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by kace91 8y ago
I've uninstalled and installed Firefox several times during the years, in different machines even (MacBooks between 2013 and current models). Same feeling from most developers working at my workplace (~1000 devs in the building, not on
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by kace91 8y ago
The problem in osx is not that it's slow, but the ridiculous amount of cpu (and therefore battery) it consumes. For the people who suffer the bugs ( which seems to be a majority of users that have a retina display, and specifically tho
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by kace91 8y ago
Is there any way to provide incentives to devs to prioritize mac development? Like a bug bounty of sorts? I'd happily contribute to a patreon or something if it meant increasing the chances of having a usable version of firefox on my m
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Ask HN: What practices can we use to avoid overengineering in our projects?
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by kace91 8y ago
Honestly, as bad as the situation is (having to choose between several profit-focused tech giants) I'm glad that at least one of the players is not dependent on data collection as their way of survival. If I have to side with one of th
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by kace91 8y ago
I don't expect a sensible result, I just imagined that I would get somewhere either close to the origin of the Americans I know personally, or close to the source of the media I consume (since those are my main connections with the E
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by kace91 8y ago
I'm a European (Spaniard) who's never set foot in the states, but I've been in a relationship for a while with a girl from Boston. I expected my result to be near the Mass area due to her influence, but somehow I ended up nea
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by kace91 8y ago
That might depend on your business and/or location. Employees might need to share resources, for example, as was the case when I worked in a VR-related startup with a limited amount of headsets. For your regular webdev based business o
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by kace91 8y ago
The main concerns are not the ads themselves, but the uncontrolled amounts of information that are being collected to tailor those ads (and that can potentially be then used for far more evil purposes), the emerging tendency to try to get
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In general it improves interoperability between non-human systems. Say that you have a database. When you ask it for a specific piece of data, and it can't find it, it shows 'data not found'. Then I build a program that reads
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by kace91 8y ago
I currently have this problem on my zsh setup - is there any easy fix for it?
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by kace91 8y ago
It's funny, I would not really have counted HN or Reddit as social networks (much less SE or github) even though they clearly have a social aspect. What makes a social network a social network? I think in my mind a social network is a
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by kace91 8y ago
To be fair, all (minimally relevant) social media has been designed with goals to optimise that have nothing to do with the betterment of society - the variables to max out are retention of users, engagement/addiction, etc. A network w
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by kace91 8y ago
People aren't exactly nicer to each other when they're anonymous...
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by kace91 8y ago
True, in general amount of strength is correlated more with the amount of weight lifted, while ability to exercise for longer shows a more positive correlation with longer, smaller weight sets - and hypertrophy sees similar results with bot
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by kace91 8y ago
Just what we need from a platform known for manipulation of users: For them to enter the field of politics.
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by kace91 8y ago
I am no expert but I tend to read a lot of studies and interviews/talks with Phd's regarding fitness, and the consensus is that the most important predictor for muscle growth is volume (time under tension). That is, the longer you
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by kace91 8y ago
We already have a common language that's widely known across Europe (English), it just doesn't have the reach that the native language does. Some countries are also really self centered in terms of news, etc. Here in Spain, for ex
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by kace91 8y ago
>What language can one say that they fully master? Incidentally, after working with node for a couple years near really knowledgeable coworkers, it's been the first time in my life as a developer that I feel I have a near complete u
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by kace91 8y ago
I think the problem doesn't lie as much in the use of the drug, but in the environment that leads to consumption. If we assume strong social stigma against it, and yet a majority of students end up doing it, it means there is a very st
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by kace91 8y ago
Well, my answer would be that such a measure would not be feminist - it can't even be classified as positive discrimination since gender, unlike race, is not hereditary. I guess you could chalk that to a "no true Scotsman" fa
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by kace91 8y ago
Well, feminism is about freeing people from gender based discrimination, so it also includes freeing men from those societal expectations (like being the only ones to be conscripted / go to war). But at least in the specific issue addr
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Yes, I absolutely agree with that. Graphic designers tend to be pretty well respected, even though they are also very underrepresented and needed in the FOSS community. People that mainly work with HTML and CSS are less valued because they&
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by kace91 8y ago
There is a perception of front end/user experience being easier than logic programming, in the same way that STEM degrees are considered harder/superior to other degrees. The implication of trivial -> female is quite unwarrante
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by kace91 8y ago
> Anything less than ‘real programming’ is now considered trivial, silly, artsy, female. I am a very strong supporter of feminism, but this kind of reasoning needs to stop. The idea of "as a man you're biased from your position
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by kace91 8y ago
Your comment paints a worse picture than I thought. Mostly because I think a great majority of potential customers are hoping apple will finally eat dirt, get the market's message and stop their new trends, but with those numbers in ha
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by kace91 8y ago
Nope, doesn't fit for me. I work out and I guess I have a pretty high metabolism because I've always been quite thin, so I put that advantage to good use by not exactly eating clean - I eat plenty of fast food. It could be some s
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by kace91 8y ago
For me the humor lies in the buildup. The music gives you the feeling that a fight is about to develop as soon as he gets closer. Pretty much the only thing you wouldn't expect to happen is for them to be caught off guard.
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Popular wisdom is that google culture rewards too much the creation of new projects, but not as much their maintenance - which looks comparatively worse in a CV or when being considered for raises. Since they also hire mostly high-achieve
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by kace91 8y ago
Yes, my experience is very similar. I do enjoy novels and sagas such as A song of Ice and Fire, but what I enjoy is the accumulation of information (plot, lineages, scheming, conspiracies, etc). It's all abstract. I find myself glancin

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