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by kace91 7y ago
Damn, he really sounds like a person worth getting a beer with.
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Because they're "offering" an inelastic good (a potential job). People who need it will be willing to tolerate a lot of bullshit for a chance to get one.
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We could rescue the classic "evil" to define them. Short, to the point and less abstract.
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Glad to hear that there's finally progress being made!(or if it has been on the way all this time, glad to see that it's finally getting to the point where final users can see a difference). Are you involved in the fix? If so, do
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by kace91 7y ago
Do you have a retina mbp? And if so, do you have the screen resolution set up to the"more space" configuration in your macos system settings? Those two factors seem to make the problem worse for most users, since the power drain i
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Everyone's talking about what Firefox should do to beat chrome, and meanwhile here I am still suffering the bug that makes it unusable for many MacBooks with retina screens set to "more space". Start Firefox and fans are blar
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by kace91 7y ago
Are you fit? as in, do you lift weights or are active in sports that require strength? I ask because I wonder about the effects of extended fasts on muscle loss/retention, a big problem cutting weight for some people is that they get
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It's still an action the user has to perform, which most people won't bother doing (or know how to do it). I don't think the user of an app should be left to its own devices to ensure its own privacy by outmanoeuvring develop
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by kace91 7y ago
Spanish (or the dozens of romance languages and dialects that would eventually converge to it, anyway) predated Arabic in the peninsula, and survived it. As a consequence, we study arabic presence as an invasion/influence that came and
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The problem is when an app finds a bullshit excuse to refuse to work unless they're provided all wanted permissions. even if they don't hard block their content that way, in practice, people are just going to flip the switch that
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> Even written language in China is still largely intelligible to moderns, from a thousand years ago or more. English, more than about 400 years ago is almost wholly foreign: You're pretty much equating English and Europe when talki
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In my country (Spain), there are religion classes from primary school all the way until university. For public (state managed) schools - which are the majority - students choose between religion or an optative class, which usually consists
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My completely uninformed guess: structures strong enough to not be collapsed by the void would be heavy to the point that the combination of void+containment would not be buoyant.
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That doesn't seem to be a problem in any other field of security in the world. If you steal a shirt from a shop you'll get told whether they hace security footage of you stealing, an alarm went off or a security guard saw you. It
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Regardless of the reason, the fact that you can have your livelihood taken away without an explanation or human contact is pretty worrying.
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> It should be reported as "__ms slower". That would be dependent on hardware, while the relation will be constant.
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>Would a good takeaway be that expiring passwords would be helpful, if users weren't terrible about password management? Absolutely, which is why it was considered a good practice in the past. A case of not taking into account the h
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> The strength of the random strategy is that it approximates the theoretical ideal - a maximally diversified market-cap weighted portfolio. That was a very elegant way to make it click for me, thank you.
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>I've seen advice coming out of companies like Microsoft that password expiration dates are not useful, in part because they encourage insecure practices, The need to come up with a new password and memorise constantly a new strong
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Oh well... I was the one who asked the question and that's how much I make (software developer in southern Europe, currently working for a bank of all places). I'm not offended by the statement, but if the difference's so pro
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> signs telling us to lierally not wipe our feces on the walls in the bathroom This is not like the other details. What the hell caused that?
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> Kolmogorov randomness. A string of data is Kolmogorov random if, for a given universal Turing machine, there is no program shorter than the string that produces the string I know nothing about this field, but it strikes me as wrong int
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Ask HN: Ways to make money on the side as a full time developer?
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by kace91 7y ago
Apparently dislikes count almost as much as likes for popularity - videos that evoke an emotional response are considered better by YouTube. It's a general trend in social networks, because it leads to more views, and one of the cause
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by kace91 7y ago
The baffling Spanish translation of FFVII was quite (in)famous for that. So much so, that one of the most famous pieces of comedy gold from the internet of that time was a "let's play" series made using captioned screencaps,
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I wonder if there's any source of information where I can get specific examples of this issue. It would be quite curious to see side by side comparisons on how stories differ, and see if there's any general trend.
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I've soldiered on through several experiences like that, and sort of assumed it was the usual (being non American, I guess I just assumed it was cultural differences with Americans or my English being annoying). I changed my mind afte
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Sony is going in the opposite direction ( single player, story based games with rich content). Their logic is quite flawless: Online games depend on a large userbase to be successful, which forces them (or at least greatly pressures them) t
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Which is not really that different from those Google demos that called businesses for you to book specific dates for hairdressers and the like. It is entirely possible that we'll end up with a highly inefficient network of systems inte
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Open source software has always had a major problem with user experience (as well as aesthetics). Most people working in those projects come from a strong technical background, and in many cases users come from that background as well - so

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