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by marcodave 5y ago
it seems weird to me that with all the time and energy spent to measure everything to the point of obsession , one would not even take in account the rest of the nutrients. It feels like a made up story to prove a point.
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by marcodave 5y ago
Do I understand correctly, that the only thing Camacho was measuring were calories, without checking the amount of carbs vs fats vs proteins contained in what he ate?
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by marcodave 5y ago
I remember when downloading 10MB was a serious commitment shakes fist at clouds
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by marcodave 5y ago
from the About page college-educated-thirtysomething well, young is relative :)
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by marcodave 5y ago
> The devs want to use the latest frameworks and libraries, because it makes their CV look good could be this, could also be due to bootcamps that teach the latest and greatest to keep up with the latest tech fads, also maybe because of
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by marcodave 5y ago
A free OneDrive account is enough, plus Office 2016+ autosave function, with the added bonus to have a cloud version of word to edit in collaboration your document on the go
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Show HN: ITIS Galileo – Biography of Galileo(youtube.com)
1 points by marcodave 5y ago|1 comments
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by marcodave 5y ago
Hi HN! I wanted to share a personal project of mine, putting english subtitles for a theatrical monologue from 2012 by Italian actor Marco Paolini, recounting the history, life and achievements of Galileo Galilei
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by marcodave 5y ago
good code shouldn't need to be debugged either ;)
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by marcodave 5y ago
how old were you at the time? if you were in your late teens-20s your body might have been strong enough to sustain the pace.
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by marcodave 5y ago
not only getting older, also getting closer to the project managers point of view gives a different perspective on what does really matter for the project. Spoiler alert, commit history most likely does not.
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by marcodave 5y ago
that's some meta-bikeshedding over there (AKA bikeshedding the concept of bikeshedding), kudos to that!
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by marcodave 5y ago
wow, 2021 and there are still people that think Java is interpreted?
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by marcodave 5y ago
well I heard that good COBOL coders nowadays are recalled from retirement and covered in gold in order to maintain old codebases. It's not that bad :)
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by marcodave 5y ago
The INCREDIBLY VAST majority of people that are working with Java/JVM for a living most likely have never even heard about HN. And yes, there are countless shitty projects in maintenance mode maybe even written in pre-1.5 Java. If I we
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by marcodave 5y ago
Would you like to talk about our lord and saviour IntelliJ ?
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by marcodave 6y ago
hol' up
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by marcodave 6y ago
And next what? Agile?
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by marcodave 6y ago
No, but if GitHub is mentioned in a very angry Twitter thread, and is being targeted by a woke and bored journalist which would write an angry and misdirected article putting the words "racism" and "GitHub" together, is
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by marcodave 6y ago
National Public Radio? National Performance Review? Non-photorealistic rendering?
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by marcodave 6y ago
And with the vastly-majority of sites now using HTTPS certificates, the "invalid SSL certificate" page has become exceptional enough to have me actually read the "why" is the browser complaining so much, instead of just
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by marcodave 6y ago
I feel the huge discriminator here is the need of paying up upfront for the license, compared to a free tool/library, regardless whether or not the free stuff is up to the task
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by marcodave 6y ago
how did we go from excellent software, with excellent documentation, that made regular people implement solutions, to the current situation?
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by marcodave 6y ago
"Designed (and used primarily) in California"
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by marcodave 6y ago
Wasn't the point of that episode to show that Frank Grimes would have been the "regular person" and it was the Simpsons the outliers? showing how the cartoon/sitcom logic is so out out of touch with the harsh reality?
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by marcodave 6y ago
The ML algorithms are the ultimate "source: dude trust me"
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by marcodave 6y ago
> Why anyone would want this? I do not know. its product manager at Google, looking for a promotion (and then let it rot)
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by marcodave 6y ago
I think you can configure Firefox to disable all cookies, with the catch, though, written out, that "might break certain sites". Soooo, shrugs
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by marcodave 6y ago
we need a downdetector detector !
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by marcodave 6y ago
I guess the same could be said for HTML+Javascript

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