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by emsy 7y ago
I'm from Germany and visited LA last month. I was riding the rail because we usually use public transportation when visiting other countries. We wanted to visit the walk of fame and it was a much nicer experience than hassling through
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by emsy 7y ago
"Considered a feminine trait" is nurtured. Whether it is a feminine trait or not is nature and should be derived from observation.
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by emsy 7y ago
You usually get ice, though not the same amounts as in the US. Free refills are also not available in every restaurant.
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by emsy 7y ago
It makes much more sense to regulate food if you think about it. Taking drugs is more or less a choice. Eating is indispensable. We're wired to favor fat, sweet and salty food. The damage is done by merely following our evolutionary pr
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by emsy 7y ago
The US cup sizes are ridiculous. In Germany (and most of Europa IIRC), the biggest cup size in McDonalds is 500ml compare that to the smallest US size of about 450ml (there are smaller ones but only on request).
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by emsy 7y ago
The Unreal Engine is a complex beast with anything but few layers. Yes the games are just packages, but the engine itself is an multiplatform engineering feat.
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by emsy 7y ago
I appreciate the lengthy answer, but it builds on the premise that I can't possibly know what I'm talking about because otherwise I would've come to the conclusion that code sharing just sucks. My point with engines still sta
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by emsy 7y ago
This is wild. So Unreal/Unity and others somehow get to run their arguably vastly more complex engines on mobile desktop and consoles, but sharing some logic between iOS and Android is too complicated for Dropbox. What are they smoking
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by emsy 7y ago
No, but it hardly exists in the mainstream and most indie music I've heard is mainly ambience stuff.
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by emsy 7y ago
Think what you want about the song, but the lyrics are descriptive yet metaphorical. I made this example because I assumed everyone is familiar with it. The point is: the lyrics don't just consist of "I did this, I did that, yeah
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by emsy 7y ago
I do. Something like Hotel California that invokes a vivid imagery in one's mind seems unthinkable today. I don't know whether this affects the imagination or lingual abilities of the listeners, but it certainly can not produce th
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by emsy 7y ago
A lot of programming can be done by piping packages together and routing them to a frontend. I remember a post on AskHN where the OP couldn't even solve basic assignments his GF got in uni yet worked for years as a developer. So the re
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by emsy 7y ago
This argument sounds like "I don't care about cancer research because I don't get sick". It should matter to you for many reasons that have nothing to do with whether you're affected or not. I don't want to see
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by emsy 7y ago
Amsterdam is still clean and quiet compared to other major cities. To be honest, I suspect the main factor to be the red light district. Just visit the Reeperbahn in Hamburg. I'd argue it's much worse and they don't offer leg
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by emsy 7y ago
Yeah the watch is underestimated. Close to 100M devices (rough estimate I cobbled together from 2017-19 data) is hardly a niche.
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by emsy 7y ago
Also, most websites are hardly applications.
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by emsy 7y ago
Sorry, just saw this. The problem with angular and react databinding is that it takes away control from developers. A simple pub/sub system can be extended to everything a developer wants, without clumsy hash-key insertion, digest cycl
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by emsy 7y ago
The headline (if it gets changed: "The real dark web") is terrible and clickbaity.
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by emsy 7y ago
The headline itself is persuasive ("click bait").
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by emsy 7y ago
Ditch CSS and HTML completely and create a sensible layout engine. If you base everything on a low level rendering API, you can basically create your own framework (though you shouldn't need to). Databinding, event handling etc. shoul
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by emsy 7y ago
I have this idea for quite some time, but it really manifested after I started using React. I'd like to hear the thoughts of fellow web developers on this. The whole browser facing side of the web is a mess. I think it's quite sim
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by emsy 7y ago
I experienced issues with the VS Code plugin as well, though not as severe as you described. If I had the same issues, I wouldn't use it as well. I haven't experienced any issues ever with IDEA vim. I haven't used XCode in a
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by emsy 7y ago
I rarely ever use actual vim, mostly when I'm in the terminal. But I have vim plugins for most IDEs I use (VS code, intellij, XCode). It makes editing so much faster. When I have to get by without it I feel as if someone put weights ar
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by emsy 7y ago
The whole discussion is derailed anyhow. Most knee-jerk reactions I've read so far seem to deny the existence of any productivity difference between individuals at all or claim that those 10x engineers must be so efficient because they
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by emsy 7y ago
Societal factors do exist, but are often overstated or don’t bear a scientific foundation. A lot of social sciences have done real harm to scientific progress and the field of evolutionary psychology.
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by emsy 7y ago
Tangential, but I recently realized that spelling bees wouldn’t make sense in a lot of other languages, because English reading is exceptionally irregular. I wonder if there have been attempts to reform the language.
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by emsy 7y ago
I agree that the lack of hardware choice (or different "opinions" like a matte screen or smaller phones) is probably Apple's biggest flaw. But they're on a different level. One is an inconvenience, the other is utter dis
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by emsy 7y ago
Even if it were true, there's a more charitable and in my opinion more plausible explanation: people are afraid to bother the emergency line with redundant calls. These days it's probably more plausible than ever, because we hear
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by emsy 7y ago
This should not be a problem to begin with.
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by emsy 7y ago
The number one issue that's slowly getting fixed is not knowing which text is clickable or just a label. Then there were slow animations, arguably bad icons and inconsistent font usage. That's what I remember at least, I hope my m

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