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by harryf 9y ago
Don't think permissions don't really protect you from this. AFAIK you don't need permission to _play_ sounds at least for foreground apps. So that means in a public space, it doesn't matter if your mic is disabled - if a
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by harryf 9y ago
VS Code is a great example... resource hungry it may be but as an app, it's a huge success (based on the Github extension for example that has over 6 million installs - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNam
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by harryf 9y ago
Nobody. You will pay-per-ride like Uber
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by harryf 9y ago
From the link in his question he mentions; > Many other software engineers have also complained to me and expect me to take action. If that's correct, then yes, you have to fire, otherwise it will turn the whole team toxic. Nothing
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by harryf 9y ago
What's going on with the title of this article? Does not reflect the body accurately
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by harryf 10y ago
Interesting point of view but... > I’ve decided I’m no longer attending programming meet-ups Who is "I"? The "About" links to https://python.sh/2017/2/bureau-of-programming ... which doesn&#
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by harryf 10y ago
Reminds me of "SeeChange" from The Circle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_(Eggers_novel)
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by harryf 10y ago
And anyone got fired yet?
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by harryf 10y ago
> After spending some time with a programmer, especially in a work environment, it's easy to get an overview of how strong their skills are If you're another programmer, yes perhaps. But I've seen weaker developers consist
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by harryf 10y ago
> A company can't ever fire a customer. Why not? > to speak of firing customers is an abusive cognitive power play. The guy responsible for the term "fired" was well known for abusive power plays - http://met
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by harryf 10y ago
> The theory is that the immigrants were willing to work for less so "stole" the menial, mind-numbing, often physical, & sometimes seasonal jobs. Except recent studies show that most EU migrants go for high skilled jobs and
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by harryf 10y ago
Clickbait title keyed to feed our current robot fears. Should at least have the qualifier " for low skilled jobs in the manufacturing sector"
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by harryf 10y ago
The other fun part is getting your office connected to the Internet - Deutsche Telekom will happily take 5 weeks to respond to what should be their most simplest of requests
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by harryf 10y ago
Google Accelerated Mobile Page version - https://www.google.com/amp/www.spiegel.de/international/busi...
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by harryf 10y ago
Time to start a company called Lin that makes a design product called UX
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by harryf 10y ago
Cache https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0qPVd8... Also github project explains https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole
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by harryf 10y ago
Have you seen http://weekplan.net/ ? Might be a substitute for Timeful
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by harryf 10y ago
I can't find a primary source on this (and Googling along the way was reminded how broken the internet is with generated content...) but there is this - http://faculty.uml.edu/ethan_Spanier/Teaching/documents&
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by harryf 10y ago
IMO _the_ resource on search UI design is http://searchuserinterfaces.com/ - very well researched booked, although getting a little dated (was written before the mobile app boom took off) but for example detailed coverage o
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by harryf 10y ago
Designers, developers and gamers have always been the opinion leaders in personal computing. Apple showed they could maintain and resurrect their business by keeping their appeal with designers and making an attractive platform for develop
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by harryf 10y ago
MyTaxi covers a large part of Europe and covers parts of the US as well I believe
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by harryf 10y ago
Nice game for a kids party (ages 6-10) - https://drtechniko.com/2012/04/09/how-to-train-your-robot/ - write "programs" on paper and have an adult "robot" execute the program, which co
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by harryf 10y ago
For those not aware threema is an encrypted chat app developed in Switzerland. It's very popular in German speaking countries, dominating the paid app ranks on the iOS App Store in Germany for example.
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by harryf 10y ago
Our ideas about motivation are shaped by self fulfilling prophecy; most people are on the planet a working jobs which are, at best, a compromise for what they want to do with their lives. As a result staying motivated is hard because you&#x
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by harryf 10y ago
Unavailable in Switzerland either, where a lot of people also understand English. Meanwhile another app with the same name already exists and can be downloaded in Switzerland - http://bitesnap.appstor.io/ - thought this was
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by harryf 10y ago
"I want my money back!" Margret Thatcher at the European Union summit in Dublin in 1980 "That such an unnecessary and irrational project as building a European superstate was ever embarked upon will seem in future years to be
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by harryf 10y ago
> Peter Norby, Teja Komma, Shijo Joy and Bei Wu formed the core team for our zero-storage-budget project. Many others assisted the effort. Looks like someone's hoping to get hired
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by harryf 10y ago
Yes OK but... Right now Touch Bar plus Safari is offering itself as an alternative to the Safari's own tab-bar showing available tabs as keys which can be pressed - this screenshot shows it - http://assets.hardwarezone.com&#
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by harryf 10y ago
It's worse than that even. According to https://developer.apple.com/macos/touch-bar/ > "The all-new Touch Bar revolutionizes the keyboard experience by bringing dynamic controls to your fingertips. Th
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by harryf 10y ago
Because the de facto "best tool" for professional personal computing since at least 5 years now (longer if you include other models) is broken, forcing a bunch of people who hadn't had to think about this stuff for ages to st

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