave websites that mess with the native scrolling. Bye hackread.
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by dotdi 8y ago
Can somebody translate?
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by dotdi 8y ago
The layout of your top-bar somewhat breaks[0] if I zoom in beyond 130% --- [0]: https://imgur.com/a/f9CATyj
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by dotdi 8y ago
About six months. I managed to actually get a new feature into that hot mess while fixing bugs that would take days to weeks to track and handling compatibility with a new iOS major version, but then I got an offer to work in the space indu
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by dotdi 8y ago
I was given the opportunity to work with iOS at one of my former employers and I quickly agreed (I was a backend developer back then). It was a rather popular application at a rather large Austrian media company, with around 50k unique mont
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by dotdi 8y ago
> The code was literally written on the day I was born. That made me LOL.
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by dotdi 8y ago
It's simple. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. With more money, the rich have more and more power to make sure that it stays that way.
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by dotdi 8y ago
I've worked for the European Space Agency and EUMETSAT and it's crazy how much effort is wasted because everybody is writing separate mission control, monitoring and data analysis applications that do 95% of the same things, each
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by dotdi 8y ago
> You can't simply judge a new language by looking at it's surface I completely agree. But you also have to at least try to sell it to me. I don't have time to download the compiler, try some examples, build a little side
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by dotdi 8y ago
Whenever a language pops up on HN I excitedly look at it. Unfortunately, the documentation, FAQ and User Guide all failed in succinctly giving me the information I need: what can it do well, what does a known snippet look like implemented i
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by dotdi 8y ago
If you rely on the App Store, Apple has complete control over your distribution channel and take a large cut of your income. Not only do they have control over your distribution channels, but the rules they impose change over time, forcing
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by dotdi 8y ago
The UI/UX is good, IMHO, but there is one thing that is very annoying (per general, and it's the same here): when your web-framework does some wonky stuff to my clicks and interferes with default behavior. I cannot ⌘ + click on th
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by dotdi 8y ago
I used to hate code-reviews but now I'm a convert after: (1) we brought in better people. It's fun to sit with competent people and trash-talk some code, and (2) after I pushed the team to use better tooling, which in our case is
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by dotdi 8y ago
Most of the very, very short content is true. Being one-liners lessens it's credibility considerably, in my opinion. It's almost like just writing "chemtrails" on a wall.
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by dotdi 8y ago
I'm a big fan of Spathiphyllum[0] a.k.a. Peace Lillies. They don't need much light and you practically cannot over-water them. When too thirsty, they start slouching and recover quickly after adding water. They seem to be good for
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by dotdi 8y ago
Every person, tech or not, should evaluate what their work is contributing to and they should evaluate if they can ethically and morally accept what the company is doing or standing for. In the end, I have to be able to look myself in the m
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by dotdi 8y ago
I was in the middle of transitioning to CS from Molecular Biology. My brother in law, who was a professional dev for several years already, asked me something like "you are on HN, right?". As in, there's no way to be a dev an
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by dotdi 8y ago
Moving from academia to industry. I have a Bachelor's in Molecular Biology and was going to walk the academic path but decided to switch to Computer Science (had some engineering background before) for a Master's degree with the s
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by dotdi 8y ago
They do audio fingerprinting[1], so no ML/AI in the core feature. ------ [1]: https://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/papers/Wang03-shazam.pdf
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by dotdi 8y ago
+1 for Zoho. I use their completely free service for all my custom domains and I find the webmail pretty good. The web applications, in general, are pretty actively maintained, with new features every few months. Only had one bigger issue o
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by dotdi 8y ago
> see if your salary is still in the range. From that angle, I believe I'm paid below market rate and you are right. I haven't clearly stated it in the Ask text. > Finally, when I’m looking for a job, I have three priorities

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