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by rogual 5y ago
Great fun! The gamification and cutesy badges are basically the opposite of the HN aesthetic, which gives the whole project a fun sort of tongue-in-cheek feel. Because I don't have anything more constructive to say, I'll just poin
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by rogual 5y ago
Ironing clothes -- actually getting them flat -- on a mountain peak or underwater is interesting because of the difficulty. Finding out the person isn't really ironing, but just pretending, detracts from it and takes it from "that
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by rogual 5y ago
After spending that long answering their survey, the least they could do is tell me which ones I got wrong.
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by rogual 5y ago
Different definitions of "good job" I expect. Making something useful / effortless / fast / a joy to use etc. vs making something that boosts your key performance metrics. Having the friends sidebar always there pro
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by rogual 5y ago
Rings true. I often write more unit tests in a team than I otherwise would, even if I don't think they add that much value, just because no pull request ever failed review for having too many unit tests, and any time spent arguing abou
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by rogual 5y ago
I love that people are still doing fun page designs like this. I'd started to forget it was possible.
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by rogual 5y ago
Yes, it's very hostile to independent contractors, especially with the new rules this year. I'm not a conspiracy guy, but it's amusing to note that Rishi Sunak, under whom the changes came in this year, is related (son-in-law
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by rogual 5y ago
It's exciting when the megacorps make these kinds of plays against each other. I feel like I'm watching my abusive partner get smacked in the mouth by my abusive ex.
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by rogual 5y ago
Adobe really oversteps the line when it comes to auto-renewal. They will refuse to stop the auto-renewal on your subscription unless you make the request within a tight window lasting a few weeks before your renewal date. Obviously they wan
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by rogual 6y ago
This is brilliant, thank you!
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Ask HN: Has anyone had any luck claiming a Google knowledge panel?
5 points by rogual 6y ago|4 comments
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by rogual 6y ago
Misleading, baity headline. Yes, the in-game currency settlement is awful, but the Ars Technica headline writer is making it sound more awful than it really is, because, quote: In addition to the virtual currency, Epic will also be providin
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by rogual 6y ago
For me, at this point, using exciting technology is like writing a book on exciting paper. I'm not interested in any framework with a philosophy, any language with a fan club, or any library with an opinion of how I should be doing my
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by rogual 6y ago
The court made very specific arguments: 1. Uber set the fare which meant that they dictated how much drivers could earn 2. Uber set the contract terms and drivers had no say in them 3. Request for rides is constrained by Uber who can penali
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by rogual 6y ago
Happened to me. Cancelled Sky Broadband, CS reps wouldn't acknowledge it. Got sick of the back-and-forth. Sky don't just make you wait on hold for 30 mins, they play ads at you while you wait. Fuck that. Stopped the direct debit.
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by rogual 6y ago
As far as I'm concerned, I don't need the company to "accept" my cancellation. I simply need to inform them, in writing, that I have cancelled, and to stop paying. Life's too short to jump through these hoops with a
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by rogual 6y ago
Bit hacky but you could keep a long-running Bash process and use PROMPT_COMMAND to notify you to start a new block? I love this kind of thing, by the way. I'm sure terminal emulators are not the best we can do, CLI-wise.
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by rogual 6y ago
Saved me a click, thanks. The BBC has a real problem with clickbait headlines. It's still kind of interesting that they even sued him, I suppose. And by looking at their Trustpilot page now, it doesn't seem to be working out well
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by rogual 6y ago
They did, sort of. Flash (now rebranded Adobe Animate) can export to HTML5, it just isn't very good. As I recall, it tries to naively export your Flash graphics as HTML5 Canvas drawing commands, but they come out all glitchy because Fl
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by rogual 6y ago
Yes, open source sounds like the right place for ideas like this, for the reasons you mention. Consider Emacs, whose hundreds of extensions give you this mix-and-match setup, or something similar to it. I think I might really like working w
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by rogual 6y ago
Sometimes it's not quite so bad, because the single file will contain both implementation and header, with an #ifdef to switch between them, so you're supposed to make your own source file which uses a #define to include just the
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by rogual 6y ago
They don't even include the extension cord anymore. I don't know why Apple thinks it's okay for my computer to run a current through my body. I would love to know what happened at Apple that caused this situation. It's j
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by rogual 6y ago
I'm conflicted about Photoshop. It is, at its core, an absolutely fantastic piece of software, but as time goes on it slowly accrues this accretion disc of bullshit: dialogs implemented with web-views, video tooltips, mandatory sign-in
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by rogual 6y ago
I thought it was going to be a piece in favour of showing kindness to people who themselves are mean. (I never even considered "this is HN so it's probably tech-related". Don't know what that says about me or the site!)
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by rogual 6y ago
Maybe it's based on emphasis? 'Ott.a.wa vs on'ta.ri.o
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by rogual 6y ago
This happened to me, but I had to laugh when I discovered that the agency's tactics were limited to a few stroppy letters and a couple of phone calls that went: "Hello sir, this is (collections agency). Can you confirm your addres
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by rogual 6y ago
“this is not for adults” Sometimes I feel like adulthood is a social performance that people just aren't that into these days. I mean, sure, there's biological adulthood, which is a bit more well-defined, but in the usual sense of
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by rogual 6y ago
Bullies do get accepted into social circles, as long as they deliver enough value to make up for it. Same principle at work here IMHO.
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by rogual 6y ago
As far as I can ascertain, Urbit consists of a sensible, worthwhile goal, and many man-years of work building bizarre, contrarian executable artifacts that have nothing to do with that goal.
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by rogual 7y ago
I believe wiby.me aims to be such a search engine.

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