rlv-dan

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What caused 11,000 scientists to declare a climate emergency?(arstechnica.com)
4 points by rlv-dan 7y ago|1 comments
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by rlv-dan 7y ago
Screen time really needs to be sorted into meaningful, productive usage, and recreation and procrastination.
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by rlv-dan 7y ago
> Those figures don’t even factor in the time kids are using screens for school or homework, where smartboards and school computers are likely a part of many classroom settings.
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by rlv-dan 7y ago
1. Please keep up the good work! 2. Please add a way for visitors to submit content. (Unfortunately) I have lots of content that I want to share...
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by rlv-dan 7y ago
It seems like much of the design rules that evolved by experience is being thrown away by designers because they don't think it's looks nice or is clean enough. Interfaces like Windows 95 that are neither too early nor too modern
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by rlv-dan 7y ago
Grumpy Website deserves to be mentioned here: https://grumpy.website/
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by rlv-dan 7y ago
My experience so far is that DeepL gives the best translations, then Bing and last Google.
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Ghacks.net Acquired by Softonic(ghacks.net)
1 points by rlv-dan 7y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: CC Time is a simple and unobtrusive time tracking utility(github.com)
6 points by rlv-dan 7y ago|0 comments
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by rlv-dan 7y ago
I suck at more advanced math. I am simply not able to grasp it. However I am very good at logic and systems thinking, which makes me a good programmer for certain kind of tasks, provided I can use imperative programming. Force me to use fun
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by rlv-dan 7y ago
This deserves a blog post of it's own. You are on to something here that needs to be acknowledged!
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by rlv-dan 7y ago
Citation Needed
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by rlv-dan 7y ago
What's wrong with their privacy policy? It's clear and easy to understand for anyone.
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Hackers are exploiting a platform-agnostic flaw to track mobile phone locations(arstechnica.com)
16 points by rlv-dan 7y ago|1 comments
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by rlv-dan 7y ago
For the software I use, my approach is portable applications, i.e. applications that require no installation and save their settings in the folder they run from. To move to another computer you simply copy the application folder. Makes it r
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by rlv-dan 7y ago
Will people accept paying for yet another streaming service? The selling point of Spotify is that for a low price you get everything in one place. Netflix was like that (from what I heard), but now you have HBO, Disney, CMore etc. Do you wa
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George Gilder: Forget Cloud Computing, Blockchain Is the Future [video](youtube.com)
1 points by rlv-dan 7y ago|0 comments
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by rlv-dan 7y ago
The truth is that MomentJS (and jQuery and other libraries/technologies that people love to hate) solve problems and are easy to work with. Not everyone need or care about bundle size, mutability, etc. They are fine with older, mature
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by rlv-dan 7y ago
It's what many (most?) people are used to and comfortable using. And that's a big part in decision making for humans. (Provided they even know of the alternatives.)
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Microsoft stirs suspicions by adding telemetry files to security-only update(zdnet.com)
148 points by rlv-dan 7y ago|84 comments
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Show HN: CC Time, a simple, unobtrusive time tracking utility(github.com)
2 points by rlv-dan 7y ago|0 comments
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by rlv-dan 7y ago
If someone says they don't have anything to hide, my reply is "then why do you lock the bathroom door"?
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by rlv-dan 7y ago
My most popular blog post is a test I made, reading 400 CDR:s of backed up data. Most interesting is people discussing their own strategies in the lengthy comments. https://www.rlvision.com/blog/how-long-do-writable-cdd
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by rlv-dan 7y ago
I completely agree. VB6 was the thing that got me into Windows application programming.So easy to create good looking and functional programs. I ended up building several "real" applications, some commercial and some free, which I
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Huawei users say phone lock screens have started showing ads(slashgear.com)
1 points by rlv-dan 7y ago|0 comments
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Ground-Effect Vehicle(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by rlv-dan 7y ago|0 comments
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by rlv-dan 7y ago
True. But it's 9 more lines that you have to write yourself. And some people prefer being productive rather than figuring out how to do it in plain JS for the sake of it.
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by rlv-dan 7y ago
1999: Microsoft launches new HTML tag 2019: Google launches new HTML tag
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by rlv-dan 8y ago
Why not just respect the "do not track" header?
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by rlv-dan 8y ago
One thing I like about them is the offline mode which is great when traveling abroad. However their app is less that enjoyable to use.

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