kbart

8 ms·

31.
by kbart 8y ago
You are not helping by posting another pointless comment (or do you really want to start another round of endless 'HN is becoming reddit'?). To express your disapproval, just use downvote instead.
32.
by kbart 8y ago
Why this myth 'elevator close door button does not work' keeps reapearing every now and then? It's not universal - in some places it works, in some it doesn't. Why the obsesion to find a single 'truth', is so
33.
by kbart 8y ago
Oh, that's far from worse.. the ones you've mentioned could at least qualify for entry level positions.
34.
by kbart 8y ago
Heh, again China 'collapses', such articles keep coming for ~20 years now, yet it's only getting stronger. If I had to bet my money, I would bet that China will outlast any current major power and USA is in much more dangerou
35.
by kbart 8y ago
First of all, as other comments have mentioned it's really not a common sight in Europe. Actually, I haven't seen anybody smoking inside a supermarket during my whole life living in Europe (>30 years) and traveling there extens
36.
by kbart 8y ago
Truck drivers must rest for considerable amount of time. For example, in EU truck drivers cannot drive for more than 9-10h per day and there are further restrictions (i.e.weekly)[0], so you either must send few drivers to a prolonged journe
37.
by kbart 8y ago
"We produce enough food, now, to feed every human being on this planet." Production is just a minor part of the problem. Yes, there's an excess of food/water in one places and shortage in others, but how will you get t
38.
by kbart 8y ago
Exactly. I have eaten it several times and doing it right, that's nothing like you see on these infamous videos (most of them are grossly exaggerated anyway to get more views). Eating rare steak or raw sushi is probabbly more extreme i
39.
by kbart 8y ago
GOG is doing just fine, including AAA titles as Witcher3. It's the only place I buy games from.
40.
by kbart 8y ago
Logistics of such scale is not trivial and sending kilo of discounted rice can easily cost more than the rice themselves. I'm quite sure that the end-mile delivery was delegated to the village heads just for this reason.
41.
by kbart 8y ago
Such contra-laws are would be 'only' useful for casual citizens, so there's no way to get multi-million lobbying support for them by mega corporations.
42.
by kbart 8y ago
Of course they do. Where do you think you get your kernels, drivers, firmware for various IoT from etc.? Compiling a small (~100 MB), custom OS purely (as much as it's possible) from source code can still take hours even on modern lapt
43.
by kbart 8y ago
Still an upgrade from IE8 the same group would be using. I'm not advocating bundled installs, but installing secure (compared to old IE) browser alongside antivirus software is one of the very few cases where it makes sense.
44.
by kbart 8y ago
Heh, that's the real problem actually with buggy name-based systems. In my current company we have a person officially called "Name Surname 2" for the same reason.
45.
by kbart 8y ago
Even in such case contract usually has a clause about premature termination and related compensation.
46.
by kbart 8y ago
Yes, you can actually program a bussines process using BPMN. Furthermore, there are tools that convert BPMN to the actual machine code automatically.
47.
by kbart 8y ago
Still from the user perspective I see no difference between Uber/Lyft or taxi - I choose the one which is fastest/cheapest on a given circumstances, so not sure what's your point here.
48.
by kbart 8y ago
Exactly. I grew up in quite poor family and shared room/toys with my sister the whole time - we played the same Lego sets, I made dresses from cloth scraps for dolls, we both collected toy cars and Kinder sets. Still, since the early c
49.
by kbart 8y ago
For some (non-IT) companies programmers are always a sunk cost, so this math doesn't work there.
50.
by kbart 8y ago
No, EU is not USA, it doesn't work this way here. You can't sue companies for violating GDPR directly as a person, you can only write a complain to authorities that will decide how to proceed (issue a warning, start an investigati
51.
by kbart 8y ago
I've found it more of a cultural phenomena. I haven't seen so many useless acronyms used anywhere outside of USA and maybe UK (to the lesser extend). A good practice is to use the full form when first used, add acronym in parenthe
52.
by kbart 8y ago
"If the chain of command is inefficient, then change it, don't go around it." I work in a "flat" company now and couldn't be happier. Also, I haven't seen such productivity in any siloed company around.
53.
by kbart 8y ago
"a generic will be substituted for a brand name drug" We had a similar corruption here, in Lithuania, until the law has been passed that pharmacist must offer a generic alternative. But there again, world is seen very differen
54.
by kbart 8y ago
Wow, so do I understand right, that in USA you don't know the cost of medicine before buying them? What's the reasoning behind that?
55.
by kbart 9y ago
You can write a complaint to responsible institutions that then chose how to act (send a warning to violating company, issue them fine, start an investigation etc.) You cannot sue companies yourself, unless you can prove that (big) damage w
56.
by kbart 9y ago
"Dylan Roof wasn't obsessed with shoes." And if he was, would you propose Nike stop marketing their shoes? It's probably another US-centric thing I will never understand, like skipping 13th floor or plane seat number.
57.
by kbart 9y ago
"the app of your uber/lyft driver will already have your destination." So does modern taxis. It's strange that when topic comes to taxis vs Uber/Lyft here, it looks like taxis in US are very archaic. I live in Eur
58.
by kbart 9y ago
So what? The killer must have wear shoes, so should we ban shoes now as well? I understand what these numbers might mean in some circles, but I just don't follow logic why the rest of us would care. After all, Streisand effect kicks in
59.
by kbart 9y ago
Every taxi I've ridden in probably 10 past years had a GPS, that's not Uber/Lyft invention or unique property.
60.
by kbart 9y ago
"Nazi numerology"? How's that a thing? We have already started banning words, so now start banning numbers just because some braindeads use them instead of banned words? Please, stop.

More ›