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by phba 1y ago
Windows isn't frustration-free for non-tech users, though. At least in my social circle people constantly complain about Windows doing stupid things and changing all the time. I helped some elderly friends and neighbours switch to Linu
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by phba 1y ago
Junior and remote positions get so many applications that leetcode tests are the only reliable filter to even get a reasonably sized set of applicants to choose from. So leetcode won't go away until the number of applicants drops or we
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by phba 1y ago
I use Delphi at work quite a lot. The language is great, but the Embarcadero Studio is unfit for any non-trivial project and getting worse with every new version. Nowadays I definitely prefer Lazarus.
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by phba 1y ago
Yes, Lazarus + FreePascal is great and imo preferable to Embarcadero Delphi nowadays.
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by phba 1y ago
Having an opinion is totally fine, of course. I meant that "I told you so" is a bit like pouring gasoline on a fire and doesn't really help the situation. I agree that politics were always hopeless. We don't really have
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by phba 1y ago
The left vs right theatre is really just two sides of the same coin. By now every western democracy is being dragged along the same path with different stages of progression. 1. Move domestic production and jobs to lesser developed countrie
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by phba 1y ago
Not sure how you would define better, but I can provide some anecdata. At one of my previous jobs we counted the number of bugs that every dev introduced, so when you fix a bug you blame the problematic code (two clicks with a simple IDE ad
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by phba 1y ago
Unfortunately not, if you need their service you must play by their rules.
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by phba 1y ago
The business incentive is funneling new users into their walled garden. If they could, they would assign a MS account to every newborn. There are still loopholes to protect your children from Minecraft's new "features" (at le
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by phba 2y ago
I use Emacs for literally everything. - plaintext (vCard) and org files for CRM and opportunity management (with lots of Elisp to find information, GDPR-compliance, ...) - mu4e for email - ledger for finances - org-mode for calendar, projec
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by phba 2y ago
Losing privacy makes you more vulnerable to economic exploitation (price discrimination, salary negotiation, insurance premiums, etc). Therefore protecting your privacy is a form of economic self-defense.
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Ask HN: What are some useful LaTeX tips?
1 points by phba 2y ago|1 comments
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by phba 2y ago
Adding to that: Write down what you want to get out of the book, for example "Learn how to do X" or "Understand how Y works". This turns passive reading into actively looking for information. It also helps to work with t
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The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by phba 2y ago|0 comments
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by phba 2y ago
If you want to get better at system design, there is a single question that you should ask yourself at every single step: Do you really understand what is going on? You already noticed that system design interviews don't necessa
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by phba 2y ago
Here is a very specific tip for doing literate programming with org-mode: Usually you put a code block like this in the .org file and generate the actual source file with M-x org-babel-tangle. #+begin_src emacs-lisp :tangle "init