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by fpig 5y ago
> It's not uncommon that zooming will make the text smaller. You're at 140% and want to go a tad higher, so you go to 150% and bam: you're over the limit, the text becomes smaller, and now you need to zoom to ludicrous amo
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by fpig 5y ago
I have never heard anyone from any school in any country mention they used VB in school. Everyone I know who used VB, including me, learned it outside of school (either as a hobby or at work). I don't think VB in colleges was ever as w
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by fpig 5y ago
It was, but never really became relevant because most people switched to C# + WinForms and never looked back. As there was never (as far as I know) an easy way to migrate existing apps from VB6 to VB.NET, the main reason to use VB.NET would
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by fpig 5y ago
Been using this in production for years now (although we target just Windows and MacOS so I don't have experience with it on Linux). It is buggier than WPF and has occasional annoying issues when you update to a newer version, but it&#
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by fpig 5y ago
Is content-based targeting really so much less effective than user-based, or is this more of an arms race between ad providers where even a small difference gives them a large edge? Youtube doesn't need to know someone is a snowboarder
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by fpig 6y ago
Also all the endless roads and parking lots which make the environment much less pleasant, and they exist because of cars.
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by fpig 6y ago
This is totally true (other than the bash/vim part, there certainly is value in having a graphical UI). My conclusion is that these inefficient designs aimed purely at someone who is seeing the app for the first time are a result of tw
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by fpig 6y ago
In my experience, it's the opposite. Inefficiency can be orders of magnitude more expensive than the cost of the added effort to avoid that inefficiency.
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by fpig 6y ago
Good luck with that, since everyone is pushing for censorship these days. I remember this idea gained traction when there was the refugee crisis in Europe (I think 2014 or so) and European politicians (led by Merkel) were pushing for more F
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by fpig 6y ago
> But it is objective, and it's important that it be so But it's not objective at all. He still subjectively evaluated each individual employee, and fed this into the program as an input, in order to help him find configuration
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by fpig 6y ago
This is some really strange stuff. Since shareholders own the company, wouldn't this mean that the shareholders who didn't sue are effectively paying the shareholders who did? That makes sense if the shareholders who sued were som
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by fpig 6y ago
When I click on a website and the first thing I see is a claim that, by using their product, I can build something in 15 minutes, I consider that company socially negative, not socially neutral. I don't have a problem with the article
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by fpig 6y ago
If they have to block you due to law, then sure since it's not their choice. Signing a contract however hardly makes it any less discriminatory. Signing a contract that means you now have to block Armenians is like signing a contract s
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by fpig 6y ago
Maybe my sentence was confusing, I think pirating is fine. (not watch) || pirate
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by fpig 6y ago
Why not pirate it instead?
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by fpig 6y ago
It's always good for a VPN to deny any information about the customer to a server, I would imagine that's not what was referred to as sketchy. Making a user indistinguishable from a typical user from country X is just the VPN doin
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by fpig 6y ago
We have tons of labor protections in Croatia and people still try to game the system in any way they can. Labor laws just make this easier. Sick leave is massively abused, even though it requires a doctor to authorize it (but is unlimited).
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by fpig 6y ago
The child is probably not poorer than its parents, but instead, I'm guessing households with children are poorer on average, and even more so the more children they have. This would then mathematically result in children being poorer o
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by fpig 6y ago
So a much less confusing way to say the same thing would be that people in households with children are poorer than people in households without children? Or even simply "poor people have more children than average"?
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by fpig 6y ago
> all opposition is rusophobic and/or paid by the CIA/MI-6 This is probably the most ridiculous statement I've read on HN. But unfortunately not surprising.
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by fpig 6y ago
He refers to '33 as the greatest event because of what happened in that year - people and companies were forced to turn in their gold to the government at a price set by the government. Soon after, they increased the gold price and inf
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by fpig 6y ago
You can ask algorithmic questions that are not easily googleable or standard problems (basically where they have to invent the solution themselves). Although it takes some effort to find the right difficulty problems (tip: the right diffic
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by fpig 6y ago
The author's suggestion, as I understood it, doesn't prevent this, it only prevents them from doing it beyond a certain point in the future. If you got an email that warrants "holding someone accountable", you would have
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by fpig 6y ago
I agree completely. Non-repudiation is of course a needed property for many systems, but it is not a property a system, especially an everyday messaging system like email, should have by accident - even "weak" non-repudiation such
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by fpig 6y ago
Producing an equivalent result in less time than a less capable engineer is not the main benefit of having some really good engineers, at least not at all companies. It's being able to perform work (and well) that requires more knowled
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by fpig 6y ago
The other reason this is stupid is, the person reading your resume is usually either some administrative person doing basic filtering or a knowledgeable technical person. Neither of them are going to be swayed by you claiming you increased
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by fpig 6y ago
Improved the performance of a rendering system from 10000 objects per second to 100000. Super vague, means basically nothing. Maybe it should be written with a bit more detail about what kind of rendering system this is. Still I would be in
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by fpig 6y ago
Well the opinion you form of a candidate is based on a combination of multiple things. Also, in my experience, the candidates whose resumes contain questionable/silly things rarely turn out to be great; there is a negative correlation
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by fpig 6y ago
So why include such an obviously silly statement in your article? It just makes the applicant look inexperienced. I am a single data point, but also someone who's interviewed 100+ developers across multiple companies, and from my persp
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by fpig 6y ago
Wow, I just checked and yeah those prices are pretty insane, especially if you want a better-than-base model. I guess then in the desktop arena, Macs are at a disadvantage, because you can build a similarly powerful PC for a much more reaso

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