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by shaan7 4y ago
Whoa Glicol is cool! I don't know anything about making music but I had fun tweaking the code on the homepage and listen to the music change :D
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by shaan7 4y ago
Yeah the dock thing sucks. My workaround is to permanently disable the dock (and the webcam's) mic device.
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by shaan7 4y ago
True. I keep it at "System default microphone" but its not 100% reliable. BUT, that is also the case with every other conferencing tool as well (Meet, Teams etc). At least in Zoom its easier to quickly override it when things go s
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by shaan7 4y ago
Yup. The thing I absolutely love about Zoom is how easy it is to switch between mics and output device. Every other conferencing tool needs you to go to Settings > Voice and then change it. With Zoom, just click the arrow next to the mut
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by shaan7 4y ago
And not much point after you data has _already_ been shared.
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by shaan7 4y ago
Yeah its only "sort of" authoritarian, in most regions you can live quite a free life. The cases where it becomes authoritarian is when it comes to religion and criticism of the government. This is the reason that the majority of
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by shaan7 4y ago
I am really curious but do not have the time to check this myself: is the vscode telemetry part of the open core bit? The reason I ask this is because I agree with your points and I usually allow telemetry for FOSS programs (for example [1]
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by shaan7 4y ago
> The existence of infinite accessible libraries of content If only that were true, I'd be actually be happy to subscribe to them. I've realized that streaming services are only useful if your problem is "I need entertainm
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by shaan7 4y ago
Funnily enough, for the ~5 years I used macOS, the Window Manager was the most frustrating aspect for me. I could not maximize apps (there was only a weird fullscreen/focus mode), I would accidentally end up dragging a window very ofte
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by shaan7 5y ago
Yes, it is sad, but I wouldn't go as far as OP to claim that Linux desktop "is failing". That would be the case only if the goal of desktop Linux was to "get a considerably large market share". When I am contributin
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by shaan7 5y ago
I dread the day when iTunes stops letting you buy DRM-free music. I don't know anywhere else I can do that easily (and is the only Apple service I use).
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by shaan7 5y ago
I already knew about this before I visited HN today, thanks to Firefox Monitor ( https://monitor.firefox.com/ ) :D
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by shaan7 5y ago
It also depends on your social circle, I know some young people who do use `youtube-dl --extract-audio` for downloading some songs from YT. My choice is usually to just reboot to Windows, fire up iTunes, buy the songs I want and listen to t
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by shaan7 5y ago
Yep, just like "Oh you are downloading via torrent? Why do you do illegal stuff like that?" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by shaan7 5y ago
> Any piece of code that is not your own and that your app depends on adds to the technical debt of your app. I find this ^ strange. There is a difference between using a library and technical debt. We use libraries so that we do not hav
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by shaan7 5y ago
In India there is National Skills Registry (NSR) by NASSCOM. Member companies require potential candidates to register and provide the registration number. This is then used by HR at member companies to track you around. The best part is th
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by shaan7 5y ago
What I meant was it is not limited to safety-related operations (hazard lights, for example). Even for relatively non-essential features (AC in this case), it helps to have physical buttons that you can recognize with your fingers.
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by shaan7 5y ago
You don't even have to go to safety. I did a test drive couple of years of Honda Jazz (known as Honda Fit in some markets) where the AC controls are touch-only. It was almost impossible to adjust it without taking your eyes off the roa
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by shaan7 5y ago
Can attest to this. Well not me, talking from experience from a friend. She keeps telling me about engineers from the startup that "they" acquired. Her team is already overloaded by requests from a bunch of other teams that they t
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by shaan7 5y ago
Yep. VSCode's Rest Client extension is amazing, I can just have plain text files with everything I need to my cloud drive (and maybe even git repo to share with team).
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by shaan7 5y ago
Yeah sometimes I dread the day gmail blocks access for some reason and I never hear back. Pretty much everything is connected to one's primary email address.
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by shaan7 5y ago
I used to be excited about building websites ~10 years ago when it was about building web pages (you know, the thing HTML and friends were designed for). I "rage quit" after people started (ab)using web development to build appr
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by shaan7 5y ago
Exactly. Badly written libraries are just bad libraries, it doesn't mean that its a bad idea to build reusable components.
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by shaan7 5y ago
Best is a strong word. Just because something is popular does not mean it is the best. It is the cheapest/easiest (for developers), I have to agree.
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by shaan7 5y ago
Pretty much all "desktop" apps that I see people using these days are built on Electron so yeah it is quite popular. Slack, Discord, Teams, Spotify, VSCode, the list is too long, unfortunately.
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by shaan7 5y ago
Yep, I can relate to why you find it curious, I do too, from the other end of the spectrum. I, for one, feel _very_ unproductive with a laptop. Personally for me I think the reason is lack of a mouse. For a long time people told me its beca
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by shaan7 5y ago
> Pros and cons Exactly. Which is why I don't get the "static linking is the best solution for deploying applications". You need to be able to do both. For example when building a C/C++ application you can decide if y
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by shaan7 5y ago
> Just software, running, forever. Until your users realize that if there was a security vulnerability which was fixed, a system upgrade is not enough. They will have to either hope that you haven't moved on, or build things themse
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by shaan7 5y ago
I can attest to the fact that programming in Go taught me a lot of good engineering. I certainly find myself better trained at handling errors, for example. However, I always feel exhausted when implementing real-world systems with Go given
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by shaan7 5y ago
And I want to do the exact opposite - basically what VMWare is able to do with Bootcamp installations. Then I could run Linux as I usually do, but not have to maintain a VM for Windows development (MSVC etc). If you try running VirtualBox w

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