hocuspocus

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by hocuspocus 11y ago
I've just come back from two weeks in the Bay area to see a bunch of friends and they all do that. Even though I find it insane as much you do, I understand. There are a few good reasons though, from our very European and biased poin
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by hocuspocus 11y ago
> Please use US dollars, thanks! Free currency converter http://www.xe.com/ Ah, too late. And I don't think that's a good idea. Exchange rates vary. Comparing within a country/region/city makes a lot
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by hocuspocus 11y ago
I can bear with the bad UI and the dark patterns but I'm more and more baffled by the stream of junk that my news-feed has become. I know that it depends on who I add and who I (un)follow but I have little time to be picky or manually
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by hocuspocus 11y ago
Honest question: what's the appeal of Swift outside of iOS/OSX development? I can understand the need for an Objective-C replacement, but after more than two decades of evolution, web dev doesn't lack of good and modern langu
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by hocuspocus 11y ago
Credit cards in Germany, that's a good joke :) SEPA wire transfers are free and direct debit is fairly cheap. If I buy or sell something that costs more than 5000€ I'll want some kind of record anyway.
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by hocuspocus 11y ago
Academia, publicly funded research labs, non-profits... are already cap-exempt. Other than that, you're absolutely right. This would mostly benefit software companies in the Bay or NYC, and the ones that pay way above average at that.
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by hocuspocus 11y ago
Do you realize that EC cards are either Maestro (MasterCard) or V pay (VISA)? Also you shouldn't make generalization about "Europe", payment habits vary greatly between neighboring countries (Germans' love for cash baffl
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by hocuspocus 11y ago
> If you let that culture fail you’ll end up like a post-2010 PayPal, a Pandora, a LinkedIn, a Dell, a GM, a 2000’s era Microsoft. Having LinkedIn in this list seems a bit unfair. Yes I'm sure they have a lot of non-engineer employe
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by hocuspocus 11y ago
Yes. A lot more than in your average tech company. You still don't see that many female executives, but at the bottom, the influx of fresh grad hires is pretty much 50/50.
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by hocuspocus 11y ago
> Many projects have lousy documentation, so one needs to build the documentation from experience and reading source code. This... seeing ElasticSearch in the trending terms is a good example.
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by hocuspocus 11y ago
From their blog: https://protonmaildotcom.wordpress.com/ At around 2PM, the attackers began directly attacking the infrastructure of our upstream providers and the datacenter itself. The coordinated assault on our ISP exce
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by hocuspocus 11y ago
Atlassian does something pretty close. Once you've successfully passed the first step (automated online assignment), you receive a maven project by email 15 minutes before the interview and then use Skype screen sharing to show what yo
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by hocuspocus 12y ago
Google is believed to assemble its SSDs, supposedly from Intel/Micron flash memory and Marvell controllers. So even though they're the same components you'd find in Intel/Crucial SSDs, Google would obviously not run in a
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by hocuspocus 12y ago
As someone who had to implement PoC's using semantic web at a big company, I'd say it's still limited to academia and very specific fields in the industry (like bio-medical research). On an anecdotal note, no recruiter has ev
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by hocuspocus 12y ago
Do we know how Apple's Cyclone shows roughly 4x better IPC against Krait at Sunspider benchmark? Are the extra registers and bigger L1 enough to explain that?
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by hocuspocus 12y ago
Actually this video was a pretty good proof that the screen is indeed made of glass. Too bad none of the tech news website who relayed that rumor bothered asking a materials engineer (or anyone who knows the first thing about sapphire). O
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by hocuspocus 12y ago
All dates get shifted one month back when rendered on the résumé. I see that you use some Angular filter called 'utc' to format them, but do you store them in UTC too? Impressive work regardless :)
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by hocuspocus 12y ago
I'm really confused. I've been using this extension to take remote control of my mom's computer, running Ubuntu, for like 2 years or so. And it didn't require to install a .deb besides the extension. Am I missing somethi
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by hocuspocus 12y ago
I'm very glad to see it happening. Finally we might catch up with Baltic countries... Switzerland has the money and a population that isn't particularly hard to cover thoroughly compared to some nearby countries. Yet we wasted nea
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by hocuspocus 12y ago
Yes there is, and OP is right, an awful lot of people still use the 4*3 keyboard, even on phablets. For instance, last year Pantech was advertising the fact you can use the Vega R3's keyboard with one hand: http://www.youtub
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by hocuspocus 12y ago
Not sure why you were downvoted, I think you're making fair points; I live in Korea and see very similar mindsets here. Another reason specific to China is that it's downright impossible for a foreign company to operate an interne
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by hocuspocus 13y ago
The body of most printed stuff is typeset in serif fonts because it improves legibility. Even on my fairly low definition e-reader, reading a book in a sans serif font feels weird. Moreover, the stroke width of sans serif fonts is usually f
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by hocuspocus 13y ago
I use it every day and I got my free account expiration date upgraded to "lifetime". Admittedly, I'm a light user regarding bandwidth usage; I do share some pictures, but probably a lot less than the average user. I honestly
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by hocuspocus 13y ago
There's some gender imbalance. Marriage and fertility rates have also been falling steadily in recent years, you aren't that far off. Most of people I know here still get married for all the wrong reasons (social status, money, fa
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by hocuspocus 13y ago
I'd have a lot to say about the Korean government's interventionism, but I believe they're right for once. Firstly, they aren't banning carriers from shipping phones with preloaded crapware, they're forcing them to