mrisoli

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by mrisoli 8y ago
Similar to Tibia, which is one of the death systems I hated the most, but becomes a major driving force within the game. If you died, you'd lose 10% of your experience points(which amounts to multiple levels the higher you are), your i
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by mrisoli 8y ago
I laughed too, I was thinking "Wow, $1B for a photo app that has some lame filters, take a semester of digital image processing and you could do that". To their credit, the app was extremely simple back then, today it has managed
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by mrisoli 8y ago
I find it amusing, my friends and I continuously joke Apple-style hype pitches for mundane things like airline safety videos. But otherwise, it's pretty cringy not only seeing them demo the new animoji stuff as well as people frantical
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by mrisoli 8y ago
As someone who's had to implement one of those nagging popups(and argue with marketing 'growth hackers' about it) I can tell they are unfortunately effective, and it's more likely to see more of them in future. Everyone
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by mrisoli 8y ago
> I wish we spent as much time on HCI in our field. So did I, but IME, time and effort spent on minor UX improvements are rarely justifiable to upper management, especially in the case of business software it won't generate more rev
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by mrisoli 9y ago
Definitions are complicated, it feels like they should be static when the definition of what a front-end developer does is always changing as technology comes up with different mediums like smartphones, watches, VR, etc. I've thought a
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by mrisoli 9y ago
I think people underestimate this issue. One of the reasons Windows is so dominant in the business landscape is because it's the OS people are used to since early years, mostly because it's bundled with most PCs people buy, but ki
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by mrisoli 9y ago
To be fair, living in an European LCC hub I get deals on my inbox every few days and I end up buying plane tickets up to once/twice a month, so it's realistic, maybe not so much for legacy/long haul I also get many emails fro
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by mrisoli 9y ago
I am an expat engineer in Budapest and the tech scene here has a lot of ups and downs, definitely meet a lot of engineers just by walking around, it isn't quite a tech hub yet. The very low cost of living and high salaries for engineer
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by mrisoli 9y ago
That's interesting, I find myself in a similar position. I like coding and I like to improve my coding skills and knowledge, but I feel I am more of generalist than a specialist, I am always lurking around HN, PH, IH, looking at produc
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by mrisoli 9y ago
Well, the goal of a promotion is to both enable the employee to get more responsibilities and the company to get more out of the employee. If you're already putting in as much as the senior folk without being one the company has no ups
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by mrisoli 9y ago
I understand your points and somewhat agree with them, and it's great advice for people who want to build a product on the side. However what I meant is, what if building and iterating is the goal, not the means to the product? When yo
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by mrisoli 9y ago
Found the course very interesting and it's something I intend to build upon. However, I've done similar stuff with rails since it has more batteries included and found it easier of course. However, this comes to mind: https:&#x2F
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by mrisoli 9y ago
Pretty much what I wanted, plus fitness tracking. I love the timeline, showing my calendar appointments, seeing notifications(and being able to use some of the Android notification commands on them), fitness tracking, but most important of
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by mrisoli 9y ago
I remember seeing a concept video ages ago that touch on many the things that self-driving can change(from Audi I think). I always think in a fully self-driving world there would be huge shifts in the real estate market, living further from
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by mrisoli 9y ago
I remember reading long ago about how they did something similar at an airport(Dallas IIRC). Basically, people complained about baggage claim taking too long, so they just moved the baggage claim area to the other side of the airport, so it
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by mrisoli 9y ago
Exactly this, speaking from personal experience, a PM's job is to make sure things are shipped, not escalate Engineering problems to increasingly non-technical people up in the chain. If engineering says "This is a bad idea",
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by mrisoli 9y ago
There is a very simple reason for this, you always get more information in person. If you're interacting with a text-based chat interface you get one thing, pieces of text, not only that's all you have to make decisions, but you h
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by mrisoli 9y ago
I agree and this is what I consider to be brutalist web design, but that site(the top search result for 'brutalist websites', 'brutalist design', 'brutalist web' and so on) has a bunch of weird designs(such as
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by mrisoli 9y ago
I've seen Brutalist design being mentioned a few times here and it always shows this website gallery, I am no specialist, so I wonder, is this what brutalist design really is? Quick Google search explains that brutalist architecture is
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by mrisoli 9y ago
While there are a lot of people who care about technology it pales in comparison to those who just want a quick buck from a manic bubble, using the term "no one" is extreme but it's not completely unfitting.
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by mrisoli 9y ago
What you want is a Rolling Release Distro, like Arch or Gentoo, then you can add whatever GUI you want on top of it, I like XFCE as a sibling comment mentioned.
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by mrisoli 9y ago
It is impossible because it is always possible to game the system. If you devise an interview framework or a hiring profile, no matter how many traits you want to evaluate(as the article points out), they will lump those together and measur
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by mrisoli 9y ago
Well, a handful of tech companies are some of the most valuable companies in the world right now, a few of them thanks to what was then the untapped power of the internet(Amazon, Google, Facebook), Google and Facebook not only are huge comp
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by mrisoli 9y ago
Yes, I really like Snapchat's app, it takes some time getting used to the UI but I found the heat map to be a killer feature, pound for pound I find it better than Instagram(still, I think they would benefit by copying Instagram rollin
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by mrisoli 9y ago
English is not my primary language and I live in a country where I don't speak the local language which is not English, I have consistent issues with miscommunication. Once I went to a McDonald's and ordered some double cheeseburg
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by mrisoli 9y ago
People prefer human interaction, but human agents are prone to miscommunication, distraction, and fatigue.
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by mrisoli 9y ago
Exactly, I prefer using a GUI over calling over the phone for delivery because I might have communication or listening issues with the person on the other side of the phone. The same thing happens for McDonald's and other places replac
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by mrisoli 9y ago
Well, we have useless content, which might be entertaining but otherwise provide no real benefits to the user, by damaging I mean content that influences people in a negative way(fake news, hate speech, etc). Maybe the right word here is &q
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by mrisoli 9y ago
How about applying some (survivorship?) bias here? Smartphones and the internet make access to knowledge easier for everyone, but that is a small amount of what is otherwise cluttered with mostly useless(and sometimes damaging content), whi

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