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by highwind 4y ago
Nothing happens on Firefox Mobile on Android.
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by highwind 4y ago
I've been off Google for the past 4 years. Only exception is watching YouTube videos time to time. My digital life has been just fine. > Everything else is much, much worse IMO. I wouldn't say it's much much worse. Lot of
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by highwind 4y ago
Maybe platform that's impossible to moderate shouldn't exist? While I understand the good that YouTube brings, it has such a huge negative side that I wouldn't miss it if it were gone.
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by highwind 4y ago
Joker's take on the issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK0UxenfV4Q
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Amazon warehouse fires a worker 1 day before his $3000 hiring bonus(old.reddit.com)
104 points by highwind 5y ago|44 comments
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by highwind 5y ago
One of many controversies: https://www.techworm.net/2020/06/brave-browser-cryptocurrenc...
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by highwind 5y ago
I personally like Ribbon over rows and rows of small icons without labels. I think of Ribbons like tabs that organizes the buttons that makes sense together. But I'm not a power Office user and that's just my preference.
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by highwind 5y ago
These days lot of 2D animation look is achieved via 3D/CGI tools.
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by highwind 5y ago
Different perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL6hp8BKB24
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by highwind 5y ago
According to [0] the quote is attributed to Rabbi Hyman Schachtel. According to [1] the quote is by Garth Brooks. I wonder which one is right. [0] - https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/461438-happiness-is-not-hav... [1] -
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by highwind 5y ago
I used to use 1Password when they just sold the application at a fixed price and I handle all the synchronization between machines. That option is no longer available. I'm one of the users who left because of this.
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by highwind 5y ago
Because small to medium business that are not in tech doesn't care.
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by highwind 5y ago
I checked the death rate and the same pattern arises.
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by highwind 5y ago
I just checked the data from https://covid19.who.int/ and Austria had 93 cases per 10,000 last week where as USA had 164 cases per 10,000. Which seems like a significant difference. I don't know if Austria mandates mas
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by highwind 5y ago
I once wanted to download a calculator app on an iPad. (After being dumbfounded that there wasn't one included.) But I couldn't find a single quality calculator app and got really frustrated. This was more than 4 years ago though.
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by highwind 5y ago
I feel like 10 years from now we will look at thread like this and laugh akin to 64kb being enough.
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by highwind 5y ago
What's the malice here? Maybe I missed it.
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by highwind 5y ago
Does anyone remember the days when we used to call the entire web application frontned? :)
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by highwind 5y ago
If you buy a product from a company where their revenue comes primarily comes from ads, you should expect to see ads on their product.
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by highwind 5y ago
What makes Google Docs a better product than MS Office? Can you provide some examples of features that are better in Google Docs?
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by highwind 5y ago
Only argument I heard, not that I agree but, is future proofing by abstraction. What if a simple getter evolves into something more complex. Then You'd have to refactor all the places where it was using the fields. I personally never h
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by highwind 6y ago
Why does it need an endgame? As long as it has enough interest to keep it going, then they should make whatever they like. Not everything has to be #1 to be sustainable, interesting and/or worthwhile.
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by highwind 6y ago
Yeah, I gave up on my subscription after I couldn't figure out how to list all the songs by a given musician. It's a simple feature that's part of all the music software that I've used before: Winamp, iTunes, Amarok, Gno
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by highwind 6y ago
At that temperature it's almost meaningless to compare the numerical value of C and F. But it's 180M F for the curious.
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Recommended Best Settings for Xbox Series X for LG CX TV [video](youtube.com)
1 points by highwind 6y ago|0 comments
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by highwind 6y ago
> Most people who believe in climate change have never read a single scientific paper regarding it nor know the name of a single climate scientist. Source?
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by highwind 6y ago
My experience is total opposite. I had horrible hardware experience with MacBook Pro. Battery being blown up, broken hinges, keyboard skipping... My XPS has been working amazingly fine. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by highwind 6y ago
This reminded me of days where we used <table> to do layout.
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Two Screens for Teachers(twoscreensforteachers.org)
1 points by highwind 6y ago|0 comments
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by highwind 6y ago
From my experience, only people who prefer open offices are junior devs who need lot of help from peers/mentors and managers who often likes to check on team's progress. I personally hate open office for the similar reasons mentio

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