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by kace91 7y ago
> If you can afford to give your employees these benefits your profit margins are vastly larger than most software companies. the 40h/week, paid leave, etc. are minimums set by law in my home country, so I really doubt that.
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by kace91 7y ago
Well, if you open a book you're currently reading you can pretty easily tell which parts you've already read and which you haven't - but you still probably use some sort of bookmark to avoid going through the hassle. This sou
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by kace91 7y ago
I'm European, and pretty happy that the GDPR exists, but even I can't deny that a law is just as strong as the ruler's capacity to enforce it, and I'm a bit sceptical about the EU's ability to effectively govern the
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by kace91 7y ago
There are several problematic patterns at play here, and not all of them are store monopolies: App stores are a clear cut issue since they're a clear walled garden, but soft monopolies are even worse in my opinion. By soft monopolies
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by kace91 7y ago
I wonder if it's been on purpose or just, as always, their automatic algorithms being imposible to contest when they're wrong. Honestly, Google's (and general tech giants') willingness to let people's lives be caug
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by kace91 7y ago
Meh, each language has its quirks. I am a native Spanish speaker, and while English pronunciation is a clusterfuck, Spanish has its own share of issues for non-native speakers - like the need to memorise the useless the gender of words tha
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by kace91 7y ago
I'm not sure that qualifies as auto antonyms. Original means the origin/birth in both examples, the difference lies not in the meaning of original but in the word it affects (The telling, or the story itself)
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As for what do you gain, it's basically the same jump as copypasting by using ctrl+c/ ctrl+v vs. using your mouse to go to the top bar and clicking edit-> copy then edit->paste. What I mean is that it's one of those com
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by kace91 7y ago
If you're interested there are articles about people who tried themselves or with the help of friends at home, in the 70's or so. I read about it a while ago, but although it's an interesting read there's no clear answer
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This piece of news isn't really visible, to the degree I think it should (at least in my country). I worry that, if the Chinese government feels that their escalation isn't causing much noise on the international stage, they'
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by kace91 7y ago
I think there could be a huge market for a ux effort that brings the somewhat forgotten goodies of old modal editors into the modern world, combining them with new advances like fuzzy searching. I love vim, but it's appalling that we h
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by kace91 7y ago
“There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and known the same women.”
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by kace91 7y ago
I’m not sure... I'm not even American, but RMS came to my city once to give a talk, lived for a few days at a student's house (who volunteered ofc) and apparently it was such a bad experience that rumours of it spread through the
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by kace91 7y ago
> No one says "I want to be a nerd!" This might be generational - now that tech is mainstream, and there's a constant influx of nerd culture into the general public (marvel/scifi/fantasy movies and shows, videoga
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by kace91 7y ago
> An event that happened and was publicly known over a decade ago, I don't see how it could have broken the camels back right now. You can see it if you assume that some (even most) of the people judging weren't part of the com
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by kace91 7y ago
> I'm sorry, but being a rude and obnoxious person doesn't mean the local lynch mob gets to decide when you have to step down from the foundation you created in the name of ensuring human freedom for generations to come. No, bu
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by kace91 7y ago
Is mimicry always sign language though? It is certainly communication, but I think there's a difference between communication and language. The latter requires more structure: perhaps grammar, a finite fixed set of predetermined words,
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by kace91 7y ago
I've used tinder in the past, and I remember there were recommendations online to completely delete your account and start from scratch from time to time if you suddenly found yourself unsuccessful, to get around potential shadow bans
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by kace91 7y ago
Lack of a large enough standard library is a big differenciating factor, as it makes you very dependent on third party libraries. Even if you avoid it by creating your own utils, chances are that the creators of the large packages you use (
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by kace91 7y ago
A point that I'm not seeing raised enough is that Stallman's current job is nowadays almost purely evangelisation and PR. He is a public figure. In that context, fired is more than fair. His image being linked with pedophilia (on
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Without entering to discuss Stallman's role as a historic figure and his original work as a developer, I think it's about time we had a change in leadership and public figures. Stallman pretty much embodies the worst stereotypes a
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But that's like 6% interest rate. The S&P 500's average anual return is 10%... So unless I've got something wrong, you'd be earning far more if you just let your 5m chill there and go watch Netflix for the whole year
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Pro at this point is just key for "the expensier/fancier one". It's hard to name the more expensive version to convey it's better without in turn suggesting the cheaper one is shittier. "Pro" lets you do t
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by kace91 7y ago
Absolutely. I had the same experience with the first Moto G phones - reviews called it amazing quality for the price and had camera samples that were admittedly very nice. There was no way I could get a picture of my dog in that time, or ev
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That's FilmAffinity, for movies. It's pretty popular in the Spanish speaking world. You vote movies, it calculates what it calls your "soulmates" (people who voted similarly) and then you get recommendations Of movies ba
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I think he/she meant unnecessary competition, rather than competence.
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> They openly talk about their dating life at work or friends group. They don't mind getting matched with a coworker or classmate. reply Coworkers and classmates aren't the problem. For young people, facebook is where mom and g
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I think this is the real danger, survival of personal data. Digital media is way more vulnerable if you don't know how to take care of it (taking care of physical photos is pretty straightforward in comparison). There's going to b
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The main issue with safari, for me at least, is extensions. I use vim-like shortcuts on chrome/firefox and I feel awfully slow without them. Safari has very few extensions, and the few that exist don't really work well.
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I tried it after the comments in a previous HN post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20850135 ). My results were very positive when idle (I can finally start FF and have it in the background without fans blasting). Howe

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