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   by ericol 6y ago

   Your mileage might vary, but where I live WhatsApp is the de-facto messaging medium. Nobody does not use it. That made it somewhat possible that eventually the whole population got to use it - because there were a lot of people available to
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   by ericol 6y ago

   From time to time I use reddit on the mobile. The links for accessing the comments are so tiny, that I'm marveled at the fact that I hardly miss them (Guess the touch screen on my phone is really good).
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   by ericol 6y ago

   I lived in Spain for 5 years and then I returned to my country 13 years ago. Some 8 years ago, Facebook was something that I really enjoyed using. I left way too many friends, close friends, and well, lovers behind. Facebook allowed me to h
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   by ericol 6y ago

   I've been working for 10+ years for the same company. We have kinda of a solid product in the market, and by "solid" I mean "it pays the bills for a bunch of people, consistently". We're in no way a stellar com
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   by ericol 6y ago

   This is a very vintage & romantic way of going at it. If you don't have a way to acquire one of these devices, a similar solution can be implemented with a Bluetooth keyboard (Like the Logitech K480,U$D 35 @ Amazon, and has a slot
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   by ericol 6y ago

   William Gibson would be proud. (Before anybody takes any offence on this, I really hope y'all read Johnny Mnemonic).
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   by ericol 6y ago

   I bought a used ThinkPad T430 more than a year ago. I can't tell you exactly how much I paid for it because I don't recall the price in dollars (I paid it in Argentinian pesos). It's a little battered (The case is broken in c
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   by ericol 6y ago

   (Chrome) crtl+shift+i <<< this opens the dev console. Click on "Console". Enter: jQuery('img[data-attachment-id]').each((i, e) => jQuery(e).remove()) Then enter. Voilà, al images (A lot) are gone.
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   by ericol 6y ago

   PSA: This is not about GH in general, is about a particular characteristic of it (The "trending repos" page) that is even possible a lot of people haven't heard about. Also, there might be other ways to find out what is &quot
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    by ericol 6y ago

    Oh. I picked it up from the chat with a friend where I knew it was. That's so sad, it was a really incredible good article. Fortunately, it's available in Google's cache [1] (And I just made a backup with SingleFile because o
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    by ericol 6y ago

    Last year somebody posted this [1] right here in HN. Speaking about being mind blown. [1] https://fontsinuse.com/uses/28760/neon-genesis-evangelion
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    by ericol 6y ago

    Disclaimer: I'm from Argentina. the very next time you hear somebody from my country rooting for Brazil buy a lottery ticket. Even thought to different results, Brazil is always a force to be reckoned with. They are the only team (I
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    by ericol 6y ago

    I have 2 "robots" I bought last year to try to get my daughter (7) into coding. One of them is Dash, from Wonder Workshop. The other is a Jimu BuzzBot from UBTECH. It's incredible how fast the novelty of these wears off. The
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    by ericol 6y ago

    I also disagree. When the pandemic started I left a couple of my monitors at the cowork space where I had my desk, and had to do with what I had at home (one 1920 x 1080 and another at 1366 x whatever). I had another monitor lying around, a
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    by ericol 6y ago

    I'm totally, utterly in love with Github's "Show blame previous to this commit" feature.
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    by ericol 6y ago

    I'm the half part of a 2 dev team. Last year it took me around 3 months of internal discussions between us devs and the project manager to get us to use a PR template in Github (The PM was more or less sold on the idea). Commit message
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    by ericol 6y ago

    I have sort of a first hand account of what the current problem with (At least one area of automation) is. Up until the quarantine I was working in a cowork space; and it happens that - I'm the sole employee of the company I work for i
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    by ericol 6y ago

    "a much better programmer" != "much more productive" (At least from my point of view) I'm going to answer on the latter, because I can't say if I'm a much better programmer than, say 5 years ago (But I bla
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    by ericol 6y ago

    Regarding that matter, I found this comment also in this thread interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23462232
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    by ericol 6y ago

    Yes, I understand that. But also from the article: > Participants with higher levels of chronic loneliness at baseline reported less craving for social contact after 10 hours of isolation Based on what the article states I guess this is
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    by ericol 6y ago

    Dude. Seems you didn't have it easy. Also, I'm curious as to why you have been through this several times?
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    by ericol 6y ago

    I think one of the best indicators of "coding on the edge" is when you have to hack things together to make them do the things you want them to do.
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    by ericol 6y ago

    Cheers, I'm checking that out now :)
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    by ericol 6y ago

    Well, yes. But it's not the same, and I'm in this boat as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23460927
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    by ericol 6y ago

    Well, my partner has the same issue. Even thought we are living in this city because it was the best for her career (She's a professional flamenco "bailaora" and where we lived before her career was dead in the water) she doe
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    by ericol 6y ago

    I'm sorry to hear that. The reality is that there's no substitute for human touch. Obviously it's an incredible complex decision, but have you thought about getting a pet? (If that's within your possibilities)
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    by ericol 6y ago

    Well, guess you are correct here, I can't call my current situation isolation. But there have been times where I've been there (My partner tends to go on extended vacations with her mother) and, even without quarantine, I've
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    by ericol 6y ago

    He, I remember what a pain in the ass D&D was when it started being a thing.
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    by ericol 6y ago

    More or less for my entire life I've had the idea that my social needs were not on par with the rest of the people, and this quarantine seems to have proven just that. Bear in mind I do enjoy social life; when I was living in Spain i
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    by ericol 6y ago

    To that vein... I invented AJAX :P I remember it being around 2001 - 2002 and seeing the first implementations of Microsoft for Javascript requests and at the same time the DOM was started to be a thing you could actually manipulate and I s