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by marcodave 7y ago
-> Bring Your Own Desk
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by marcodave 7y ago
> If I am not consciously making an effort to understand the chat in the room, it is almost like white noise. Heh, I also feel the same, as a non-hungarian working in Budapest, and what's funny is that historically Hungarian was (is
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by marcodave 7y ago
IMHO it all boils down to "unhireable... where?". Of course you're hireable, there are plenty of places for people in their 40s with plenty of experience. There is a bias of course in Hacker News towards young fast&furio
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by marcodave 7y ago
> What’s even the point of being the “influencer”, are people looking up to it? Economically, you might get "famous" enough for small brands to send you free stuff to show in the photos, in the long run they want to win the rec
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by marcodave 7y ago
> you're back at the beginning, and have to search for that video again? That sucks. and yet, that's the same behavior of the social media sites; you will spend more time (=more ads shown to you) there because you are searchi
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by marcodave 7y ago
Or, you know, you can just create a separate user in the OS. Or even just create a separate browser user profile (for Chrome, Firefox has it as well)
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by marcodave 7y ago
I'd add also the possibility of being recognized, even if only in the game end credits. If you're young and a possibly a game enthusiast, it can move mountains.
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by marcodave 8y ago
Back in university (~2005/06) I still remember the "concurrent and distributed programming" course, held by an extremely opinionated professor who was an Ada enthusiast and spent half of the lessons bashing Java and its lac
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by marcodave 8y ago
after 2010 there was also the surge of single page application frameworks a-la Angular.js, my take is that having a JSON-native database with REST interface meant that anybody could whip up a nice angular frontend with Mongo as its only b
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by marcodave 8y ago
> Random, unaccounted internet fame by the magic of some proprietary algorithm I'm wondering how much of the current user-created content on those platform is driven by that
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by marcodave 8y ago
> If people were able to vote directly Art. 17 The cynical in me would complete the sentence with "...a vast majority would not even understand what the article is about"
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by marcodave 8y ago
> small online communities, who pay for their servers by running a few ads if those communities are aiming for a break even at best, would those as well be considered "for profit", though?
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by marcodave 8y ago
Wish you the best! Events, at least for me, is still my main reason why I still stick on Facebook. Hope you manage to gain a big enough traction to erode that market.
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by marcodave 8y ago
it would most likely end up totally meta, with ads for recommendation engines. Would be hilarious to see it happen though.
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by marcodave 8y ago
it was mentioned in this topic as well, that a person watching a lot of Netflix shows would as well recommend Netflix to others, and thus generating more subscriptions.
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by marcodave 8y ago
not my native language, but in hungarian "to understand" is "magyarázni", which literally means "to hungarianize", which I think is amazing :)
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by marcodave 8y ago
indeed. Kids would learn the whole coreutils flags by heart if that's what it takes to see some bikini shots
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by marcodave 8y ago
> in a manner of 'App X used Y% of your battery in the last 24 hours. I am pretty sure that my stock Android 8 is doing that already
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by marcodave 8y ago
> “Object-oriented Programming”, [...] Building applications. simply by plugging together off-the-shelf components I've read just here on HN that microservices architecture is none other than an implementation of the original concep
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by marcodave 8y ago
I've learned here in HN, that's how you get promoted in Google
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by marcodave 8y ago
it might be called ️-dd (aka emoji-driven-design)
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by marcodave 8y ago
> I still want to be able to charge my phone and listen to music using the headphone jack I guess they want you to buy the wireless charging dock?
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by marcodave 8y ago
is there any tool out there that monitors IO calls from one specific process? I get extremely annoyed when applications simply freeze without them doing any important cpu task.
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by marcodave 8y ago
also they cannot be found in keyboards, if you need to write CSV by hand
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by marcodave 8y ago
given today's Halloween, you just gave me a sincere spook there
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by marcodave 8y ago
very interesting choice that you included He-Man, whose sole purpose was to sell its toys.
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by marcodave 8y ago
I remember having my mind blown studying the Ukkonen algorithm, for string search prefix trees. Especially the fact that was built from the naïve implementation O(N^3) brought down to O(N)
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by marcodave 8y ago
But one of those shiny GUI was called GitHub, and it was the shiniest of the shiniest, so much that it make git usage ridiculously easy. At least on my experience.
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by marcodave 8y ago
what you propose might work, or it might work against the core purpose of the social network. As far as I know (no Instagram user), Instagram works (for a certain demographic) on the basis that its users are ok with random semi-anonymous st
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by marcodave 8y ago
exactly. Requiring to input a phone number to receive a SMS to confirm my identity is a big letdown (for me at least). The best thing I can think of, albeit against the core concept of socializing, is the equivalent of PageRank, for social

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