rockbruno

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by rockbruno 3y ago
Everyone complains about the state of SWE interviews yet nobody seems to be able to come up with a legit better alternative. Even the author recognises this in the article. This format is popular because it's the best time/effort
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by rockbruno 3y ago
Maybe it's because I'm really lazy, but the wallet vs watch thing makes a huge difference for me. I hate having to pick up my phone or wallet from my pockets, being able to pay from my Apple Watch is such a game changer that it be
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by rockbruno 4y ago
I always found this interesting because this phenomenon exists all over the internet (there's even a dedicated subreddit for it: /r/usdefaultism). If you don't make it extremely clear where you're from, for some rea
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by rockbruno 4y ago
> If you don't want your children to become addicted to something, be a good parent and monitor them. It is not the government's or the society's responsibility to babysit your kids. It's both's responsibility. T
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by rockbruno 4y ago
As someone who has been primarily a PC gamer since I was a kid and never enjoyed consoles that much, the Steam Deck is mind blowing. It took me a long time to buy it because I usually play games that generally don't fit the handheld st
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Ask HN: Has anyone here left the big city in pursue of a simpler life?
73 points by rockbruno 4y ago|120 comments
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by rockbruno 4y ago
Yes, but IIRC they still need to go through the regular review process.
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by rockbruno 4y ago
I have a pet theory that the reviewers have some quota of rejection that they must meet, so they're encouraged to reject apps for bullshit reasons. About 20% of the updates to my app get rejected for no reason other than that the revie
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by rockbruno 4y ago
> Don’t get me wrong, I have no problem with this idea when it comes to apps that I plan to distribute. I’m using their servers, and their infrastructure to handle updates, reviews, payments, etc. Even when you do plan to distribute it i
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by rockbruno 4y ago
How much of that 5k is you paying amortization though? If you're just patiently waiting for your mortgage to naturally end itself after 20+ years instead of actively making extra payments to reduce how much money you'll pay to the
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by rockbruno 4y ago
I would have no problem with that if you paid a sum and got the full game. However the situation we have today is that you pay $60 for what is essentially 10% of the actual game and is constantly milked for the rest of it. The scenario you&
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by rockbruno 4y ago
I see, that's the difference then. In Sweden the fixed ones penalize you for paying extra.
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by rockbruno 4y ago
This is definitely country-dependant. In Sweden you can pay extra with no penalty if you're on a variable rate, so if you have the means, the best option financially speaking is to go with variable and pay it off as quickly as possible
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by rockbruno 4y ago
Weird way to generalize the problem. The difficulty of learning Swedish is not the language itself, but because Swedes default to speaking English with you if they see you struggling. If you want to truly become fluent in Swedish you have t
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by rockbruno 4y ago
Deceptive marketing/monetisation, as in using psychological tricks to get people to spend money on things they don't want or need. Basically how every modern app and game works nowadays[0]. [0] - https://www.youtube.com
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by rockbruno 4y ago
>world of corporate politics, bureaucracy, envy and greed— a world so depressing, that many people quit in frustration, never to come back. I think one reason people get disillusioned is not simply because those things are depressing, bu
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by rockbruno 4y ago
Not speaking about this particular study, just wanted to nitpick that the psychology tricks behind "Facebook designed their app to maximize addictiveness" have indeed been measured from the point of view of monetisation/engag
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by rockbruno 4y ago
I was surprised that the study doesn't mention that these apps are _intentionally_ designed to get you addicted to the point where something like this happen. This psychology-oriented design atrocity is leaking into other industries[0]
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by rockbruno 4y ago
Apple added official app blocking APIs in iOS 16, so you don't need to use someone's sketchy VPN anymore. Burnout Buddy is an app that uses this. (disclaimer: self-promotion, I made it)
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by rockbruno 4y ago
I'm curious why you consider credit cards a bad thing. I find them to be very convenient because I then don't have to keep track of how much money I have on my bank account; I just buy everything on it, pay it all in one go once m
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by rockbruno 4y ago
Swift is awful for app size. Structs carry an absurd amount of overhead, some of which is just plain questionable[0]. At one point even Apple's official docs were urging you to not use structs in Swift, though that has since been remov
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by rockbruno 4y ago
The problem with Brazil is that the country is just too big. It will never happen, but I'm confident that the solution to Brazil's rampant corruption and violence is to break up the country. In every single election it's clea
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by rockbruno 4y ago
One of the "pranks" we play on expats moving to Sweden is to look them up on hitta.se, take a screenshot and send it back to them saying "this you?". They always freak out and with reason, these sites contain an obscene
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by rockbruno 4y ago
He lives in Europe. That's how it works here, we don't understand it either.
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by rockbruno 4y ago
I keep being told this is a conspiracy and that several people checked on this and found no evidence of them spying on you, but I still have a hard time believing they're not doing something really sketchy. The case that was the final
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by rockbruno 4y ago
The world has 7 billion people. While I agree with the overall feeling that every single human should be dedicating themselves to the evolution of the species, it only takes about 10 seconds of reading the news to realise that humanity is
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by rockbruno 4y ago
Amazing how many people (especially from HR) don't get this. The other day I got a calendar invite from a random HR person who I've talked to before that said nothing but "Sync". It made extremely distressed until I mess
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by rockbruno 4y ago
I watch an youtuber that makes videos about life in Japan and he mentioned recently about how this drives the direction of his videos against his will. Despite producing extremely high-quality videos, every video is accompanied by clickbait
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by rockbruno 4y ago
Fantastic news for the US and the scientific research of psychedelics as a treatment for depression and anxiety. Meanwhile, on the other side of the atlantic, it's a nightmare to get our politicians to even begin talking about cannabis
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by rockbruno 4y ago
This is impressive, how was it made? Especially curious about Source games, it really feels like you're running the entire Source Engine on a browser

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