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by k_sze 6y ago
There’s a company called GitStart (previously known as Murcul). They’re from YC S19. I think they mostly hire people to work remotely. They provide software development service. I’m using their service right now. They seem to provide good m
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by k_sze 6y ago
Until somebody loses their wallet in a discarded HDD.
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by k_sze 6y ago
Just me or it doesn’t work in Firefox for iOS? I hear no sound at all.
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by k_sze 6y ago
This is not the first time that I hear Zed Shaw’s Learn X the Hard Way is bad. E.g. Learn C The Hard Way is so bad that it’s on the list of stuff to avoid on iso-9899.info, the most popular C wiki [1]. Experts in the #c channel on Freenode
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by k_sze 6y ago
This also reminds me of the post Jon Skeet wrote about using UTC: https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a... Also discussed on HN back in the days: https://news.ycombinator.com
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by k_sze 6y ago
When I use the "full" timezone name like "America/New_York", how does libc resolve the ambiguity during the extra hour of the transition from daylight saving time to standard time?
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by k_sze 6y ago
This comment hits the nail right on the head. What is wrong with web dev? Why is it perceived not ok to be "stuck in 2015"? I've never seen so much churn and turnover in any other single layer of a tech stack.
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by k_sze 6y ago
I don’t understand how this can work. Doesn’t hydrogen peroxide decompose pretty quickly when exposed to sunlight?
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by k_sze 6y ago
Oh, I don’t actually “need” to have them. They are just nice-to-haves. Really low priority among my “Ways to Spend/Waste My Money”, more like “Doodads I Might Buy One Day If I Have Waaay Too Much Money”. Establishing this list at least
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by k_sze 6y ago
What I do is I make a list of vintage grail watches that I'm interested in, and I limit myself to those and stop looking at other ones. (Same thing with fountain pens.) Right now these are missing from my collection: - Seiko SCVF-009 &
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by k_sze 6y ago
Same thing when viewing your downloads in Firefox for iOS.
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by k_sze 6y ago
Have you tried calibre? It’s a proper ebook reader app that allows you to define custom dictionary URL patterns.
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by k_sze 6y ago
I know I’m getting old when Nintendo GameCube is considered vintage. I'm 38 now with some gray hair. The GameCube came out when I was in high school. P.S. The emulation of curved CRT in these paper models is a really nice touch.
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by k_sze 6y ago
How does Threema deal with the keyboard leak that Naomi Wu has pointed out multiple times about Signal (and basically all other messenger apps)? I'm talking about the fact that virtual keyboards don't necessarily respect the incog
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by k_sze 6y ago
Could we start off by sourcing numbers from various physical training programs and fitness exams? e.g. policemen, firefighters, the military, professional athletes.
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by k_sze 6y ago
It would be nice to add benchmarks to the exercises. E.g. how many push ups in a row (in a specific timespan, at a certain pace) a healthy person is expected to be able to do.
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by k_sze 6y ago
Interesting. Does that make it kinda midway between "pure" MarkDown and reStructuredText? As in, it's a bit more powerful than pure MarkDown, but still lighter to use than reStructuredText? I mean, if you don't mind summ
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by k_sze 6y ago
Just me or the submissions can’t be viewed in Firefox for iOS, even with tracking protection turned off?
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by k_sze 6y ago
So this got my curious and I joined /r/Tulpas This is the most hilarious question I found right away: > When I have sex with my girl is there a way to make sure my tulpa doesn’t see But then it also gets you thinking. https:&#
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by k_sze 6y ago
I'm wondering what impact COVID might have on this. On the one hand, some people have reduced income during the pandemic, so they don't buy less brand-new first-hand stuff. On the other hand, some people might become more wary of
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by k_sze 6y ago
I came here to say the same thing. In fact, there isn't a single book in any East Asian language (not just Chinese) within the top 350 listed there!
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by k_sze 6y ago
Unfortunately, not everybody can afford to raise their own chickens. E.g. IIRC, raising of any chicken/duck/goose/pigeon on land that is not zoned for agriculture has been outlawed in Hong Kong, due to concerns about spread
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by k_sze 6y ago
The grand parent maybe meant “turning off”. One could argue that’s the ultimate “tuning”. :P
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by k_sze 6y ago
Yep. I’ve been a long time GNOME user and I switched to KDE Plasma when I upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04. I don’t think I’m looking back.
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by k_sze 6y ago
I don't understand how some of the translations can be SO BAD. E.g. the one that mentions "fitness room" and "Thailand"; What was the original Japanese sentence for that one?
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Why the UK tax year begins on April 6 (2016)(independent.co.uk)
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by k_sze 6y ago
There are no customers. If you’re not paying for it, you’re not a customer: you’re the product. Whatever WhatsApp/Facebook do to “take care” of the “customers” is just like pig farmers taking care of pigs.
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by k_sze 6y ago
The grand-parent comment is problematic for anybody who has read enough Chomsky and remembered the lessons. One needs to define “America” for that comment to be meaningful. Or rather, one should recognize that there is not one “America”.
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by k_sze 6y ago
I don't even understand how the "health care" system and the insurance industry can be both so messed up in the US. It may be just anecdata, but In Hong Kong, my family has an insurance agent whom we work very close with. W
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by k_sze 6y ago
Jon Skeet would implement `sloc` in -1 bytes to begin with, and still fix the regex heuristics so that none of the posted solutions in that code golf works. ;)

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