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by jfroma 7y ago
I find naming and details as confusing with Amazon Prime, Amazon Video and FireTV. Maybe it is not as problematic when you are in the US, but in my country Amazon Prime works in all devices (android, ios, pc, etc) except in the FireTV, othe
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by jfroma 7y ago
I think is different for every person. I usually commit often but I'd squash multiple commits into one. So, my graph isn't exactly going to tell you at what hours I code but at what time I sent pull requests to my coworkers for ex
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by jfroma 7y ago
I used it for 6 months and gave up few weeks ago for this reason.
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by jfroma 8y ago
Good poem! I think is also the point in the movie “Mr Nobody”
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by jfroma 8y ago
The other day I was looking at the gallery and I found this "Complete XML Parser": https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/780538/ LOL I want to hangout with that kid!
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by jfroma 8y ago
This is amazing, thanks for sharing! do you know what year are these videos from? I couldn't find any reference.
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by jfroma 8y ago
Very nice, I've been volunteering in a group, we've been teaching Scratch to kids from 7 to 12. Can't wait until I show them this Is there any significant difference between TIC-80 and PICO-8? both looks awesome to me
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by jfroma 8y ago
I consider myself okayest because I can fix the stuff I break or improve something I did months ago. Believe it or not, a lot of people I have worked with can’t.
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by jfroma 8y ago
Isn't the person donating to their hometown the tax, giving something to the town (reciprocation) for the education and childhood they had in the hometown in the first place? Where does the reciprocation ends? You give money to your ho
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by jfroma 8y ago
This. I'm from Argentina, what worked for me was to start a blog about the problems I was solving back then for my current job, worked in opensource stuff, responded questions for an opensource tool in a forum (there was no stackoverfl
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by jfroma 8y ago
Another I remember from that era was Microsoft Netmeeting.. there was an screen with a list of all users and their status online/offline and you could call a random stranger. Another thing I remember about this is that I could make unl
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by jfroma 8y ago
You made me laugh a lot. Thank you
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by jfroma 8y ago
There is a pedestrian city in my province (Córdoba, Argentina) called La Cumbrecita. You leave your car in the entrance to the city in a parking lot and you can walk the entire town. First time I visit there made me wonder why not all town
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by jfroma 8y ago
There was a TV AD few years back in my country about a beer. A group of friends is discussing in a bar that 2-day weekends are not enough so they decided to add a new one called Osvaldo (the name of the waiter) and they go all around the wo
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by jfroma 8y ago
I have never owned a deportive car but in my country automatic transmission is not common. For a long time automatic cars were much more expensive. I have owned manual my entire life and IMHO after the first month driving switching becomes
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by jfroma 8y ago
I have the same problem but you can always use the combination of cmd+shift+esc to mark everything as read.
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by jfroma 8y ago
Excellent advice, I agree 100% with this. Also I want to add that allocating time for a refactoring or fixing legacy code is hard to justify most of the time. Instead I try to follow the "boy scout rule": On every bug fix or new f
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by jfroma 8y ago
I got this Sound Blaster 16 as christmas present when I was a kid. I always remember it came in a very big blue package with the CD drive and some CDs with a lot of sharewhare applications. My father told me very exited "I went to a fr
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by jfroma 8y ago
Argentinian here same experience. We are from Cordoba, and the only consultate is in Buenos Aires (800kms away). I dont remember exactly but I think it was two days. The process was really frightening for my children. I remember my daughter
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Stuxnet(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by jfroma 8y ago|0 comments
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by jfroma 8y ago
We had a similar experience 10 years ago. I got a call about free vacations or another prize, catch was sitting through 1h timeshare sales pitch. It was an horrible experience, everything was fake, there were actors in the back screaming &q
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Gombe Chimpanzee War(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by jfroma 8y ago|0 comments
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by jfroma 8y ago
> Honestly reading the notes (and not knowing anything about the team) they need less DevOps and more SysAdmin/DBA. Having had problems in the past with Postgres and managing their database[1] I wonder why they haven't switch t
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NPM Acquires ^Lift Security and Node Security Platform(blog.npmjs.org)
1 points by jfroma 8y ago|0 comments
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by jfroma 9y ago
It seems to me that they are planning to restrict what an application can see about users, but what about what an user can take from her friends. Can a bad actor like Kogan harvest private information by using fake profiles or even some fa
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by jfroma 9y ago
What I don't understand about this is that even if it is mathematically and technologically perfect (which I assume will be really hard) how can non-technical people understand something so complex. I am a software developer and to be
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by jfroma 9y ago
I am not introvert but I feel very uncomfortable doing pair programming (specially with one keyboard). When I am driving some times I get questions about things that I don't care at the moment, why I am using vim/sublime this way,
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by jfroma 9y ago
On the other hand (at least where I live) expensive cars means expensive repairs and maintainance.
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Telegram Login for Websites(telegram.org)
173 points by jfroma 9y ago|138 comments
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by jfroma 9y ago
devdocs.io is really neat!

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