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by marc_abonce 2y ago
Yeah, Resume-Driven Development is unfortunately such a common methodology and companies indirectly push for this by punishing candidates who admit to doing maintenance work and bug fixing instead of rearchitecting everything every year.
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
Yes, chinampas can have some types of trees on their borders. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinampa
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
> the mariners who found themselves on the island did not make a very good first impression as representatives of the larger outside world and that this contributed to the hostility towards outsiders that the Sentinelese exhibit. The bad
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
Location: Mexico Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python (Django, Flask), React (TypeScript, JavaScript, GraphQL), MySQL Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-abonce-seguin/ Email: ma
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
Sorry for the shameless plug, but I already made a reusable React component for that in case anybody needs it for their business: Npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-lang-selecta Source code: https:&#
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
I like how Wikipedia mitigates that problem by placing "Suggested languages" at the top (I think the top choices are inferred from either the Accept-Language HTTP header or the most common languages from the user's country) a
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
I think the main difference is the degree of anthropomorphizing that happens with new chatbots. I mean, most kids in the 2000's didn't believe that they were literally asking Jeeves a question, but a lot of users today actually th
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
Semi-related: Wikipedia's homepage also contains a very minimalist, manually curated news section with only major world events: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events Although that's perhaps way
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
Also, each ΧΡ (Chi Rho) is preceded by another Christogram that sort of looks like IHS but I'm not sure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christogram Edit: Actually, here's the full transcription in Latin and Ge
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
Edit: I just learned that parody is part of fair use, so the first part of my comment is redundant. ~~I think that parody would be a far better defense than fair use.~~ But I otherwise agree that those gore movies based on children cartoons
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
> the group was German, so I don’t know why the song is in Russian+English Kraftwerk wrote and released both German and English versions of most of their music. For example, in Germany this song was released as "Die Roboter". O
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
Another reason that the article and other comments here are missing is the zero-rating deals that WhatsApp has with virtually all mobile providers, at least in Mexico. Your phone's plan will cover calls and an internet connection up to
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
> “only I can do” Sorry, friends, but this is incorrect. You are not the only one capable of maintaining this project. Technically true and a good thing to tell people who are burning out, but like always, different people need different
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
It looks like that makeup style might not work so well anymore, at least according to this tweet I found: https://x.com/tahkion/status/1013568373622362113 It seems like the woman in the example is using a CV D
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
> Juggalo makeup is supposedly extremely effective. Yeah, it's supposed to be better than black metal makeup and even better than that early-2010's anti-detection makeup: https://consequence.net/2019/07&#x2
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
I've always noticed this (even before Netflix) and I always assumed that it's because the dub is meant to somewhat match the character's mouth movements, whereas the subtitles don't have such restriction. So I always ass
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
Based on the Wikipedia article linked in that comment, it refers to papyrus fragments specifically, the most recent one being from aprox. the IXth century. [1] More recent texts were copied into more durable materials: > By the beginning
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
> For those who can’t read Chinese here, I’ll just note that this is basically the equivalent of forgetting how to spell certain words in English. I can't read Chinese, but I think the article has a better analogy: "most people
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
As far as I know, the definition doesn't require the population to be "native". For example, history has plenty of cases of ethnic cleansing against Jewish people in Europe. Or at least Wikipedia considers it as such: https:
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
I didn't know about this until now, but this BBC article seems to disagree with OP's Reddit post: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy78ejg71exo > One of the largest islands on the tropical atoll, Die
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
react-lang-selecta: https://github.com/MarcAbonce/react-lang-selecta A language selector component that shows random (but still accurate) flags for each given language. So if you give it, for example: English, Portugue
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
This is a legit concern, even if the propagandists are human rather than bots. To be fair, though, online debates may have value for the readers even if they never convince the original poster. Since most users in a forum are lurkers[1] it&
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
By the way, every year MusicBrainz participates in the Google Summer of Code. So, if you qualify, you can get paid for contributing to their codebase. https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Development/Summer_of_Code
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
Besides regular browsing (basically a free VPN), a pretty nice use case of Tor is that some news sites have non-paywalled onion addresses. The Guardian: https://www.guardian2zotagl6tmjucg3lrhxdk4dw3lhbqnkvvkywawy3... New York Ti
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
It looks like most of this centuries-long companies are family owned which sort of explains why do they survive all sorts of extreme political and economic changes that would otherwise break most companies. But it would be interesting to se
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
The author works for an NGO called Stop US Arms to Mexico which is lobbying for several policy changes in the US to "reduce US legal gun sales to Mexico to pre-Merida Initiative (2007) levels". This is the first time I hear about
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
Wikipedia calls it Liquid Democracy but I've never seen nor heard that term outside and I don't think it's used anywhere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
Happened to me once. I was only contacted by the company that hired me (and like 2-3 spam emails) so I wouldn't really count on HN as my main strategy. By the way, here's a thread with the same question form last year (June 2023):
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
> It's ultimately up to us to decide how to project our relatively young calendar system way back into the past before it was invented. Year zero makes everything nice. Be like astronomers and be like ISO. Choose year zero. Or, just
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
> When coming across modern writers I will often check their biography to see what odd-jobs they have had. I feel that modern man can become so insulated in modern life (e.g. spending an entire career in academia with, say, no hobbies th

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