jbirer

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by jbirer 4y ago
Question, how do you guys avoid politics when looking for technology news and articles?
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by jbirer 4y ago
You need to set up a working HTTPS certificate, if you want to estabilish any sort of trust or credibility.
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by jbirer 4y ago
I am an account from 2017, I have a bridge to sell to you.
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by jbirer 4y ago
I never use WiFi when I am in a hotel because I am most likely traveling and want to go outside and have fun / explore, not browse the Internet in my room.
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by jbirer 4y ago
My personal choice is Linux but MacOS doesn't have anything near the amount of exploits and vulnerabilities that get released daily for Windows.
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by jbirer 4y ago
Pretty much, overqualified means they have leverage and are independent, not easy to jerk around and power trip with.
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Did his sentence hit close home with you? He's mostly right.
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I doubt they are looking for talents / very competitive people. It's more in the lines of "competent just enough but very obedient / willing to put up with a lot".
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He's the person who threw the first stone in making ARM firmware and hardware more accessible, RIP.
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As much as TikTok is a cringe-fest, you find what you search for. Kids in China are interested in building wealth and "surpassing Americans" whereas the American kids are interested in online clout and popularity. TikTok will lose
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by jbirer 4y ago
People vote themselves into dictatorships and economic crises.
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They're really close to recreating Second Life, created more than 10 years ago
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It seems like she invested herself and her ego too much into the job, almost caring more about the "position" than the money, which is very weird. I would just take the paycheck and the easy work.
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by jbirer 4y ago
You don't have to be of any special status to make arguments, that's the definition of democracy. And they're 100% right.
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by jbirer 4y ago
I love React. They realized that the whole "class" thing is unnatural to Javascript and replaced it all with hooks and functions. It also makes it very easy to collaborate with coders of various skill levels because there's o
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by jbirer 4y ago
I stopped developing for iOS (React Native developer here) after I realized that you can't install apps on the iOS emulator unless you apply some hacks first. Some missed opportunities but I'd rather support open platforms.
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by jbirer 4y ago
I moved to Gitlab after someone reported a part of my code as transphobic (containing a deep link to the Troon Android App) and a repo of mine was deleted. They have become too silly with the PC stuff.
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It fits the UNIX philosophy just right though.
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by jbirer 4y ago
Thanks to Tor foundation for helping us Turks get access to information that is being hidden from us by our rogue government.
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At this point, if you are still using Windows, you can't complain about being hacked.
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That's why I love Work from Home. You can even do it during job interviews.
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by jbirer 4y ago
We often assume that most people have empathy / conscience. It's simply not true.
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by jbirer 4y ago
My stack is: TomatoTimer Dual monitors with one monitor playing YouTube Travel/ASMR/whatever is interesting radio.garden (playing radio with vocals seems to keep me focused for some reason) Rewarding myself with foods, drinks, spo
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by jbirer 4y ago
This is actually a smart move by the author, as this type of debate will usually lead to someone try to call him a pedophile in an attempt to shut down conversation.
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by jbirer 4y ago
Appeal to Authority is not a very good argument either.
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city-data is quite great for travel related topics.
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Doesn't seem that implausible given that we can read words just by reading the first letter and last letter, even if the letters in the middle are in the wrong order. We take words as lump-sum abstract objects instead of focusing on ea
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My 4K monitor with a SDR device is much cheaper than all of these.
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by jbirer 4y ago
No paywall link: https://web.archive.org/web/20221010003913/https://www.nytim...
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Even worse, amateurs from overseas with no programming study or talent, trying to quickly create a portfolio to get a remote job. This is how you have websites exploding nowadays.

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