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by pluma 7y ago
> because the government can't dictate what you do with your body. Except for the military draft?
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by pluma 7y ago
From talking to MS devs at conferences it feels like Skype is internally considered a dead end these days. Skype for Business (i.e. Lync) is already being replaced with Microsoft Teams. I'm not sure if MS is actually planning to replac
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by pluma 7y ago
Nearly 100%. Welcome to German enterprise intranets. The only good thing is that when the new Edge enters general availability, we can likely get rid of 100% of our IE11 users for good.
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by pluma 7y ago
You are aware that you're not being paid to "write code", right? You can't just deliver a bunch of nicely formatted for-loops and call it a day, your code actually has to do something , it's part of a product . Wh
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by pluma 7y ago
I found this quick glossary helpful when I first started educating myself about these issues: Privilege is about access. If you're born into wealth and have good connections, you can get into a lot of spaces other people would work h
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by pluma 7y ago
Having recently switched to Edge Dev after having used Firefox for roughly a year (and Chrome before that), I'd say Firefox devtools' strongest point are the style editing stuff. Somehow Firefox devtools feel a bit clunkier when w
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by pluma 7y ago
Presumably because a rEaL pRoGrAmMiNg LaNgUaGe would have used different exception types to provide the same levels of distinction which still results in basically the same if/else-if/else (or try/catch/catch) structure
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by pluma 7y ago
It's a fairly new thing. https://www.addictivetips.com/mac-os/how-to-maximize-a-windo... ("fairly new" in this case meaning over five years but still)
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by pluma 7y ago
From one techie to another: people aren't code. We're not rational actors in a vacuum, treating us like we are is a leaky abstraction that will break in prod. The problem isn't simply "there aren't enough women&quot
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by pluma 7y ago
The problem is that we're well past the point where "carbon-neutral" is good enough. We not only need to stop causing additional harm, we need to figure out ways to undo at least some of the harm we've already done. Give
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by pluma 7y ago
I didn't say it would be comfortable. But most "climate-friendly" policies already affect consumers (and often much more so than they affect industry, making them entirely pointless). Keep in mind capitalism not only means pr
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by pluma 7y ago
"Did you just assume my gender" is generally a throwaway meme by right-leaning trolls these days. It's a caricature of an outraged feminist or non-binary person, not really a sentence you'd normally hear from either of t
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by pluma 7y ago
Billionaires aren't the enemy. That's far too simplistic. But the difference between the billionaires and the "unwashed masses" is that the latter hold far less power. Even if you don't have any influence to begin w
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by pluma 7y ago
The thing is that the only people who can do anything about it are the people who are the most unwilling to do so because it would jeopardize their wealth. There are more than 2000 billionaires in the world right now. If only the richest el
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by pluma 7y ago
Incidentally, a lot of Chinese twitter "bots" (or rather accounts that spread Chinese propaganda, whether they're manually run by actual humans or not) reply to tweets about the Hong Kong protests with sensationalist articles
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by pluma 7y ago
> Owning a cat however isn't the same, and could have a negative effect. Is this about the American attitude that dogs are always boys and cats are always girls, i.e. having a cat is "less manly"? The only two things I can
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by pluma 7y ago
I don't think what's keeping "ordinary men and women" from becoming politicians is the toxicity public figures are exposed to, considering a lot of "ordinary men and women" (but particularly women, gender-non-c
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by pluma 7y ago
You can't just reply to a detailed explanation of why something is political with "no, it isn't". That's not an argument and I'm pretty sure it isn't in the spirit of HN's guidelines (whether or not I
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by pluma 7y ago
That seems like it would cause problems with screenreaders though.
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by pluma 7y ago
Now you're thinking with ~portals~ monads.
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by pluma 7y ago
They're decent in terms of image quality, terrible in terms of animation. Aside from the obvious problem of motion interpolation having problems with acceleration/deceleration, there's a lot of nuance in the original animatio
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by pluma 7y ago
Same here. We're a small company (6-7 employees plus a handful of freelancers) and we previously heavily relied on regular Skype. We mostly chat one-on-one and use team chats mostly for general status updates. I'm working as a con
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by pluma 7y ago
> Internet Explorer and Edge are (were?) both a joke. Chromium-based Edge (not pre-installed on Windows) is great.
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by pluma 7y ago
Who are the auto and ic then?
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by pluma 7y ago
Add Belgium to the list. And East Germany. EDIT: Generally I'd say in Europe while women's breasts are sexualised, they're not considered sexually explicit. The US is exceptionally prudish in comparison and for well-known his
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by pluma 7y ago
Of course it is. This is Hacker News.
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by pluma 7y ago
Building your own video card is political, sorry. I'm not even kidding. To elaborate: * To get the obvious one out of the way: it's something you need sufficient free time, money and knowledge in order to even do, so the author li
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by pluma 7y ago
I'm not sure why everybody here seems to think that sites need to fork over all date they have on store via e-mail if a registered user requests it via e-mail. A site could easily be compliant by answering general questions (this is
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by pluma 7y ago
Disclosing data to an individual because you make no attempts to verify their identity is in itself a GDPR violation. As far as the GDPR is concerned it doesn't matter whether you were hacked or whether your employees recklessly expose
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by pluma 7y ago
Everything is political. HN generally bans explicitly political opinion pieces, articles with overt political statements and articles primarily covering current political affairs (e.g. articles about something a US politician said). But e

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